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Following on from the new planes thread, I'm curious to know what people use and if they're doing so in a professional capacity. I'm an avowed fan of wooden planes, when I first started seriously learning woodwork I spent a lot of time chatting to the joiners from the custom order shop where I...

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there... I don't expect or want to get a full width, full length shaving from my Smoother, if I am either I've already smoothed it as well as that plane will allow or I'm taking material off and a fine set Jack or panel plane would be better. The...

Thanks again, I have actually been putting off splitting the second piece of oak as the first was such a messy, physically involved effort, no excuses now... I also find myself in need of a betel now to drive the froe with... So really I've been given the impetus to improve my turning skills...

Are you sure about that? I know it merged with NRW in wales back in 2013, but I was under the impression they were still responsible for England and Scotland, in fact they just started a new project with brian blessed to raise awareness of the risk to forest posed by climate change earlier this...

The risk you take is that the Forestry Commission won't Issue and/or Transfer a felling licence for the extraction of the timber, you'd also have to ensure that it wasn't in a Conservation area and there were no Tree Preservation Orders on trees that were desired or which would need to be felled...

True, it's a profession which few even consider the existence of but which is very demanding. I have a friend who manages something like 18000 acres of commercial forest, needless to say it keeps him on his toes. What amazes me is that within a quiet stroll he's able to predict with frightening...

I'd heartily back my old employer Howarth Timber, they own their own dock on the humber (which I'm told is the largest dedicated timber terminal in the UK) and their importers & sawmills (ArborForest Products) supply a lot smaller merchants along with several national chains. Depending how much...

Like most resinous timber, it will burn really well, but only in a fire that's already very hot. The resin needs to rapidly vaporise and burn before it can stick to surfaces for it to work. I've buned it quite successful on a coal fire, adding it as additional fuel once the fire was hot.

I don't know who my SS was, but a huge thank you! Some thoughtful soul has been reading about my exploits chopping up oak trees and sent a froe and drawknife, I'm not 100% but I think the froe is a home made tool as well as being excellent one. Many thanks, I'll post a photo later today!

I'm curious about it as it seems too complicated for someone to have developed and written down (not on the internet) to not have an advantage somewhere... But all the old furniture I've seen is either buttons as you say or sliding leaves, apart from some screwed tops on little hall tables &...

I recall reading an incomplete snippet somewhere about a method of attaching a tabletop using a pair of double blind rabbets cut perpendicular to the grain slightly longer than the length of the aprons, but shorter than the combined legs and aprons. The corresponding two aprons are made...

I'm a fan of the Swann Morton scalples too... But, I did have a non-replacable blade scapel I liked that I kept in my lab, unfortunately someone spilled acid all over it, and it rapidly ceased to be a scalpel. If I could find another it would make a perfect scrbing knife, taking a very fine...

I've got some dies to put into a commercial Heat Treatment shop when I get all the quotes back (gotta love Sheffield for the availability of uncommon engineering processes), so considered having it done at the same time. My logic was that the annealing process should also stress relieve the...

That sounds quite possibly how mine came to be, it's got a very shallow plate for a Ripsaw and the teeth aren't original (too aggressive a rake and if you look closely with it up against a 1m steel rule, not perfectly even in spacing), whoever was boasting is very much on the money as to the...

I stoned the tooth line and re-set the saw, equally on both sides, no change, which is what had me puzzled. The kink was hammered out 2 years ago, but can be seen from where the Hammer took tiny bits of the patina off, the plate flexes much much more in the area it was kinked than anywhere else.

I had about 9 metres of 25mm redwood to rip this evening, so set to with my big Disston Ripsaw as at 2 TPI as it goes through thin stock like a hot knife through butter. Unfortunately after about 500mm it was starting to uncontrollably yaw to the left. I stopped and did some test cuts on scrap...

Indeed I have a North Bros brace where one of the rivets failed and was replaced by bending a nail through the hole, its ugly but it works so well that I feel no need to replace it with a new part. I do have a power drill, but between an eggbeater & breast drill and a brace, there really isn't...

Just as an aside from the main question, I find it easiest to sharpen axes by holding them in a vice and using a file to establish the bevel, tidy it up with a scythe stone or big slipstones and then finish off with a soft cloth wheel and abrasive compound at the Grinder... Most axes are...

CHJ - That seems like quite a logical system to me, the whole air-movement/air-temperature thing does get to be a bit of a pain, though you even seem to have found a way to alleviate the worst of that. Am I right in thinking you're using a compressor-fed system when you're turning rather than a...