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Another approach is to make a bush for the wheel bore. Take a piece of hardwood, and in the endgrain drill a hole that will just clear the spindle - nice, sliding fit is ideal, but definitely not a tight one. Then place the grinding wheel over it, centring the bore nicely over the spindle...

Well, speaking of Normans, I'm with Andy Kev on that one. Nasty lot, them Normans. Especially oop north, what with all that harrying, burning and pillaging. Even dahn sarf they just plonked their mottes and baileys right where the locals were living, in complete contravention of established...

Ah - proper Anglo-Saxon. Now that's language I understand, though that is admittedly because I've been on the receiving end of it from time to time. I'm really glad I started this thread, now. It's veered off in directions I wouldn't have anticipated in a hundred years, but I've learned loads...

I've just looked a bit more closely at the pictures - the fence is on the wrong side of the body! It should be on the left, looking from the heel of the plane. Swapping that around might just ease things in the adjustment department.

Thee and me both, Novo....

Fence adjustment - loosen the wedges holding the fence arms before gross adjustment, tap wedges to just grip for final adjustment, and then seat tight with a final tap. If the fence arms are still tight with the wedges fully loose, dissemble and clean. Depth stop has two knobs, one on the top...

Fascinating stuff. Picking up Droogs' point about the Danelaw, it certainly changed how people spoke, and you can still see that in place names (-thwaite, for example, rather than the Anglo-Saxon -ton) and such words as 'fell' for hill and 'beck' for brook. Given that Sheffield has been a...

Wow - thanks chaps! Thus, the word 'cannel' may come from a regional dialect, middle English, old French, old Germanic, Scots or Latin - or each of the aforesaid may have borrowed from those previous. I suppose blaming the Romans is as safe a bet as any (until someone comes up with a Greek word...

Here you go, Mike; http://www.henrytaylortools.co.uk/wwchisel.html

We all know about in-cannel and out-cannel gouges, but why the word 'cannel'? Wossit mean, and why is it used for gouges? My Concise Oxford dictionary isn't very helpful; the entry for 'cannel' describes it as a bituminous type of coal which burns with a bright flame. Interesting, but can't see...

On woodworking courses for beginners in Cheshire, this might be worth looking at; http://cheshirewoodworking.co.uk/cheshi ... g-courses/ On 'fettling' secondhand planes - don't take too much notice of the old f-- , er, hands who've fettled dozens of planes when they say it can be done in...

There's a good case to be made for setting out a large scale sectional drawing through the centre of the tool, showing the body and cutter. That way, the relationship between blade cross-sectional shape (and thus sharpening strategy), how it interacts with the workpiece, and the escape for the...

The horns serve to position your hand where it should be on the handle, and the lower horn acts as a brace against which the web of the hand can bear when starting, and you're supporting the weight of the saw to just stroke the tips of the teeth against the work. Once you're into the cut and...

Ah - the sweet taste of success! That's quite an elegant shade of green, and easy on the eye. Better than lime or flourescent, anyway. Must admit, I'm rather fond of Record blue, but your vice, your rules, so fair do's. That should do the job just grand, and looks the part too. Glad you...

In a word - no. Is there anything for under £20 which would be OK once stripped, rebuilt to the point of re-machining castings, replacing components, and treated to all the plane tune-up tricks such as sole lapping once re-assembled? Yes - but as you haven't time to waste looking for something...

The old irons are made from straight carbon steel, and whilst some were not tempered back as much as others, they were all tempered enough to loose the brittleness of hardening - enough, at any rate, to give good service in their intended duty. It might be a wee bit harder than some straight...

Should be something suitable here; https://www.abtec4abrasives.com/bench-a ... -438-c.asp

You rest the back of whatever you're grinding on the toolrest, and the bevel on the wheel, and hold it in place with one hand, then crank with the other. Move the job side to side a bit to even up the grind. It's that simple. Judge bevel angles by eye, or make a simple bevel gauge by marking...

* sigh* Another one bites the dust! Shame, they were a good little business - but thanks for the info, Phil.

Correction to my previous post - according to this link http://record-plane-reviews.co.uk/recor ... o-cs88.php the CS88 was only made for a very short time, 1988 to 1990 - so it didn't make anything close to a decade! It's demise may well have preceded LN's arrival by a few years. Katellwood...