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I fitted leather onto mine.

Andy, I have an old cast iron one (1930's) 3 3/4" long with an internal opening of 2 1/2" it's still on an old door frame if it would be what your looking for let me know and I'll take it off.

This is the one I was thinking of but I am now unsure if it will be the right one for your plane, let me know your sizes.

Looking very good indeed!

Not sure but I think I have a spare one I can have a look in the shed in the morning, It's tipping down with rain at the moment.

I don't know if this would help with your problem but: I used to do a lot of clock engraving and case work and I had some feather stringing like >>>missing I used some black engraving wax you melt it in with a hot iron (soldering iron) it goes very hard and you can sand it down then after polish...

Have a look here: https://www.lathes.co.uk/rollo/page4.html

Good for you it's not all about what the book say's they look very good.

Briwax: First run a hot air gun over the cast bed to warm it up spread a coat of Briwax and leave it like that, used to coat all my machine beds when I was working. I put some on some fork and spade blades in November last year and they are left in a greenhouse where they get wet and dry, use...

I thought the same some years ago but on a large quantity what it does it takes away some of the monotonous work.

Hi Mike understand that why I said send me a PM or DM whatever they call it Private message or Start a Conversation please.

They would not be so hard a project to cut on a cnc you could do this as a block of say 5 left 5 right, setting up a two sided job is very easy using locating pins you then turn the board over and cut the reverse side finally you cut the step into it. Leave only a small amount of cleaning up to...

You missed one out: Look out for Stigmorgan on UKW

Thanks Nial Y: I just went looking online and found one nearly same as mine, I had two leather sewing needles in my knife. And I still have them safe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antique...

Yes it did feel good bought back a lot of memories. On the old boots they had thick soles so to save wearing them out you used to nail them into the sole in different places you put larger ones on the heels and smaller ones on the rest you just hit them in with a hammer.

Been tidying up again and found my old knife from my younger days, When I was a kid I used to work on a farm and the old granddad gave my this knife to use I carried it and used it all my working life then put away and forgot till today. I remember the hook was very handy, and the pointed square...

Sorry Cozzer, No help I know but I gave away a small twin pump on the freelist about 3 week ago it was used to hold down sheet on a cnc machine.

Did you get fixed up as I have one 70mm across the wings, same as thingybob's image above. Edit: your welcome to it for the postage.

What about building your own out of stock timber.?

Don't think it's your coats he's after it your MONEY