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Hello, Ashley Iles are just about peerless for the price, quality and design, I would get a set without hesitation and you would need nothing else for a BE chisel ever again. I have tried all kinds over the years, and these are the best by far. You can go cheaper and find other brands fine for...

Hello, The trick is to design boxes that don't require hardware. Sliding lids, lift off lids, lids that pivot on easily obtainable brass dowel. These are design opportunities and make for interesting products. Or make your own wooden hinges. Box hardware is expensive if it is good, otherwise...

Hello, The countryside did have its traditions, no one is blind to those, but the fact is, little innovation came from the country. As you said 'tradition' i.e. the same working methods from the same ( locally available) materials, perpetuating the same locally developed forms, past down from...

Hello, The big three all ended up in London to start businesses, I wonder why? Oh yes, the clients, the innovation and the inspiration were all there and not the countryside or provinces. Arts and crafts movement was originated by city intellectuals. The stuff made was sold almost...

Hello, True, but it was the driving force for the changes in design and fashion. If it wasn't for the few wealthy clients wanting/coveting the new, we would not have such a wealth of design movements with all the varied forms and styles. As to the market for fine furniture being miniscule, it...

Hello, I dunno what tripe you read Jacob, but innovation in art and design had always taken place in large towns. How else could it be? People where in close proximity, their workshops, factories, studios, pubs. This is how cross pollination of ideas took place. This is where Paris, New York...

Hello, Actually I just had a thought, the cambered roller Veritas supply has a shorter adjuster knob, so it doesn't contact the stone when you rock it over on that side. Watch out for that on your tape setup. Mike.

Hello, That should be OK, you have in effect made a narrow wheeled jig, like the Eclipse, which is often used to put a camber on a plane iron. You can get a cambered roller for the Veritas, though, it takes a few seconds to swap back and forth. I just camber my iron with the standard roller...

Hello, I think Custard might have a good point, it could be a good way of marketing. Perhaps if you didn't make the chopsticks all in one go, but knock off the odd pair when you get 10 minutes spare. Then over a year you'd have a large collection to send out as Christmas prezzies for clients...

Hello, Ironically, it is because of IKEA and the like that 'ordinary' stuff, as you put it, is not done anymore. It doesn't matter how fast and sloppy I can make dovetails, I can't crank out stuff cheap enough for people to buy in preference to IKEA. Besides they look bad too, so even less...

Hello Perhaps you should offer courses yourself, Jacob, and teach the trad dovetail, like these: Whilst courses of today will be teaching these: I don't think classes on gappy, overcut dovetails will have many subscribers, though. You can't keep harking back to bygone ages, Jacob, buyers if...

Hello, Small is definitely not fine, when you do them quite obviously. But they should be and if you think a bit of filed metal or a nail is anywhere near a substitute for a fine landed chisel for doing such work, then it explains a lot about your perceptions of what fine work is. You obviously...

Hello, Is his try square and straight edge Silverline, by any chance? Mike

Hello, I'd use the number 6 to flatten your winding sticks, TBH. Mike.

Hello, http://www.axminster.co.uk/chopstick-ma ... ick_Master Probably the most satisfying woodwork you'll ever do? The Bridge City chopstick master is now available from Axminster, my life is complete! Mike.

Hello, I would say that there are no glues normally associated with wood to wood bonding that will work. I don't know that particular product, but that sort of thing is usually something like polyester, or acrylic. There is little or no water absorbsion so no water soluble glue is likely to...

Hello, Unfortunately, this guy is totally wrong. The reason; he thinks that PVA and derivatives act like a resin such as epoxy, so he tested the glue as if is works like a resin. Keyed surfaces are necessary for a resin , so he abraded or scraper the surfaces, which is what you would do for a...

Hello, Ssshh, if my 15 year old iroko kitchen worktops hear that it impossible to glue them with PVA they might spontaneously fall apart, as up until now, they have been solid as rocks. Mike.

Hello, £2.69 for 50 at scewfix, pricey? They are actually three times that on eBay, but make your own if it floats your boat! Mike.