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Excellent work Brad. Your list of tips is very welcome as I've never done any veneering but was planning to do some soon. Ed

I take it that the USA 110V being 60 Hz and the UK being 50Hz is not an issue? Ed

USA?

Excellent work as ever Aled Ed

Just what I was thinking...

I opened mine; A lovely set of small carving chisels from Blister. It fills a gap (and lets be honest theres not many!) in my tool collection for carving tools, so I'm delighted. Thanks Allen All the best, Ed

Do you have something to confess Karl?

You mean you're not working today to finish it? Only joking - it looks excellent Jonny. Ed

Thats good to know, thats around what I would have said so I know my price radar is not a mile off. Ed

This is the place to post those pictures folks. NB - the existence of this thread does not legitimise opening early, I'm just trying to be efficient! Thanks for taking part everyone. Ed

Why would you want a shaving that thick? Ed

Very nice Matt. These sideboards are getting regular for you. Out of interest approximately what would you charge for such a thing? The reason I ask is that I priced a not dissimilar item for a friend of a friend recently and although I'm sure I was cheap it was way above what they expected. I...

10 inch blade surely. 10 inch depth of cut would be about a 500mm blade - thats a sawmill, not a table saw! Ed

What? the link doesn't work anymore...

Now I see what you wanted all those clamps from Harrogate for! Looking good mate Cheers, Ed

Long wait I suspect. Ed

I just read a couple of blog posts and felt moved to post about the open-mouthed awe I got from reading them. First, Karl Holteys latest; http://www.holteyplanes.com/blog/ and then Konrad Sauers; http://sauerandsteiner.com/news/ both of which are records of some amazing modern planemaking...

On a bevel down plane the angle of honing is more to do with finding an angle that suits the steel of the blade to hold its edge best. For example, the general view with A2 steel is that it performs best somewhere between 30 and 35 degrees. The reason for the minute increase in angle is that it...

Well you learn something everyday! I wasn't expecting it to be that, but fascinating nonetheless. Ed

I rehandled a couple of gouges recently and burned them in. This was off the back of reading a post by Mike Wenzloff on Woodnet (which I now can't find) that advocated this. It works really well. I think the idea of affecting the temper of the blade is a red herring as the heating is...