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Here's a link to a documentary which was aired on the local telly here on Friday and it covers building a table (with machine tools) form start to finish. http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Im-Südwesten/Handwerkskunst-Wie-man-einen-Tisch-baut/SWR-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=27081432&documentId=35557880...

It looks like a leatherworkers fudge wheel: http://www.tooltique.co.uk/antique/old- ... p/page/30/ See picture at bottom of page. I don't know what its precise use was though.

The more I think about it, the more I like it. The frame saw that you use for it becomes your "deeping saw" which has a good ring to it.

Thank you all very much for the replies. In the light of what you all say I think I'll play it safe with this wood and plan on getting the boards down to 3/4" thickness. Most of it is fairly straight grained and quite flattish even in the raw state, so I shouldn't have too much trouble. I'll...

Good Afternoon All, I've noticed that in a lot of plans the most typical thickness for making small to medium items of furniture seems to be 3/4" (19 mm). I've just bought a plank of European Cherry and am planing the various boards into which it was rough sawn. Careful planing is giving me...

I'll give that a go as it sounds pretty sensible. I currently place my fingers on the curved bit at the top of the blade of the butt chisel which seemed a natural place for them to go and it also enables downward pressure to be accurately maintained.

I have a feeling that contributing to a sharpening thread is a bit like going paddling in a shark-infested lagoon but here goes: I'm generally happy to hone the secondary bevel on plane blades and chisels of 3/8" and wider by hand but I go by something which nobody else has so far mentioned and...

Yes I think there's a definite advantage simply because being smaller, the butt chisels somehow seem nimbler and the holding hand is closer to the work. It's not an earth shattering advantage but it is definitely significant enough for me to have instinctively gravitated towards the butt...

I've got two butt chisels: the 1 1/2" and the 2" both from Veritas. They're great for defining the sides of mortices of those lengths with one bash (yes the Veritas ones are bashable) and I find them generally useful for marking out longer knife lines i.e. fewer chisel bashes per line because...

The book under review, ladies and gentlemen, is a work and a half: two volumes totalling 888 pages with a further two volumes planned for publication in 2017. They are made up entirely of facsimile articles which appeared in The Woodworker magazine under the editorship of Charles H. Hayward...

I wasn't aware of that at all and the innovation/improvement aspect (in this case an excellent example) is part of what I was on about. The other part concerns the fact that too few things are actually getting made in the UK. In this case it has been contracted out to a foreign manufacturer...

Yep that's fair comment and I'm not enough of a businessman (in fact I'm not a businessman at all) to offer sensible comment on the commercial aspects of such a venture.

I understand what you mean but I was being fairly specific: the makers you mention are indeed producing good tools which are up there with the best. What I was meaning is more like keeping an eye out for an opportunity as the chaps in question with the router have done by enhancing a pretty...

It may be that this has escaped your attention: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodw ... uter-plane The video clip offers a fairly good explanation. The only thing that gets me about this sort of thing is why is no UK firm picking up on these sort of opportunities to breathe new life into...

I got the set of seven of these: http://www.fine-tools.com/first-clean-exit-drills.html You'll notice that they offer the set in either imperial or metric. I use them with an eggbeater drill and they perform excellently. Not cheap but worth the money IMO.

I'm very careful when marking. The marking gauge and marking knife must be amongst to the most important tools. Incidentally, I wouldn't be so sceptical about the Veritas skew rebate as it really is a good bit of kit. The fault lies with my (lack of) ability.

That would never have occurred to me but when I think of the notion of using a shoulder plane up against a clamped on wooden fence (said fence being removable once the rebate has got going), I can see the sense in it. The potential problem seems to be that if you kick the rebate off with an...

Good Morning All, if there is one tool which I continue to have difficulty in mastering, it is my Veritas skew rebate plane. The two key adjustments seem to be that the blade must be parallel to the mouth and that the side of the blade must project just a whisker towards the vertical wall of...

Given that the Gent's Saw is a recognised tool, I can see no reason why there shouldn't be a Lady's Plane. It has a nice civilised, sort of eighteenth century ring to it. In fact, it could be a good business opportunity: get a few made, get a decent ad done (the planes swishing away on a honey...

This might seem a bit of a neither here nor there question but out of interest, what is your cut off size for off cuts? I find it hard to chuck e.g. a 12" x 2" x 3/8" cherry if it's planed up and looking nice. The result of this is that I seem to have accumulated quite a few small pieces of...