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Handles all chamfered and the bottom rounded for comfort during use. I didn’t have any beech, I didn’t want to use oak, so I’ve popped...

Rough handles ….

Now cleaned up after the hardening process, sharpened and polished - there’s a limit to how beautiful I have time to make them but they...

Holes for rivets….

Table of differences in the slip gauge box…. Well,,the last inspection was done in 1987 (at 68 deg Fahrenheit) and it the results are...

Next step, mill the teeth on the skews…. Same procedure as before. result, my first ever skew float :-) I realised I didn’t take...

I settled on a 12 degree angle for the skew. I recently acquired a new vice - a “sine vice”, which is a super-accurate tilting vice. The...

Some more on my little float project today…. Obviously this is more about metalwork and machining than woodwork. I realised a couple of...

Next step, blue them all up on both sides…. Now to scribe some lines. My little vertical mill doesn’t have a proper vertical scale...

Ok here’s a little project that may be of interest to someone. I want to make a new clutch of planemaker’s floats. I want some for...

As I move towards having the tops on on the frame and flattening them I’m trying to minimise how much I need to remove. When I made...

Some more progress. The second half of the worktop is glued up! Dowel holes were drilled with the worktop dry fitted, dowels could then...

Second half of the split top all boards milled to size. Just trying to work out what to do with the tail vice.

The two planes are the Record Rebate Plane and the Stanley Plane. As you can see it is rusty, worse the sole was pitted. So a...

Found this unusual right angle drive screwdriver. I've not seen one like it before. Big, heavy, requires two haned operation. You hold...