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I agree. The magazine's content is and always has been the best.

I've always wanted to pick up one off CL partly for nostalgic reasons. We had one in High School shop class back in the 70s, and I remember how much fun it was making cuts with that beast. Of course,...

I dropped my subscription to both the magazine and online this past month and received the same offer in the mail a couple of days ago. I agree with Lloyd....their marketing schemes suck.

Sharp is sharp regardless of how you get there, and it sounds like you're there. Did you lap the back of the chisel so it's dead flat?

^^^This. I also went with the MM16 (MiniMax) for the same reasons.

Thank you, Keith. And for the record, I find nothing inaccurate with either of Mr. Watson's posts in this thread.

Note: Keith, you've changed your posts #34 and #36 so many times now that I can't...

And please note the crucial part of his post:



Again, Mr. Watson's issue from the beginning and with his follow-up post in this thread was primarily paint chipping not shipping issues. The...

If I remeber correctly, the OP's major concern and the point of his post was not with the shipping damage per se but with the chipped paint on the first and second thickness planers that Grizzly let...

Thanks, John. I'm doing a large part of my build via hand tools - surfacing and dimensioning - but using my band saw whenever I can. I don't have a jointer, planer, or table saw, which slows things...

No matter how you slice it, the costs are ultimately transferred to the consumer. Grizzly doesn't eat the costs of shipping damages or shoddy manufacturing from China or any other feature of low-cost...

+1 on checking the tracking by hand…

It does take a 154" blade. I put a piece of blue painters tape on the tensioning wheel and count the number of turns it takes to its final tension, whatever's...

Hi John, Thanks for sharing your build. I'm enjoying the progress and partially into my own build. I was wondering how far your top overhangs on the right-hand (non-leg vise) side?

My apologies, John. I didn't intend my response to come off as a challenge.

I've had the same sort of doubts that Jason has. Is there really the risk of "teetering" using Charlesworth's ruler trick? We're talking about a miniscule bevel that itself can't be seen with the...

All my plane irons are A2 Hocks, and the convex bevel is very quick, easy and works like a charm.

I use a modified version of Paul Sellers' method and it works very well. However, his approach effectively produces a micro-bevel. Technically speaking, it's a convex bevel but the effect is...

Agreed, but I interpreted their focus on the smoothness of shavings as a proxy of sorts for exactly that. They didn't have the benefit of a tight or loose mouth in their experiment, which is why I'm...

Sweet spot?! That sounds like some mumbo jumbo from 19th century woodworking savages. Seriously though, I'm just curious if anyone has tried out the bevel angles and distances used by Kawai and Kato...

Has anyone tried to reproduce the Kawai and Kato experiment WITHIN a plane body? If I remember correctly, they concluded that a chip breaker with a 80 degree bevel angle set back 0.3mm from the edge...

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Since you've asked, George, I'll highlight just a few examples of this thread's history that may have been missed. A fuller sense of this thread entails reading the entire thing in context, which is...

Thank you so much, David, for taking it upon yourself to round out this thread for us all, and to summarily declare its conclusion. It's an interesting version of events for sure, especially given...

I'm very happy with what FWW is doing, both print and online. It was the first woodworking magazine to which I subscribed and it's only gotten better. Their paid-online content is hands down the best...

I can't tell the difference. And what's with Monet's hair?



Exactly!

Well, I'm not going to comment on Chris's bona fides. I will say, however, that I am not in any way, shape or form one of Schwarz's regular followers, whatever that means. I visit his blog once or...