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Here's a fascinatingly original solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQprRclcss I think I'd go for this if I had very limited space as he offers a system which allows everything from joinery to planing and it's partially collapsible.

Thanks for the replies. I rejigged my Veritas plough plane with the kit that lets it do T & G and cut a fairly satisfactory 1/4" tongue which worked out pretty well, so I've left the plane set up as it is to do the other tongues. Then it is just a matter of cutting the grooves referenced off...

Here's a possible solution from a bloke called Heiko Rech (who writes for what appears to be the only German woodworking mag) in which he shows an arrangement for bolting his Festool MFT-3 table onto the wall and so ends up with a bench which can be used for planing as it is rock solid and of...

Evenin' All, I'm about to put the bottom on my toolbox and the pieces of wood are 7/8" thick. What's the best size for the tongues and grooves: 3/8" or 1/4"? Or does it not really matter too much? Thanks in advance.

A block plane is the obvious thing to get going straight away, but then I started wondering if a longer, wooden plane could be made so that it could be used with a central grip and lots of downward pressure (I would have thought that a bench a tad lower than usual would be useful if one can only...

Yes thanks, I did read all that. I'm forever adjusting the mouth of my LA Jack according to the task in hand. That said, the zebrano might demand my one and only Bailey design plane.

Here is the pic of the offcut: Apologies for the image quality. You can see the line of reversing grain immediately to the left of the oiled bit. I will, as ED65 suggests, adjust my plane to see about dealing with that. For Charles: I recently bought a couple of Midsomer Murders DVDs as we...

It would indeed be if it were offered as a straightforward alternative to other woods. Imagine a furniture shop with a range of items like sideboards, tables, wardrobes, cupboards etc. with each object offered in cherry, beech, maple, mahogany, walnut and ..... zebrano. I don't think that even...

Yep, the guitar is pretty dramatic and I think it works aesthetically. I wonder if that is because the guitar has a very pronounced geometry which is strong enough to accommodate the zebrano? This makes me wonder if zebrano grain is inherently unsuitable for classical furniture forms with...

I had an experimental planing of the 10" offcut piece and can report that ED65 and Woodgrains are bang on the money: essentially it planes fairly easily to yield a very smooth, marble-like surface, then you hit a narrow streak of grain going in exactly the opposite direction. I rubbed a bit of...

One of the fundamentals is that it was a secret ballot i.e. it is none of our business if somebody doesn't/does tell us why they did/didn't vote. Therefore any speculation as to why somebody acted the way they did is utterly futile. Neither you, I nor anybody else can say why 28% didn't turn...

Thanks Charles, I appreciate the down-to-earthedness of that. I'm going to let it sit around a bit before I take a plane to it. There was one 10" left over after my two 3' pieces were cut, so I'll probably take a hand axe to it to give me a couple of bits to try the planes on. At the moment I...

Good Morning All, I was just down the timber yard getting some very normal stuff when I spotted an odd piece in the corner. It was zebrano and the lad let me have it for €15 for his coffee fund and then cut it for me. So I now have two pieces each of 3' x 8" x 2". I would like to double that...

Thank you all very much for your replies. It looks like the case has been made for a very slight camber on the edge of the blade and there's no need for me to get a second one. ED65, my process for flattening currently is as follows: take out everything big with a jack plane equipped with a...

I think if you believe in democracy there is no alternative to voting out. The EU is actively anti-democracy which is a bit ironic considering that democracy is one of the greatest European achievements. Brexit means complete control over our national fortunes as opposed to 1/28th of control...

I read somewhere that the jointer plane blade should always be ground dead square. The reason for this is fairly obvious when jointing edges etc. However, I find myself using this plane more and more often for general flattening of boards and it occurs to me that for this sort of purpose the...

Andy, thank you very much indeed. That hits the nail on the head and the diagrams are just what I needed to understand it. Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply Andy. I have difficulty visualising geometry. Does what you have written mean that the ovolo which a 5/8 shave cuts is considerably less than 5/8 wide simply because one has started from a piece of wood which itself is 5/8 wide?

I've noticed that Preston Ovoloe shaves come in different sizes, the most common seeming to be 5/8". My question is: to what exactly does the size refer, a dimension of the tool or a dimension of the wood it is to cut?

The investment has paid off though. It's a family firm which specialises in making furniture out of solid wood and according to the commentary they get orders from all over Germany. You may have noticed towards the end a few glimpses of other projects in progress. The firm reckons that the...