Poor man's rabbet/rebate plane

I came across this video of Paul Sellers making a home made rabbet/rebate plane from a chisel and a piece of 2 by 4. It's almost an hour long but there are spots where you can skip ahead a few minutes at a time. It's worth watching just to see how handy Paul is with his chisel at paring away the unwanted parts. This is a great idea for woodworkers on a budget (or not) because you could make one for every size chisel you have that would match the width or any rabbet/rebate you are likely to make without costing you a single cent. Just make the body and wedge and when you need it stick the appropriate chisel in it and set the depth and tighten the wedge and away you go either making the rabbet/rebate or fine tuning one you made on the TS or router table.

Paul shows how to do it using no power tools except for a cordless drill but I would do it differently by laminating pieces together. That would allow using a table and or chop saw to make the angled cuts which would be faster, easier, and more accurate than trying it by hand. Paul makes the pocket for the blade and wedge with a backsaw and then pares out the waste with a chisel and router plane. You could just as easily cut separate front and rear pieces at the right angles and laminate them onto a main body. You would just need to match the thickness of your laminations to the width of the chisel you are putting in it. Also, where Paul adds a fence onto the bottom of the plane you could just laminate the pieces on 1/2" to an 1" above the bottom edge of the main body and the main body would then be the fence.

Here is the video. Enjoy.