Dr Al

As an addendum, here some pictures of continental sliding dovetail tools. The plane is from the (now defunct) Swiss company Lachapelle...

The final steps were trimming the shoulders of the legs, and shaping the grip. I had the idea of carving the opening into a moon shape...

For the legs I had discovered acacia fence posts that were sold at the local garden centre. They were about 5x5x175cm, and about 5£ per...

I had some small bits of ash that my wife had bought for use as shelving. As shelves they were never great, but when we moved we took...

Thank you

Lovely work. A machinist's tool chest is on my (rather long) list of planned projects for one day in the future when I've got enough...

I made one of these for my lathe (a Harrison M250). I used a morse taper reamer for the final cut (after boring with a top-slide motor...

These are another classic example of someone not really thinking about how a rule(r) is used. Rotational symmetry (which these have)...

I use these tips quite a bit when I'm doing fine detail stuff...

Thanks @Sideways . I've looked at a few Shinwa rules, but haven't yet found one that meets my criteria (whole millimetres on both edges...

The decent (for which read: metric only) ones are a bit of a pain to find. I bought mine on ebay. There are several different part...

I spent ages looking for a decent metric steel rule. What I would consider "decent" is one face with millimetres on both edges (so you...

Yes, I'm *bookmarking* this web page!

This is only tangentially related to woodwork, but today I released a new version (following a complete overhaul) of my hobby website...

Someone on the MIG welding forum is selling several at the moment. I'm not sure how many he has left (I bought a 1 metre steel Maun...