Mario Rodriguez just had his article on making a wooden jack plane published in the December 2008 issue of Popular Woodworking. The article covers each step of making a wooden plane, from wood selection and milling to shaping the hand-hold and fitting the blade. The end result is a beautiful and useful tool that would be the pride of anyone’s tool chest.

The methods described in the article closely follow those Mario teaches in PFW’s popular "Build a Smoothing Plane" workshop.