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thanks! indulge is the right word.

i bought a PM-V11 blade with chipbreaker for a very old stanley 4 1/2 and found to my dismay it didn´t fit the plane properly. The yoke on the blade adjustment wasn´t long enough and the hole on the...

I know this is a slippery slope, that benefits are marginal and that i already have a perfectly fine set of stones up til a snow white 8000 that gives me good enough edges for my needs. And that...

wow, i didn´t knew about this... thanks for the info. i suppose euro walnut is different? my mother in law has a walnut on her yard and it looks like it´s being tortured by all the holm and cork oaks...

out of focus of this thread, but my HNT Gordon modified jack (no handles) is hands down my favourite plane for planning rosewood and ebony at the moment. once i got confortable with adjusting the...

the Veritas MKII is a very nice piece of kit, but over time i moved away from it to a cheap eclipse style guide (i have two of those, the one i got from Stu´s shop is very nice and can accommodate a...

i´m aware of that David. TBH i was considering the book instead (number two, right?) - somehow i get more feedback out of reading than watching a DVD.

thanks David and David, Hock it is (or was, as i already ordered it). i can´t find Mr. Charlesworth´s video, but got enough hints searching an UK forum.

best,
Miguel.

ok, thanks.

Hi all, i´m refurbishing an old (aren´t they all?) stanley 112 that i got from fleabay without a blade. so now i´m curious at which way to go regarding the aftermarket blade? veritas A2 (thicker and...

I´ve been for a couple of days toying with the stone. Less stiction (is this the proper name?) than the super stone. Faster and more tactile feedback. Very smooth, it seems to create more "mud" than...

That´s even better. Since i already have a Sigma 1 K and a chosera 2 K, the Snow White seems like it could just round up the system, and keep it manageable. but then my pile of "not in use" stones...

Thanks David, you´re da man. To be honest, the 8K SS fits my needs, this is mostly just a step down the slippery slope. Just so you see how futile this search is, my main gripe with the SS (besides...

Hi all,
I wonder what´s the Naniwa Snow White (Junpaku, IIRC) about? it´s magnesia (so definitely not a SS), but it ain´t a chosera either (at least it´s not branded a cho). It´s rather cheaper than...

oh, another handy gimmick IMHO is the Mirka abranet sanding block. attached to the vac it significantly decreases the ammount of dust that goes into the air.

FWIW i couldn´t be happier with my Festool CTL vac. very quiet, enough power for my needs and easy to maneuver and tuck away when not in use. light too!

thanks for the replies.

David: that could indeed be the case with the 600 DMT. thanks for the insight. But still i want a coarse waterstone ... :) what do you mean with "cuts fairly fine" - is it...

Hi all, thanks for reading.
After flattening the back of (yet) another out-of-flat chisel with a DMT 320 (? - the blue one) i keep thinking, this stone leaves horribly deep scratches. I go from...

Please excuse my ignorance (again...), but why? because there is the dust between 2 and 5 microns that gets away or am i missing something?

thanks!

thanks once more! i appreciate all inputs. well, i´ve been "trying" for a while now - what prompted me to want to change in the 1st place was the discovery that the smallest dust particles were the...

1st thing, many thanks for your work and generosity on the separator. i´m considering building one when i´ll get the time (not any time soon, though). 2nd thing, why does so many people call you...

Thanks for the reply.
You mean i should skip the canister filter and go with a bag? That would be super, but leaves me with one question. If a bag is good enouigh and will take particles down to one...

Sorry for yet another question re: dust collection, but i´m having an hard time making sense of all the info available (this and other forums, Mr. Bill Pentz site, on-line retailers,...). I have a...

one more thing, the trick of purposely hollowing the back of a chisel seems a clever thing. have to try it with one of my budget chisels. thanks for the tip!

thanks so much for the replies. yes, i was afraid that it would be either too slow or too hard to keep the blade square, but i desperately need a reason to buy a sharpening gadget - for the first...