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Mattock- can always disc cutter the pick point off the other end

Wera screwdriver set and a strap wrench cover me for most stuff in the house - rest lives in workshop. There’s a regular pile of bits by the back door that have migrated indoors and need to go back to the safety of the workshop. Trips to friends get the expected power tools in boxes and hand...

https://www.finewoodworking.com/2018/06/14/press-release-new-ownership-bridge-city-tool-works#:~:text=Last%20week%2C%20Bridge%20City%20Tool,Ltd.

Best case - they end up happy and the refer you to friends who the expect the same…. Likely case they aren’t happy and it makes everyone uncomfortable

Bridge city was bought by same parent as Harvey so now chinese owned and made. Interesting how they’ve taken the direction of it

More an observation in general than an impression of the router plane

The dubious territory is where they are replicating the innovations of others. Brompton learnt the cost of outsourcing manufacturing to China for cheaper as it also meant the market was flooded with clones of their designs. It’s up to you what you choose to support - does feel like we can’t...

People use flattening and polishing interchangeably. Flatness is easy to start thinking in terms of engineering concepts rather than woodworking- flat enough is good enough as rarely will you use the whole back of a chisel as a reference plane. A chisel so out of flat to be unusable would be an...

For O1 you may well be better with a smaller metal cutting bandsaw for blade profiling that can then be tuned on a linisher. Or developing CAD and outsourcing to a waterjetter if you’re doing any volume of complex shapes

Much less likely to be ground hollow - much more likely to move after grinding due to release of internal tensions created during hardening. Hollow grinding on a surface grinder would take a fair bit of effort with the set up. @okeydoke- always worth thinking of an edge as two planes...

Drinking whisky from wooden cups does have quite the history…. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaich Kuksa are often used for spirits too

If it were me I’d think about how they make casks - use American white oak, I would keep the char on the inside fairly light though- taken all the way to black but not to the point that it develops the crackled surface. Outside then finished with beeswax. After the chat I’d just scrub with a...

If you have surplus let me know :D

I nearly bought more but thought hang on what would I do with 30 of them…..

Arrived - will be cleaning up tomorrow Packaging is on the lighter weight end of the scale…

Waiting for mine to arrive - ordered 2 - expecting to give them a full once over with IPA when they arrive

Am pleased my squinting was accurate. Should be a nice tool if it’s a size you can find work for

Cast iron is made non stick with a layer of burnt oil and we all know burning oil makes it carcinogenic, along with the need to consume antioxidants to avoid oxygen from, giving us cancer. No such thing as best pan, just ones that do what you want and those that don’t. Finding those’d that do...

An in focus picture would really help :D using my powers of squint and pattern recognition it looks to say Ibbotson & Co Cast steel Which would be Thomas Ibbotson company, bought by Marples in 1905 but they kept the name going. Some info from the great Ken Hawley collection...

Go get mortising - what’re you making?