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A carbon steel steel scraper or a HSS one? I wouldn't even think to try to burnish a HSS steel scraper.

Useful for making marking gauges.

Theory and practice are the same in theory but different in practice.

Curiously, so am I. Half a block to the left dead on the centre line.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as it is the same as yours. Ftfy. :LOL:

he's not been here for a year, you might not get an answer. :)

https://www.politicalcompass.org/ Is quite interesting if you've never done it before.

They all make money somewhere - be aware that for every really good deal you see there'll be be bummer somewhere else.

Strangely, I have several good squares - M&W, Starrett - but only one is marked with a B.S. number. I paid £2 for it at a market, it's a Draper. :)

I feel sorry for the USA having the choice of those two. Not as sorry as I felt for us having the choice of our two, though.

It woud be akin to using masonry tools to work wood or woodworking tools to work stone.

I seem to remember reading that the vast majority of them are servicemen or diplomatic employees.

I'm thinking to make something like an extended version of a bottle opener. They don't look bad, but I'd rather have larger wheels.

Usually any product with "Professional" in the advertising. :LOL:

About 35 years ago I hurt my foot badly, my ankle seized solid for several weeks. I had a plastercast for a while and had to split some jeans to go over it. I was paying about £50 a pair for 501s at the time and two pairs for tenner for unbranded jeans at the market for work. I nicked the...

I hang a sign on mine when I've moved the headstock. Either do that or never put it back in line without checking it.

The rot started many years ago when merchants (especially builders' merchants around here) decided it was more economic not to carry stock. We'd go to buy something only to be told we can get it in a week Thursday or whatever. We could easily waste a few working hours going from merchant to...