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I,d send you one if you were closer to Ontario and the post was quicker/cheaper. If you can't find the right bit, try; - a bit adapter and bit (or just the long bit with hex shaft) -or, a bit from one of those multi piece screwdrivers -or, make a bit from one of those screwdrivers with a square...

I can get these pdfs if I google "lee valley stanley plane tote" (maybe CSIS has you on the restricted viewing list ):D

Looks like a European import from c1970. I haven't seen that design, but similar tags without a through screw (but different face design) were used on some German import budget saws. The other WS medallion is a typical British medallion with a screw through the handle and a nut on the other...

I usually put the blade horizontal in a steel vice (which forms a heat sink to protect the working end), heat the tang red hot, then slide on the handle with gentle taps from a mallet. (Lots of smoke and maybe a small flame). If the handle slides on with little effort to within 1/4" of final...

Drill a line of 1/8 holes Clean out as much as possible with your 1/8" chisel. Heat the steel screwdriver shaft and burn it into place (may take a couple of heats to burn in full depth)

"Smith's Key" catalog from early 1800s shows something similar. Called an "iron handled cleaver" selling for 9d per pound. Would be used by a butcher to chop/split meat carcases (although, in later life, your one looks like it might have been used to split wood, and beaten with a metal hammer)

Net carbon emissions are widely considered on an industry by industry basis with carbon credits calculated etc. It would be reasonable to do the same net carbon emission analysis on a country by country basis.

Carbon emission per hectare (or per acre) is a better gauge, as it considers the consumption/sequestration of carbon by surrounding vegetation etc, and is closer to measuring the net carbon input to the atmosphere.

Low intensity carbon emissions are not a severe problem as surrounding nature can readily tolerate/absorb it. If Jacob would look at carbon emissions "per hectare" instead of per person, he would see that the UK needs to clean up well before some of the other places he mentions.

Crownshaw Chapman & Co. Made saws from 1870s to well into the 1900s. Barley's reference book says your style of spine stamp dates to c1880

Stuart, If you want to know, why don't you get a lesson on using Google (or any search engine), and search items shown in the picture. e.g. "zouma, cat"

Matt, on Backsaw.net, today , has some plate available

Looks like the central figure is a crown with S * J below, which is the Spear & Jackson trade mark

I use hand punches. For thinner dovetail saws I have used the small hand punch pictured, but for full size handsaws the bigger "Whitney" punch is easier. For accuracy, I locate the hole positions using the saw handle as a guide, and centre dimple the location using a transfer punch. This dimple...

Rug Making Needle, uk patent 366163 (search espacenet)

Chaim Goldfarb joins a very exclusive nudist colony.... On his first day there, he takes off his clothes and starts to wander around. A gorgeous petite blonde walks by, and Chaim immediately gets an erection. The woman notices his erection, comes over to him and says, 'Did you call for me?' He...

I find it difficult to get these high angle straight blade routers to work well, and find the low cutting angle of the L shaped blades in Stanley/Veritas routers to be a vast improvement

Good that you've got it sorted. For a future project you might consider casting. As a youngster in the 60s I recall us going out in the country with my father to salvage some aluminium pistons out of a discarded car engine, which were then melted down and cast into skegs for the waterskis he...

Mary had a little lamb, her father shot it dead. Now it goes to school with her, between two lumps of bread.

Ethanol fuel rotted out the fuel lines on my chainsaw (and had a swelling effect on the fuel cap?). I now use ethanol-free fuel for all my small engines