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Looks to have a crack and some hammer marks at the front at the top. To loosen the iron, either use a leather or rubber mallet on the back, or turn it upside down and give it a few taps on the area where the hammer mark is on a piece of scrap pine, making sure you catch the iron and wedge...

I found one in my dad’s garage. If I were you, I wouldn’t be commissioning me to make you a polissoir any time soon.

£4. Insane.

Hi - did you sell this?

More gizmos for making moulding planes today…. A “rig” made up mostly of metalworking stuff I already had, for holding and rotating a plane while the mortise is roughed out with a milling bit on the pillar drill. This should cut a particularly laborious and miserable part of the process down by...

Fantastic. How does it play/sound?

It’s very nice of you to say so but nothing could be further from the truth. The only thing I am is persistent.

Yes but it’s a hand operated mill, no CNC, no DRO. Woodwork with machines is cheating. Metalwork, within reason, less so.

It’s on my list. I know it’s cheating but I have a milling machine with a dovetail cutter. That would make the main construction of the chassis considerably easier and less error prone. I’ve made a lot of wooden planes but never a metal one. Tempting!

Didn’t spot this when you posted it. Great project, I want to have a go at one one day. I would not be able to resist attempting to make the chassis though.

There are two, a 1930s Burke no4 horizontal mill, which I mostly use as a “table saw” for metal, and to the left a Dore Westbury Mk1 vertical mill.

I liked the bat too. The one thing I wanted to see was the folding of the brass back. Perhaps it was there somewhere.

Here’s my shed after I’d tidied it. I have a woodworking side and a metalworking side to try to stop wood things getting grubby, and try to stop the machines and engineering tools getting covered in sawdust. It didn’t really work.

I expect I am only one who hasn’t seen this, but in case I am not, a chap gives a nice demo of how to set a saw properly. I might give this a go next time I have to do it. Perhaps not! in below clip at 2:00 in Saw making

Hi Ive had quite a lots of success recently burnishing beech to prevent too much uptake of BLO on end grain. I have simply been using a piece of dowel to,do it. Problem is, wood is never quite flat, and I can see the benefit of hard bristles to get a consistent finish, i was going to get a...

The problem with him is his planes are so precise and skilfully made, normal people with less experience and resources trying to make them will never be truly happy with theirs 🙁 I obviously learnt how to basically do it from Larry Williams‘ video (as did Matt) but you find yourself drawing on...

Ahhh it’s a secret! But seriously, for the longer sweeping cuts for big planes, if you hold the plane in the vice as shown in the pic, and start the cut at the bottom (right at the bottom of the chamfer), and slice along the edge to the corner, if suddenly works. it can be done in several...

I’ve ordered a medium India stone to go along with my hard Arkansas stone. I can use my 600g diamond stone for flattening the oil stones as it’s not in too bad nick. I’ve also ordered some 120g adhesive sandpaper for fast initial flattening of backs. I think that’ll give me everything I need...

After experiencing this: I made a little 3d printed jig for aligning number stamps Producing this…. Quite pleased with it! 😀

Sounds like a good way to make a trebuchet in your shed 👍