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if the product you want is not for sale else where then you've not got much choice. I don't really like tesco but if lidl is shut after work I go there, rather have my dinner than my pride. However my experience with Rutlands and the stories I've heard from others means I would prefer to spend...

I once bought a 1m steel rule from Rutlands, I soon realised that it was far from straight. I was not expecting an engineers straight edge but it was a good 2 or 3mm different in width along the rule and strayed several mm from straight ( I can't actually remember the amount but I think around...

Some time ago I got all my bench planes flattened at North London Saws. It's not a service they offer but we get our metal and wood blades sharpened there regularly and they know me quite well (only as a customer). They charged me £25 to set up the machine and £5 per plane to flatten the sole...

Fair play Lurker. I did wonder if it was a typo

CC wrote "The biggest fault was the banana sole - 6 thou concave" Lurker wrote "It was great.........Sole flat to 1 mm all over" 1mm=40 thou Some slightly differing views about what is a flat sole! Paddy

Secret Santa. check out previous years, some great stuff

No Skills, hello Don't really do pictures, my phone is a £10 nokia with no camera (I break them to regularly to get a modern phone). the dry dock is on the river lea at Enfield Lock. We work on narrow boats and other canal craft. We don't have a web site as were always booked up for months in...

I have a woodrat and can confirm it is a good tool for cutting dovetails and mortice and tenons with a router. There are 1;8, 1; 7 and 1; 6 cutters available as we;; as the 1;9, the 1;6 tend to be larger. I used to use it a fair bit but in many ways it was a victim of it's own success. I bought...

I really like the look of bow saws. Is there anyone on this forum who uses one in place of a tenon/dovetail saw?

I really loved following the SS last year, it's what got me addicted to this forum. Paddy

At the bench sole down is fine, however I reckon that putting a plane on it's side is good practice if you do site work as you are often working on concrete floors or indeed in homes when you need to put the plane on a dinning table or shelf but do not want to risk scratching it. I try to put...

Thanks Andy, that's loads better

I really enjoy these shows, but the subtitles are really annoying, especially with the black background, right at the place where the action is going on. Fair play to have subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing people, but they surely could have left the background clear. Paddy

Had a quick google for a cartoon I once saw in a newspaper but couldn't find it so I'll paraphrase. Wife "Come on darling turn the computer off and come to bed" Husband "No, but, but, there's a man on the internet and he's WRONG"

Sure electrolysis is a factor, also the quality of the original steel (for instance rust tends to start around sulphur particles in the steel), and the amount of times the boat scrapes on pilings and locks, all of this, along with the amount of time between docking makes makes judging the...

Personally I usually sharpen freehand apart from the steep bevel (50 degree) iron that came with my QS block plane, which I very rarely use, and sometimes with narrow chisels as I find them tricky to register on the stone. Against all the advice I sharpen a single bevel usually about 30 degrees...

Like most items that prevent slow long term processes it is very difficult to judge the performance of this product. I work on metal boats and after years I am still unsure what the best anti rust treatments and paints are as 2 boats can have identical treatment and one can rust whilst the other...

I've never really thought I needed/wanted premium tools, my most extravagant hand tool purchase was some Ashley Iles gouges, all my planes and saws are second hand apart from a QS block plane, and they are all able to do what I need them too. That said i have some severe envy when I see your...