Home made Chisel Plane

I have no idea where this plane came from, I found it sitting on a shelf in my shop, the only marking on the iron  in a circle says "Damon Raikes & Co. Gernany with DARAIKE in the middle. The iron itself is 1 9/16" wide X  4 9/16" long.

Here is a little History: Damon Raike Co. DARAIKE Germany - was actually a business started by Damon Raike SR. in the early 1920's in Chicago, IL, but the tools were manufactured and imported from Germany (location unknown) Damon, a Mechanical Engineer, went to Germany on business a few times according to his son Damon Raikes Jr. 

Damon's father Louis Raike was born in Russia and was a Milliner himself back in 1900 along with his brother Isidore and cousin John Wineberg. Damon Sr was born in Michigan, served a few months as a Private during WWI and then started the Damon Raike Co and hardware business, shortly after starting the tool line he had to give it up because of the cost associated with the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 as it went into effect, which raised American Tariffs on many imported goods. 
By 1930 Damon Raike started a printing business, Schenker Co.

Damon Raike died in June of 1945 in Chicago Illinois.

Thanks to Geoff Raike for this information.

So this little plane came to me through a very narrow window, between the time Raike started importing tools in the early1920's and the time he shut down in 1922.

 This poor little block plane has had a neglected life as you can tell by looking at it.Out of no where came the idea to turn it into a Chisel Plane rather than just throw it away, above the red line shows the crack in the body and the proposed cut line.

So I plunged ahead and made the cut, then some grinding, filing and sanding.

After some cleaning of parts painting and sharpening of the iron. Here is the final results, a cute little useful plane,

This type of plane is good for flush cutting plugs, as shown above (see the plug in front of the plane)and cleaning up glue squeeze out in corners.

Front View

Side view. This was fun, I took this little broken plane and turned it into something useful. 

Now I believe I need to find a better Iron as the metal in this original iron is of pretty poor quality.