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I have one on the end of my pencils and it works a treat.

Interesting, my local yard is cheaper than Wickes and tend to do discounts of 10-20% on everything if you buy more than a single sheet / batten. Also they will cut to size (sheet and timber) for free. Very useful for me as I can't fit an 8'x4' sheet in the car.

I would echo this recommendation, it's an excellent book, covers almost everything you need to know.

We have Scan stuff at work, it's decent. I've bought a fair bit off then over the years personally as well and not had any issues, even when I had to send a full order of motherboard, memory, etc back because it all became faulty in the first few weeks. Don't skimp on the graphics card, and...

Cast iron is relatively soft, could it have been worn away?

Depends how much you use them, years at least though, even for a frequent user. Paul Sellers reckons to get ten years out of his and they're being used for his woodworking school, so I would imagine a few decades for most of us.

You can also pick up a big bar of green buffing compound on amazon for about a fiver, if you prefer a more solid format.

I agree that people do take sharpening way too seriously, there's no point sharpening to a single molecule edge to them go and plane some spruce. My take is that you should get things sharp enough for the job in hand. If I can take a translucent shaving of the wood I'm using then why spend...

I have one, it's excellent. It's drilled through brick without issue and lasts for weeks at my level of usage. I have a pair of 5Ah batteries that it shares with the garden tools.

I'm not sure I see the advantage of getting a plane iron very carefully sharpened such that you can finish with it as opposed to just using a scraper which does the job more easily and is simple to sharpen. Especially as a beginner there's going to be a lot of frustration failing to get the...

Consider a large battery - you get more driving power from big batteries than small. If you get a 4-5 Ah it should do a full day then you won't need two.

I use three diamonds stones and a strop. It works fine. For rehabilitating ebay tools I use 60-120 grit paper on top of a stone then the diamond stones as usual. It seems to work.

I have some Fischer UX8 plugs and they are excellent, they're a bit longer than the UX6, but they really hold.

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I might give them a go, ash seems like an obvious choice for these, the really, anything handy (and hardwood) would suffice.

Indeed, pretty sure you could knock them together with a handsaw and have them work just fine.

Mine is lined with 12mm ply and 1mm leather on the outer jaw. I should probably reline it with something a bit stouter, but it does for now.

Mine is finished with Danish oil as that's what I had to hand. Anything similar like blo is fine imo.

I have pointed mine (not a Lidl one) at copper pipes and had a huge difference (20-30C) between the correct emissivity and the incorrect one.

Did you set the emissivity appropriately? They normally come preset to 0.95 (concrete / black paint) or 0.9 (red brick). Planed wood should be around 0.9.