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I have a metal spokeshave I’d like to get working. Generally it doesn’t look too bad but the screw holding in the irons is locked solid. Any suggestions on freeing it off before I resort to the drill? I’ve tried soaking in WD40. I imagine lots of heat is out of the question??

Managed to get it weighed. To be honest I’m a bit disappointed as it’s 150lb at 12” draw length. It can be drawn to 14.5” which would be about 190lb but that would really be pushing it’s limits and that’s not wise when it’s about 2 feet in front of your nose I still have a lot to learn, it...

That is a great method, but I don’t have any beams to hang stuff from, and I don’t have any weight lifting weights 😃. I do have a stack of timber, some scissor jacks, ropes (various) some strong brackets and a 500kg weighing scale (which I didn’t have last year)

Owch!

In case you haven’t already guessed, that bow also broke when nearly finished. I think the yew I used was infected with mold which showed as a faint grey mark between the sapwood and heartwood. Summer is my building season and I have bitten the bullet, cutting down my last yew stave. This is...

Really enjoyed that vid, thank you for posting. But, as my manager once said to me it has a way of making a really simple job really complicated. Draw a pattern, make a template and trace the outline….but I am only a woodcarver and I guess there’s not much content in my way…😁

Hope that helps

Perhaps a whittle sketch will help. Cut out 5 of these. Chamfer from centre to tip Chamfer from centreline to edge and assemble

That’s useful, I’ve not come across that before, Thankyou

There are many, many, ways to plot a pentagon but most use a protractor. Not every workshop has one to hand. This method only needs a way to draw a circle (circle, piece of string, mug, bucket - anything circular) and a ruler to find the diameter and count around the first arc of the...

Just for completeness, since tinternet is forever, I tried for hours this morning to step a compass around the circumference and failed until I realised you open the compass to 1/5 distance as measured on the circumference, not as a straight line - 11.3cm along the circumference is not the same...

Everything is better with pi . I stand corrected, too tired for mathematics, quite correct, pentagon, hexagon for 6 pointed star, pi is an infinite number starting 3.14159. 3.4 is very wrong, clearly forgot the tenth, don’t use it! Round it to 3.14 though you may still have to fudge things a...

The basic shape for each arm is a simple diamond meeting to form The “solid” centre as a pentagon. Shouldn’t be hard to draw at full size by stepping dividers around a circle to create that hexagon. Lots of videos out there but one short cut is to divide the circumference (3.4 x diameter) by...

No numbers or markings of any sort, except on the Marples technical Jack, but, the Jack should be 14.5” and this is 16”. The only markings on the Jack might be by an owner. G.HATTO is crudely stamped on 3 separate places on the body

And the 16” Jack plane.

Here is the coffin plane. Again no marks except on the iron

Ok, so it is an anchor, but, it doesn’t look like the Marples diagram, to me it looks like an S over an anchor. There are no other marks

Thanks Andy, following your reply I found a web page on Marples that said he only used the anchor from 1838 to 1859 which makes the little plane proper old, so, maybe I can excuse one worm hole…

Oh, I haven’t got any Marples tools, didn’t know their trade mark. Couldn’t make out the letters but, yes, that makes a lot of sense. Any ideas on age?

Lucky me, I popped in to my local motorbike shop to chew the fat when I spied a couple of boxes of old tools the owner was clearing from his shed. Picked up these 3 for a tenner. The little one is marked with an anchor , the other two seem to carry the same mark (shown in the photo). Any...