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I have always use oak for my guide blocks, soaked overnight in veg oil, seems to work fine. they do need flattening or replacing every now and then but easy to do and there's always oak to hand at work Paddy

Am I the only one who thinks that machine is just a bit boring

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I've cut myself a million times with hand tools, never badly enough to require the hospital, but have so far escaped a machine accident (touch wood, no that's mdf, there's some oak).I did once cut the end off my finger in a canal lock and the hospital stitched it back on. It was the morning...

I'm sure I've read joint strength tests where dowels out perform biscuits, might well have been from the manufacturers of dowel jigs though so caution required. just found this https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/get ... owel-joint. FWW did some tests but you have to sign up to see the results...

Did you get this sorted. If not then I can weld it for you at enfield dock. PM me

Custard, thanks for such a full and detailed response. Really fascinating. I'm surprised not to see any gouges or a half inch chisels on the list. Paddy

I wasn't really aware of the etiquette of not posting ebay links, I'll bear it in mind in future. Out of interest Scouse were you bidding on it yourself?

Custard, I've read before about the no.7 being the only bench plane in the Barnsley tradition. I find this hard to imagine as I mostly use a 4 and a block and find the 7 really unwieldy. On an instrument making course I went on they got me to flatten violin plates with a seven and I found it...

Fair play Scouse. Assuming Corneel is right then it's a good job for the one bidder I didn't ask the question on a butchery forum (if such a thing exists). Paddy

Just browsing ebay and saw this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/w-marples-son ... 235054fa5d I've never heard of a stainless steel saw before. It certainly looks as if the plate not just the spine is stainless Would it be sharpenable? I know drilling and filing stainless is hard. Was it perhaps a...

I've been making three Oak windows for a house boat this last week. two of them were simple enough but the third, replacing some badly masticed perspex,was a nightmare. the steel on the side had been partially overplated at some point in the boats history so the window frame had to sit on a...

Personally I have no interest in working wood like Mathias, all those table saw and router jigs, but it has to be said the man is a genius

But how do you sharpen a guillotine? Hollow ground, secondary bevel, rounded bevel, a huge guillotine honing guide, and should it be 01, A2, PM V11???

Personally I think we should do what the french did 200 years ago, but my 7 year old daughter, Charlotte is chuffed to bits to share her name with a real princess. Oliver Cromwell? You don't need to ban music dancing and Christmas and slaughter my forefathers to get rid of Royals, saying that...

"free the ukworkshop 1". I have always enjoyed Jacob's post, and BB's putdowns. All pretty mild compared to the banter on the sites (real sites, not www sites) and workshops I've worked in.

I must be missing something (as usual) isn't the difference between a 4 an 41/2 (or 5 and 51/2) that the 1/2 sizes are wider? If they're the same width then what is your extra £10 for? Suppose the half sizes are heavier, I always thought they were heavier because they were wider. I like the...

Beware of African wood. The reversing grain on many African timbers can be a nightmare to hand plane due to reversing grain. I recently used a load of iroko left over from a boat deck to make a bed and found it really hard to hand plane with no tearout. If you do want to use African hard woods I...

I don't know how much room you have but tablesaw and bandsaw takes a lot of space as you need room to feed the wood in and out, sometimes cross cutting and some times rip cutting. I have a large workshop and have all the stationary tools (heavy 3 phase machines), however there is loads you can...

Paul Sellers blog entries "ten tools three joints" is worth a read http://paulsellers.com/2014/05/question ... ee-joints/. There are plenty of other tools you are going to want if you keep woodworking but this will get you going. As far as makes are concerned if you want to buy new then narex...