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Who's that at £25 ish a sheet? (presumably pack price?)

Haven't got time to go gathering oak galls... Even some recently published finishing books are rather 'eye of newt and wing of bat', but I have yet to find a supplier who stocks much more than Vandyke crystals, ferrous sulphate, and maybe 2 pack bleach. Where do Fred Oughton, Complete Manual of...

Tony, you must have bought your LNs early, well before the quality dropped off :shock: I have 3 LN bench planes bought in last 2 yrs and there is some daylight visible under the mounted, leverclamped blade on all 3; thus they now have 2 piece cap irons. The standard LN setup is functionally...

How's that for good service? A big thanks Nick, very reasonable price! I'll ring Axminster tomorrow (they sold me the machine).

It's true a better designed one piece cap iron like the LN does not bend the iron so much as the standard type. However, the sharp end of the cap iron must press down on the blade as the screw is tightened up, or it won't keep the shavings out. Ergo, the blade gets bent, in the LN case, a thou...

Wonderful!!! As you say, Tony, the devil's in the detail; thoughtful users have made their own corrections. Ideally we shouldn't have to, all about balance of features and price points I suppose.

I have one of the original Incra jigs with metric racks, and also a fence/Stop in metric. Very good at repeat positioning, but not full of absolute accuracy as advertised. For eg. a move of say 150mm nominal, can be accurately repeated, but won't be exactly the promised 150mm; this may or may...

Any iron screwed to a bent one piece cap iron, will itself bend as the screw is done up. A standard Stanley blade/cap iron screwed together will be somwhere around 20 thou away from straight. Clamping it to any style frog with a lever cap will not remove the bend. Only the top of the blade and...

But not yet on website. Rang up today to enquire as to progress, to find it is now ready, so presumably will soon be on website. Mine is now in the post, complete with 2 of the new ali fences. The l/h mitre box cheek attaches to the new fence via its (fence's)T slot, and provides a rigid...

I know what you mean (brush) but it works amazingly well. I now have a brush for the router table too!

I like my woodrat and would buy one again. Extremely versatile, a very clever device. Badly engineered? Not really, it is adequate for what it was designed to do, cabinetmaking. Trouble is it's so versatile, people want to extend it's use! Want to mill plastics or aluminium? add some digital...

If MG had produced his Woordat identical to the new all digital Routerboss, I wouldn't have bought one. Clever, yes, but I much prefer a non digital machine. I'm happy providing my own scales, but do consider the Nylon fences a mistake (so does MG, he's brought back Ali ones), and I do wish he'd...

Thicker irons work (look at a Japanese plane) because the stiffness of the blade is proportional to the cube of the thickness. A blade twice as thick has a bevel of double the length, but is 8x stiffer (2x2x2). Twice the bending moment from the longer bevel, but 8x stiffer, so deflects 1/4 less...

Personally I find it easier to add two 3mm thick approx 10x10mm slips* to the back of the cap iron. This also retains the sensitivity of adjustment which gets coarser if you lengthen the Y lever. If you're not into metal working, the slips of mild steel can be glued on with industrial superglue...

Nick, thanks for taking up my suggestion regarding a fence upgrade. That's very welcome! You may be right, and other Ali fences may also have been suspect, although this particular extrusion does have a design flaw, which was highlighted in Mark's original posts. However, I still bought the Jet...

I use a Maun for general purpose and cutting, I guess the 48" accurate to 0.01% has 4.8 thou error, perhps not quite enough for testing. Have a look at the link below, the "Vitual Catalogue" (they call it) page 116 there's DIN874/2 straight edges from 500 -2000mm from £33 to £173 which should...

I'm generally pleased with my 310 too. The fence looks worse than it is; at least it's quite rigid. It can be improved by some judicious use of plastic shimstock. Unfortunately I have the original "bent fence" which needs modification (or resetting according to the height of the stuff offered up...

Just got one, should be quieter than the router...Cleaned up nicely, but plating gone on both long fence rods, now a bit more than clearance fit. Anyone tried reaming out for 10mm silver steel? Blades in some 050's (with screw in rods) were held only by edge clamping between the mainstock and...

The Leaderene uses MDF with 3/8 roundover on all edges - actually 2 x12mm with 12mm strip centre - sort of very thin torsion box, so it's self supporting and 36mm total thickness. no catching complaints.

Re soft wheels waearing down quickly - you can get a harder bond which lasts longer but cuts hotter so you increase risk of overheating - it's your call.....