It seems like a good time to make one more plane. I have some chisels I told people I would make, so at some point, being more responsible and doing it would be polite. But I’ll finish this plane first:
It’s the shell of what will become a coffin smoother in gombeira. Kind of an ugly wood – it’s sort of a combo stacked straw and fish scale look, but it will become dark brown soon enough. It doesn’t ever fully lose the fish scaly texture on the surface, though, even once it’s past rosewood brown.
What is in the back of my mind though is out of laziness, I’ve never made an abutment saw. I don’t really have any interest in making one right now, either, but the idea of using the zero clearance or flush cut saw that I’ve used for a very long time (not the right tool for the job – and slow), really didn’t appeal for gombeira. Cross cutting gombeira or katalox gives the same feel with a sharp saw that normal wood gives with a dull saw.
I found something that I could convert quickly. 
What is it? Remember those plastic handled tool box saws that came with three blades and each blade could be affixed with a single wingnut? This is from one of those. If it’s not 30 years old, it’s really close to it. And I bought it new or my dad did.
I have a lot of things in the shop that could be converted to make a saw like this – from raw 1095 spring stock to something salvaged off of a spring steel machine guard. But recalled this tool box saw blade laying on top of the tool box that I’d looked in for a soldering gun. The blade was covered with plastic including between all of the teeth. Why? I have no clue if it was used to mix plaster or to cut through wet plaster, but that combination of statements tells you why it’s good to be wasted on something else.
Let me describe the custom handle. CA glue, activator, yard stick that was already ripped to half width with the cut away piece used for something else the kids were doing. Perfect combination of spontaneous junk. Blue tape for comfort and also to keep one scale from coming off completely at once.
I try to make nice things. Try is a word that has a lot of range. But there is also particular delight in making something that would terrify or offend someone obsessed with only making and using “proper” things.
It was a little slow through the gombeira, but if anything, the teeth and the blade are a touch hard for regular files. It’s not differentially or impulse hardened, but the future for it was the garbage can, anyway.
Of Making by Hand with Wood and Steel 