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Modern taps for wood have an angle of about 60 degrees. I have seen much larger angles on old wooden threads like this example from an olive press in Mallorca. I suppose that this one was made by drawing a helix and chiselling out the waste. I'd like to know how such large female threads were...

At a closer look you don't have a topslide so thread cutting is harder for you :)

Nice work Andy. Very ingenious to use the topslide as a shaper - I haven't seen that method before. Here are some taps made using my slightly larger Barnes lathe (electric motor driven as it is minus the treadle it would have had originally). I cut the flutes by milling.

I could make one for you.

I went to the last two and I plan to be there this year. Very enjoyable and you can feel good about supporting a worthy cause.

Me too ☺

Further to CC's post above, 1/8" mortice chisels are indeed useful for making Canterburys:

They are good for confined spaces where nothing else can be used. I make them from power jigsaw blades.

I have received this beautiful driver complete with Festool bits. It is made of a very dark close grained wood – I think it must be ebony or African blackwood. It fits very nicely in the hand and it will be kept with the “deluxe” tools. Also included are a piece of black velvet cloth (useful...

Thanks Andy, This is the 5th plane (but the 4th type as I made two copies of the Sarre Saxon plane). I think the Finkum plane may be next. The Mary Rose planes are possibles too if I can obtain dimensions and good enough photos of the originals. I feel sure that the Romans would have had jack...

Thanks, it is quite convenient to use when you get used to the hold. An interesting feature is the iron angle of 34 degrees, which is very low for a bevel down plane. This means that the mouth opening is very large. However the front of the mouth is near to the cutting edge so the effective...

A repro. of a plane found at grave 702 at Bajuwarenstraße, Straubing, Bavaria, Germany, dating from the late 6th to early 7th century AD. The original was made of antler but I have made mine of yew.

I would also be interested in buying one of these adaptors.

I'd like to take part. I've sent a PM.

Here is a photo of a cannon logo I found on a spoon gouge made by C. Arnoldi of Hamburg. Presumably not related but I was interested to see that they used a cannon device too.

I have sent copies of the drawing to several people who wanted to make a scraper plane for their own use but I don't know if any of them completed it. I also had an an enquiry from someone in the USA about manufacturing them under licence but it came to nothing. Anyway, collinb, please send me a...

French words: canneler = to flute (i.e. to make a fluted shape like on a column) cannelure = flute, fluting (as on furniture or a column)

Here is a close up of the end of the C&G plane.

Thanks Andy and CC. I suspect that the sawn method has been used and I think it must be easier than making a mortice by chiseling alone. This German plane seems to have been made in a rather similar way.

One of the planes I bought last Saturday. I’m intrigued by the method of construction. Presumably the “C&G” stamp means City & Guilds of London Institute. I wonder if the plane was for the use of the students or else made by one of them?