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If you're getting a used machine you may win the jackpot and get a load of tooling chucked in for the price. The cost of tooling, especially spindle tooling, can easily outstrip the cost of the machine. I use a Felder combination and I've used Hammer combos in the past, for the vast majority of...

The problem is probably moisture trapped below the top surface of the finish (with a dining or side table you also get the problem of a hot cup or plate melting surface wax as well as causing condensation within or under the finish and giving a similar problem, but that's not likely with a box)...

Lovely job, very clean and tidy! From my small experience working with Ziricote, but my much greater experience of similar timbers like Rosewood and Ebony, I'd suggest any finish isn't really penetrating the surface. So if it's adding stability it's in exactly the same way as laying a layer of...

Incidentally, here's the Veritas version of very small stringing chisels https://www.classichandtools.com/acatal ... l#SID=1757 Most craftsmen I know made their own from bits of old saw plate, scraper blades, or filed down masonry nails.

Interesting, I did not know that. I've just checked in the Scott & Sergeant web site and they do indeed have 3mm and 5mm auger & chisel sets for machine morticing! However in the scores of professional furniture making workshops that I've visited or worked in, I can't ever recall seeing a...

+1. and I bet that's true for almost all cabinet makers.

+1 I agree, but it's a long established woodworking practise to claim that a species from one specific location is inherently different from the same species hailing from a different location. And on some occasions those two locations can be within the same continent or even within the same...

I get that, but it's still not ringing true as an explanation. I've made plenty of delicate pieces with small components, But I've never once felt the need for a 1/8" or 3/16" pigsticker or even a sash mortice chisel of such a tiny size. So I'm still guessing it was some heritage...

The thing is Woody, there's no mistaking these chisels! For example take a look at this, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Jame ... :rk:3:pf:0 And there's no shortage of them, in both 1/8" and 3/16", from lots of different manufactures. I'm a full time cabinet maker, and I virtually never...

Small chance that it's Sweet Chestnut, far bigger chance that it's Oak.

I was hunting around on Ebay recently for a particular kind of chisel, when it struck me just how many 1/8" and 3/16" old mortice chisels were listed. These weren't just sash mortice chisels, but also the heavy duty pig sticker style of mortice chisel, and right down to 1/8". Does anyone have...

I've been meaning to post a little follow up to this. My friend brought around his Ultex stones recently and we had a good look at how they were holding up. There was some loss of diamond grit around the edges, I couldn't quite get it visible in a photo but with the naked eye there were a few...

Interesting question. I've made a 1.85m diameter circular table to seat eight people. It worked okay, but no better than okay. The problems were two fold. Firstly the minimum place setting zone is around 600mm wide, you just get there with this table, but only just. That's fine for casual...

I'd also recommend going the abrasive paper route. I don't have photos of doing this on a chisel, but I did it on a plane iron which is the same principle. Here's a plane iron with pitting, if you're hoping to have a quality tool then you'll have to remove those pits, Don't underestimate how...

Depends what equipment you have and how much stringing you need. If I need 2mm wide stringing line I'll make it 2mm wide but 3mm deep, the top surface can be a rough saw cut as you'll flush it down afterwards with a plane or with a scraper. Therefore I'll bandsaw off a veneer that's about...

Such a cool design, a novel idea cleanly executed! =D>

I've had a Phillyplanes moving fillister for a fair time, probably coming up to ten years now. It's remained as true and accurate today as when I first got it, and it works very cleanly both along and across the grain. I also have the Veritas rebate plane, and that also performs...

Good buy. This side of a power tool nothing else will remove material faster and with more control!

That was superb, it was all superb but the bit about the pencil facing the other way was really superb! One other thing, only my opinion but I think your presentational style is better than in your original videos. The infectious enthusiasm is still there, but the delivery is somehow calmer and...

I grant you it could be very slightly problematic if you were end grain planing. For example, I wouldn't use this shooting board for this job, But to be honest, I rarely use that particular shooting board much anyway. And as this job is long grain shooting not end grain, it's a completely...