The metal one I have can be too small at times, and I had a small chunk of wenge knocking about so why not? I made the blade from possibly mahogany, it was spare was the main thing, I think it was cut from the foul smelling hardwood my dad got from a skip in Europort.

Inspiration/instruction was from ‘The Anarchist Tool Chest’ a book I bought in the hope I’d make the chest – but soon realized I needed the tools to make the chest, and the bench to use the tools to make the chest . . . so I have yet to make the chest – its going to be soon though, I have the tools, I made the bench and the backdrop to the photo is one of the boards that will make the chest.

After making it I realized wenge was probably a bad choice, its hard as hell, so truing it was heavy going, and on top of that its quite course so bits splinter and break off quite easily, oh and also the splinters from wenge go septic, so a fun tool for every day use.

Looks nice though, and it is square and does the job of a square nicely, although I have chamfered the blade accidentally while using it to make a knife line. .