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Hello, I think they are just hand grips, front and back, that the user could get their fingers around. But who knows, we can never ask the original owners! Perhaps those who have reproduces the planes would get a true sense of how they were used. Mike.

Hello, Thanks again Andy, those planes are beautiful. Timber framing makes sense, I can well imagine these being used to good advantage on large, rough beams. I wonder why (or maybe there are) there are no British equivalents? I suppose the finish straight from an adze was good enough, when...

Hello, The bandsaw you have is ideal for these projects you list. Small scale work is better done on a bandsaw, safer for sure. What hand tools do you have? Making chopping boards might need boards edge jointing to make up wider stock. Do you have a hand plane and a bench to do the planing? Mike.

Hello, What a great idea, I must try that. =D> Mike.

Hello, Thanks for posting these fantastic videos. I never saw 2 man planing before, for stock preparation, very interesting. Mike.

Hello, Krenov told me about it in person. Mike.

Hello, There is nothing amateurish about removing the waste with a fretsaw, or similar. For one, Robert Ingham does it; if anyone contends that he is amateurish, probably the most prolific teacher of the finest furniture craftsmen in this country, then that person would be a fool...

Hello, If your budget is this tight, I seriously wouldn't look at any tablesaw. If your work is 'light' as you say, decent handtools would be a better buy. You will be buying a set of problems that turn into projects of their own, some perhaps insurmountable without more money and effort spent...

Hello, This is precisely why those experts who have been doing it for decades, write books so we all know what gets done. It saves guessing, speculation and just making stuff up, which seems to be your predilection. Of course not having all the clues doesn't seem to bother you ; it has the...

Hello, Emmert pattern makers vice? I fitted one of these for a friend in Vermont once. Useful things, but a bit spendy. I ground a chisel very thin to do the same as the scraper trick above, and also a chisel into a sharp cornered triangle section for getting into all the books an crannies...

Hello, I've seen wide, complex moulders with a rope through a hole before. But this plane isn't (at least not currently) a moulder, neither is it particularly wide. I speculated that the plane might have been once a moulder, but had the sole flattened, but there is no skew on the bed like the...

Hello, The sole is flat and the iron cambered a bit, but just a regular looking double iron. There has been a repair patch let in, in front of the mouth, but there is no wear to the sole to suggest it has been used on narrow end grain, as in shooting. I thought it might be a moulding plane that...

Hello, Does anyone know what on earth this plane us for? It is on the old tools website, thought to be made of cherry, and has a Peugeot Freres iron. But what on earth are the appendages for? I've not seen anything like it. Mike.

Hello, Which bit of European are you misunderstanding, you know full well I'm excepting British stuff? Tage Frid was an extremely hard worker, who made no concessions to faffing about. It is well noted by his students. Mike.

Hello, It seems to be common to do pins first by European makers. Krenov did pins first, too, taught to him by his teacher, Carl Malmsten. The Swedish cappelagarden continue to teach this way and I'm sure they are not alone. I believe Christian Becsvoort was also taught this way by his German...

Hello, Are you sure they are 'remedies', Jacob? :? Mike.

Hello, I used a 145 until very recently. Wealden do very nice 9inch blades at a good price. I used their blades on it. https://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/On ... e_289.html I would personally get 2 blades, a rip and a highish tooth count crosscut, but if you go for a GP blade these are...

Hello, Actually, I would think Mr. Ford would use nothing else but Super 8. Mike.

Hello, Betamax! VHS is only used by amateurs. :lol: Mike.

Hello, Yes, there certainly will be some sole flexing, and I was going to mention this, but decided to leave it it for clarity. Like everything in woodworking, there are always other factors that play parts to the outcome. Another reason I left that particular point out, is that it would be...