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Here are some pictures and/or drawings of tools from various makers.  If the name of the submitter is underlined, you can go to the submitter’s web site.

Alan Taylor’s Planes

Ron Larsen’s Scraper Plane

I made the body years ago when I had access to a Bridgeport at work.  It was a lunchtime project to teach a new electrical engineer how mechanical things were made.  The plane never worked well as a block plane, so I used  it for a paperweight on my desk.  After I bought the Lie-Nielsen 212 I got the idea to convert my block plane to a scraper.

I cut a block of walnut to fit the slope of the body. The block holds the blade twenty degrees forward of vertical.  I considered using a heavier wood, but I had the walnut.

The blade holder is turned from a piece of hex brass I had.

I threaded a length of quarter-inch brass rod with a micrometer thread (1/4 - 40), drilled & tapped for a knurled knob.

The pieces ready for assembly.  The blades are from Woodcraft, but had to be reground to a sixty degree bevel.  I drilled and tapped the front of the body at a corresponding angle so the blade holder would hit the blade square.  The brass strips on the sides create a "rodmaker's groove".  They're .030 thick, so to adjust I set the scraper on a flat surface and use a .028 shim in the groove.

Different shots of the assembled scraper.

I use the scraper mainly for glue removal, but at times I need it to get me out of trouble when I hit a node that wants to lift.

The scraper weighs one and a quarter pounds, which is about half a pound less than the Lie-Nielsen 212.  So far I haven't had the plane chatter or had the blade slip.