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Wadkin Planer Thicknesser serious and splendid looking machine for auction here. No info as to model number but looks bigger than most of those subject to restoration threads on here. No doubt there are plenty of Wadkinatics on here who will be able to identify it. Will be interesting to see...

I have The Art of Japanese Joinery by Kiyosi Seike piblished by Weatherhill which seems pretty compehensive and still seems to be readily available new and, no doubt, used. Haven't seen any others so I have no idea whether there are better books on the subject. Jim

In my view a more interesting comparison is between LN and Veritas as another contributor implied. Whilst recognising the quality of what they produce, I have never had much time for LN because, with one or two minor exceptions, they have only ever copied exisiting designs but just made them...

Absolutely. I wonder what he would make of this thread. Can't imagine him being impressed. Jim

Of course the stones need to be flat, that's a fundamental starting point, but it's hardly brain surgery. Jim

I've had my say and feel no need to repeat myself. Jim

Jim Kingshott never recommended anything without very well thought through reasoning and and practical experience and experiment behind it. As he would say, sharpness is nothingness meaning the coming together of two perfectly flat and smooth surfaces. All of my chisels are flat at the edge...

I think you might struggle with that, especially in a marine environment. Jim

Definitely a gravel board in my part of West Sussex. Jim

Interesting and nicely worked out analogy. I'm no fan of the Chelsea tractor, but I think its wheel bearings would be subject to much higher loads than the analogy suggests when used in the conditions with which it was designed to cope rather than Chelsea High Street. Off road or during...

Some years ago I had a guy who used to advertise, make me some small, etched brass plates from a Word template I sent him bearing the words "Designed and made by (my name), (name of town". They came with bronzed aging, but I clean that off and spray them with clear lacquer from a rattle can...

Yes, the abranet on a roll and precut all fits directly onto a Valcro Pad such as the Festool ones. Extraction performance is excellent. Jim

Another vote for Abranet - much cheaper on the roll than pre-cut. Jim

But surely the whole point from the original post was that the intention was to just refinish the top so that it remains in keeping with the rest of the piece. On the subject of silicones, I know they can be very persistent. A friend worked for a chemical company that had worked extensively...

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Sadly, many of the photos of the chairmaking were lost in a computer update but I probbly have enought to do a somewhat less detailed account. Jim

I agree with profchris and aet1. Sanding sealer will be fine. How about a photo of the finished article? Jim

Difficult one. I would first clean it as thorughly as possible with something like meths which should get rid of old wax etc. My starting point for finishing over old finishes is that shellac will take over pretty much anything and pretty much anything will take over shellac. So, shellac...

My neighbour is having an extension built at the momentand is very happy for me to take what I want - 4x 2's. Plenty of nails but most quite easy to get out and my cable/metal detector seems to find them reliably. Quite a bit of worm in it but that's OK for yse in the garden which is what I...

Last Instalment. I used the dummy MDF tabletop in this rather fuzzy photo to visualise the overall impact of the viewing panel and in terms of the view through it. This led me to decide that its actual size should be a bit smaller. With this decision made, an actual hole needed to be routed...

Bit of a break since my last post, but here is another instalment. The first stage in veneering the upper face of the table top was to get in the small outer segments of burr elm. As with all the segments the curves where they abut the sycamore lipping were cut with a scalpel around an MDF...