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The faithful handle looks like its worth a punt at less than a fiver, though i would need to bore a new front hole in it. The repair appears to be very strong at least, so i may just use it and see if it will hold first.

My footprint No.5 had a split through the tote which was dubiously repaires by a previous owner with casemite[sp?] glue, which inevitably gave way today. I set about repairing it properly by cutting a slot through the centre of both parts of the tote, and attaching with two slips of ⅛" Douglas...

+1 My recent riving experiences have shown this to be true... A very small knot was enough to impart really significant winding and thickness differences in three of the ten segments I've riven from an otherwise perfectly straight oak log. It had been sat for 2 years that I know of in the...

If you think the tablesaw operation is bad, you should see his miter saw... Though to be fair to him he does say that it's potentially dangerous himself at the end of the video.

Of the nice timber that I'm getting out of it, or me wildly flailing with a hatchet? I'll try to get some pics next time I'm home.

I have done just that myself, re-cutting a 24" Tyzack panel saw with battered old Fleam-Cut teeth into a 2.75tpi Rip Cut with a uniquely aggressive progressive rake*, I must have used 4 files up doing that... Never Again (hopefully if i sort out this fly-press). It was that which started me on...

So I kind-of solved my own problem today whilst off work... I found that if I used the axe to roughly hew the high spots off of one side of the board, I could get it to sit securely against two battens nailed in an L configuration to a heavy ply board and butted against the house in the...

I've accepted it, so just need to sort tooling, I think I's a level of precision I'm unlikely to achieve myself... But the tool and die maker across the road from our lass's flat ought to be able to sort it out fairly easily... But maybe not cheaply.

I've just been offered a small fly press, which I recall are the tool of choice for hobbyist/low volume production cutting of large saw teeth from spring steel stock, I have a few questions on this: Would a fly-press be able to cope with spring steel which has been hardened and tempered, by the...

I was actually thinking that if you scored a split line with a hatchet, and drove a wedge into that from the top and worked the initial split with a second wedge from the side, it would fall nicely in two ready for the bandsaw in under 15mins... No kerf loss and the ideal grain alignment. I've...

How about splitting wedge and a sledgehammer... Perhaps a froe as well.

This afternoon I split one of my oak logs (1.8m long, 14" in diameter) into 10 reasonable segments, which should give a selection of boards between 1.5x3 and 2x4, once the remainder of the sapwood and pith is gone. Two in particular have a marked twist, and all are distinctly trapizoidal, in...

Indeed, having worked in a factory making joinery products, they can be made to run with ruthless efficiency; it's an environment where Just In Time production and the Kaizen/Toyota Managment System can be put to very good use; very little wasted material, very little wasted time...

That sounds familiar, most of sheffields output is now superalloys, stainless, and gigantic and/or hideously complex castings and forgings which no-one else makes, though there are two big continuous casting mills still. That seems like a reasonable assumption; if my understanding is correct...

Au contraire, being that they're in the steel city; there are still dozens of foundries which produce proprietary alloys of tool steel to meet customer requirements. My estimation is there are 3-4 companies whose metallurgists could produce a steel to fit whatever properties clifton want for the...

I have the Bosch GKF, it has been excellent for my purposes (making rebates for inlay, cutting stopped dados and routing letters out) but having now tried the makita variant at a makita open day at my local timber merchant RT0700CX2, I feel it offers better value, as you get the plunge base as...

It occured to me (and i commented in the youtube comments to say as much,) that such a plane might well be recycled best by milling it to make the stocks of two or three moulding, dado or rabbet planes, making far better use of the material both in making fewer saw kerfs, and a better...

Routing letters is not the easiest business... I have done some small letters freehand in the past (and with a tiny palm router, not with a plunge router either, although that facility would have been helpful). Having learned from that rather fraught and challenging experience I would suggest...

I don't have a problem with the idea of recycling old tools to new uses, and certainly it is possible for wooden planes to get damaged beyond economic repair (or twisted such that it can never be trued up again). But... chopping up a perfectly good tool* seems more like vandalism than a good...

I have some bad news in that regard, no mask type respirator exists which is designed or approved for wear with facial hair (I feel confident saying that so stridently as using and advising others on the use of respirators and BA sets is part of my job). However Hood type respiratory...