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On the subject of cost, I just got an ad email from Dictum advertising something much, much simpler but structurally along the same conceptual lines: https://www.dictum.com/en/workshop-and-organisation/dictum-multifunction-table-pro-hole-pattern-x61-mdf-brown-728761?c=2578 You can only guess...

DW, thanks for your thoughts on manufacturing costs: most informative. I still wonder if getting the aesthetics of the BC planes accepted is the biggest hurdle the firm faces. I reckon they need to convince people that form has followed function and that there’s no design for design’s sake.

DW, this is the link to the BC dual angle smoothing plane: https://bridgecitytools.com/products/hp-12-smoothing-plane The first and most obvious thing is the price. I reckon that if they got it down to about 250 GBP they might have a commercial success on their hands. Just the idea of...

I'm surprised that you say it's time consuming using hand tools. I've made up T & G a number of times using the appropriate blades on the Veritas small plough plane and it's a relatively quick and painless job. (I realise that isn't much help if you haven't got that plane.)

A mate of mine, who trained as an engineer, has one of the scaffoldy-looking block planes from Bridge City. He says that the lever mechanism for holding the blade in place is a tip top bit of engineering. I had a quick go with it and it was certainly ergonomically good. There was of course...

I think that if you go down the collector road with something contemporary and expensive, there's a chance of losing the point of the things. IMO because the BC gear is so expensive, the reason to buy something is the innovative approach to functionality or put more simply: at those prices the...

No need to get upset. I'm not politically correct, I'm not woke and I'm not from N London, so there's no problem at all.;)

Don’t worry: I wasn’t offended. I just took it as a leg pull. And yes, Bridge City has got a record of (more or less unaffordable) clever innovation.

Fortunately as a hobbyist, that sort of thing isn't a consideration for me.

Didn't Matt Eastlea do a review of the multi-gauge thingy on YouTube? The thing about that is that it could end up being a bit of a money saver if you had the discipline to not buy any of the tools which it is meant to replace.

You're right in that they're certainly not cheap. What Bridge City does is to hold "flash sales" on more or less everything they make. That means that the price comes down a bit for 24 or 48 hrs and that clearly is the time to buy. It's a matter of getting on their email list. Although the...

I recently got the new version (the third) of the Bridge City Toolworks CS-3 Centre Scribe. Here's a pic of it with two tools which it can replace some of the time. I did a quick test today as I had to mark the centre line of a piece of wood. I put the CS-3 on the bench with the wood to be...

Those are the two books that I would recommend as an essential pair. They’re reviewed in the reviews forum above.

A quick check of the Classic Hand Tools website shows the following prices in GBP: Veritas No 7 BU 299 - 309 (depending on choice of blade material) Clifton No 7 345 Lie-Neilsen No 7 430 Lie-Neilsen No 8 480 The choice seems to boil down to whether or not you...

That looks so professional that nobody will believe that you made it yourself. I shudder to think what something like that would cost if it were available commercially!

As you've confirmed with your straight edge testing that it is out, then that is the quick way to reliability and to getting back to the task in hand. It's a matter of biting the bullet and looking at Veritas, Clifton or L-N. I can recommend the Veritas BU No 7 but I would bet that the...

The Veritas LAJ is the central tool on my bench. I imagine that the L-N LAJ would be just as good. Its companion is a second hand Stanley style No 5 fitted with a heavily cambered blade so that it functions as a scrub plane. A luxury addition is a No 7 (either bevel down or conventional) for...

Did all Millers Falls drills have similar tooth arrangements? It seems like an excellent way of prolonging the life of them. I got a MF No 5 (the smaller relative of the No 2) for €20 from a flea market which wasn't too bad considering the bloke started off wanting €50 for it. What he didn't...

You can PM Joe Stankus from the thread and he has somebody in the UK who prints the European copies for him and so the printers send it to you. That's what I did.

The Iron Spokeshaves and Related Tools Manufactured by Edward Preston & Sons by Joe Stankus. This book is 116 pages of concentrated and detailed information about the subject matter. It is extensively illustrated with colour photography and illustrations showing patents and advertisements for...