Dan Kratville wrote:

AAvK wrote:

On making a plane hammer I am curious about wood for the head, as I can't
work with brass, I have a head of purple heart cut out and ready to
drill for
the handle's tenon. But when I was planing it to smooth (or, tryng
to) it merely
gained a lot of tear-out (multi directional grain, it seems) and seems
to be a
very chippy wood. So I wonder, if there is any common or exotic wood
that
can deal with tapping the blade, a hard enough wood, what would it be?

Ipe maybe
I've use Ipe for "pound-a-peg" hammer heads. Anything that can
withstand energetic two year olds, should be able to stand up to
hammering on your plane.
twitch,
jo4hn