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I would like to make myself some of those Krenov-style planes one day. Have you ever tried the european wooden planes? In Germany you can buy them extremely cheap on ebay like the ones from ulmia or ece.
I didn’t have a scrub until a few weeks ago. Then I was in Obi (home depot) and found a pretty solid looking but not nicely finished plane for 18 Euro. It was sold as a Jack (Doppelhobel) but what made me take it was its huge mouth opening that was like of a scrub. The real German Jack has a pretty thin opening and is not made for taking off a lot. Well, I took it home, flattened the sole, rounded the edges, marked a radius on the blade, ground it with sandpaper and after one hour it was ready to go. The radius was far from perfect because I did it freehand. If you never used a scrub before – like I did – it was an incredible experience. Very thick but very crisp shavings. It’s a beast ;-). You can reduce the width of a 6 foot long board by 3 inches in a matter of minutes and it’s fun! The astonishing thing for me is that although the blade seems to be of pretty soft steel what made the grinding and sharpening so quick, it stays sharp very long.
On the very first day the experience was not only positive. On my other planes I like to play around in the corpus with my fingers to take out some shavings that have got caught there. On my other planes the mouth is very thin…
With the index of my left hand I reached through the corpus came out on the underside without noticing and on the way back I cut half ย of the fingers end. I have seldomly seen so much blood in a short time ๐