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1. 
   eddiefromAustralia | Oct 15, 2003 11:54am | #1

   One of the standards is by John M Whelan, Making traditional wooden planes ISBN1-879335-69-7.

   Others also good are:

   Finck, making and mastering wood planes, ISBN 0-8069-6163-5

   Lee (of Lee Valley fame), Wooden planes and how to make them, ISBN, 1-894572-49-1

   Apparently there are videos that are better than the books, one by a guy called Todd Herrli, I believe.  A quick google search gave this (no affiliation, etc.....)

   http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/indextool.mvc?prodid=AQ-1020V
   http://www.comteck.com/~therrli/

   Cheers,

   eddie

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   JeffKurtz | Oct 15, 2003 04:23pm | #2

   Doc,

   This website may be of help.  Lots of different planes there besides smoothers.
   http://home.insightbb.com/~sepost/woodwork.html
   Here's another page with instructions for making a chamfer plane with an iron made from an old automobile spring.  The old blacksmiths used to use them for lots of tools.  (They used buggy springs before that.)  My favorite drawknife was made that way; good steel.
   http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/woodworking/jigs.phtml

   Jeff

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   eddiefromAustralia | Oct 15, 2003 10:42pm | #4

   Watch our for Scott Post's site  - he's left handed and his blades are skewed the other way and profiles made on the opposite side of the plane to those needed for a right hander.

   Scott does good work, but.

   Cheers,

   eddie

3. 
   timberrattler | Oct 15, 2003 09:28pm | #3

   doc,

   Go to Ron Hocks website. He sells detailed plans for making wooden planes, as well as the iron to fit. may be a good way to get started. College of the Redwoods also gives a step by step on their site

   Good Luck

   Mark