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There’s as many techniques to dovetailing as there are to….wait for it: sharpening! There is a trick to each - sample a couple of methods, then pick one and stick to. Then practice! Practice a lot! Finally when you think you’re really good and patting yerself on the back, go try to cut a...

We have idiosyncrasies, likes and dislikes, opinions and so forth. We tout loudly that which works for our subjectives ways of holding/using tools. To me, MF planes are beyond superb! When wood sees my reaching for MF smoother, why sub .001” shavings just jump off the timber before the sole...

I’ve been searching high and low for a 15 (5-1/2 size) but no luck to date. Though they are “collector items”, the MF “Buck Rodgers” planes are superb!

Watch your house beagle around your hide glue pot!

Let me re-phrase that: the frog is mostly bedding surface. In the US much is made about the Bedrock frog surface versus laterBailey frogs (changed around Type 11, 12 or 13, as parts were used). Depending how far forward the frog seats, either the end of the iron flops around in the wind, or...

What other metallic tool brands offer performance equal to, or superior to the Bailey or Bedrock design? In the US, I much prefer Millers Falls, w/2 piece lever cap, full frog bedding. How about the UK?

K-M will have his fanbois. He’ll do a couple of woodworking shows, then be able to sell common card scrapers with long sides ground in a curve for $24.99 USD. LV is an innovator and their tools are still fairly competitive in price. Woodpecker also produces a few unique and interesting...

The router plane looks like a copy of LV's casting. I've never had an issue that requiring the fiddling around that the Katz-Moses appears to have with the shiny, brass knobs. To me, this plane is aimed at those looking to enlist as fanbois for a YouTuber.

Could it be another modern day solution looking for a problem? (The modern lump hammer)

Maybe those that need a 2-1/2 pound lump hammer need to sharpen their chisels a bit?

Back to lump hammers? Dayam, next thing you know everyone on this site will be getting tattoos, dressing like chair bodgers from the 19th century and telling jokes about bodily functions. Lump hammers (popularized by a current personality that makes them), have a polished 2-1/2 pound head...

Quite hard is an understatement for the mallet I bought: it dented white oak, without an overly aggressive swing!

I want to clarify the rawhide mallet I bought - it seems to have been coated/finished with something like a very hard poly. I have used it, but the finish refuses to give and/or breakdown to vintage rawhide I’ve seen. T

I have a new(ish) rawhide mallet (Garland) that is too hard for assembling, but OK for chisels. Seems it was treated with some sort of finish, making it way to hard. I use an Estwing hammer, one side faced with a nylon tip and the other with soft rubber - love this tool!

I own one hard tooth saw, bought for outdoors. I don’t use it, as my Disstons do a better job, and quite easy to keep in tip top shape!

I hate to admit (because I used A2!), but I made a few marking knives in a similar style. Gave them all away to others on the “Old Tool list”. Have to look to see if I have one laying around. If so, I post a pic.

Really like the chisel style and bolster, David!

Presenting a “new surface”? In my vintage stone accumulation, I find the best stones are those that have been used and otherwise broken in. I really have no exotic steels, other than one PMV-11 chisel. Mostly O1 and W1, so it’s either oilstones or Spyderco ceramics. However, I do like...

How much “dishing” does it have?

I bought mine way before 2008 and I recall a close-out caused by forum rumors. Might have something like “Woodworkers Warehouse”. Plane was lovely and much less than a LN. In my accumulation, I have many, many dozens of planes, antiques, vintage and modern. Of that number, there might be 5...