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I love these things! Have you thought about adding a rubbing strip down the keel line? I've seen so many damaged canoes and kayaks that would have been at least partly saved by having a rubbing strip.

Well, seeing as it has caused so much interest (.....rolling eyes emoticon here...), I'll back up what I said previously on the matter of so-called sharpening of files with acid. Some while ago I took all of my gunky and rusty old files and soaked them in vinegar for 24 hours, then brushed off...

A gap would work, but I was meaning an overhang.

The numbers are looking good this year, I reckon. Especially for September, when the thought of christmas hasn't crossed anyone's mind.

You also see it on plain tile rooves, and slate. I don't think anyone knows why the detail arose in the first place, but I've always thought that it was because it's just quicker and easier than pointing up the verge. Kidneycutter's version is a cut above the average, with a fall planed into...

Cheap white glue from Homebase gives you at least 20 minutes open time, plus a bit more time to nudge things around. If there is any complexity in a glue up I wouldn't use anything else (on internal jobs).

You pretty much have to do that with any straight-knife machine, depending on what you consider an acceptable finish.

Ta-ta. I don't need your sarcasm. Enjoy the forum without any interaction with me. 27 posts in and you're making enemies, so you might want to have a little think about your posting style. Oh, and this? Apart from you misrepresenting what I said, I covered that:

Yes, that's what I do, and no, it's quick enough. Twelve or 15 strokes on 2 plates. I've never heard of him. Why the sarcasm?

That's posh, that is! Now and again I'll screw two appropriately placed cross pieces to a batten, and just bash a wedge in to do up the "clamp".

Well done Peter.

I'm not sure you're taking this seriously.

Scraper-plane. Not a cabinet scraper, or a card scraper.

I have a scraper plane ground to 45 degrees.

That's the same internet where you can read eye witness accounts of encounters with aliens, bigfoot and Nessie. Approach stuff you read on the internet, including this, with caution. It's a bit of a mugs game to trade off one "heard it on the internet" notion against another. I picked out the...

Yep, let me clarify. 25 degrees is standard for chisels and planes for a primary bevel. However, if you vary from that, then with chisels you should go towards a slimmer primary (DW posted an in depth study of this a few weeks ago, and it coincided with what I had always done before I joined a...

Ooooh, hang on. Chisels you should go the other way........from 25 down to 20 degrees. That advice (30 degrees) was for planes only.

It works, but not in the way claimed. What it actually does is remove grime and surface rust, properly exposing the (otherwise unchanged) teeth to the work for the first time in yonks. It's well worth doing, and the effect is the same as if the teeth had been sharpened...but they haven't been.

Don't do it all at once. Work up a degree or so at a time, each time you re-grind your blades. So much good tool steel is wasted in the search for the "perfect" angle.

Your fault for living on the wrong side of the Tamar! :)