Making a Coffin Smoother Plane | Upcycling a generic woodworking hand plane

In this video, I take a cheap, generic hand plane I bought for a few cents at a local second-hand sale, and by re-using the iron and chip breaker, I am able to create a coffin-style plane out of a block of cherry I had laying around. Rather than mortising out a single, large block of wood, I laminated two thinner pieces together from a longer piece. This facilitated the build process in a number of ways, but it also added other slight complications. Please note that I am not an expert of planes, particularly wooden body planes. I really enjoy hand-tool woodworking and sharing my experiences, however. So, my hope is that if you want to build a traditional style coffin plane smoother (as opposed to the kind with a bar running through the body to resist the wedge), then this video can give you some ideas. Some considerations and observations: 1. I recommend a harder wood than what I used, or laminating a harder sole onto it. I used cherry, and it works fine. I don’t, however, expect i