At 10:47 AM 10/9/97 -0400, Robert Brazile wrote:
>>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.

It's cringe-worthy when you've seen the mushroomed tops of too many irons.

David