Hand Router Plane out of Allen Key

[pfredX1]

I bought this big old Allen key at a yard sale for the express purpose of making a router plane iron out of it. You're better off just buying a router plane iron. But I got the hex key so I was bound and determined to grind it into a blade so I did. Having done it I'm qualified to say just get a real blade. Grinding the key is a pain and seating it in the tool sucks too. Real blades are square shank not hex. At one point I even thought about making the key a broach to cut the profile. But I was like nah that's too involved. In any event you can make a square seat a lot easier than the hex. All of that having been said using an Allen key does work. It's just not worth the trouble.

Anyways here's the pictures or it didn't happen.