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Hello, I have a few old hollow and rounds I'm restoring and there are some cracks in the steel maybe 15mm from the cutting edge. I want to grind past the cracks and reshape the cutting edge. How far down does the laminated tool steel go on these irons ? Does it cover the entire rectangular...

Thanks for the replies, really informative and interesting. Only mortice chisels I've used have had parallel sides so great to get confirmation on the back to front and the top to bottom taper. Really pleased, as it looks a great tool. Not in the workshop now but fairly certain that it...

Hello, I’ve recently invested in a few old pigsticker mortice chisels. The blades are all trapezoidal in profile - wider at the back of the blade than at the front. Am I right in thinking this is the correct form for these? However, the largest of them – 15.5mm at the cutting edge, the one...

Thanks for all of the helpful replies. I have a starrett combination which is superb and a shinwa engineers square for checking, but wanted a large fixed square. I did give it a check when I got it, perhaps not as thorough as it should have been, and before I had the engineers square. It's...

Hello, I've only got round to putting an ECE 350mm Try Square which I bought 8 months ago into proper service and now realise it is out of square approx 0.5mm across it's length. They're listed as being accurate to +- 0.1 mm over the length of the blade. Should I try and return it, if...

Thanks for all the replies. Very helpful. I've also found the finer grits can tear easily Recipio, so I might check 'Sianet' out.

Hello, Is Mirka Abranet suitable for sanding between coats of varnish? And separately, when Bob Flexner and others talk about brushing several coats of shellac and sanding them back instead of filling with pumice, is the sanding dust worked into the pores somehow afterwards with the tampon and...

Will do 'flying haggis'. Thanks Phil. Good tips.

Hello, I’m looking to rewire a couple of old table lamps and a floor lamp. All brass / metal. The floor and newer table lamp have brass bayonet lamp holders with what I think is an earth terminal on the outside and two terminals inside. Am I correct in thinking that the earth goes into...

Thanks Nick. That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for. Excellent.

Hello, I’ve bought an 8” record RSBG8 grinder, but have now found that a 6” would suits my needs better by providing a slightly deeper hollow grind on chisels / plane blades, meaning less returns to the grinder. I understand I can put 6” wheels on this grinder (but it will invalidate...

Thanks for the links. I'll check them out. Any more from anyone else would be great. Maybe this thread could become a 'sticky'? No idea if that's the correct lingo. Including specialist antique forums ('ceramics', 'furniture') would be great. I'm sure there's plenty of retired dealers and...

Hello, Can anyone recommend any good dedicated antiques forums? A quick internet search has thrown up very little. Thanks

Thanks pidgeonpost. I've seen a similar one on amazon. Good to hear it's served you well.

Thanks Lazurus, I'll check it out.

Hello, I bought this grinder: Support for RSBG8 8" Bench Grinder with 40 mm White Stone new, about a year ago and am just setting it up. The tool rests seem very sloppy, and only clicks into preset angles, so I want to get another one (or two). Primarily for chisels, plane blades and gouges...

Cheers Andy, will do!

You're quite right. I was in fact trying to match the walnut as trim to 18mm BB ply and thought, as these were small lengths specified to the mm, that they'd arrive a little over if anything. Next jump up in thickness was quite a bit and didn't want to buy dimensioned stock only to dimension...

Sorry, to be clear this was bought as 1000MM X 45MM X 18MM (the walnut) and 1200mm x 70mm x 20mm (the oak and beech).

Hello, I ordered my first pieces of dimensioned timber from 2 timber suppliers. (I've only ever bought rough / PAO from builders providers & rough from timber suppliers before) Anyway, what was supposed to be 18mm thick is 17.6mm in one instance (walnut) and in others what should be 20mm is...