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Like your saw swagman. I don't have strong feelings about the screws being a bit proud. I agree about the elegance of the handle shaping, but have you considered shaping the handgrip profile to an elliptical shape for the ultimate in comfort? Quite a lot of work but in my experience of...

As you are in Hampshire, James Mursell's Windsor Workshop over the border in West Sussex does excellent courses snd he is a really nice guy. Jim

How true. If only it was such cold, dirty, scratchy stuff, a bit more like wood really. Jim

If he wants it to silver over time, I would suggest that the best finish is no finish at all. In an exposed position any finish on oak will be quite short lived and many ancient buildings have that lovely silver quality and have never had any finish applied to them. Jim

I have a Union No 4 which I reckon is as good in quality as a Stanley or Record. Jim

I agree that different thickness faces should not be a problem, although, looking to the future, using 18mm for both faces would mean that you can simply turn the top over when the top surface gets badly spoilt which is pretty likely over the course of time. A couple more points that might be...

No doubt you will say I misrepresent you, but your constant vehemence in insisting on the rightness of your approach comes over as very dogmatic and disrespectful of other people's approaches and views. I do not dispute the rightness of your approach for you and it may well be right for many...

But the reason you can get away with a thin blade is because the back iron stiffens it. Yes I did watch your video but I do not think the effect you found was to do with having a back iron per se. I believe it is more to do with a properly adjusted back iron endowing the blade with the...

Hi Corneel, I'm sure Karl Holtey would have something to say about this statement, although I doubt that it would have influenced the design of his No 982, which I can testify works superbly without the benefit of a chipbreaker. I also recall a Japanese academic paper based on research which...

I'm not convinced of the real value of so-called chipbreakers except as blade stiffeners. I believe a plane designed to do without one and with a suitably thick blade will work just as well and avoids the faff of fettling setting the damn thing every time the blade is sharpened. Top quality...

Thank goodness this thread has been rescued from a standard of debate reminiscent of the playground. As someone said earlier, if you stick around here for a while you soon discover who you want to take seriously and that will differ from person to person because these differences of approach...

Mike, Its the lowliest of Holteys - an 11S with boxwood infill and no adjuster, a lovely little thing. The blade can be reversed, turning it into a scraper plane if the going gets really tough but I don't often find it necessary. I do also have an HNT Gordon high angle smoother which is...

I don't bother too much about EP and certainly not when it comes to block planes. The exception is for difficult grain and if I am facing that I just reach for a little 60 deg EP plane without even considering a block plane. It works for me and that is all that matters. Jim

It's obvious really, it's impossible to have too many block planes. Most times in doesn't really matter whether you use low or standard angle and if one goes dull you can just pick up the other without affecting your work rythm. When that goes dull you pick up the third! I have three, plus...

How flat is your veneer? If it is very three dimensional you may need to flatten it first. Jim

I've been using a coarse DMT diamond stone for this for years. Quick, simple and accurate. Jim

Looks plenty good enough to me. Jim

Yes you could, but there are some applications where a Domino is the difference between a project being viable and unviable. I have just finished making six wall lights, each with 16 Domino joints. I simply would not have contemplated it with 96 mortises and tenons. I guess I could have used...

Welcome to the forum Tombo. Look forward to seeing how it goes - lots of pics please. Jim

Because this is a substitute for a mortise and tenon which a biscuit isn't because it doesn't go in deep enough. Clever piece of a kit but when you consider the time and effort that must have gone into making it ... well, I'd rather be making furniture and save up for the real thing. Jim