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From the very blurred wiew I can get through binoculars from the other side of Europe I am not quite set up to draw far reaching conclusions concerning British politics. Hovewer there is one thing that strikes me. A total lack of either will or ability to deal with systematic flaws. Housing and...

In my oppinion (small scale part-timer) a good full size spindle moulder is a machine worth having for anyone who for one reason or another must count his hours or put some sort of value on his time. Spindle moulder tooling tends to be expensive and the justification of that cost defines the...

Most old profile planes aren't skewed. The ones I have made aren't. Except for the panel fielder which is used on end grain and must be skewed for that purpose. I generally like Nordic style profile planes better than English style. The body being full width all the way to the top allows a...

Apparently one has to refuse the sale to third party businesses of information gathered from one's computer. Not once but every time a new page is loaded from this site. It sounds like they want me to leave.

My experience is that if you are only after money and working in carpentry you should have as few tools and as little eqipment as possible. Minimal overhead costs. However that will only work for a short while because for every job you have done your customers will find that the Bulgarians are...

A small sliding table is way better than none. Get the largest sliding table saw bench you can fit into the available space.

The mystery part reminds me of a mystery part I sold once. The buyer said it was a guard for tennoning on a French spindle moulder whose name I cannot remember. My mental picture is foggy though.

Any steam engine or steam locomotive fan should know it.

You can do it yourself if you want. It is not too difficult. I have done it a couple of times. First you order a mandrel from a machinist. The mandrel has the same measurements and the same corrugations as the shaft stubs of the cutterhead minus 0,3mm on the diametre. The slightly smaller...

No hair shirt unfortunately. Only a slow thinker. Dad use to say :The boy is a slow thinker. Before he has had time to realize that it is impossible he has already finished the job. There are plenty of pre world war 2 machines and even more pre world war 1 machines which are exactly as bad as...

That is a must have tool for all serious hand tool users. You need it every time you sharpen a handsaw. Unfortunately that very model doesn't work very well for the finer teeth of backsaws and such but for handsaws it is excellent. I have a bunch of them set up and ready for setting various...

Well.... puoring and scraping new white metal bearings once in a while is not a problem in my books. Such machines are still fairly earsy to find and usually very cheap because lots of people think it is impossible to do anything to the bearings. I repoured the bearings in my rip saw...

Very old? In the long lifespan of good woodworking machinery "very old" would imply before the first word war. Which it is not.

Some 20 years ago the Finnish army got rid of the last coastal defence guns taken from the russians in 1918. They were fully operational and an integral part of the defence system right to the end. When they could no longer be maintained to high standards they were taken out of use. The Finnish...

In the past a typical winter around here would imply largely freezing temperatures from late November or early December to late March. The sea between Finland and Sweden froze over completely so there was very little moisture in the air. In April all accumulated moisture dried out in the spring...

To me it looks rather suitable for a single car garage. Provided that there is no car in there. I had my Stenberg KEV600 combination in a single car garage fior years and it worked. It is very obviously a high quality machine. Does not look outdated in any way except the planer which lacks the...

If you post photos of it I could probably make out something. Usually one can see fairly easy if a machine is obsolete or not. Wilson was a reputable brand back in the days if it is the Wilson I am thinking of.

Would it be possible to remachine the cutterhead to take standard knives of some sort? There is usually a way around the "way of the modern world".

All unheated outbuildings have some condensation problems. It is usually worst when there should be winter but isn't. The sort of winter you had in Britain in the old days and which we are now struggling to cope with. The best way of avoiding condensation is to nail 7/8 inch boards all over the...

Have you talked to Peter Weiß ? He lives in Riedering, Bayern, Germany and to my knowledge speaks only German but if you know the language or can get help from somebody who speaks it he is the man to talk to. He is the supreme walking database of anything concerning old ELU machinery and ha also...