>I can still remember
>my Dad chopping mortises for door hinges and not having a chisel
>the right size, so he would just pop the iron out of one of the planes
>take off the cap iron and go to work.  I cringe at that now.

Just curious: why cringe? A plane iron is nothing but a wide, flat, unhandled
chisel anyhow.

Robert

(who's been known to do similar things but hadn't realized this was
one of the cringe-inducing kind.)