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So are you trying to achieve a planed parallel piece of wood? From your description the cut is good and straight you just end up with a piece of wood that is slightly tapered? If you want parallel they you would be better planing one edge as you are and then putting it through your thicknesser...

Check if your fences are parallel or co planar?

Bob I thought you had a vacuum high pressure extractor in which case 63mm is fine with a decent vacuum. Matt no. It does not work like that with low pressure extractors. Read Siggy’s thread or Bill Penz website.

Bob I follow but probably should have also said the air flow at the sander would not be sufficient to extract the dust. Your plan increases the air going to the fan but not the air extracting at the sander. My experience of restricting low pressure systems is that flow rate also drops so if the...

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Bob. It does not work like that. Low pressure systems work by moving a large volume of air. If you have a 125mm pipe and then restrict it to 63mm that restricts air flow to one quarter as that is the relative cross sectional area. What happens is that the fan is starved of air. The air does...

If your 2HP system is a vacuum system HPLV you should be able to connect 63mm pipe quite well. If the 2HP system is LPHV then there is not much hope as you will lose to much air flow stepping down from 125mm to 63mm as you have 1/4 of the cross sectional area so you will have virtually no flow...

A spoke shave as others have said and let her do it. However I am not sure it wants to be too sharp it could do a lot of damage.

I agree. I do not understand the debate about decanting it or any other method to try to prolong the shelf life. A bottle of glue costs £10, suppliers will deliver it next day why would you take the risk of it not bonding let alone the repetitional harm. If the glue is still in the bottle...

To learn to carve in the round, relief and with a knife in less than one year is a tall order for a hobby. Horses are incredibly difficult to carve well. Many people start with relief carving patterns or rosettes and then venture into the round with novelty characters where if they are not...

I think there is a picture of such a bow saw in Tag Frid's book

If you must use a combination plane to cut a rebate then cut a 1/4 by the depth of the rebate groove to form one edge. Then take your jack plane and let the edge fall into the groove and hog out the waste. Finish to line and the bottom of the groove with a well set plane. You can even prepare...

Try ducting online

The trick with Idigbo is not to use hand tools. If you scribe on the spindle/tenoner it is fine if you try and chop a scribe with chisels and gouges you are left with a pile of rubble.

Iroko nearly forced me to give up. I spent a few weeks one summer machining it up for some project. The heat, sweat and dust combined and I ended up with a horrible skin condition and breathing problems. As long as I do not let Iroko anywhere near the workshop I am fine. Idigbo has a strange...

Same here. You do have to be careful handling the finished product. I have been using Meranti for door cills.

I have seen Idigbo leach. In my experience it leaches when painted (but that is not a scientific finding). When I made 17 windows 5 years ago for my own house I stained them externally and varnished them internally and I have not had any leaching problems. It is easy to machine but slightly...

Sorry too far away to help with sharpening technique. This works http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworkin ... arp+ws2780. It is a bit industrial and expensive A good source of Lime is Duffields at Ripon.

I think if you are in the market for a combination plane then, sure give this serious consideration. As is typical with Veritas they do improve rather than copy, so I have no doubt it is much better than my old 45. The (k)nickers and screw adjustments look far better and as has been said no...

I am pleased to see them try to upgrade the combination plane. I would have thought that to be successful it needs to do what was originally intended - moulding. A few reading and fluting cutters do not justify the expense. They need more choices. The combination plane has never been the best...