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That should be a wonderful saw... I have a number of Tyzack saws and they're truly excellent*; on absolutely no account should you throw that saw away! *and remained so to the bitter end, I have a plastic handled No.14 tenon saw from their last year of production, whilst not as nice as yours to...

Having admired the beauty of what you're creating there, I'm beginning to get why infills are so sought after... I also have another dense question... Would it not be possible to just use a length of of channel obviating the need to dovetail the sides?

I would assume that was the case... or if the imprint is particularly clear and well presented, a makers stamp.

But a 4 is much better for general smoothing and working awkward grain round knots, (which if you're going to work with softwood, as some of reggie's other posts suggest; is going to be a frequent occurrence), and whilst a longer plane can prove helpful with shooting, any plane can do it and...

The liberal application of chainsaw to anything tends to have a deleterious effect...

Marples "Shamrock" Foreplane, a woodie at that... It just fits my hands perfectly and a joy to use.

You could get to the rough shape by drawing it on, making a series of cuts a few cm apart down to say half a cm of the line with a handsaw, then chopping the waste away (a hatchet might actually be the best tool for this if there's a lot to come off)... Alternatively, you could use a chainsaw...

It's as safe as you make it... Having an accurate setup is essential, if you don't pay attention to getting the blade and the fence in line and keeping the riving knife in line with the blade; you will have issues and increase the risk of kick-back.

:o :shock: :cry: What are you anticipating? Also, in the unlikely and unfortunate event of a traumatic amputation of a major limb or major arterial bleed where the bleeding is uncontrollable and life threatening then a tourniquet would be useful... otherwise it's very much likely to do more...

Softwoods or Hardwoods?

As Richard has already comprehensively explained, the m/c measures the amount of water relative to the amount of dry solids. So 100% m/c is a log which contains the same weight in water as it does timber, 50% m/c would be half the weight in water as there is in wood and so on; calculating the...

Seal the ends (I use liquid latex, or roofing bitumen), then de-bark it, get it up on something to give good airflow and leave to season out of the sun as you would sawn and stickered boards; I've got some oak about a foot in diameter where I've done that, the m/c is down to 35% from 140% in...

This afternoon I ran 30 cubes (about 1200 4.4m boards) of PAR & 2 split with 38* 150 U/S Russian Redwood, it's just impractical to take the minimum possible off each board, it would also be a pain for the customer to not have uniformity from pack to pack. if you buy our timber, you get it...

I have to say, I find your comment on using old saws to cut up pallets being somehow wrong most strange... My tools are first and formost Tools, yes some of them are also wonderful artifacts, but that's secondary; It saddens me to see tools which are reduced to mere collectors items by rarity or...

Yeah! but you have to use another saw to establish a straight kerf for it to start in though... I have a 26" Tyzack with less aggressive teeth, which is better suited for re-sawing thin things.

For both panels and ripping solid wood, those exist (and have done since pre WWII)... but they're usually large machines aimed at high-production environments... I've never figured out why people don't use power-feeds on non-specialist table saws for longer runs of ripping, possibly the lack of...

That's not a ripsaw... this is a ripsaw. I firmly believe that the most efficient way to rip material by hand is with a 28-36" blade and with as low a TPI/PPI as you can push... my 30" 1.5tpi Disston will cut a very long way on a single stroke and will make a 3m long rip cut in 2½" thick...

I've always viewed saw-stop as being a shining example of solving the wrong problem...

www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/a-particula ... 65010.html As detailed above, i've got my great grandad's woodworking tools and some of my grandad's engineering tools too, its quite a special feeling to use them; the plane in that thread is my daily user and I wouldn't be without it now.

That's a situation where "more power" is definitely an effective solution... The extraction on our chop-saws and RAS's at work is linked to the central extraction system and almost nothing escapes (with two 72,000m³/hr [42,380 cfm! :o ] dantherm cyclone units running, it would be really rather...