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Hello, I must say, I never hone any of my chisels more than 30 degrees. Sometimes less. I don't have any exotic steel chisels though. Don't have any pig stickers either! Maybe this is something I need to remedy, though I do have registered and sash mortice chisels that I don't use often enough...

Hello, I fail to see why a steel that needs to be sharpened at a different angle to another is regarded as a backwards step. It is just different. Looking at it from another angle, pun intended if you like, you could argue that leaving out vanadium in the steel, just so it can be honed a bit...

Hello, The angle for honing has never been the craftsmans choice, always dictated by the steel and the material to be planed. 25 deg primary with 30 deg secondary 'standard' for want of a better expression, only came about from many woodworkers over many years consensus that this was a happy...

Hello, The workshop heaven blades are actually T10 steel, which is a Chinese water hardened steel similar to the now unavailable W1 steel that very old planes may have had. It is a fairly simple carbon steel, but being water hardened, does seem to take a sharper edge than many alloy steels we...

Hello, The impetus for most if not everyone shopping on the internet is to get something cheaper than they have seen elsewhere. I'd like to think differently, but I tend to agree with custard about the likelihood of selling fine crafted stuff here being slight. Hope to be proved wrong, but I'm...

Hello, Nice saw! Enjoy. :D Mike.

Hello, I like that fence a lot, can think of many instances where one would have come in handy in the past. I wonder how easy they are to happen upon at a good price? Now Veritas have a new line of planes, they make a new adjustable fence which screws into the bodies. Is that the one you are...

Hello, Bendy ply is lighter than birch ply. Unless you find a compromise, you can't make what you want. All design is compromise. Always. You can't bend 3mm ply, so what are you going to do, no one here can make it happen by talking about it, that is for sure. Just make a box solid enough that...

Hello, A 13 mm tenon in 57mm stock is too thin. Aside from the weak joint, there needs to be more thickness to the tenon, to hold the member it is in, flat. Also, the shoulders 22mm wide wil gap eventually. Even in a 40mm door I would go for an 18mm tenon. I'd definitely do twins in 57. Short...

Hello, Just make the box from thicker material. Stiffness goes up markedly with quite moderate increases in thickness. It seems to me that finding out the resonant frequency of the plywood or whatever would be virtually impossible, anyway, since it would vary with size for any given thickness...

Hello, Are you sure you are not putting too much empasis on the strength of the material you want to use. I've built speaker boxes before, and have an interest in such. I don't believe the system resonance can be altered by the rigidity of the box material. I think you need the material to a)...

Hello, The whole point in plywood, is that it is designed to remain flat! Wanting to do something with a material that is designed to do precisely the opposite to your intention is just daft, IMHO. Use bending plywood with constructional veneers, or aero ply between the laminations and what...

Hello, The method I just described will set them correctly, you don't need a jig. The beauty of it is, it works if the planer table is parallel to the block or not. If it is, fine, it still works and is free! The knife setting jig with the machine is rudimentary, but perfectly usable, it will...

Hello, A new knife setting jig will not help set the knives parallel to the tables any more than the one that came with the machine. The jigs will set the knife parallel to the block, but if the tables are not parallel to the block then the problem persists. Set the knives parallel to the...

Hello, I had an early version of that machine, and unless it has been changed in the later version you have, there was an annoying design flaw. Assuming the engineer got the tables co-planar, since he took the time to do so, then I think the problem is the outfield table is too low. You can use...

OK, I was obviously overthinking! Perhaps it needs to be invented. :oops: Mike.

Hello, The hollow does stop before the ends on the photo, but I don't expect it has to. A through hollow could easily be done with a round bottom moulding plane. Used one cheap to buy if not already owned. A large one, a 18 would be good. One thing though, I don't know what the cutting board is...

Hello, Cabinet making is a broad church, so it really depends and what you are doing and your level of expectation. I have an 18 gauge nailer and use it for fixing the MDF backs to MDF carcasses. (and plywood too). It is good for this task, because MDF is poor to fix with screws or regular...

Hello, Japanese, in fact, not Chinese. And it is a crosscut. I'm glad you get on with these, I love Japanese saws myself, and Japanese rip saws are somewhat rarer in Britain, for some reason, but are mind blowingly fast and accurate, worlds apart from Japanese crosscut saws. If you did not get...

Hello, In which case, it is the hardpoint tenon saw I've been recommending. The Irwin pull saws are, as I said in an earlier post, actually crosscut saws, which is why you may find it not optimal for tenon cheeks. Mike.