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Sorry Bm, I didn't want to throw you off-pace or anything. That looks very substantial - can't be sure if it's a top or maybe a really hefty leg vice? Now then, the Hemingway... more or less done. Pics and a few thoughts along the way: usual disclaimer - opinions only, in the main :) Machines...

Very nice indeed. Shame you won't be taking it on tour. Thin line between patina and decay though Andy!! Maybe (if it was mine) I'd lose the moss and outdoor look, but otherwise leave as is?

Thanks all for your interest! Very good Andy, :lol: I expect he would have been happy to admit to just two. Re stiffness Phil, agreed from an engineering p.o.v. - but I want the front legs flush and don't want tenons and wedges sticking forward - but I was set on using the wedged stretchers as I...

I don't usually give things names, but there is a clear reason for this one, and I've come to like it. I had decided I had a justifiable need for a new bench. It was going to be quite a change from my current (now sold) one which was an 8 foot very heavy beast with big double-screw face and...

What a very fine thing! You can see the workmanship that went into that in the details. I'd imagine finding one with original case would be very unusual - the clasp on the case looks very nice too.

Yes Togs - Richard died in May 2013, aged 46. Very well remembered here and many of us have happy tales (and a few bits'n'bobs he made along the way). Here's the man at work...

re Musicman's question - Simon's are indeed longer than Richards (an inch or so, sorry not measured but Eric has dimensions above). I have found these holdfasts work very well when raised quite a way up, like in pic one on my OP. With your 9" clearance, if you were using say 7" of that I reckon...

Not sure how many of us are aware of these holdfasts, but Simon sent me a pair to try / test a few weeks ago. I'll own up to being a very big fan of traditional holdfasts (forge-bent steel, 3/4 hole, one hammer, that's it) - so I was keen to try them. I think Simon has done a fair bit of tuning...

Resourceful as ever Richard. I suppose if you wanted the pointed teeth you could easily use a different profile cutter in the Dremel.

Ah, the 52E - a classic, excellent vices (I find the 9" too clunky). I use hardwood probably because it may last longer, and I always have plenty of scrap around. Given the areas in contact provided the faces are clean then it shouldn't mar the workpiece, but putting leather on one face is a...

Brilliant film, nice to see Sheffield in the spotlights. Notice the bloke sanding the handles - his modified overalls!

Looks really good Matthew. Nice to see Clifton with a plan now, for years they were 'lost at sea' against LN and Veritas. If I didn't have the LN I'd probably buy one of these. I know it's a lot (about double the LN) but the block plane is an absolute core tool and this is very likely a lifetime...

Very fine work again Richard, and nice to see that box find its purpose. This is a Saxon block plane really I suppose (size-wise). It does look tiny next to the Silchester, but then again, that is a brute!

Thanks Klaus for taking so much time to do this, so many pics!! Nick happens to have the very first prototype (SS last year) though I have to confess a number of evolutions have occured since, it was my best shot at the time Nick! (and I recall working against the clock to make the festive...

Brilliant Klaus and Pedder, very kind to take all that time to show and share your techniques. Looks to me like one of those ebony handles has a 'D' on it... probably just my imagination.

(Apologies for absence) - thank you very much indeed to Klaus for these kind words. Believeable or not, Klaus just did this - it was in no way planned. I had asked Klaus to 'test' the vice (along with a very few others, most known hereabouts) just because I know it's the kind of device that...

It tells me this is a dead thread =D>

I expected that. Was not a short while ago when I looked but it has recently changed its name. This isn't a Google competition, more my way of thanking Klaus.

Sorted!! Not at all in the way I expected... miles better than that. This arrived from Germany this morning: and here with the Spiers I just got from Bill Carter, one of the hammer's first victims Klaus (Two Lawyers Tools) had very kindly undertaken to get me some UHU Endfest epoxy (oddly...

I'll go back to page 1 if I may, and Random orbital Bob: "This is easily as much to do with status as it is to do with quality". I think that is it - nailed it, let's say. In the premium you pay, some of that is quality and design innovation (or smart-thinking), and some is just a premium for a...