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Photos please (including the Record planes please). Cheers, Vann.

Ahh, but that's my point - this isn't Bailey's design. His design has three specific areas of contact between cap & cutting irons. Cheers, Vann.

Some early USA Stanleys (end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th) have cap irons much closer to the patent shape. Without going out to my "shed", I can't recall if I have any that fully comply. Certainly, by the time Stanley began manufacturing in UK, their cap-irons no longer followed...

The QS irons certainly have a good name. I couldn't be bothered faffing about with a thicker iron anymore. I'd go for a thinner iron (2.5mm max.) in O1 (or W1). Not A2, D2 or M2 unless you work mostly hard hardwoods (like the Aussie hardwoods). I'd make up for the thinner iron by fitting a...

Ahh! Good point. I might vacuum it out - just to be sure. And while I'm at it I'll check out the cast iron MEM Startex box I picked up about the same time. As an apprentice in the early 1970s, I remember packing white asbestos into a job (a gap around hot air ducting). Strange, because they...

Thanks guys. The cast one up to the 1960s. Pressed steel from 1970s. That helps date the work done on the bandsaw. Cheers, Vann.

I was wondering if anybody here is familiar with MEM electrical boxes, and can estimate the era of these two electrical boxes? The first, a cast iron MEMREX, I'm considering fitting to my 1945 Wadkin PK dimension saw - which currently has a modern electrical isolator that looks out-of-place...

I think the OP was trying to upset us passionate supporters of 2-piece cap-irons :wink: I must admit, the deflectors do tend to go MIA, and not just thanks to Royal Mail. I've been lucky, the only Stay-Set I bought that was missing a part, was missing the main part of the cap-iron - the...

IIRC jimi43 used to favour Ward - I don't know if that was a personal bias or whether that's the general consensus. I don't have enough experience with old steel to offer an opinion, though my early 1970s, wooden handled Marples do most I ask of them (which isn't much :oops: ). Cheers, Vann.

:mrgreen: Cheers, Vann.

Me too :oops: Cheers, Vann.

I've noticed this effect on items I've had in the citric acid bath. It seems that the acid has a different effect on hardened steel (blacker) than on softer steel. You can tell how far up an iron or chisel blade has been hardened. Also helps identify laminated blades. Cheers, Vann.

Nice plane! In the end, it's your plane. I too would be torn between a minimalist approach and a full refurbish. Just a suggestion - if all you want to do is to stop the rust, a coat of boiled linseed oil over the previously painted ironwork should do the job. Cheers, Vann.

Thanks BB, and now I've figured out how to do it, a more direct to the preceeding article http://cornishworkshop.blogspot.co.nz/2 ... -spin.html That's my thought too - to give a 45 degree handle. Some of the diecast Footprint eggbeaters have that feature too. Cheers, Vann.

Well, as the person who advocated for the Record 124, I thought I'd better look up my source. I had to go right back through Alf's brilliant blog to 22nd September, 2010 (doesn't time fly) to find the article http://cornishworkshop.blogspot.co.nz/s ... results=50 and it's follow-up dated 15th...

As others have said, I think this is a great tutorial, and I wonder if it shouldn't go into the tool restoration sticky. Like shed9, I've been intending to make a few new totes myself. About three years ago I bought all the correct size Forstner bits, and the longest 7mm brad point I could...

I'm not an expert on infill planes, but I'd guess the first two are made by the owner, from kits. That's not to say they won't be damned good planes, although the adapted frog in the bigger plane is possibly a bodge. Try them, see if they're any good. Cheers, Vann.

I'm enjoying the updates. I've got my popcorn... Cheers, Vann.

I meant Santa Claus, not TNT. Santa knows where everybody lives - doesn't he...? Cheers, Vann :deer :deer

Aha. The good news is they've found someone who knows exactly where you live. The bad news is Santa only delivers on 25th December each year :ho2 . Cheers, Vann.