G'day Matt,
Have a look at the Lee valley "Corrision-inhibiting Storage Bags" or Lie-Nielson for "Ferro-Pak" either by itself or in the tool care kit. With that LN tool care kit...
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G'day Matt,
Have a look at the Lee valley "Corrision-inhibiting Storage Bags" or Lie-Nielson for "Ferro-Pak" either by itself or in the tool care kit. With that LN tool care kit...
Derek,
Cool tool. Seems to me to be an original idea so shouldn't you patent the thing before some mongrel does? Or is it a case of nothing new in woodworking?
Thanks, Geoff.
PS sorry...
The last aid (extreme right), is a "chisel" of sorts. It is a flat blade I made out of a steel trowel, harder than my wife's cookies, as thick as a saw kerf, which is used to hammer into the kerf on...
I missed one of the photos
Hello Ken,
I got fed up with using the wrong end of the marker so I made one marker for the different ratios 1:6 1:7 1:8 and 90degrees out of a beech offcut. This offcut was...
Scott,
Whenever I take receipt of any delivery, sign for any work done on my car after an accident, my belongings from Australia via the movers, postal deliveries... anything that needs to...
Hello,
I think you will find that this technique originated with Brian Boggs - FineWoodworking Tools & Shops 2007. You can also do this with the blade of a chisel plane to get into tight...
Hello Jerry,
Does your medallion look something like this one on a Disston number 8 of mine? With reference to the DI it would appear this is about 1845 from the handle shape and...
G'day Jonathan,
Rob points out in his DVD "Draw Making - the Professional Approach" a 'trick' that didn't make the dovetail DVDs. He uses a 140 skew block plane to form a very...
Hello Clinton,
I always knew Australian red cedar as "Toona australis" as well but you know how the scientist's like to change names and confuse us. "Carwellia sublimis" is the one...
Hello Ken - very very nice tables. I was wondering about your proportions especially the placement of the shelf - what were your design criteria for this?
Once again excellent work- hope you have...
Hello Greg,
A 'lateral' thought may be for you to purchase Rob Cosmans DVD "Mastering the Dovetail Saw". Apart from having a ready reference to using the saw he also tunes up a $6...
G'day Clinton,
What about Australian red cedar (Cedrela toona var australis/ Toona ciliata) or silky oak ( Grevillia robusta) or northern silky oak (Cardwellia sublimis) ? The...
Robert, It may be worth your while getting either Chris Schwarz's DVD "Coarse, medium & fine" and/or Rob Cosman's "Rough to ready". These describe dimensioning stock by hand and help to explain the...
Hello,
I was poking around in some old shops the other day and came across an old saw for $2. The handle is of the 'London Pattern' type and on one side the blade is stamped James Carr London...
G'day Kenneth,
I think you've done a fantastic job on that plane. Well done! Hope it brings you lots of pleasure.
Regards,
...
By way of putting the information out there LN do offer a good discount for bulk purchases plus free shipping. Check with them. I got 15% off my last order. Ok I am suffering from terminal...
The bench is a bargain its the shipping over to England that would be a killer!:eek::D:o
PS another thing not in that catalogue is their version of 100 1/2 block plane - very useful for seats and...
Hello Bob,
Yes they are and they are $1800 last time I spoke to them. Give them a ring and they should give you a link. Don't forget to ask about shipping I'm not sure if its...
Brian,
After Marks post I rechecked that link and saw I had misread the price, sorry about that. Here are some photos. The chisels I use the most for paring my dovetails are the E A Berg...
Brian,
I always had a problem cleaning out between the tails when I had very fine pins so I got an old tyzack cast steel 1/4" firmer chisel and ground the last 1.5" into a triangular cross...
Mike,
Couple of other sites re dating:-
http://antique-used-tools.com/LeverCap2inchCompare.jpg
http://antique-used-tools.com/Bailey4_5FrogCompare.jpg
Just watch out this can drive...
Mike,
Try this link http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/stanley_bench_plane/dating/main.html
Just remember this is a guide- went nuts with my no6 as base is about 1929/30 and frog 1933...
Tim try looking at http://www.amgron.clara.net/planingpoints/shuteingboards/shuteingindex.htm
As a bit of brain garbage it would seem the name derives from chute.
In a recent thread (A modern shooting plane- Jerry Palmer) a side comment by Matthew Dworman indicated that he has the same problem with his LN (?) planes I do, in that he has to immediately wipe the...