: Making special tools is a fun part of boat building. I have made specialized
: planes, knives chisels etc for my model work in particular.

: It caan also be useful to modify existing tools. Nick and I use a blockplane
: modified with a convex sole (with a blade gound into a curve) for
: smoothing the inside of kayaks and hollow shapes on the outside near the
: bow and stern.

: have fun--eric

A curved plane-wow! There were episodes on the WOOD WRIGHT on PBS a couple of years ago where they made their own specialized planes. Now I wish I had some of those shows taped.

John