Rough arching of the back

With the longitudinal arching guide done, I could start with the rough arching. This time I will try to do it with hand tools. Mainly to avoid the noise and dust generated by power tools. Last time I used the overhead router method. It worked fine and got me pretty close but it was also a lot of work.

First I marked the edge thickness of 5.5 mm. Then I took my no. 5 scrub plane and started planing. At first it seemed like an impossibly big task, but It all goes actually pretty fast. The back is lot thicker than it needs to be, so I have a lot of material to remove. Sometimes I think a small electric jointer plane would be great to have. At the moment there is simply no space for that.