Vintage Mathieson & Sons Jack Plane Part 2 - Iron Flattening

The next step to getting this jack plane up and running, going through the process of flattening the back of the iron, and the cap iron(or also known as the chip breaker I believe).
The purpose of flattening out the back of both is so they meet together and stop bits of wood shavings getting caught in between, as well as supporting the whole width of the iron itself for good cuts and less chattering.

[@NoahMinyard]

Don from The Board! Enjoying the project!

[@theboard]

Thanks Noah! Yeah, its actually a challenge to be constantly able to make keyboard content, so its good to be able to diversity and still broadly (eventually) link it back to keyboards!

[@The_Red_Herring]

Very interesting!
(I still have no idea what they are lol)

[@theboard]

The big one cuts/shaves wood, the little one helps strengthen it. If you have a look at the previous video (the carded video at the start of this one) you'll see the whole jack plane. I guess it might make sense later on when I put it all back together and give it a try in part 4.

[@The_Red_Herring]

Ohh cool!
(What about part 3 lol)

[@theboard]

Part 3 I believe is using the Veritas sharpening jig to sharpen the iron.

[@The_Red_Herring]

@@theboard Ah, thanks!
I will await the video ^^