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I was wondering how difficult it is to make a backgammon board and stumbled upon this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWKxCtiUNk The answer to my wondering is obviously "too difficult" but there are probably one or two on here who could manage this. In any event, it's always a pleasure to...

Couldn't they just develop space suits for Jack Russell or ferrets? They're tried and tested, cheap to run and the ferrets would keep the astronauts in the spaceship occupied on what must be a long and tedious journey to the moon. And if they took rabbits as well, food would be no problem for...

MikeG: That's clearly a non-girly use of the things of which one can only approve. Bm101: I agree on the possible historical antecedents of the device. It seems to turn on ballistics at its most essential. However, it seems to me that to use it for chucking your dog's ball is part of the...

But the bloke used it to whang the ball down onto the pavement about six feet in front of himself! I still think it's dead girly.

I reckon I've seen it all now. This morning I was sitting outside a bakery cum cafe in a place called Mannheim when a bloke walked by with his dog which had a tennis ball in its mouth. They reached a tree which the dog decided needed serious inspection and not being capable of multi-tasking, the...

That seems to be a plausible explanation and it would explain the apparent absence of a to f models. Interestingly, if you google "Stanley 923G Brace" you get a couple of them offered for sale. This suggests that sellers read it on the brace, take it at face value and offer for sale accordingly.

I've just had a look at it. It is most definitely and without a doubt a "G".

Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. I'm working away from home until the end of the month and so will have a look in detail once I get back. ED65: Thanks for the tip about the inside of the chuck. Will do. The outside seemed pretty smooth. AndyT and boringgeoff: I'll confirm the "g" after the...

Thanks Andy, that is indeed it, although mine is not one the early models with the alligator jaws. I'll follow your advice. The fact that mine is the 923g suggests a possible five other variants (a-f) before it appeared. I do wonder at the sheer range of braces that was manufactured, even more...

I had a wander around the local car boot sale this morning and came away with a Stanley 923g brace for ten euros. It seems to be in very good condition and the pad in particular rotates very smoothly. I suspect that it may have not seen much use. The only thing is that when I loosen the chuck...

These mallets have attracted a lot of praise. They represent an original and creative use of material which would otherwise have just been binned. Then there is the aesthetic appeal: the bottle top one is simply a very attractive object. I suppose that because this is a highly practical forum...

If they had a Nobel Prize for woodwork - and why on earth don't they? - bm101's discovery would surely win it. It is clearly the same as the way the discovery of gravity waves put the icing on Einstein's relativity cake. Now there's just the matter of the equivalent of proving the existence of...

That's interesting because I've just planed up a bit of hard maple which has got distinct ripple although not to the extent of the boards in Custard's pictures. There was tearout when I was getting it flat but when I did the final bit with a finely set, freshly sharpened plane, it came up...

Do you regard fine sanding as being preferable to planing the surface? I ask because the surface of planed maple looks as though it can't be improved upon as a preparation for finishing.

I went to a play on Friday night which was staged in the castle near where I live. At least half of the chairs looked to be well over a hundred years old: tremendously ornately carved backs and legs with more turning than you could shake a short stick at. I actually wondered about potential...

I'd second AndyT's recommendation of Ducotools for second hand planes in the Netherlands. They've got a nice selection of Record planes as well as the Stanleys. I reckon that you're going to need a block plane plus whatever plane you settle on as your dogsbody plane. For most men that would...

I agree with your idea that most winding sticks seem a bit short for purpose. I use two 60 cm aluminium rulers which are wide enough on one edge to stand up. That said, if a tool is traditional - and the shorter sticks are - they are probably good enough for most purposes or the design would...

I stumbled on the following idea at the weekend and it worked well, so I thought I'd offer it for consideration here. I have a piece of glass measuring about 2' x 1' x 1/2" which generally gets used as a surface on which to do glue ups as glue is so easy to wipe from it. I'm currently making a...

Thanks for the replies. He perhaps was writing from an aesthetic point of view. Maybe he just thought it was self-evident e.g. if you are going to have through tenons, you'd better have dramatic end grain.

I've just read this in The Essential Woodworker by Robert Wearing: Through tenons are particularly suited to the coarser grained woods, oak, ash, elm and chestnut but not to the finer mahoganies and similar woods. (p. 148.) Has anybody got any thoughts/views/experience on this? I had an...