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The photo doesn't show all the details, but I think it's a dado plane, used to sink cross-grain housings or dados. The nicker iron should have two cutting edges, very slightly wider than the narrow part of the sole and the iron, and that obviously is the width of the groove cut. The depth stop...

Made by Smith Francis Tools in Birmingham, along with Williams Superslim and Snail Brand spanners, among other things; Smith Francis Tools - Manufacturers of Priory Tools Abingdon King Dick also still make spanners and other engineering tools in Birmingham; King Dick Tools

Another one to add to the list; Broadbent Stanley make heavy duty lathes in Halifax. They also took over the Parkson range of heavy milling machines. Broadbent Stanley Machine Tools Ltd: Manufacturers & Suppliers of Lathes

You may care to read the last paragraph of my second comment on this thread. It's pretty obvious that once the UK has left the EU and the Transitional period has ended, we trade with EU countries in the same way we trade with any other country, and as the subject of import duties and other...

By 'we' I meant the UK generally. However, more specifically, there are people on this forum and elsewhere that have in the past bought woody stuff from the USA, Canada, and probably Japan. Maybe elsewhere, too. So it's not new. As for the rest of your comment - don't really see what you're...

125mm (5") is a bit of an unusual size, but Ab Tec do 'em; 125 mm Diameter Grinding Wheels | Abtec4Abrasives Most smaller grinding wheels have a 31.75mm bore, so you'll need a handful of reducing bushes as well; Grinding wheel reducing bushes / Abtec4Abrasives

All right. Consider this - the trade deal negotiated between the EU and the UK was agreed on 24 December 2020. That gave no time for the relevant Civil Services either side of the Channel to formulate guidance to businesses, still less for businesses to find out what the new rules were or...

I understand that some people have strong feelings about Brexit and it's ramifications, but could we keep political threads in the Off Topic section, and the rest of the forum politics free please? There are already at least two threads running in the Off Topic section on post-Brexit trade...

It is best to avoid open-grained woods, because tiny bits of food get stuck in the open pores however well you scrub the board. Traditional woods for food contact are maple (end-grain for butcher's blocks) and sycamore, which was used in dairies for cheese racks and the like. My kitchen...

Does sound plausible - and as a method it would have another advantage, too. Just about every video I've seen of factory tool makers fitting axe, hammer and similar handles has shown them using either a purpose-made rig or a press of some kind to force the (marginally oversize) handle into the...

You'll know this anyway, Marcros, but just mentioning it for anyone that may not be aware; when an axe or hatchet head needs a new handle, leave the new handle or stock for making one somewhere warm and dry for as long as you can manage (at least a week or two), so the timber dries and shrinks...

In various activities, I've used all sorts of grinder; high speed bench, huge 14" floor standing power grinders, wet grinders, surface grinders, you name it. However, my favourite for woodworking tools is an old hand-cranked grinder I inherited from my grandfather. Quiet, no stress, slower than...

What on earth for? He never got embroiled in the political threads, and I can't recall him being anything other than helpful, fair and polite to everyone. I miss his contribution, especially his historical knowledge. Big loss to the forum.

It's going back a bit, but 'Dallas' was quite entertaining in it's time. UK TV hit a high-water mark with 'All Creatures Great and Small', various Dave Allen series, and 'Yes Minister'. It's gone a bit downhill since then, with an honourable exception for 'Time Team'. In fact, it became so...

Don't see why, Derek. You're not undercutting the side of the pin, just into the back wall of the socket. Granted, you'd have to work cautiously with pins that fine, though.

Respectfully suggest you watch the video. It shows official observers being told that counting was ceasing, and leaving. After they'd left, counting continued, and suitcases of ballots were taken out from under tables and counted. Doesn't matter that it's the Epoch Times (which I've never...

Ooo - thanks! I now know of four methods!

Video evidence of vote fraud (it's long, but it seems pretty conclusive to me). Probably only a few hundred or low thousand votes, but this is just one instance; Georgia Video Footage Shows Poll Workers Staying Behind, Producing Boxes of Ballots (theepochtimes.com)

I know of three methods - and there may well be others! A pair of skew chisels (any old narrow chisels ground off at about 10 degrees instead of straight across at the business end). A fishtail chisel. Just using an ordinary narrow chisel to clean out the waste right into the corner...

No wool pulled over my eyes. At no point have I suggested "the election was stolen" or any other of the various slogans and tropes trotted out. There was evidence of fraud. There's always fraud. (There is in UK elections, too - hence the need to re-arrange postal voting provision a few years...