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Yep, when you have the right name, Google finds things very easily, doesn't it?! Here's the relevant page from the 1908 Tyzack catalogue: There must've been a few coachmakers still making coaches for horses in 1908, but their time was getting perilously close! The trade continued for another...

???? Adrian, unless the pictures you posted have turned upside down or something crossing the equator, that looks like a pretty standard inclination of the bed. I wouldn't take too much notice of the blade, it's so worn I would not know which way to put it, but a new blade with a standard...

Orright, Adam, this is all your fault.... ;) I thought I had a chunk of mahogany, but couldn't find it (you would not be surprised by that if you saw the current state of my wood stash!). But I found this chunk of "scented rosewood" (Dysoxylum fraserinum), cut from the decaying remains of an...

I certainly didn't mean to bag cabinetmakers for tarting up their tool boxes, hlvd! I'm as susceptible as anyone when it comes to blinged tools. In my case it's not even to impress potential customers, just pure self-gratification..... 😔 Cheers,

Now you've started something, Adam! Until this thread, I've always had & seen rather plain stone boxes, but they are certainly another avenue for those as likes to tart the old toolbox up a bit. I have to confess, I'm definitely in that camp, so can't understand why I haven't made a fancy stone...

I have a hard white Arkansas stone that was given to me by an old antique dealer - he threw it in with some chairs I bought from him. According to the A_D, it was owned by a doctor & used for sharpening his scalpels, which had some appeal to me, being a pathologist (veterinary) ...

Well, I've made enough saws & handles for other people to respect the difference of opinion when it comes to what suits us - there sure is no one size/shape/hang angle that suits all! There are many as loves the Gramercy & some as hates it. I just happen to be in the latter group. When I...

OK Steve - you have any number of good reasons for getting to grips with your moulding planes! :) Now I realise what you are wanting to do, yep, moulding planes are definitely the way to go. As usual, I jumped to conclusions & imagined you wanting to make stuff for furniture ('cos that's all...

Steve, I can't figure out what you are showing in that pic - either the wedge is in back-to-front or you've got the blade in the front of the mouth? In any case, my experience is the same as @heimlaga's, I've seen plenty of dado & rabbet planes with skewed beds, but not moulding planes. When a...

Chamfering planes are hardly modern, unless you consider anything from the last several hundred years 'modern'. :) While a plane that does nothing but make chamfers may seem a bit frivolous for the average weekend wood warrior I think I'd take a different view if I had to make miles of precise...

Actually, Tom, the plane I use most for easing edges is my "English thumb plane". Before I made that I used a Veritas "apron plane", but the new plane is just so much nicer to hold, & the poor little Veritas has been made redundant. Neither has a cap-iron, being low-angle BU jobbies: But I...

Toolboxes only come in one size, it seems - too small! When I built my toobox-to-last-forever 25 years ago, I thought I owned all the woodworking tools I was ever going to need, but just in case, I left plenty of room for future expansion. It wasn't many years before it was overflowing. I...

mccpe, I've been a steel rule devotee for many decades. When I started woodwork in grade 7, at the ripe age of 12, we each had to have a 2 foot folding boxwood rule. Out of habit, I used that rule for many years, but one day, for some reason, I picked up a steel engineers' rule & measuring...

Stanley was far from first - there were numerous patents taken out for iron planes before Bailey patented what we now know as a Bailey plane, in 1867. (Well it was close, the production model differed from the patented model by having the depth-adjuster thumbwheel on a horizontal stud instead...

You'll get over that before long! If there's one thing that's certain, it will only stay pristine if you don't use it, which rather defeats the purpose of all that hard work.... :) My own bench was largely hand-built too. I did mill the major timbers using 'lecktrickery, but all the joinery &...

A very useful bit of information, Jacob, ta for that. I don't have a problem, having a small metal lathe & plenty of brass scraps, I can make a suitable washer any thickness required, but very handy to be able to tell others where to get them! Yebbut, why did it need 'flattening" in the first...

By "post" I assume you mean the stud? Indeed, this is a bit of a fetish of mine because I'm convinced leaving the stud loose is an invitation for the handle/tote to split. My thesis is that the stud pre-tensions the wood and supports all that weak cross-grain of the grip. After broken-off...

Yes they did,Dan, and also long, thin paring chisels. The latter are only circulating in very small numbers compared with the bench chisels, the common sizes of which still pop up regularly (though mostly the tanged variety, as I mentioned). But after nearly 50 years, the pool is definitely...

OK, if you insist.... ;) For those who don't know, Titan was a short-lived Australian firm that made tools here from the end of WW2 'til they were bought out by Stanley & ceased to exist by that name in the 70s. Their chisels were of good quality, perhaps not the best in the world, but...

I'd say extremely unlikely to be for any surgical purpose! For a start, the thing is not very clean-able - that didn't bother folks much before Lister & "Sterile" surgery", but this would be roughly contemporaneous with the beginning of that era, Why I doubt any surgical connection is...