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My green Clifton #3, at least twenty years old, is my favorite smoother. The two-piece chipbreaker works nicely for me after I cleaned it well and put a bead of silicone in the groove to both hold it together and give it a bit of flex. I have no issues with the O1 blade, for the type of wood I...

Use whatever at hand and if it works for you, great! Decades ago, I bought a burnisher, UK made, that had the shaft plated. Worked out, until edge of the card scratched through the plating, making it worthless. point is, don’t use a screwdriver that has a plated shaft. I also used M1...

Would not have harmed the grade of carbide I used. Some of the lesser materials, it might. For fun, if you have a plane blade sharpened straight, try using that as a scraper, as an experiment. Using scrapers is a prime example of overthinking a simple process: you find what works and you...

Not oil filled, and we no longer use these style of mold pins. If I find a piece laying around, I'll ping you. T

With burnishing, polished and “the right touch” are the key. Years ago, I heard/read it described as the same pressure as buttering bread. Dear old departed Dad could take a file, grind it square and pull up curlies. I’ve taken a sharp chisel, and pulled it (standing straight up) as a...

Well over a dozen or more years ago, when I was active on the "Old Tools List" (email), I sent out polished carbide pins from my manufacturing plant, across the globe by request of the recipients. I did this at no cost, for the carbide or postage, as this is what we did on the "old tools list"...

I love these threads! In the States, you’ll find people idolized because they have made themselves an internet personality, with fanboys flocking to them, deserved or not. George Wilson is a bonifide craftsman, but he didn’t suffer any fools. There is much at Colonial Williamsburg directly...

I will take you up on that one of these days! My powder metal plant (Metaltech, Inc.) is 85 miles from you, and your welcome anytime.

This thread should not go under! Lots of good info and things to try! i forgot the most important word!

I have a large LN and a Preston, that's about 7/16". The Preston is a joy to use and just feels great in the hand. The large LN is a fine plane and even for the size & weight, it is not bad at all, but that Preston is perfection, at least in my eye.

But what does Sellers use to sharpen his chisel? Maybe it was done out of square? What jig did he use? Was his stone dished? Was his stone flat? I’m very bewildered!

We’ve all succumbed to being influenced by internet celebs, YouTubers, magazine personalities and worse, the vocal fanbois who worship those goomers. First symptom is continuing to speak of what the rabble put forth. Full infection is practicing it!

Here in my part of Pennsyltucky (rural), in the late 60’s, one shop class at the public school built muzzleloaders (I went to a parochial school). pocketknives were common, as were shotguns or rimfire rifles in cars, for hunting after school.

Absolutely love these sharpening threads-if anything, they teach us there are many ways to achieve our goals, with none right and none wrong. As I posted long ago in this thread, my sharpening began on a powered belt sander, with rounded bevels. Next (weeks/months/maybe years?) I began to...

I have the LN version and it’s a lovely plane, but hardly used. For cherry, it is superbly suited in aiding the user to get deeper shades of red on your work.

Back in the late 80’s, helped dear old departed dad (18 years today) refinish a large hardwood floor. He had a wheeled floor sander and the smaller hand held, but there remained spots that the sanders could not reach. He took the largest file he had in his tool box and ground an edge on the...

Wife bought me a green #3 about 20 years ago. It is my favorite smoother and a thing of beauty. Fit & finish is top notch. The blade is equally great for the types of wood I work (mainly cherry, some walnut & white oak). I've never seen a black one in person.

Put a $122.00 price tag on it, you have a whole covey of fan-bois. You can beat dovetail joints into submission and never leave a mark. I made my HF look just like it. Wood doesn’t care what I dent it with! One of the dealers west of GB on Route 30 shut down (pandemic victim). One still...

The fan-bois bloggers strike again! They also say that the Harbor Freight engineer's hammer will not work the same as the lump hammer, even if ground/sanded to the same shape, with a hand-hewn handle.

Lump hammer? Ain‘t that the current fan-bois flavor of the month being pushed in the states? Only $100.00+! Anyhow, star drills are very efficient. I was taught how to use one 40 or 50 years ago: strike, then rotate.