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Cracked Woody Rebate Plane

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I've had this woody hanging around for quite some time and as I have a job it will be ideal for, I thought I'd clean it up and get it working.
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Unfortunately, on examination, it has a crack in the body that extends through to the mortice that holds there wedge.
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Anyone have any thoughts on if it is usable or not? Is it possible to repair?
 
It’s not an unusual plane so I would say don’t repair it just look for another one.
If it was handed down through the family for generations then try glueing it but it looks fatal to me.

Pete
 
Pete's right. But as it's not rare or valuable, there's no reason to be especially precious about how you approach it. You could, for instance, screw a couple of slim brass plates across the crack, or glue some strips of wood, to see if you could make it strong enough to grip the wedge. What have you got to lose?!
 
Thanks both, as I suspected really, but I thought I'd ask.
Luckily, I have another.
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Cleaned up now, blade fettled and sharpened. Cutting like a dream.
Actually, I have a third but that turned out to be worse than the first. Shame really.
I may try the brass plate idea as the first is a slightly wider size of 1 3/8" whereas the working one is 1 3/16"
 

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