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Having thought a bit more about this, it seems to me that dealers could offer a service while not having to greatly put themselves out. These days if you order something from a dealer, you get entered into their computer. Thus they could easily confirm if somebody was buying a plane from them...

I think that the manufacturers know who the good dealers are i.e. the ones who are prepared to put in the bit of extra work in to keep customers happy and that probably boils down to just a handful e.g. Peter Sefton, Classic Hand Tools etc. Were there concerns of quality control, the makers of...

I realise that it was all light-hearted (hence my reply in the same manner) and I wasn't from my POV bringing it up again as it was the first time I read this thread.,

I think that AJB may have gotcha. You may be confusing a rule with a law in the "law of Physics" sense of the term.

I like Tony's suggestion of dealers offering a fine fettling service for a small additional charge. It seems to me that it would offer two great advantages: a. The dealer would be reassured that no duff goods were leaving the premises. b. The beginner would not be baffled due to lack of...

Custard, thanks for the details. I reckon it’s too elegant to be considered as a work table but it would look perfect in a hallway.

Custard, how tall are the curved feet at the highest point and would I be right in thinking that the total height is about 2' 6"?

I think that it's a clever idea, marvellously executed and it makes me grin. I'm afraid though that I'm also in the "not in my house" category, although that is of course a bit irrelevant being simply a comment based on aesthetic taste. What might be of interest though is that anybody making...

MusicMan, I've never been involved in any of the trades in this thread but I fear that I would have taken a line like, "I don't like what the contract says, we've got more lawyers than you've got employees" as being akin to a declaration of war. It is so incredibly uncouth and ungentlemanly...

I understand your views on this sort of thing and think in general that they are well founded. However, there is perhaps a danger of drifting into being dogmatic. I bought a Veritas Low Angle Jack from new and couldn't care less whether or not it was sharp out of the box (FWIW I would say that...

If you need any material translating from German (provided it's not whole books), pm me. Google can be an unreliable translator.

Here's a link to an interesting documentary about making a chessboard: Don't worry about it being in German, the pictures tell the whole story.

Andy, that‘s quite a collection but I wouldn‘t have expected anything else! What’s the view on things like the little Veritas skewed block plane which has a fence or the L-N equivalent? Has anybody tried one?

This is just an idle bit of speculative thinking born of a thread which appeared recently. Unfortunately I've forgotten the title but if I remember aright, Andy T put up a picture of an odd, very short little device for cutting rebates. My moving fillister rebate plane is around 9 - 10 inches...

It's all part of growing up and being British (or Finnish for that matter).😄

I originally put this in the off topic section but it occurs to me in the upheaval of the forum revamp, it might have got overlooked and this is probably the better forum anyway: I've been trying to strip some paint off wood. It's softwood and is outside. The paint stripper has removed some...

I've been trying to strip some paint off wood. It's softwood and is outside. The paint stripper has removed some but there is a lot of the paint which seems determined to stay on. Should I switch to abrasives? If yes, then which grit would you recommend (I have a Festool Rotex sander.) Here is...

If you're going to Dictum, you might want to have a look at the Kunz Plus jack plane. They've had very good reviews in Germany.

I may have gone some way to cracking this. At the weekend I switched from the straight blade to the spear point one. That involved swapping the blades with an Allen key. I put on the spear point and tightened it up and used it without difficulty. Then I switched back to the normal one and after...

As a general aside to this matter, it now looks as if some European countries are a step or two away from a full-blown second wave (something which was originally predicted for autumn/winter). It cannot be a coincidence that in the previous few weeks many people have rushed like lemmings to...