wooden mitre plane

At the recent European woodworking show I had quite a lot of interest in a wooden mitre plane that I had made for myself. The plane was based on early 19th century examples that I had seen. It is made of beech that was recycled from the rear portion of an old try plane. The plane is

approximately 12" long, and has a 2" iron.

 The whole plane was fumed with Nitric acid to give it a nice warm color. The iron is pitched at around 25 degrees

Another form of early depth stop adjustment

I recently came across another early plough plane by John Rogers of London.
This example has a full length steel shoe with a brass adjuster at both ends of the stock. this has also forced the maker into placing the stem wedges on the inner face of the stems, as apposed to the usual position on there outer faces. It would appear that Mr Rogers was at the forefront of plane design in the middle of the 18th century