Drawing inspiration from this commercial offering I keep seeing on Facebook that sales for $49.90, I decided to make my own version with a blade I purchased on Amazon for $14.00 and a scrap piece of lacewood. I did all the carving for the blade and magnets on the CNC and then formed the wood profile with bandsaw and sanding. I over engineered for the number of magnets but 4 are holding it pretty strong.
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Pretty cool. Wouldn’t a wood plane do the trick?
Yes, but it would be challenging to get into inside corners etc.
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It’s a chisel plane, albeit without a cap and depth adjuster, so yes, it is a wood plane.
I have a fancy version that came with an estate sale haul of Lie Nielsen planes but, to be honest, have never found much use for it. I find myself reaching for a paring chisel or cabinet scraper when I don’t catch the glue before it sets up.
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I’ve been debating purchasing the similar Blue Spruce Toolworks Chisel Plane:
but have held off, mostly because they don’t offer African Blackwood for handles anymore, and because I have thus far been able to make a chisel work for this sort of thing. Maybe making my own as @Maverick54 did would be a suitable compromise (and might make a nice entrée into plane-making).
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The blade I purchased is a replacement blade for a Powertec chisel plane, which looks very similar to the Blue Spruce branded one.
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Blue Spruce is a part of Woodpeckers. Anything to do with Woodpeckers is expensive. They make good stuff but the sticker shock is hard me to get over. I have looked at those very chisels before and never pulled trigger. IF I was to buy one I think the corner would be best for what I do (or dont do on cleanup). 
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Now. They were independent when I bought my Ultimate Coping Saw.
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