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I do understand that and it's a position I could perhaps move to one day if I get my skills up. In the meantime I'm happy to do the one by hand and the other with the guide. That said, we really must not let this turn into the usual sharpening debate!!!

You'll get no disagreement from me on the need for practice. Jigs and guides are good though for when you've still not acquired a skill and need to cut to the chase i.e. produce a joint for a project that you want to finish. I reckon that guides also help development of the skills. It was...

It's not thin material (1") and the groove and mortice will be either 3/8" or 5/16" (not decided yet). My two weakest skills are sawing tenon cheeks and morticing anything deeper than about an inch. As a result of the discussion a few weeks ago I tried, and had a deal of success with, sawing...

Thanks for the tip but I'm proud to announce that I have already worked that out: Veritas plough plane coupled with Veritas chisel. I defy anybody to get more matched than that! :mrgreen:

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll probably settle for morticing in the groove as per Derek's pictures. The groove should effectively act like a jig with regards to maintaining vertical. That said I will practice both methods on scrap.

Peter and Robin, these are interesting replies. I ddn't think that the mortice marking lines will effectively be removed as they are identical for marking where the groove goes, so my thinking was that the groove in effect becomes a 3D marking line for the mortice (assuming of course that the...

Yes mortice and groove share the same width. Peter, what leads you to choose M & T first?

Good Morning All, I intend shortly to make the lid for my version of the Anarchist's Tool Chest. It consists of a frame holding a central panel. The inside of the frame has a 3/8" groove to receive the panel and the frame members are connected to each other with through mortises. The...

OK, I'll throw a couple of needle files into the mix as well. There's never a sensible case for not having a couple more tools.

Thanks for the replies. I'll now have a think. The one advantage of the files I linked to is that they look like they could come in useful for any small, fiddly surface which needs a touch up.

Good Afternoon All, I've just picked up a set of old centre bits and as you can imagine they will need a bit of work doing on them before being put to use. Do you think that this set of files will do the trick for sharpening them up: https://www.dictum.com/en/sharpening/sh ... 97_1_12_12 Or...

Thanks for the replies. I saw knockknock's explanation illustrated by Roy Underhill on Pete's link. Cheshirechappie, I think you're right about choice of joint and I've not got this one in mind for anything in particular. I just read about it and thought, "Hang on, it can't be that simple"...

Good Morning All, I've just been dipping into Vol III of The Woodworker series from LAP and read that the grooves for splines on mitres will be cut with the plough plane. I had to grin at the way it was sort of casually mentioned in passing (a bit like "should fit straight from the saw") as it...

Thanks for the replies. I now understand. The link provided by Jacob was particularly helpful Obviously I don't need one but I can now imagine picking up a pretty antique one as a "just in case" sort of indulgence.

Good Morning All, on the second hand tool websites hand vices occasionally come up for sale. I've been trying to imagine uses for them but can't come up with any, what with the point of a vice being the idea of delivering rock solid stability and anything held freely in the hand will not...

The German commentator referred to it as a "Ziehmeißel" which translates as a "draw chisel". He was using it for grooving amongst other things.

I treated myself to a Clifton 4 1/2 for Christmas and it works like a dream. I have no experience of two piece irons but I can't imagine what degree of improvement they could deliver over this one. Incidentally it's clear that a lot of care has gone into the making of the plane as it is...

I've got no difficulty at all with somebody writing a negative review of the ATC or indeed of any other book which I like. However, for a review (positive or negative) to be credible a case has to be sensibly made. The midlife crisis nonsense is, I'm afraid, just nonsense. For it to make...

It's in the Hand Tool Review Links sticky which is another sub-forum of Hand Tools.

It looks a bit bitter and twisted to me and all that stuff about mid-life crisis is sadly no more than the reviewer revealing his own prejudice and of course it has no relevance to the book - unless of course he can show that the author was undergoing a midlife crisis at the time of writing...