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Have you tried sending Starrett an e-mail?

Bradawl, ice pick, anything like that; doesn't need a specialized tool. As with mice, the rot you can see is usually just a fraction of the rot that exists.

And, if you don't have a slipstone (curved honing stone), a suitably sized dowel wrapped in fine sandpaper will substitute. Wet-or-dry sandpaper, or whatever y'all call it over there, lubricated with mineral spirits/paraffin, is likely best.

Thanks for that post! Won't work as well in my bench - the under-bench storage comes right up to the underside of the top - but I'm saving this anyway, in case I suddenly find myself with a different bench.

Mating planes, the product of which will be what's called, in the American discussions, a transitional plane.

You might even be able to drill it in the base of the mitre slot, if there's enough metal below that. Holes drilled and tapped on the table somewhere are endemic in old machinery, so it would not be without precedent. And it's not a difficult task, if you've never done it, although it would be...

Are you equipped to drill and tap a hole in the table top, after carefully checking that you won't hit anything? If so, you might consider figuring out the best place to do that. The hedgehog, more than some other designs, might do well with that, because it seems to have, in effect, one...

Ah, the ironies...if I needed a metric T-nut here in the U.S., I'd have to hunt for days!

I wish these were more common here in the U.S., although we have our share of oddball vises (or vices, but that word has another meaning in American English). Not that I need it, but... Groan! "D-vice?"

There are arguments for NOT beveling the edges of the blade (up the length, that is, not at the cutting edge): you can register that sidewall against, say, the edge of a rabbet, and it won't dig in. If you look in the old catalogs, you'll often find the manufacturers offering each of their...

They're not hard. I made a butt hinge mortise plane some years back, in a hurry (about two hours of work), and it came out fine. Not as pretty as Clive's, but it gets the job done.

Right nice! And making your own planes for specialty work is a step up in your craft. Looking forward to the guitar!

Some of the high grade acrylic latex caulks are adhesives, too. In the United States, Dynaflex 230 will stick to the wood strongly enough that, if you need to remove it, you'll likely pull chunks of wood off. That name doesn't appear to have made it across the pond, but, if you talk to a good...

Wish I had a neighbor like that!

As far as I know, the 151 series are the only Record spokeshaves with those adjusting screws. I think the same is true of the Stanley shaves, with the same "model" designation (Stanley also had the straight-handled 152 series, but Record did not seem to adopt that design): read all about the...

It's pretty easy to tell a round-soled from a flat-soled shave: round soles curve front to back, flat soles are a short, flat sole (measuring front to back). It's always possible, of course, that someone needing a round-soled shave made one from a flat-soled shave. If that happened, I would...

Interesting to me as a Yank - the brands y'all mention are nowhere in sight over here. Marson is a respected American maker (the one I have is similar to the Klik Fast picture up above), but likely not worth the freight to get it over there.

I don't know if the X-Acto company retails its products on the U.K. Their knives were/are sold for modelmakers. One of the woodworking magazines did a marking knife review and the smallest X-Acto knife was among the best in the review! Replaceable blades, so you can choose a knife shape that...

Nice job; and good to save some decent wood from the scrapheap - and make some money and a happy customer besides!

You might find this helpful, although it's optimized for materials in U.S. (that is, inch/fractional inch/Imperial) measures: The sagulator calculator. Tie the shelves together at the corners, where the short shelves contact the long ones. A cleat underneath wide enough to screw to both...