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As to which maker was more highly regarded, the answer is pretty well all Sheffield makers were regarded more or less equally. Bear in mind that Sheffield was a tangled web of large firms with some in-house capacity and some making sub-contracted, smaller companies ditto, and 'Little Mesters'...

That looks suspiciously clean for an 1840s unused chisel. I'd say if it was genuinely unused, it's more likely to be 20th century, or more likely, someone has done a nice cleaning up job on it. Out of interest, does the chisel side show the lamination jointline, or is it made from one piece of...

Did my weekly shop in Sainsbury's this morning. As usual, pass the time of day with the checkout staff. They talk to quite a few people, of course, given their job. The subject of compulsory face masks came up a lot, apparently - and those who already wore them (maybe 1 in 20, from observation)...

Abingdon King Dick. https://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/wrenche ... ches-24-10

You didn't say that? With respect, you did. Are the rumours of widespread abuse by senior politicians true? No, they aren't. There was a huge Scotland Yard operation (Operation Midland) investigating them, and in the end not only was there not a shred of evidence found to support them, but one...

So the law should apply equally, except when it's a bit inconvenient to apply it? We've already seen where that leads us in places like Rotherham, Rochdale and a whole host of others. Not a good situation.

Yes. They are different techniques to achieve different things, so not really comparable. The Tormek is a grinder, Scary Sharp is a honing method. Sharpening is a three stage process, not all of which are necessary at each sharpening. That's grinding, honing and polishing. Grinding is a way...

No, it isn't, assuming your comment means what I think it means. It's an expression of puzzlement and frustration that the minimum wage legislation is applied to some businesses, but seemingly not others. Do you think the Law of the Land should be selectively applied, or, as near as humanly...

Why doesn't that surprise me ... What happened to justice applying equally to all? Some, it seems, are more equal than others. But what are the authorities thinking? They must realise that this scandal will sooner or later blow up spectacularly in their faces?

It would seem that officialdom in the guise of councils and various government agencies have known all about it for several years, but done nothing much about it. I wonder who owns and operates those businesses?

Sterling was certainly "cold" and "hard" enough for Chinese businesses to take it in wheel-barrow loads. Sterling, dollars, euros, sea-shells - they don't care. If it's currency, they'll take it. Trump kicked off about China as soon as he came to office. A lot of the clever beggars in the media...

What did we give them in return? An awful lot of money. Cold, hard cash. Which they use to buy up critical bits of other people's countries. Ask yourself why. It's been made very easy to buy stuff from China, but if you own a Western business that wants to sell stuff in China, it's not made...

In other words, Roger, this is just another in a very long list of unpleasant, nasty, and in some cases terminal, diseases that nature throws at us. The difference with this one is that it's fairly new, and we're still learning about it. Given that we're still learning, I don't see how any...

Thanks, Andy. This book was on my shopping list, but as a result of your review, it's nudged it's way up a few places!

Another option which works well on end-grain rebates is to saw across, chisel out the bulk of the waste, and clean up either by paring or with a fine-mouthed shoulder plane. On long grain, mark out the rebate quite deeply with gauges, chisel the waste, and clean up with a shoulder plane...

If you want to keep things simple, use bearings with a large bearing area (larger shaft diameter than normal and long bearing length), a leaded bronze bush paired with a low carbon or medium carbon steel shaft, and a high viscosity lubricant such as grease or even a dry lubricant such as...

If there is a scientific consensus - and , frankly, I'm sceptical about that, judging by all I've seen and read about Covid19 - why was the wearing of facemasks, or face coverings of some sort, not made mandatory back in March/April when infection rates were on the rise and it looked like the...

Does seem more than a bit odd that the most likely time for a second wave to occur (if it does) is as winter sets in, but that the wearing of face masks - a measure to mitigate against the effects of a second wave - are imposed in the middle of summer, particularly as numbers of infections seem...

I rather have the feeling that there is an element of 'official over-correction' going on. In other words, having not really acted on warnings given a few years ago on the likelihood of a pandemic and how the country might cope with one, officialdom (politicians? scientists? advisors?) are now...

Some rummaging around the interwebs suggest that whilst Stanley still supply 2" replacement irons, they no longer supply 2 3/8" irons. However, Irwin Record do still supply both sizes, and an internet search for "Irwin Record Plane Iron" brings up several sources, though at greater cost than...