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After I get the plank cut out, Mr. Woodwell has me set it in his bench vise and he takes up a block plane.

“I used a 2x4x8 piece of pine for the handle and cut it out with a jigsaw and sanded it to shape with a block plane,” he wrote in an email to Mashable.

Now take block plane and chaffer off each side an inch or more up and round it off.

I went out in the barn to look for a block plane and I found three or four rusty ones.

In order to make them fit perfectly I will use a smaller block plane.