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It's either a guitar with sympathetic strings or a combined guitar and harp/zither instrument, both are not new ideas.

Interesting! I suspect the iron was an early Stanley block plane iron and adapted for this use. http://www.davistownmuseum.org/bioBaily.html Is the body a casting made from brass?

It's just a guess, left could be carborundum/silicon carbide, right aluminium oxide/India/corundum. Well worth 50p in any case!

Also check for wind or twist. Could also draw pencil lines across the surface then mark the high points to show where you are taking shavings. May be take thinner shavings if you find the high points become low points too quickly.

Out of all the wooden bench planes I bought or seen in person, my impression is planes with single irons are much much less common, off hand I can only remember a small no-name coffin smoother with a single iron.

Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, Vol. 2, by Charles Holtzapffel, 1856 Page 480 https://archive.org/stream/turningmecha ... 0/mode/2up I think I read somewhere that as soon as the double iron was introduced, people realised it helped greatly with tearout and it became the standard, at...

This wiping on and off thing, isn't that to make it easier to apply varnish? If you use a brush, it needs a bit of skill, at least compared with just wiping off. And, as mentioned, it's slower because you need to apply many more coats. And wasteful.

A file should be harder than a chisel but softer than hardened untempered steel, you do the skid test to make sure you've hardened properly before tempering. I think it's not common to use a file on blades (plane irons, chisels etc), I suppose there must be a reason, maybe because the file will...

I think it's the saw, if you can saw straight, square and exactly to the line, that covers about half of any woodwork. Second would be chisels and gouges. The more simple the tool, the harder they are to use. In comparison planes almost work by themselves, that's not to say they don't need...

Wooden planes are lighter and less tiring to use.

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James G Parkes & Henry Loveridge trading as William Locke & Co, Hockley Hill, Birmingham made silverware and their mark was similar except the dot was a decimal point not a full stop, and no line under the small "o" in "Co". http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Make ... WO.html#WL...

I've just finished a very small piece of rosewood in boiled linseed oil and have noticed a definite difference. Because it's just a small piece (small knife handle), at first I sanded the sawn surface and then applied BLO; the surface was dull and muddy. I then planed it, immediately the...

AFAIK wood filler will take stain, but you might need to use a different colour to match the stained birch so that it'll blend in.

Re the definition of "durability", I think the timber has to be in contact in soil/earth, eg a wooden pole drive into the ground. And the wood has to be unfinished and not treated?

I got mine from Wilkinsons, cost £5 each, in black. I presume the young'uns if they went to college and had to wear an apron in class, but don't wear one now when working in a workshop?

Sure there's a difference, simply because a single maker spends more time and attention on a single instrument. And I guess it's the soundboard and bracing that's gets more work. But my point is about the methods and tools. Both use essentially the same. "Hand made" and "handcrafted" now no...

I would say no, actually they're made with machines and power tools with some very minor work with hand tools. The way they're made is essentially not much different compared with factory made instruments. The main difference is one is made one at a time by one or two people and the other is...

The two well known British carving tools makers are Henry Taylor and Ashley Iles... Their websites suggest they don't supply direct, or maybe they do. If not then the problem is to do with the retailer, and it does sound like terrible service! I get the impression both Henry Taylor and Ashley...