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The mariage of standard Stanley type blade and chipbreaker bends the blade away from the frog so it's floating whilst planing, The cutting load on the tip causes the blade to bend, pivoting about the heel of the bevel. This lets the blade dig in round difficult grain or a knot, for eg. You can...

Don't dismiss chipbreakers too soon - it's quite easy to fettle a LN chipbreaker with a 70 deg 'microbevel ' at the sharp end, and fit it 'thou' close to the blade edge. Been using a Clifton today with a 10 deg 'micro' back bevel, and the LN chipbreaker* setting does make a difference to tear...

Most houses in the USA are built like scout huts; softwood framing, 6" glasswool infill with gyproc on the inside face, and Tyvek on the outside. To keep the burgulars out this is then covered with solid "siding". Siding used to be old fashioned weatherboarding, but nowadays it's usually vinyl...

Compared to the price rises we've seen, LN has put up the US price very little. My sis in law in US sent me some chisels a few years ago ($50 each) and they're now $55. At 1.7 $ to £ thats £32.35 and plus our vat about 38 quid. I presume Ax thinks the pound is giong to fall a lot more yet!

If the blade chips in hard wood why not increase the sharpening angle 3 or 4 degrees till it doesn't? I takes a while to completely reshape the bevel on an A1 blade, but routine grinding only takes a couple of minutes on the wet wheel.

40 odd years ago in my youth black arkansas was the bees knees for final polish, but the best 'hard black' which was black colour all through was mined out, curent black stones are aparently mainly grey with black patches. A true black at auction would probably cost more than a student's car(!)...

One bag extractors (usally 1 to 1.5 hp) are really designed to be mobile and connect to one machine by a short length of flexible hose. True, soil pipe has less resistance to flow, but you'll probablty need the same bit of flex hose to connect the machine to the ducting. Thus your air flow will...

Also with big hands, I often stick my little finger out alongside the body, and keep the index wrapped round the handle. I'd seen folk handle the tiny No. 1 and 2 this way. Gives a bit more room for the skin at the base of the thumb, but does not feel quite so 'natural'. Also keeps the push a...

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Rapid temperature change is the worst culprit; tools are still cold and air is now warmer = condensation unless humidity is very low.

At the infeed end of the thichnesser there should be a big black wheel facing you, poking fron the green steel cabinet; this drives a 90 deg gearbox, which has a cog for the chain on the output. Chain tension is adjusted by moving the whole wheel/g.box in and out after slackening 2 bolts just...

Depends what you call 'close' and 'tight', I suspect. A setting of the cap iron of more than a handful of thou will have no effect on cutting quality. With the right angle on the chip breaker and settings of around 5 thou, you mimic the cutting geometry of a scraper plane, with the added...

I suspect writers who, after describing how to sharpen a plane blade for final finishing cuts, say "and if you want a proper job you can crown the cap iron to match", have not actually tried this. To show why, just tilt a 2p piece resting on the table - a crowned cap iron only touches the blade...

Our local office supply shop has an A1 printer/roll paper for 'hire' so I guess others would offer a similar service. However.... Have had several tries at producing various scales (for jigs) with TurboCAD, which are pretty accurate, but only stay so if you print them on (plastic) film...

explore this site for various training docs, including "ABC of spraying" http://www.itwifeuro.com/Training/Techn ... ok-ups.asp

If you were worried about oil, try camelia! I have used rapeseed oil for soaking guides (also a good cheap relacement for camelia oil, I get mine in Tesco)

That looks apalling! There were some significant price rises in the last catalogue - 10 to 15%, which surprised me as the pound has been high for some time (fell back a bit recently) Especially when you think that general inflation has been so low for years. Even now it's only creeping up to 5%...

My knives were set OK, so I tried for a reference setting for later use. (The jigs I'd seen before have a notch so they catch on the block exactly the same each time, but it's guesswork with these). As the knife holding magnet approached the knife you could see with the naked eye (let alone a...

There was some speculation about a certain knife setting jig recently, as it was on offer at what looked like an attractive price. I fell victim to temptation. Copied below are the comments I included when I sent it back A planer requires the blades setting at the same height, and at the same...

Looks like a harmonic vibration of the blade. Try another similar rip and look for a side to side (blade-twisting) vibration of the teeth, usually with a different sound. Blade ( ) ( ) looks like this from front (ie. teeth pinting towards you). The blade is resonating like a violin string...