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I paid £25 for a set of four Marples Splitproof in 1984, they’re fine chisels but the handles stink for years of this chemical smell. I preferred the Stanley 5001 black handled polished myself, I don’t think they’re still made, or if they are they’re probably lesser quality.

Not sure if this has been solved, but I’m after a belt for our machine at work. I count 73 teeth, 8mm pitch, 20mm wide and 584mm long. Record Power have them at £16.99 plus vat plus carriage. It seems a bit expensive to me, anyone found a better solution?

These are Registered Pattern Mortice Chisels

Watched it last night and noticed the standard was slightly improved over last year’s atrocious. One common theme is that they design stuff that’s either way outside their competency or needs more than two days to complete, or more usually both. The only person I saw that handled tools like...

The surface is made of a sheet of discarded acrylic I got from a department down the road. It’s about 6mm thick. I’ve also wrapped the fence with black ABS plastic. The original mdf top is nicer to use but after twenty years it was looking very tired.

From what I can see it looks like an Elu RAS1603. We’ve got the DW729 which looks identical, dated 1998 and Made in Italy on the motor.

That looks exactly like the one I’ve got at work except it’s DeWalt yellow, ours is from around 1998. Yours is the wrong colour to be made in 1977, they were green and a dull orange/red then. When DeWalt took over Elu in 1994? they changed all their machines from the green and red to the grey...

Don’t bother, the teeth are too hard to be resharpened and meant to be disposed of once they’ve lost their edge, hence the term ‘Throwaway Saw’.

Whilst I agree, I suspect the correct terms are still used and taught in the trade, with the American terms probably used on the hobby side of things.

I’ve still got a Stanley 93, Record 311 and a Record 041 but mainly use the 93 if needed.

I’d always wanted an 073 since seeing them in Technical College in the Eighties. I managed to buy one at a reasonable price through the classifieds in The Woodworker in the late Nineties and was a bit underwhelmed when I used it for the first time. It’s a beast and too big for anything other...

It’s nothing to do with the chisel, it’s just inexperience.

I see, I thought you meant for a shoulder. A hand router works fine on a short tenon.

Too much set up, mess and noise.

Gloss looks nice but it highlights everything good and bad, satin’s more forgiving.

Excellent news!!

That’s 2” either side, it’s too much and will look very odd. You probably won’t have enough stile left for a latch and set of handles with what’s left either.

😂 the only place the centimetre is used is in school.

There’s a beautiful pair of gunstocked shouldered doors in one of the main entrances to Jolly’s in Bath. They were so nice I had to take their picture.

I’d disagree, compared to a dedicated shoulder plane, the Skew Block Plane’s too top heavy with little bearing surface to accurately trim a shoulder.