Hey everyone. I'm looking at making a couple of woodworking planes out of Bronze. I am looking at 1/8"-thick bronze for the body and 3/16" thick for the sole. I am a little confused about what type of bronze I should be getting for this. The gentleman's planes that I am basing this off of uses "Phosphor" bronze, however, it seems that he can get it easily in the UK where he's located. In the US, I am finding a lot of different bronze alloys. All the work will be done by hand - Can anyone suggest a bronze alloy that cuts well (by hand), bends OK and, most importantly, peens well? The alloys I am looking at are 932 bearing bronze, 854 Aluminum bronze, or indeed 510 Phosphor bronze (I cannot find 3/16 for the sole - I might switch it to steel). Can someone give me input if the 932 or 854 would work well with hand tools?