Never seen one of these before so I'm guessing its a much later addition, makes the ECE ones with lignum vitae soles look simple
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D_W":x380jh6r said:It looks like the joint was cut on a rotary machine where the center of the cutter was close to the middle of the plane.
bugbear":2w92mz7i said:The pattern on the side what happens when you take a curved cross section through the 'V' shapes.
I presume these were traditionally cut by hand using a gouge and a chisel? I'm not at all surprised if that is the case that the two sides rarely match exactly due to the different angles of the workpiece relative to the dominant hand. Makes me wonder if it would be best to cut the left side leftie, something I've experimented with quite a bit on a much smaller scale.D_W":3jyoer3x said:(I have a fascination with plane eyes because they are the last bit on wooden planes that I can't quite get the way I want them, and I've noticed a lot of very good makers have trouble making an eye that looks like the left side eye on the mathieson - excellent proportion and the bottom line does not try to incorporate a curve and then a straight line, it is instead all a gradual curve of good proportion).
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