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Back on practicing gouge cuts today, I feel I’m going on a bit about some of these moulding plane details but I really don’t have anyone to ask except the experts around here. I’m now trying to replicate the “wide” gouge cuts. See below, a professionally done gouge cut and my sorry attempt. The...

Correct, it’s a hobby for me. Or rather, a not very healthy obsession.

I have to admit that ditching the sharpening jig was the best thing I’ve done. It was massively holding me back from learning to sharpen properly. The only jigs I use for sharpening are the ones that came with the pro edge for sharpening turning gouges. If I did more turning I’d probably ditch...

I agree in general that an over-reliance on lots of jigs isn’t a good thing, and indeed I’ve found myself ditching them as my skills and knowledge has improved. But a shooting board isn’t a jig, it’s a legitimate part of hand tool woodworking. Unless we’re saying now that real woodworkers...

That’s kind of where I got to in the end, I’ve been using the shooting board, one side is usually fine, but the other is prone to tearout as quite often you are planing against the grain, if tear out occurs, stop and finish it by hand in the vice, planing with the grain. As you say the bevel is...

For what it’s worth, if anyone’s interested, I did some experiments today with burnishing end grain to see if I could influence the uptake of the BLO. Results were pretty amazing, see below burnished vs in burnished end grain. Then the further pic of a plane I carefully card-scraped and...

So my decision is that I’m going to dunk them in BLO then give a coat of paste wax, which I will apply with a polissoir when I can get hold of one or make one. But, the problem is, whenever I apply BLO to anything, it looks terrible. It comes up all grubby. Is this because there was some...

I saw the latest video part 1 with the vacuum chamber and I thought that it might be a good idea but I don’t think Robert Wooding and John Moseley were doing that back in the day. Also I don’t have one, and if I had one it would be for investment casting. I haven’t yet seen part 3 of that...

I have been, yes, with a mop, to get a really lovely finish, probably 10 coats! And with a mop, it’s a sticky business.

Yes, the “problem” as you put it is I am being totally indecisive. Thanks for the info. If danish oil is effectively diluted linseed oil that would work.id just have to pick a good brand. Here‘s a link to Caleb James’s page with his polissoir. Link Its either that or the shellac. My experience...

Hi I have asked this question before, but I didn’t really come to a conclusive conclusion, so I’m going to try asking it again. I now have a substantial pile of moulding planes that require finishing. The reason I haven’t applied any finish, as I am being indecisive about the finish that I want...

And here are a pair of tapered moulding plane irons I made with the above jig today. These will go in a pair of #6 H&R. Can you tell I don’t have a job?

Good thinking. I was going to say that with the price of aluminium today, it might be cheaper to buy such things from the appropriate manufacturer. But with Festool, maybe not! it turns out that having a milling machine and a block of aluminium is the solution to many problems! Last week I made...

Ok I can see how you did it , through neck, glue on 2 routed boxes, then glue the top on.

Wow. Hugely impressive. So many questions! Is the F hole a real F hole or is it inlay? I.e. is the Guitar semiacoustic? It looks like it has a through neck like a Jackson? Initially it looked like the neck was laminated, however, the laminate does not appear on the front of the headstock! So...

Evening I‘ve had an old Parkinson Perfect vice for quite a few years now. When I built my new workbench a year or so ago I cleaned it up and installed it, with the inner jaw kind of recessed in the bench, and the vise screwed into the wood. It seemed at the time that it wasn’t easy to mount...

#4 Hollow plane finished… well almost. It works. Need to harden the blade and apply finish.

As far as I can tell in-cannel are for paring, and if you want to gouge out a hollow of any sort with them they won’t work for that. I had another go with mine today and it’s way better than it was. Not quite professional perfection yet, but maybe 70% of the way there. It’s great to have the...

Interesting, I am finding the angle I need to apply the gouge to the wood to cut is very high. I know it’s ground at exactly 25 deg. Perhaps I am holding it at too high an angle when sharpening and taking off the edge. I will try again tomorrow. I am getting a lovely burnished cut though.

Well it was all done in the end. It was only a test piece to learn how to do it. I’m going to do some real windows and a box sash but I want to make myself a new set of sash planes first. I’ll get back to windows in the spring. I found that book really difficult to follow The rod really helped...