Razee-style Jack Plane
PROJECT #2114
Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 2 Days
Cost: $180
Building a wood-bodied hand plane should be on every woodworker’s bucket list. I have been entertaining the idea for years, however always falling short on the execution.
It wasn’t until recently that a colleague of mine left a book on my desk by Cecil E. Pierce called Fifty Years a Planemaker. I was instantly hooked after reading the preface. What strikes me about Cecil (other than his irrefutable passion for woodworking) is the language he uses to describe his affinity for the craft of creating hand planes. His old-world metaphors combined with his sense of prose are luring and oftentimes comical. This part autobiography, part instructional guide, takes you through(step-by-step) the process of building a Razee-style Jack plane.
