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What a clever idea, well executed! Did you do the upholstering yourself? If so, how difficult is it?

By way of update, having had the elm lying around for a couple of months I decided to plane up one small piece (destined to be a panel) of about 12" x 10". I gave it a coating of Dictum's wood balsam and while I had expected decent grain, I have to say that I was amazed at what it produced. Here...

In case anybody's interested, you can still get them new: https://www.feinewerkzeuge.de/bohr1.html The maker's name is Schröder which is obviously German. I don't know if they are actually made in Germany or not. I just checked. Apparently they still make them in Wuppertal.

The first serious project I made was my tool chest and my mistake was to take it on before I had properly acquired the necessary skills but doing it did eventually fill the skill gap. I followed the plan from The Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz. My second mistake was to attempt it...

I suppose that now you and CheshireChappie mention it, it is fairly obvious that the plane ends up reflecting its use and/or user. While I tend to use just one or two planes for jointing, I don't think that I would ever use them only for jointing but I can imagine there are workshops where...

That's an interesting point. I assume, in my innocence, that planes can only get flatter with use, as high points will surely be worn down. That said, I suppose that a convex sole could get worse as if the plane is an outward sticking banana in its length, the user will presumably follow the...

John, you're about a week too late. :D The legs are 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" and I've already got the first mortices in them. I've now settled on the total length of the top being 4 ft. I think that having the Moxon already built gave me a bit of tunnel vision as I was fixated on its length. I can...

Here's my 10p worth (for what it's worth): I suggest that there is a bit of confusion in this thread between the notions of "precision" and "quality". Presumably any chisel can be honed to a fine and precise edge, thus achieving precision. How long it holds that edge is probably an indication...

Scarcity combined with rising prices is clearly not a nice thing if you are looking to buy a plane. On the other hand, does not increasing scarcity imply that ever more people are turning to woodworking with hand tools? If that is the case, then we can probably look at it positively as the...

Yes I do mean long. :) The idea is that the Moxon only ever gets used for joinery e.g. cutting dovetails and my normal bench is for everything else and had I not already made the Moxon ages ago, I think I would indeed have been looking at a 4 1/2 to 5 foot joinery bench. I can't really do that...

A while ago I made a Moxon vice and while I think it's functionally absolutely brilliant I've never taken to clamping it on my normal workbench. So I've decided that I would like it to be the main feature of its own small bench dedicated to joinery and one or two other things. For instance it...

I found a 2" Veritas butt chisel to be perfect for marking out the long sides of some mortices. I can't remember exactly now but a marking gauge was not useable and the mortices needed to be around the 2" mark so I thought I'd see if that kind of chisel would help. I bought one and it was...

Custard, thanks for the detailed info. I don't think I would be prepared to take on boards with as wild grain as those in your pictures. Woodbloke, out of interest what finish did you use on that cabinet? It's a lovely piece but I imagine it weighs a ton!

Thank you all very much for the replies. ED65: I'll be planing conventionally as you describe. I have a No. 5 set up as a scrub, then it will get the lightly cambered No. 6, possibly a tweak here or there with the LAJ as necessary and an overall flattening with the No. 8 just to be on the safe...

I've just bought a board of elm because even in its rough sawn state the grain looks spectacular and I thought why not give it a go and see what happens. I intend to use hand planes and of course they will be sharp but I was wondering if there are any particular things about elm that one has to...

Andy, thanks for clarifying the usefulness of the Ultimatum style braces. There is a temptation to get one of those but purely for aesthetic/historical reasons and there is a terrible danger that that would set one on the road to collecting. There's also the fact that the Ultimatums are so...

Didn't he end up producing the Tom & Jerry cartoons?

That is very interesting. I think that if any tool is almost designed to be collected it is braces and drills. Out of interest, do those Marples Ultimatum braces, which seem to go for such high prices, take normal auger bits and centre bits and how well do they work?

I'm just glad he's got a script! Compare him to the usual YouTube fare: "Er.... hi there ... er I wanna show you how to ... (fumble, fumble, protracted view of ceiling) ... damn! ... hang on while I glue the camera to my belly button ... now where was I?" etc. etc. ad infinitum. :D

I see that Jim Bode Tools has got a Millers Falls one for about $360. That's a fair bit and then there would be the transatlantic postage to add to it!