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Correction to my original post - Nash were located in Belbroughton, not Belborough. Belbroughton is a small village in Worcestershire, close to the hamlet of Bell End, and just a few miles south of Stourbridge - I can see why they used the well-known centre of iron-working on their catalogue...

On the question of how late they were making axes specifically, not sure. It seems their main business was scythe and agricultural edge-tool making, and they were located in Belborough in Worcestershire. Here's a couple of links that suggest their demise may have been - by the standards of these...

Cut the rebate as far as you can with the blade in the normal position, then pare out the remaining waste with chisels, or chisel a clearance for the front of the plane to run into. Alternatively, invest in a bullnose shoulder plane. For the amount of time the forward blade position on a rebate...

BSSM gives Joseph Haywood (& Co after 1868) as a maker of cutlery between the years 1841 and 1900, when the works was sold to Needham, Veall and Tyzack, with the trade marks going to Thomas Turner. The works was a fairly large one with 165 workers in 1881, but there is no record of there being a...

Before doing anything drastic with hammers, it might be worth putting the blade and cap-iron into the plane, and clamping them under the lever-cap, as in working condition. The lever cap pressure can be enough to bring the cap-iron into correct contact with the blade - some careful checking with...

Well, that's certainly unusual! 'Waster' was the term generally used in Sheffield for a reject or scrap product, and some were sold off at reduced prices (or, perhaps, 'escaped' from the works and changed hands for cash without too many questions being asked). It would be interesting to know...

Peterson isn't even close to 'alt-right', as anybody who had been paying any attention at all would know. He's not particularly political (his outlook is far deeper than that), but when pressed (as inevitably happens) he's aligned himself with an English classical liberal position. However -...

Blimey! Jordan Peterson gets everywhere, doesn't he! Mind you, he deserves to - and he did build some of his own furniture, so he's entitled to a mention on a woodworking forum. His original list of rules for life ran to about 40, and a bit of googling (other search engines are available) will...

For donkey's years, the 'go to' pin chuck (not to be confused with pin vices) was the Eclipse 160. Not cheap, but good. They're still available new - here's one example https://www.cromwell.co.uk/shop/hand-to ... CL5530049A and if you look for a second-hand one, make sure it has the additional...

Some woodworking tools - plough planes, for example - have several ancillary cutters and bits, and making a simple wooden box to keep them all together can be handy. Doesn't have to be fancy, but worth doing reasonably well - so an ideal simple but useful dovetailed box project. It could have a...

R.A.Salaman, in his 'Dictionary of Woodworking Tools', does not, as far as I can tell, use the term 'infill plane' at all. He does refer to 'metal mitre planes', 'metal panel and jointer planes' and 'metal smoothing planes of Spiers and Norris pattern'. Make of that what you will.

The fourth photo shows seven gouges. The top two, out-cannel firmer gouges, are old - early to mid 19th century (which is why they're shorter than the others - more of them has been sharpened away). The third is mid 20th century. The fourth is an incannel scribing gouge, early to mid 20th...

Mike was complaining about people being pressurised to buy stuff - speifically, tools he considers that they could make for themselves or that make jobs (in his opinion) more complex than they already are. I was pointing out that there is very little pressure selling in the woodwork world, and...

If you're skilled and experienced, you could indeed make stuff like the Barron guide in five minutes flat (well - maybe fifteen). If you're a newcomer and not yet built the skill and confidence, maybe not so much. 'Available to buy' is not the same as ' must buy'. There's very little pressure...

About a century and a half ago, Marples used to make Ultimatum brass and ebony braces. Totally unnecessary and over-the-top. Very collectable now, and good ones change hands for very tidy prices. There's a very long history of 'posh' tools. Whether you decide to invest or not is, of course...

Earlier in the thread, someone asked what the magnet was for in the Barron dovetail guide, and I suggested (a little tongue-in-cheek) that it was for winding Jacob up. Here's the proof that it works! Look fellas, there are more ways than one to saw a dovetail. Training aids, guides, call 'em...

It's for winding Jacob up.

1) Probably not. Plough planes looked pretty much the same from just about all the big (and small) makers. Without doing a very detailed survey of a wide sample of planes I suspect it would be extremely difficult to tell one maker from another except by their stamp. 2) Yes. BPM2 gives dates for...

Not much doubt that the first 'proper' woodworking tool was the axe; stone ones to start with, metal ones later. There was also it's sideways brother, the adze. Chisels are a fairly simple development of the axe - a refined shape, perhaps, but same sort of idea. Then came saws, some time in the...

I'm with Phil - if you really want the end of the blade to be spot on 45 degrees, a little bit of careful work with a file and constant checking against a reference will give you that. You could do the same to the ends of the stock, too. Then you'll KNOW how accurate the tool is, and where.