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Hi Jonny, it's ordered and is due any day and as soon as it comes it will be put to work marking some mortices. I'll report as soon as that is done. All the best, Andy.

I agree with this. I made the same point a few weeks back about how British toolmakers do not make their presence felt. I became quickly aware of L-N and Veritas - they are unavoidable - but I have a feeling that I know about Clifton, Thomas Flinn etc. more as a result of my own efforts (I...

Derek, thanks for demystifying the Japanese gauge. Shame nobody on the course was in a position to do that. Shrubby, thanks for the Ulmia suggestion but I think I fancy going down the Marples and traditional British route (especially as it seems to be so highly thought of).

Thank you all very much indeed for your replies. D_W and Derek: I tried a Japanese gauge when I went on a course, exactly like the one on the right in Derek's first picture, and it drove me absolutely nuts in frustration. Try as I might, I just couldn't get the thing to work properly. The one...

Good Morning All, I've decided that I need a mortice gauge (up to now I've got by with accurate marking and using a single Veritas wheel-type marking gauge). This should be a one off purchase so I would like to get the best I can which I reckon should mean that the chief qualites should be...

That looks like evidence to me: if he's seen 'em, he's seen 'em. An assertion would be something along the lines of, "I bet Jap woodworkers use rounded chisels all the time".

For what it's worth, I've come to the conclusion that you're both right and wrong, although probably a bit more right than wrong and that is for the following reasons. To the beginner sharpening can be a daunting thing. It certainly was for me. I tried free hand and mangled chisels, the...

Having received so many replies to this thread I thought it only fair to show what happened in the end. Firstly, as mentioned, I took it to a table saw which left me with a roughly 2 1/2" bit in the middle to saw out: I was never going to show a picture of that saw as it is the only tool I...

Thanks again to all of you for taking the trouble to reply. I think Cheshire Chappie's notion of taking it slowly is a good one (always a sensible idea) and D_W's mention of the speed at which this process is meant to go is worth bearing in mind. I can get access to a table saw and it occurs...

Grüß Gott Claus, thanks for the tip. Which courier firm do you use to collect things from the UK? Andy.

Gentlemen, thank you very much for the replies. I suppose it makes sense to not start with a new (to me) type of tool on a job which I already find a bit difficult. As for the 1" thickness: the number is not meant to be precise for the reasons mentioned above. I should have just said that I...

If there's one job I heartily dislike it is resawing hefty bits of wood. For instance I've got two four foot long by 6 x 2 inch pieces of American Walnut that I'm going to have to do (to get 6 x 1). Up to now I've used a normal rip saw and find that although I've got a bit better on soft wood...

Andy, unfortunately I don't have the contacts in the UK any more who would be in a position to organise such a thing. I'll settle for making a regular weekly check of German ebay to see what comes up (all comes to him who knows how to wait). So far I've seen one vaguely similar bit of kit but...

How easy/difficult is it to get hold of one of these machines? I'd love to have one and they look like they'll be still around long after all their electric cousins have ended up on the scrap heap.

Graham, everything you said above makes complete sense and it seems to me that with their respective approaches both Veritas and L-N have done a great service to woodworking. I just hope that comparable British firms come to the fore to take up well deserved places alongside them. Thanks for...

And with that you have put your finger on one of the monumental weaknesses of British industry, at least in the area of woodworking and that is the reluctance to enthusiastically blow one's own trumpet a bit and to commission some decent advertising. I took up woodworking about two years ago...

One inference that you can draw from that is that you could produce of table of steel types vs. stone types with crosses showing which worked with which. If it appeared that having three different kinds of steels meant that you needed three different kinds of stones, it would probably...

Would this meet your requirements: http://www.axminster.co.uk/proxxon-tbh-bench-drill It certainly meets all my needs and the relatively small size means that it's a genuine benchtop machine and it is unbelievably quiet in use.

The walls appear to be 5 and a bit inches i.e. around 150 mm which I suppose could be 4" plus plaster. I got the 8" by not discounting the architraves (oops). AndyT: I can't find the digital camera but I don't think a pic would add anything to the matter. So then, back to my question, can...

I just found this link (from B&Q of all people): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqGoSBWixNU which explains the Basic idea of the lining quite clearly.