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Same here. No worries. I scan the LN website each morning over coffee. Managed to get the 5.5 jack. Still after the 51. I do like the 60 1/2 block full width and the Clifton block. If we can pull out of this COVID mess, it may be an expensive year for the shop. I looked at some stuff on the D&W...

OMG Guys! First, some tools get used and some don’t. LN makes a bit over 20,000 tools per year. So if a handful wind up as gifts or impulse buys that don’t get used, I get that. And with the market what is you can’t blame them. LN has been working like mad men to catch up. COVID shut them down...

You have tool users and you have tool makers. Different perspectives. 1). I don’t like working with C260. I tried to go cheap and use it on an A7. OMG It was like peening bubble gum. Wound up throwing it out and replaced the sides with naval brass. Naval brass is the closet I have found to...

You can use any number of bench planes for shooting. A really good choice is the 5 1/2 as it’s got the width and the heft. Fabricating a basic shooting board is easy as many have noted. But…….. I have had the chance to try out an original 51 and it’s awsome. I have first right of refusal on it...

Not Surprised! Good tools are flying off the shelf like crazy. I was lucky to get a boxed Stanley 45 a few years back. It was an English edition with a nice wooden box. I will need to be run over by a truck to get it.

Let me know what’s available!

I am not a fan of C260. Might as well make it out of copper. In principle I guess you could start with C260 and begin adding stuff to make a different alloy. I just don’t like how it works. I would rather work with stainless and it’s issues. I too am bothered by clones. But if you want to buy...

Colchester is an old English maker. They are amongst the finest lathes made. Precision Industrial to the max. In the states they are few and far between. Monarch is our top of the line lathe followed by LeBlond. There are other good makers but they tend to be rare or odd ball. American made the...

The Myford ML7 is a classic. What a wonderful lathe to do small work and model engineering. And that comes from someone with both a Hardinge and a Monarch 10EE. when my buddy and I first got the 10EE running, it was emitting a blue glow. The speed control uses a series of tubes including two...

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I agree with Derek. I have been a LN user for 30 years. I also like my vintage tools as they have a sole. You don’t own them… rather you add your bit to their story. And LN tools will add their story as we all pass on. I own a Kearney Treker 2CH slab mill milling machine. It was used by the...

I broke a Stanley block plane as kid by dropping it. You can question those on the know for a long time, it does not change things. Sometimes we have to work with grey iron. This is what grey iron can do. I can fix this but I won’t discuss how. To complex for this forum.I

] Short Term: Drop them and see what happens. long Term: blue up bottom with cobalt blue marker and check against a reference plate.

Wouldn’t the use of V11 also be overkill. The Luban/Juuma planes are using T1. According to the knife guys it’s not very good. Low toughness leads to chip out.

Warpage in vintage planes has been an issue. The worst area often around the throat. Iron sewerage pipe is ductile iron. Do you need ductile iron to channel terds down a pipe? None of the forged planes and steel planes ever won a following. The carbon in both grey and ductile give the plane less...

I found references on a few sites stating grey iron. they may have gained recent access to ductile iron. While cast steel exists it is much more expensive and difficult to pour. More metalurgy control and higher temperatures. It could have been a semi steel like Oliver once used but I am not...

Decades ago, several shops were involved in making guns for the military. The government made it clear that shops could borrow designs, ideas etc. if it was in the interest of making more guns. This spread machine tool technology around like butter. Eli Whitney was one of them and credited for...

I just researched the Juuma planes. It appears, from multiple internet sources, that the wood river planes, the juuma planes and the Luban planes are all made by the same factory in China. It’s also confirmed that the juuma planes and Luban planes use C260 to make the caps. That is neither here...

As mentioned manufacturing in China is a challenge. You get what you order and what you pay for. It’s all over the board. The Luban planes are sold with the Ryder, made to a British specification. England often had these. Engineering squares often specified a British specification even years...

Here is a stupid question. Is there a tie between Luban and Wood River? I know both originate from China. Woodcraft and Rockler are two large retail competitors in the USA. Years ago wood craft carried Bulldog. Bulldog made a nice cast iron router table top. Then almost overnight it was gone...