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I bit the bullet and paid the high price - must say, good service and well made, of what seems a much higher quality of foam (time will tell) - along with my frazzled old ones, these should see me out. As you'll have guessed, I find them a very useful tool for freehand sander shaping - hand held...

Much cruder, and heavy, more froe hitter than a shop mallet, but here's mine, from a knotty (on purpose) length of hawthorn bole. It's been a useful 'persuader' and looks a little bit more knocked about than when it had its portrait taken by proud maker

That issue was well fielded. Love these boxes, old or less so, also have scrap exotic wood - tempted to make kingwood or mahogany, possibly fielded and with a curlicue base (what's the correct term Ian or adam?)

The price is high and I'm a cheapskate, but I see they just saw the need and went ahead making these last year because they were no longer available - so i'll support 'em - the belts are reasonably priced . The video is persuasive. They just need to make their site more searchable - my search...

thanks, looks like it - wow, pricey, I hope they last well

My old (Oakey?) foam sanding drums that I chucked on a small electric drill are knackered, and even the repair of winding foam around no longer works. I know Black n D took over this product but the only place I can find it now is 'not available' from Amazon. I'm guessing discontinued? Why...

Although W Mids and Sheffield areas also made early cast iron vices, and after about 1940s most were Sheffield, nevertheless the Bradford area is surely the heartland of earliest (from about 1860?) British cast iron/steel vice making - the big one Parkinson's, but also earlier Keighley makers...

QR can be useful - I've just been making some chisel handles and was using my ancient QR back n forth all the time, but yes they can get clogged and the mech is not as sturdy, even Parkinson or Record. What I now enjoy at another place in the workshop is an even more ancient (I think over 130...

Go on, start one.

I looked at the B I R L Pattern in Salaman -- don't seem as long. Then I found a picture in an old collectors' tool sale catalogue and also a picture in Marples 1903 catalogue - these refer to this style as a Kensington or a Kensington Pattermakers' or a Kensington London Cabinetmakers'. I think...

Great, thanks for that. Fine sets, those. Did Titan also make gouges? The feathered frog will turn up just when you're not looking for it. Wild guess --- while collecting your Titans, you might have finished up with other brands and now need to complete those sets??

There were plenty made --- DIY market, I guess. I'd say there were some times when one doesn't need to clamp up round stock to cut or file, and these slots may not be perfect, but do work as a rest for the work -- a relative had one I used to use. I believe it's also meant to be 'full use'...

And, Mark, the 'nut' of the the main screw seems to be made of brass/bronze (good choice, I'd say) but also seems to have a kind of largish 'cup' built in -- what's that? for greasing?

Very interesting. I'm guessing this is a very early Wilson, before the Colt and DOHM names (all from London, I believe) and maybe Hale USA. It's really surprising that so many variants were made: many sizes and at least three styles --- I'd guess yours is the earliest, then the most usual...

Here's the bolster and tang of the socket-like chisel (earlier version) as requested Sometimes mistaken for a socket by online sellers

Ian, let's see those Titans before you pass them on. If you're in Brisbane I guess you're sheltering from the heat in the shed while fixing those chisel sets -- as you may realise, I'm keeping a bit less cold in mine while doing the same. And Rob yes to 'end up just rearranging'

Exactly --- especially once one gets more than an two of a kind ---- the search for the rest of the set ---- and appropriate handles etc. Especially chisels, but could be hollow and round planes, screwdrivers, or?

I don't think I'll be the only one, maybe just done it for longer than many - someone stole my toolbox about 50years ago - I was shocked at the price of new replacements but came across a box of tools for next to nothing at a fleamarket. And so it goes - many such boxes and fleamarkets later I'm...

My mum's lot were from Brum, Bristol Rd. I think I have one I could show, but I'm assembling these sets as I go, through these winter weeks, with what I think are appropriate handles etc and I'm not taking handles back off -- I did think this was only a relatively modern style of bolster, used...

Don't encourage him, Adam. Here is a set of Marples response to the American socket chisel (many makers) of the 1920s and onward, these prob about 1940s? Somewhere I also have a couple of gouges like this and a couple of long chisels. In my mind the socket is too small, - someone in the future...