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yes, that's something I recall from my time working with old guys when I was an apprentice, a measurement would be either 'scant' or 'good' to determine where to cut.

Phil, I occasionally wonder at the thought process of program designers who, as you say, subdivide metric measurements with imperial references... a similar thing occurred when sheet material manufacturers were transitioning from totally imperial to totally metric dimensions and there was a...

workbenches are subjective, what suits one person doesn't always suit another. Workshops I was in during and after serving my apprenticeship had traditional joiners benches so I tend to default to such things. A bench needs to be at the right height, sturdy so it doesn't move when planing for...

re measuring in metric or imperial... some time ago I took a break from writing about old motorcycles and instead did a short piece on my introduction to an alternative measuring system when I was an apprentice joiner in the 70s. The gist of it was the old lad teaching me used nothing more...

Hi Vann, just read this post, I too have a similar machine - a Wilson No 2 - of around that age, though it has 1902 cast into the weight. I did post a thing earlier, a request for information on it. Your machine seems to have the same idea for mounting the chisels in the carriage, my question...

Hi Andy, just catching up on the forum replies... the electric powered one you show looks rather like the old one in the workshop where I served my apprenticeship circa 1976,

Apologies if this is the wrong area of the site for a query about a wet grinder but... I have a Sealey combination wet and dry bench grinder. I've managed to break the cog - and lose the bits during a workshop clearout - which converts the drive from the dry spindle to the wet stone spindle. Has...

Andy, not a simple thing to answer, it is different to the hollow chisel and chain mortisers I've used in various workshops since I served my time. Boring out the bulk of the mortise with a brace and bit - 7/8th mortise = 3/4in bit - then cleaning up the mortise with the chisel went quite easy...

still learning the reply system here... all I have is most of a set of chisels and boring the bulk is down to my brace and bit...

OK, here's a pic a little closer

It is of interest and thankyou for replying. Sadly for me, in the way of dads and lads the world over, I didn't pay attention when dad was using this machine...it was old fashioned you see and not a patch on my hollow chisel version.

Good evening forum members, I guess I'm like most people here and have joined because I need some information. Aattached is a pic of my 1902 Wilson No2 patented centre motion mortice machine. What I'm after is a manual for said machine. It has been in the family for a considerable number of...