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As said, I agree with Mark. The grain on this particular slab of beech is pretty spectacular but it's going all over the place and unless it's really well conditioned to the environment where it'll finally stay, my guesstimation is that it's going to move. Were it me doing the job, I'd plane...

Agreed BB. I have severial of MrC's ground away pin types (actually it's a masonry nail) but none of then work as well as my cheap white oak Japanese marking gauge that my daughter got me for a Christmas present last year. In addition, the large area of the stock (wot rests against the wood)...

TC blades are only really useful if you're going to do a lot of planing of abrasive timbers...teak is the best example. If you're hand planing it, irons need to be honed every 5 minutes, which is a real chore, so you can imagine what the stuff will do to HSS planer knives. However, if you have...

DW, I don't think that stuff is zebrano, it looks more like some sort of rosewood to me or maybe cocobolo? - Rob

Looks interesting, but I hope that stuff is nice and dry as I can see problems looming if it t'ain't - Rob

Yep...which is why you need more than one marking gauge and if you buy these wheel marking things, it'll set you back a lot of wonga, so much better and lot less heavy on the pockets (and just as effective btw) to make your own. I currently have four over the bench so that as a critical...

This is one of the biggest problems for youngsters (with my D&T teachers hat on and 20 years at the chalk face). Small people (i.e. children) don't have big enough hands, or the physical strength to manipulate full sized adult tools and that's what almost all of them are, so it's going to be an...

...or a 10" bastard file (hammer)...or maybe an angle grinder would be easier. Need some goggles though (tap, tap) :lol: :lol: - Rob

...but what you didn't say Paul, is that it was the collectors special edition(s!) that you went for :-" :-" :lol: :lol: - Rob

At too shallow a honing angle, the edge will crumble, as the deep scratches on the sole of my LN block plane will attest to. An A2 blade needs to be honed to at least 33deg and possibly more...I know MrC hones his at 35deg - Rob

It's the 'pencil' issue you want to get hold of :wink: - Rob

You obviously don't read BW Jacob! :lol: - Rob

You mean: ...like this one? A few £'s from Penny Farthing Tools and then refurbed. Nice, but I never use it (and it's not for sale :mrgreen: ) - Rob

...or try it with a few grains of rice. I keep all my (wooden) biscuits in old sealed coffee jars with a scant handful of rice grains lobbed into the bottom - Rob

...and me :( - Rob

Has Nick Gibbs seen this :-" - Rob

Acetone (around a £1 from Lloyds the chemist) will also stick acrylic, acrylic to wood and I'd go for epoxy - Rob

Posted on the Haven a long time ago by Alf...still impressive though, but some of those Japanese planes (not necessarily the ones in the clips) will cost a lot more than £400, 'specially if it's one made by a master and it'll be set up to only plane one sort of timber - Rob

+1, good eating apparently - Rob

:lol: :lol: - Rob