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This is where RM has been getting it right. He puts up a lot of highly informative information for free and there are individual, in depth and specific subscription topics (so far four). I've subscribed to two of them, benefitted from them greatly and think they are genuinely good value for...

I agree with Custard's post at the top of this page. I've had to learn from DVDs books and the internet. I like to think I've made a fair bit of progress but along the way I've experienced to greater and lesser degrees every one of the pitfalls he mentions. It's probably fair to say that...

I bet even AndyT will be rendered speechless by this: https://www.jimbodetools.com/collection ... less-76265 Personally speaking, I reckon it's so flabbergasting that one of the modern firms should do a remake of it but perhaps with a built in magnifying glass along with a spoon for stirring a...

I'm not too interested in machines - although I do intend to get a bandsaw someday - and I would like to experiment with hollows and rounds. I think it's fascinating that so many different shapes can be produced from just two shapes of cutter.

Thanks Swagman. So basswood is lime! That explains a few things. I can imagine a metal plane with interchangeable soles for different profile blades (including of course all the H and Rs) but it would probably be too expensive to produce or there would be too little demand and of course the...

I had to grin at that because I'm not technically competent enough to make those kind of considerations. And I've never even set eyes on a piece of basswood, let alone handled one! Could you perhaps spell it out for me (and any others who may be clueless)? What I was actually driving at was...

I wonder where the notion comes from that combination planes can replace moulding planes. By that I mean mouldings which are more complex than simple beading etc. Has anybody ever produced a combination plane which can do what a set of hollows and rounds can do? Is it indeed actually possible...

For those who may be interested, here's a video explaining the plane in detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-5vbSCnCLg

Thanks for all the replies and tips. I do like the look of the cramp heads. The distance to be bridged is just under 2' and I have a pair of cramps where I can reverse one head as shown in some of the links. Should they not be long enough, the local tool shop has similar ones in stock. Thanks...

I've just started work on fitting out the interior of my tool chest (surely the longest running project in woodworking history but I regard it as my apprentice piece) and I've come to a bit where I'd like to have the pressure of a clamp but in a place where no clamp would fit (it would need an...

Prompted by your pic of that rather lovely moving fillister from Philly Planes on the other thread, I had a look and it's a fiver more than the Veritas!!! Obviously a pro has totally different criteria to the amateur but if you had neither and were considering one, would you get the PP which is...

That was what I meant when I posed my question above: as a pro you've made a pretty good case for the (probable) advantages of the Veritas but you're nonetheless not convinced that it's worth laying down your hard earned cash for it. This is perhaps a bit ironic because it looks like it's...

I've just read that Classic Hand Tools is listing it at 4p shy of 370 quid. I suppose the key question is that if Veritas has indeed ironed out the minor faults or niggles which are sometimes attributed to the Stanleys and Records, will people feel that the resultant reliability and accuracy...

I can imagine this finding its way onto a few Christmas present lists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyTH78e7ZXA It'll be interesting to read the first reviews when they appear.

The making of the saw and the razee plane are covered as projects in one of his books. Having experienced a lot of difficulty and unusable results with a rip saw, I liked the idea of a frame saw for resawing/deeping and made one loosely inspired by his. It's the only tool I've attempted to...

To what extent do you think the physical characteristics of the wood play a role? The easiest-to-plane-wood I have yet encountered - Zirbel Pine - almost never suffers the Curse Of The Returning Hump but give me a bit of walnut and I'm more or less expecting it. I wonder if some woods are more...

Welcome. I don't know if anybody's told you but it's generally held to be good form for new members to have their inaugural thread on the subject of sharpening. You're nearly there with the chisels. Perhaps a description of which jigs you are going to use to get an edge on them would catch...

Not to worry. Every slightly different take has added value in its own way. A synthesis of them with the experience I already have should, I hope, set me on the right road.

I'm grateful for your idea of a combination of mostly short and a few long passes. It certainly makes sense in an intuitive way. As I pointed out above, I do use all the prescribed techniques but perhaps don't apply them competently enough. However, none of this explains the fact that I can...

That's very useful, thanks. I actually follow the technique you describe in the last few sentences but there is one thing you have highlighted that I probably don't do enough and that is taking thick shavings with the jointer. Most authors are quite clear on e.g. rough old shavings with the...