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So someone else could get the chop!!!

These any good - Levelling Castors

This always sounds like a good idea until you try it!! The problem is that, apart from the hidden debris, you have no idea what hidden stresses you may be unleashing as you cut it and you don't know what the moisture profile across it is. You may be lucky or you may end up with a pile of useless...

Like it or not, what they have created IS good at what it does - it's a highly efficient platform that feeds the addicted. Nobody is forced to use it though! I'm not defending their actions but none of what they do with their tax affairs is illegal - there's only one remedy to that and our...

This is the paradox - everything I've learned....and 300 years of history :) There's obviously more to learn. The limited number of planes I've come across have all been in very good shape, for their age, with no sign of distortion which I would almost expect to find. Based on hardness, grain...

Good luck with it - be nice to see the finished articles.

Is there an Axminster near you - always best to go have a look?

I think that's a translation issue??

Here is a pdf on the use of Olio Pagliorino

You'll probably find supply issues with all machinery at the moment?

Thanks Andy. If they were being made today I don't think beech would be the wood of choice? Saying that, I think most of the problems we face with wood today is because of our desire for comfort in our homes so if the wood was properly seasoned it probably was (reasonably) stable in daily use -...

Have a look at Axminster Tools

Any drying oil would do.

No, it's the opposite - T/R for beech is over 2 - in a stable wood, the T/R ratio is nearer 1+

That's interesting to know. Do you have any more information on their understanding of seasoning (which probably differs form ours?)

Never heard of it till now but did find this supplier in Italy Straw Oil It looks to be their equivalent to our Danish Oil ??

I'm wondering if they were made as a (semi) disposable item?

Next time it happens you can use the guides I posted and identify the frass - and the beetle?

I'm curious because we know beech is very prone to movement and yet it seems to have been the wood of choice for what would be considered a 'precision' (in the broad sense) instrument. Japan has copious quantities of beech but all their planes are made of oak which seems a better choice?

Glad it worked out.