Sawing-Plane-Body Published November 23, 2012 at 320 × 432 in How to Build a Scrap Wood Finger Plane with a Chisel Blade Measure out your frog and nose thickness from the plane iron and use your bandsaw to cut the wood body down. After calculating the frog and nose thickness from your plane iron, slice off the sides of the plane — a band saw is a good tool choice.