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If they're going to charge for them separately, then the bags should plain with no shop names or logos. But then free bags are not actually free either, you're still paying to advertise the shop, although I would guess it's much much less than 5p per bag.

Yes it looks like they do not actually make any of their products, have a look at their "about us" page, a few display cabinets plus an office! http://www.fallkniven.com/en/aboutus Spyderco also don't make their ceramic stones.

A plane could have all sorts of faults that don't affect performance but they definitely do affect the price! Yes a plane with a broken off corner at the rear will still work and it's not as bad as a crack near the mouth, it would also depend on the size of the broken bit. You could cut off the...

Re prices, I would think a plane with that damage would be worthless as a plane, any price you pay for it would be for spares and parts.

Yes it's for making instruments but you could use for planing any small piece of wood, and it's also very handy for chamfering. I'm not sure why I don't like the cut-and-glue together method*, maybe it's because all the ones I seen have the swoopy bendy shapes, I prefer the solid blocky...

Crystolon is silicon carbide and it's harder than aluminium oxide/India so I wouldn't expect aluminium oxide to grind silicon carbide... I've got some dished Crystolon and India stones that I would love to get flattened but from what I've read you need to use a very coarse diamond stone. Maybe...

You need to put something between the workmate and a wall, and plane against the wall, ie you move your plane going towards the wall. For planing bigger work, you can clamp a board on top of the workmate. You can use use battens to stop your workpiece moving around, same as on a normal work...

Hello all, I've made a wooden plane, using only hand tools so I thought I'd post in the hand tools section rather than the projects section. I haven't used the cut-and-glue-together method, which seems to the most common way seen on the web First make the blade and take a piece of scrap ash...

Yep, for taking off a lot of wood, it's quicker to use a short or medium length plane with a cambered blade, ie not sharpened straight across, to take thick but narrow shavings.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've had a look at photos of zebrano and wenge. I think both are too stripey, with a big difference between the lighter and darker stripes, and too regular. I understand sonokelling is just planation grown Indian rosewood, does it have a bad smell?

I've got a small piece of scrap wood from a guitar making workshop, it's really smelly! It's chocalate brown with darker streaks. I think it's some sort of rosewood but I understand rosewood's supposed to smell of roses, hence the name. But this wood has a sort of sharp unpleasant sour smell...

I feel there's some amount of scaremongering from those with vested interests; from Microsoft of course and all those who want us all to constantly upgarde this and that. In some cases there some improvements or more features but most of it is just useless bloatware which slows down your...

The book only covers the 4 piece laminated plane with nothing on the traditional one piece plane, and it seems the book is more aimed at the powered tool user as it has a chapter on choosing, setting and using a bandsaw and/or table saw. Thinking about it, I think the laminated plane is actually...

Can you even measured that accurately, with that measuring tool? 3 microns/micrometres is tiny, it's less than half the width of a red blood cell! With a very thin shaving would it even be like a normal shaving? If you're using a micrmeter, it's going to be very hard to know when you have the 2...

From https://www.gov.uk/find-out-if-i-can-bu ... ry-a-knife The general idea is that it's illegal to carry in public *any* knife without good reason, except for a "knife with a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less".

Locking knives are illegal to carry in public, without a good reason. I wouldn't think peeling oranges is a good reason, because a perfectly legal folding knife with a blade shorter than 7.5cm that you can carry without having to explain for it will peel oranges, even a bluntish normal table...

It looks like a normal Stanley no 4 but has extra side plates added, attached with either screws or rivets then filed flat. There is also an extra screw at the front base of the rear handle, the rear handle on no 4 planes usually only have one long bolt/screw, at least the Stanley and Records...

Err...am I'm missing something? All I can see is someone using machines to cut wood into strips and then glueing them back together, without any woodworking hand skill involved. OK there's some cleverness with the arrangement to give the patterns, but that's not woodworking. Also to cut up big...

From http://www.planemakers-database.com/page/8/ I presume the above is taken from one of the books on British plane makers. I suspect the plane is alot newer than 1824. The name Buck and Ryan only dates from 1910, so my guess is it was sold by the Buck and Ryan shop with their name on it...

Going by that colour chart, I think I quenched when it was 'light cherry'. Tempering was done in an electric kiln with it set at 200 degrees. Basically it was put blades in kiln, turn it on, set to 200 degrees, leave for an hour, turn it off, then take out when cool enough to touch.