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Hi all !! Sorry been off-radar for some time, and Andy T kindly pointed this thread out to me. We moved house about 18 months ago and I left a mighty fine workshop to (for now) make do with a large garage and nowt else - tried making a few bits but working condidions and tool storage not at all...

Not yet, but he will ;) Beautiful work Klaus and Pedder - stunning mix of materials, and Pedder's blades cut amazingly. Too good to use?? I very think not!!

Very pleased this drill found it's proper home. I owned it a few years and in under one week, it's sorted. I recall the second handle was in need of a finish (didn't get around to that either). Excellent work, this drill deserved a better owner than me ;) And I hadn't seen those Eclipse slitting...

Interesting indeed, I must pay more attention to new tools (maybe). Seems they have deleted the frog as a separate component, but also added mouth adjustment the way we know on block/low-angles. I don't feel like rushing out to buy one just to play with, but it makes a lot of sense to me and I...

May I check please - functional improvement meaning works better? I can. And is it your opinion that 45 degrees makes for a better plane in the full range of coarse to fine planing tasks. I don't think that is a fact. That would render virtually all woodies, infills and others inferior. And what...

Seeing the arrival of the Rider planes (had to look them up), and we have the QS / Wood River, the Faithfulls, the Stanley Sweetheart... Next time someone decides to make yet another Bailey why not do something interesting and smart - delete the frog (delete 'Bailey' in fact). There are 2 things...

Don't really follow LV so missed this, but the cutter set at $23 looks well worth it as shaping your own is a bit tedious. I'd buy the cutters but do as Andy says more or less - in my case a Wickes scratch gauge modified to suit. And we all need a relative that goes to the States often, I rarely...

Thanks for the tiops re 1/8th blades. I've only put the 1/4 10tpi on so far - it's a fine little machine but probably won't be hanging around as I won't make much use of it.

It's a weird thing Alex, a 2-wheel Burgess I got to play with... it might not stay. The others are a 352 and an Inca 260.

Called Ian friday, made and packed Monday, 2 blades here today with a note - added a 1/8th to try, no charge. Does not get any better.

re OP, I needed some blades suddenly Friday, called Ian (they were an odd size for an odd machine) and he called back about 1/2 hr later, even though a house move was scheduled that afternoon. All sorted, made and out tomorrow I expect. He's a star.

Obtuse? at least there would be an angle involved which is NOT 90 DEGREES. That would be progress. planing...cutting...bored now. I'm off.

Hi Tom, I don't think we will get any further here unless you first accept that a skew cut has nothing at all to do with stock / workpiece. It is fundamental that you accept this so if not please explain why. My previous mention of me standing there planing a board did not help - sorry and I...

Yup, I got the 5 and I reckon they are generally convex. And they flex a little when using so measuring would be a hobby too far IMHO :)

Matt, just a mention and I think it's been touched on earlier. If/when tuning this close the cap becomes as critical as the cutting edge of course, and the leading edge of cap has to be perfect straight (assuming iron back is dead flat where they will mate). I think there are these essentials...

Good grief Tom! Is that complicated enough? I repeat: My final: a skew cut occurs ONLY if the angle between cutting edge and direction of travel is NOT 90 degrees. That is it, that is all. Simulated skew doesn't exist. edit add-on: Derek is right (about 2 pages ago). Ramp board, NO skew...

Indeed. Spreads edge-wear a bit and even that depends on sections planed etc. Apart from that a bit of woodie romance.

My final: a skew cut occurs ONLY if the angle between cutting edge and direction of travel is NOT 90 degrees.

woodie just for info. A lot is spoken of difficult woods like bird's eye and some of the exotics, but far closer to my day-to-day are the inoccuous ones - ash for example. Looks harmless, grain flow lying just a few degrees off surface, hard to read sometimes - then wham, one big deep tear...

This has become a substantial thread, and generally the chat has been around Bailey-style planes. For those of us who will find time to break off from making in order to tune a plane or two can I mention woodies? Discussions have mentioned tight mouths but with the typical old woodie that is not...