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    How flat is your bench, musings on thicknessing , techniques

    You can make a 'planing board' by planing the top surface of your bench flat, straight and out of wind. How flat, straight and out of wind? As accurate as the components you wish to make on it. For a luthier dealing with very thin, wide components, that could be 'straightedge' flat, because the...
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    How flat is your bench, musings on thicknessing , techniques

    Here's Paul Sellers making a laminated bench top. In the first video, he just cleans off any machine marks from the faces of the timber he's going to glue together, and glues up; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2ZiNs_Wek In the second, he planes flat the underside of the resulting laminated...
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    Ease edges on plane?

    I'm not sure that there's much evidence for tool handles being altered by owners in the past. Certainly, there are the odd exception around to prove the rule, but I can't recall ever having seen a tool that been altered. I've certainly owned some that probably should have been altered - but they...
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    Quangsheng plane blades

    Buying the DVD is a wise move, and also highly recommended would be buying a copy of 'The Essential Woodworker' by Robert Wearing (Classic Hand Tools website for a new copy from Lost Art Press, or search out a secondhand copy from Bookfinder.com or similar). On all the various tool steel types...
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    Need Block Plane - Your opinion please.

    A Hock blade? No, no, no! You need PM-V2435 at the VERY LEAST! Then you'll only need to sharpen it once a decade, and it will split atoms. (PS - You might have to flatten that plane's sole to 0.0000000001" to get the best out of the blade, though. You can do that with a piece of manky old...
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    Tips on accuracy with hand tools

    Develop a feel for when 'absolutely spot on' is necessary, and when 'near enough' is good enough. Keep the essential measuring and marking tools in tip-top condition. You don't actually need that many - two or three sizes (at most) of try square, a selection of marking and cutting gauges, a...
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    Did I miss something?

    Because if it's thicker, it's stiffer - less liable to flex in use. Actually, that's not quite such a problem with the shorter planes, but the longer ones - 5s and longer - do have some slight frexibility, and the longer they are, the more there is. It's not a lot - not so much that you notice...
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    Goodbye Bubinga

    Something positive may come of this trend. Certainly, we may lose supplies of tropical timbers, and pressure of demand on remaining supplies may push up cost. However, that may open up the possibility of commercial viability of managing domestic woodland for timber production, which in turn may...
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    Which Veritas plane do I buy?

    Really? That's a new one on me. Mines one of the earlier 3-in-1s, and it's a good one. There was a problem with some of the early bench planes. Clifton had made some commitments to supply in their very early years, particularly to sellers in the US. Just after that, the foundry they were using...
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    Which Veritas plane do I buy?

    Just a thought - a shooting plane is a big old lump (well, all right - big brand new lump!) which would make a pretty fair dent in an aircraft luggage allowance. If that is the choice, it might be diplomatic to offer some VERY fine hospitality! They're also available in the UK if the urge is...
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    Mirror Frame Construction.

    Joyce also has a section on mounting mirrors; pages 445-447. Nothing in Hooper and Wells, though. Joyce recommends letting the mirror into a rebate in the frame a little larger all round, and fixing it by pushing in softwood wedges between the side of the rebate and the glass, fixing the wedges...
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    Imperial size brass butt hinges

    A quick search on Ebay UK for 'vintage brass butt hinge' brought up quite a few sizes and types, mostly imperial. It should be possible to find something pretty close. Failing that, a complete re-hinge with the modern brass butts you've already found would be a bit of a faff, but would save the...
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    Regular Mortice Chisel or Bevel Edged for your Mortices

    There seems to have been a fashion recently for buying big tenon saws - 16" or 18". Just the job for big tenons on entrance door work and the like, but I suspect far to cumbersome for most furniture-sized tenons. Even a dovetail saw would do for the smaller ones. At school, we were taught and...
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    Record 044 skate

    Running a mortice gauge along the job two or three times, then using a chisel to take out a sliver of wood to leave a vee on each side of the groove before running the plough down it can help sever the fibres. Oak tends to be coarse-grained, so the initial vee might need to be deepened a bit...
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    Aldi chisel quality

    Yeah - and it's a salutory reminder that conforming to a defined standard doesn't necessarily mean fit for all intended purposes!
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    New square required!

    Hello, and welcome to the forum! One small point - the use of the word 'mils' confused me slightly. I read it as 'millimeters' to start with, but as that made no sense in this context, I googled it. Seems it's a commonly used US shorthand for 'thousandth of an inch' - which made much more...
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    Aldi chisel quality

    Yep. Deutsches Institut fur Normung - the German equivalent of the British Standards Institution. Edit to add - The BS equivalent is BS1943 of 1989, Woodworking Chisels and Gouges. https://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail ... 0000192892 I didn't even know we had a BS for wood chisels!
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    Mounting an irregular stone in plaster?

    It could well be that he meant stones of pretty much rectangular shape, rather than the older varieties with a flat top and 'beach-pebble' rounded undersides. Rectangular ones would hold themselves in their box much more readily than 'beach-pebble' ones, and the plaster would just caulk the...
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    Collector anonymous

    Indeed - pretty much. Fibreboard planes do indeed have a use. They can crop up in those 'What's it for?' articles having a photo of a ******* hook, 19th century mole trap or similar. They could be quite a good puzzle, because very few people found a use for them first time round!
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    Mounting an irregular stone in plaster?

    Just found this in 'Sharpening: The Complete Guide' by Jim Kingshott. It's on page 36. "Some stones are very fragile and are easily fractured. If these are mounted in a case properly, they will survive all the strains imposed by fair use. When making the case, the stone should be an easy fit in...
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