The wood hand planes for moulding and shaping

You can make such a simple plane using a suitable block of beech wood,a fret saw and hammer and chisel all by hand,the lower steel rub rails are not strictly required,you would need to do a lot of work to require them but its a nice feature.
As was common at the time,this plane has been marked by its owner,the first was R.D.Owen,the D.G.H,it was he who gave me the plane when I was serving my time at Tysons Ltd,back in Dryden Street,Liverpool in the mid sixties.



I think a number of this type of plane were hand made by its owner,given that the man who used it was a skilled craftsman,it makes sense,all he needed was the correct plane blade and any decent blacksmith could easily fashion such a blade?