Easiest plane repair ever
Jeremy Osner
>So I was planing some 3/4" poplar down to 1/2" thickness last night, for the panel of a cabinet door, using for the first time a recently acquired wooden scrub plane. I was thinking, the plane cuts nicely but it keeps getting clogged up with chips and it's a nuisance to have to unclog it every few minutes of cutting. -- I had a similar problem with a wooden jack plane a while back and it turned out to be due to the wedge having worn down so chips would get lodged in between the wedge and the blade. I never did figure out how to repair that and don't use the jack plane in question much anymore, which is too bad since it's a nice plane.
So I was getting annoyed and thinking I wouldn't buy an old wooden plane again if they all have this problem with the wedge... Finally I took the wedge out to examine it a bit more closely and see if I could figure it out, and the light dawned -- the previous owner left the wedge in backwards, and the wood chips were going right in to the gap on the top of the wedge. I flipped it around and the plane works like a charm now.