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Jim - yes, it's a problem #-o Thing is I really wanted to make a leg-vice, and this was the best excuse I could come up with. Your Record 9" will be hanging off the end, but needs a spruce first. Got the leg vice almost done today - working but needs a few details. Very impressed indeed -...

the old question Dodge - that wasn't the actual stringing, it was the glue. In a hundred years time we may begin to know how good the new stuff is. That's fine, I'll wait :shock:

and further Scouse... very well researched!! It's the 1893 patent that is stamped on the tool - mine has Nov 28th 1893. Makes me feel odd as I handle it... just 28 years after the Civil War ended.

Hi Skills - yes it sits on a 'male' 90 degree upturned vee at top of low stretcher. The deadman top slots into a rebate under the front edge of top (I did 12mm back, 12mm wide and 18 deep... that way I can remember all the numbers when I come to make the deadman : You need the 18 so the deadman...

Hi Scouse - it takes a rather odd tool to bring you 'out' these days :) Here are the sums... you have about 9 Millers Falls 'egg-beaters'. So one of these offers a proportional usefulness. And I am agreeing now... an 1890s gents toy-tool type thing. Nice though. By the way, clear signs mine has...

Quick update... cracking along. A balmy 6 degrees in the workshop today, perfect for a barmy bench-builder. If you click on the image it gets a lot bigger :) The holes in the top look a bit like dog-holes, but this is an assembly table. I noticed as I assembled the base that it was getting a...

Very funny Skills! Yep, I've done benches from ply, mdf, softwood. Didn't love 'em but I made them and they did work too - as we all know they do. And Mark - I suspect the front screw for the leg-vice is probably made in China (ex-Axminster and budget). Re the banana-wood that would be...

Looks brilliant, precise, nice design balance, super-quick, and half a cube left out of ten.... how on earth did he manage that??

Question - Pete mentioned the WSH rasps (hand-stitched) - how do I compare the 'grain' as they seem to be measured in different ways? Whilst I was very impressed with the Liogier and have ordered two, these are probably worth investigating also (around £25 a time it appears).

'Joshua, the second son, named for his father and grandfather, was bound out at the age of nine years to Consider A. and Amasa Southworth, cotton thread manufacturers'. It appears it was this Joshua who was the toolmaker, and had a background in 'cotton thread'. And he was bound out to a certain...

Oh Mark... it was supposed to be a quick basic second bench - for assembly and for messy things (plane tuning for example). I have been interested in a leg vice for ages, so that's being done, but in a basic way. I saw somewhere about wheels for the lower guide etc ( I think Richard Maguire does...

Hi Mark - had a look, also went back to C Schwarz book and a couple of articles in Pop Wood. I have been cracking along with the main structure and it's going quite quickly - machines this time: bandsaw and Tsaw for tenons, Forstners to clear the big mortices etc. Must say it is so much easier...

If it's a slope, Jim definitely started it. I just joined in a bit later. So Andy's got one (well done!)... Scouse, you need one of these I think :wink: p.s. anyone any ideas re intended use. It doesn't strike me as a specific woodworking tool because of the puller and the two very small...

Thanks Mike - I will do that in future. But is there something server-side that shuts down a login if it doesn't see activity after a certain time? I find the login status a puzzle - on the login page I get an option to keep me logged in future sessions but it doesn't do that. Then the login...

Can never have too many bench threads around here :D Having finished my 'posh' bench a few moths ago, I knocked up a mini-table to use for assembly and also as a 'mucky' bench - sharpening, any metalworking etc, but I'm not at all happy with it as it is too light and a bit small. So I started...

Sorry this may be for the mods, but really quite often my login drops without any reason I can think of. It matters when you are at the end of a post with pics etc, you hit submit and it bounces you to login form, deleting everything you had done in the process. Am I missing a trick... quite...

sadly not BB - the cams are rivetted to sole, with an upturned tab to front which makes turning over not an option. I live with it of course, just a strange decision (oversight even?)

I noticed some time ago that on the block plane, clockwise (looking down) opens the mouth, but on a 62 jack, anti-clock opens the mouth. Mine are both about 6 years old and things may have changed, but I have to remember which is which. Now why would someone as fussy as Tom do a thing like that?

Adam - this would make a great sister product to your awl! I would expect the cover to be the challenge depending on what you have available. The original was probably pressed or more 'deep-drawn' (it's quite thin), and note I'm fairly sure it's nickel plate, not chrome - a far nicer warmer...

Very nice indeed. Can I also question if it's brown oak. I have a board of 'brown' in the workshop and it is darker and more brown than yours. The guy at the mill I got it from told me the brown was caused by some form of fungal infection - beefsteak fungus growing on the tree when live (I just...