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I'm looking for some replacement handles for my socket chisels but don't have a lathe and wondered if anyone knew of anywhere that might sell them? Thanks!

Hi I'm after an eclipse honing guide and wondering if anyone has one they'd like to sell. They are old items now so I'm not expecting anything too pretty, but it MUST hold chisels and plane irons square. Thanks!

Quangsheng, wood River, Luban etc. Are all made by the same people but to different tolerances and levels of fit and finish. In my experience the cheaper versions do require more significant fettling to be top notch, whereas the more expensive versions are 90-95% of the way there.

It looks like tearout to me, you'd need quite a bit of sanding to get rid of it. I agree with minilathe22, the grey looks like bits of the sandpaper. I get it sometimes when using cheap sandpaper. Sealing it first will help some with the grey, but I'd rather sort out the tearout before anything...

Thanks for the response! Yes I'd seen cast iron ones before but have also seen people use mild steel too. Mild steel is more available to me as well, and is much softer than the tools I want to lap. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out :)

Hi there, I want to make some metal laps for use with diamond compound for sharpening. (Hopefully will work out a bit cheaper than buying them) My idea is to take some mild steel and lap it flat on glass like I sometimes do for lapping sharpening stones, but I am wary of leaving embedded...

Masking tape on a large piece of plywood/mdf and some more on the thin piece, then a couple of drops of super glue to stick them together. With decent quality masking tape I've never had pieces come apart by accident, but the tape comes away cleanly without leaving residue.

I already commented on that video and got a reply from Paul himself - I was incredibly unimpressed with his almost authoritarian attitude. Absolutely bonkers!

For outside, I use a diamond stone or hard Waterstones with side to side strokes then a regular strop. For inside I use either hard slipstones or lapping paper stuck to curved wood, and loose leather with compound over wood to strop.

What do you mean sharpen? I just buy a new chisel when my old one gets dull.

The thing that's alway got to me though is the backs of tools like chisels. I've never had much luck removing a burr from the back of a tool with polishes/strops. I've always had to use a stone to flip it to the bevel side and then use the strop to remove it there. I don't really like having to...

Another vote for narex chisels. I have a set of their butt chisels and love them!

Looks very handy!

Thanks D_W and Shed9 again for the info! D_W I appreciate the photos you've attached. I've been interested in the sigma power stones and from your photos it does look finer than the shapton 12k, but I thought I had read they were relatively soft? Would you expect it to cut fast enough to remove...

Thanks! Which stone below the 10k do you use? (depending on what grits can be skipped might give me an idea of speed)

Thanks for the reply. Yes the autosol route is fairly effective, but for my use case a stone would be preferable. I actually sold you the shapton 12k :) it is a great stone and is very effective on tools, but I'm now looking for a stone with more of a polishing action as apposed to a cutting...

Hi, Has anyone used the 10k variants of the Ohishi or king waterstones and could give me some feedback on their performance? Specifically the hardness of the stones, speed, and finish they leave on a blade? I currently use a shapton pro up to 8k then finish on a strop, but the shapton leaves a...

I've used that stuff, it gives a nice finish but takes an incredibly long time to dry, and smells real funky for a long time after!

No two danish oils from different companies are the same, they are all different blends of different things. It wouldn't surprise me if any given company will change their recipe regularly. As to what's in rustins' variant, I hope you mean methyl ethyl ketoxime, as ketamine is a powerful drug...

I meant he himself can't have the time for woodworking with all the time he spends on the forums!