Just for more inspiration, you can try to make yourslef some thumbplanes like this... You can see the guts as this one is case from epoxy resin. I've meade few like this out of any hard wood. You can do it out of single block (start with square and roud off after you chisel the inside) or make walls separate and twopieces for front and back and glue them together (in this case you will learn how to join small pieces precisely). For blade you can use piece of old knife (close to 1/16" thick would be best) or ask at local machinist for thrown awy piece of carbon steel or HSS (dull blade of machine saw is perfect).
You should make the sides a bit taller at the pin so the wood won't crack. The epoxy seems to hold well.
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