My Converted Scrub Plane (No. 4)
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This is the bottom of my converted scrub. It was/is a Stanley No. 4 smoothing plane. It works like a charm.
I buy and mill a lot of rough sawn lumber. This scrub save me a lot of time and makes milling the boards to size very fun.
I found that filling the arch in the front of the throat opening made a big difference in amount of times I had to manually clear shavings when hogging off waste.
What is you radius John?
My No. 5 scrub is tame to that My radius about 8″.
The main thing it works for you. 😉
I have a fair bit of sawn timber so it is a very useful tool.
Mihai, thanks! You should really consider converting one if you use rough sawn lumber. I use mine almost daily.
Mark, Ha Ha, I did get a little carried away with the radius. I shaped my blade before Mr. Sellers video. I was trying to mock some of the No. 40 scrubs planes blades I was seeing on E-bay at the time. They varied a lot, so I made the middle of the blade around 5″ radius, but then the corners dives off around 3″. This is overkill, but removes a lot of wood fast.