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You still need to put a bevel on a chisel from time to time. A hand crank grinder will do that much more efficiently than rubbing it on a stone. No electricity needed. I have 2, neither of them work properly but if they do they are very good.

To be honest Doug I might be ok with some adhesive sandpaper for fast removal and use my Arkansas stone and strop for the fine stuff.

Hi The other day for some reason i tried flattening the back of a blade with a piece of 600g sandpaper and when I saw how quickly it worked I realised that my trio of Faithfull diamond sharpening plates is probably knackered after about 4 years of abuse. So I thought I’d ask for suggestions for...

For what it’s worth, I have worked it out. It is dead easy. It’s simply about how the work is held and the direction the cut is made. Yes it is practice , but there’s no point in practicing doing something wrong, which is what I was doing.

I completed a pair of number 11 hollows and rounds today. They cut beautifully, no clogging or chatter. Just need a bit of a cleanup and finish. Then they should look like the number 12s next to them.

Plane making innovations….. for me anyway…. Cam clamp for holding planes during mortise work. Seems to work! Needs a bit of fettling. 3d printed templates for marking up moulding planes and wedges consistently. Inspired by Norman Bayliss. Hopefully he’s smiling in his grave.

I think you should make a little picture frame with them before you give them away. Just so they don’t feel rejected.

Can’t you get a little piece of wood, cut to the angle, take a nibble off the end and use that? Running over the stone askew will work. I went through a period of using my finger running on the stone to get approx the right angle. Creates mucky hands, but produces a reasonably accurate edge.

What are you making? HMS Victory?

it is interesting that when you have them, and once you’ve worked out how to use them, how much they get used. I have 2 mills that I use all the time, but I rarely use my metal lathe these days, which is a shame as it’s without doubt my favourite tool. They are miraculous things. But it’s a...

I tried to take care but failed. They get pretty skinny in the corners. I’m using it regularly while I’m into this moulding planes lark. Very handy for the “ramp” that blends the grip into the escapement.

Lights look good. Lighting is one of my biggest problems. 2 questions…. 1) nice to see the lathe and mill. What do you use them for? 2) how many marking gauges do you actually need?

Most of my chisels came from car boots and eBay, but car boots are closed now for the winter. I was pleased with myself, having avoided spending a load of dosh on a fancy one. Stop raining on my parade 😉 I might even get a Faithfull gouge.

Yes, I think I do. but how hard can it be? It’s just a cut with a curved chisel. Not exactly Michelangelo. Here’s an original one from a Wooding plane.

For what it’s worth…. i needed a 1/4 inch skew chisel recently. I couldn‘t find a second hand one online, and I wasn’t up for paying for a posh one, so I went to Screwfix and got a Faithfull 1/4” bevel chisel and ground it skew and re-hardened it, it took 10 mins work to get the back properly...

A complication with this cut (for me) is one end is square. I’ve practiced lots of lovely sweeping cuts, dead easy, but this has a square end and limited approach angles due to the grip of the plane. i know I’m over thinking this but I need to learn somehow. There is limited info on YouTube…...

But basically we are talking about a gouge as long or longer than the length of the cut I suppose.

Steve that’s some very impressive work, the kind of level I hope I can get to one day 👍 I’m fine now with the smaller gouge cuts, although I’ve converted my one in-cannel to out-cannel, but it seems to be producing quite good results. It’s the longer cuts I’m trying to work out how to do. As...

Hi Adam, So are you saying that the cut should be approached from the “long side” of the cut then? Would the gouge need to exactly match the width and sweep of the cut? I need to work out which gouge(s) to get. If so, for a set of planes, there’s a lot of gouges to get….

Thanks for posting this. Sorry about your accident. I’ve only had one incident with mine where it flung a piece of wood at me and hit me in the chest. It happens, as you say, so quickly. i have become complacent with it. New push sticks to be fabricated tomorrow.