Scrub plane

Hey Dave
The Scrub plane I have also has a rounded blade .
They have some on e bay that are fairly reasonalbe.

http://cgi.ebay.com/very-nice-STANLEY-NO-40-SCRUB-plane-tool-beech-V-logo_W0QQitemZ200423236372QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2eaa27e314

In the good old day´s the foreplane today know as the jackplane had a bigger opening and a
more radicel raunded iron and the length of the plane was abaut the same size but after the
industriel revulution it got a flatter curve on the iron
the way you speek abaut was used when a smoother has past the last chance of geting a new path
in the soul and then they raunded the iron
both plane were wooden plane´s

hope this help you

Dennis

I had a spare no. 6 and got a radiused blade from Roin Hock. I work great.

Jim
It looks like a reasonable price now but I imagine it will go up about three times that amount in the last couple of minutes. But, thanks for the info Jim, if it had a "buy it now" buton…..I'd sure push it at $26

Rob…. did you make the opening any larger?

Jim -

I have set up a #5 as my pseudo-scrub plane. I didn't bother tuning it terribly well and it still needs a new rear tote. I just used the stock blade and put a little extra camber on it. The mouth is set pretty wide by pulling the frog back. Works OK. The blade is a stock thin Stanley so it does chatter a bit. But then who cares.

The one down side to converting a #4/5/6 is they have wider blades than a scrub plane so if you plan to take those 1/8" shavings, it could be some tough going.

In the end I still use my lunchbox thickness planer for boards longer than 12-14" but when I have a small piece of stock or just one piece to work down, the pseudo-scrub works pretty well.

Keep your eyes peeled for a scrub plane. I've been lucky on EBay on years past.The scrub plane sole is very narrow. Rather than taking wide but thin shavings with a bench plane, the scrub plane takes narrow but thick shavings. I think you could probably convert a bench plane to suit this purpose but at best it will be a reasonable facsimile of the real thing.

the scrub plane is as rugged as it is simple.