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Another point of view: is it possible that LN & LV have targeted more the hobbyist end of things and Thomas Flinn (for example) has targeted more of those that make their living from tools?

Never handled a Clifton #4, but my Clifton #3 doesn't feel any different than my Bailey #3. Through the fall or winter months, I try to connect with you sometime when wife & daughter are at Ross Park Mall, & stop over, let you have a feel of it.

Funny thing is, here in the States, Clifton and Pax (not so much Thomas Flinn!) got mention-maybe not that much, but nonetheless mentioned. Clifton was referred to as a "modern Bedrock" styles plane and Pax just as a Sheffield saw source. I own more than a few LV & LN products, and my Clifton...

That is a disappointment as the prior Clifton iron (and to a bot of a lesser extent the "StaySet") was the plane! I can fly through quick touch ups on my #3 by popping the bottom portion of the the chip breaker off, hone and have everything back together pronto.

Passed on a Norton Queercreek stone this past weekend. Was fairly flat, but had a few nicks. Flea market guy wanted $40 for it, no case, and wouldn't budge to the $10 I offered. Have a smaller NOS Norton Queercreek in a box, with label, somewhere in my accumulation. Never have used one...

I agree Charlie! Seems after we build one, others see it and want the same of something similar. I have right in front of me, a "short legged side table" built in about a 24 hour period (over several days) for a wide screen TV, built after at least 3 other tables. This was about 6 or 8 years...

Dayam D.W. When we going to get a good washita thread going here? For me, I've been concentrating on my 3 Spyderco's since you were last on SMC, and my oilstones are now pretty lonely!

Nah! I'm in his area at least once a week, sometimes more (you UK guys got to remember we put the "horse & carriages" out to pasture at least a year or two ago over here in the "new world"!).

Dayam DW (for us Yanks, I keep thinking of NASCAR's Daryl Waltrip's use of DW as his screen initials), I just live up the road 80 or 90 miles and I have a Clifton #3 that is my favorite smoother. I also have several of the Clico 2 piece chipbreakers on other planes, as the design facilitates...

A PM from you would help: this forum is far less than a bunch of bloggers and more of a place of craftspeople.

Good seeing you over here "D W"! Saw your planes on another forum, top job! Now, are you going to get "G W" posting here also??????

Had to edit my earlier post to note that the saw Josh had for sale, is an open handled Disston. Another edit on my part, after thinking about the various items in my accumulation, I have an open handled Disston backsaw! It was made by Disston, stamped "Disston", built for the MF small miter...

Stewie, Josh Clark (Hyperkitten) had an open handled Disston backsaw for sale this past week. It is still shown on his website, if you scroll nearly to the bottom.

$400 USD? I have considerable expendable income, but I would balk at spending that amount (same as I stay away from Bridge City and many US "boutique" tools). The plane is simply beautiful, but the cherry, or walnut I work won't know the difference the Clifton or the old 60-1/2 or my LN 102 I use.

Here in the US, "The Best Things" still has "chairmaker bits" and spokeshaves.

Apologies! Should have read further down the list past #2!

Do you mean #2 instead of #6?

I would wager they studied sales numbers over the past few years and couldn't make their ROI on the number they would need to build to justify casting the body. I would be curious on how many were sold over the past year. But.......ya got to wonder if all of a sudden if a handful of brand...

One of my favorite saws is a 14 TPI Pax/Thomas Flinn. It is rip, but it cross cuts very well also! Very handsome saw, with brass back and walnut handle. Bought from "The Best Things", here in the States, for about $110 or so, and is a real bargain, compared to the "boutique" saws that cost 2...

I think Jacobs got it spot on-lifting is accidental and the workman knows not it happening. I'm also in Charlie's camp of flattening the first inch or so-go longer and the parts of the chisel not always on the stone come into play. Here in the states, there are a number of electric powered...