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Fabulous skills and what a showman. The plane gets better by the day and that lever cap is looking very sexy. Jim

Certainly not pointless because the the engraver got to do a good and no doubt, satisfying job and second because the new owner got to have something he or she considers to be beautiful. It is not to most modern tastes but in the baroque or rococo periods it would have been considered to be...

A mate has installed those interlocking plastic tiles and is very pleased with them. Not least because the glue drips come off easily! Jim

I'd never have thought of using OSB for a guitar! :D Jim

I agree, but so what? It is a completely personal choice in a piece made by a craftsman for his own use. Jim

We don't have to be slaves to tradition. Personally, I think some nice stainless Allen bolts with the socket ends cleaned up to remove the writing they often have would look good. If you were making this to appeal to the deeply conservative antique plane market, you would have to use slotted...

Lovely stuff, Jim. I do agree with you about Tru-oil. I made a recorder (the musical type) for my professional recorder player daughter out of holly from my garden and it gave a wonderful silky finish with very few coats. Lovely wood, holly. The recorder? It looks nice but the sound is loud...

Yes, it is a slightly older Holtey and yes, he does now machine all his lever caps from solid. The scroll recesses really are brilliant. I have a very early no 98 which has a fixed lever cap but saw this new version in his workshop and it transforms blade, removal and replacement, particularly...

Look forward to see the blade making. Going back to the lever cap, for me, by far the most elegant solution is Karl Holtey's scroll recesses they fit over small pegs in the plane sides and tightening the lever cap screw locks the whole thing solid, but very difficult to do without CNC...

Great news, Steve. Hope he makes a speedy recovery. Jim

Hi Jim, Yes, I know exactly what you mean about risk and I certainly don't blame you; the further you get into a project the bigger the investment at stake. I'm sure it will be a joy to use and give you great satisfaction to see the finished article on the bench. Jim

Interesting post, but my immediate reaction was - what the hell is African black walnut? So I looked it up and found something which is clearly completely unrelated to walnut, which are temperate zone species, and from the pictures doesn't look much like walnut either. I suppose it's a...

There isn't a lock so you can change the setting by mistake but I have never had the thicknessing setting change without intervention by me. You could accidentally knock the lever on the adjusting wheel, but this is unlikely because you would normally remove it (it just lifts off) when planing...

My thing is fine furniture and I have never found the Moretens outfeed roller to be a problem at all. When connected to a decent extractor the extraction is very close to 100%. When I first had the Moretens I had it connected to a basic Camvac which was really not up to the job, but then I...

Several years ago I took the very expensive option of the American Oneida Dust Gorilla system and have not regretted it for a minute. My rationale was that it was ridiculous to spend substantial amounts of money on high quality producers of chips and dust and then fail to spend what it takes to...

Lovely work, Jim. Your dog's antics reminded me of a friend of mine who has been making a hugely complex project involving very complex glue-ups. He used the old trick of making angled glue blocks which he glued to the work with animal glue with a sheet of newspaper between block and work...

Yes, very nice work. Well done. Jim

I wouldn't bet on the oil preventing staining for long, bearing in mind how open grained oak is. Is there a poassibility that you could put some sort of barrier between the oak and the iron frame? Jim

Steve, I've been following your thread somewhat sporadically but was struck by this post. I was aware of your illness and I am sure many other readers will, like me, be delighted to read of your progress on this front. Some years ago I too experienced a period of depression and found it far...