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Oh Gawd what a joke.

Mould a wider board and rip the moulding off. Use extra length (you should do this regardless), nail board, run moulding, crosscut nailed ends off. Most handmade mouldings have flaws at the start...

I believe that Eddie Sirotich, the owner of Adria, can accommodate your schedule. Email him and see....

As somebody else said - use a toothing plane, then a smoothing plane, then the toothing plane until you get it flat and just a bit away from your planned finished thickness. Use a cabinet scraper...

Lovely work. You could start a business.

It's hard to tell exactly from your post, but it appears you bought a lot of the offerings from Lee Valley (you mentioned you have 13 planes). If so, why are you still shopping? Those will work...

I don't want you to agree with me, I want you to discover it for yourself. Don't let everthing you know about sawing come from guys who sell antique saws or collect them as a hobby. They're biased....

Ummmm, read my post, 'as long as they are sharp....'

Otherwise, yes. If you can incise a line with a square and saw to the waste side, leaving a little bit of clean up for a plane (you would have...

Stick an Exxacto knife in a compass. Cut an existing piece of 100 grit sandpaper for a stationary disk sander into a circular strip about an inch and a half or two inches wide. Install this piece of...

There isn't a soul on the planet who could tell the difference in cuts from those saws vs. the finest to ever the make the Disston line.

As long as they're sharp and you understand sawing they'll...

A whole lot of that stuff is frankly crap. A joinery quality cross cut can be made with a 5 pt. rip frame saw if you knife the line first and have the ability to saw to one side of a knifed line. And...

I agree. I'm amazed HH still sells the Putsch saw. It's junk.

The difference between it and the ECE is daylight to dark. The ECE is much better and will hold steady without showering down on...

The pins first/tails first argument will no doubt rage on long after we are all dead. You owe it to yourself to try pins first once just to see if you like having the ample room for marking the...

I don't like the coping saw method either and I wouldn't like to have to go through five+ iterations of marking implements in order to 'find' something that fits into a very narrow pin socket. I'm...

Cut the joint pins first and you can mark with whatever pleases you, with plenty of room to see what you're doing.

I thought I read somewhere that Ron had thrown in the towel on flat backs and was just recommending David Charlesworth's Ruler Trick to back-bevel the iron right at the cutting edge.

I'm glad he thanked you for your patience because you've exhibited plenty of it.

I've always had a few cork backed rules around. They will stay put on an angled drafting table, no problem. In this use lighter is better as a heavier rule would slide down the table (and the...

The rules by Alvin are etched. No, they don't cost a fortune but I haven't found them to be terribly limiting.
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Are you looking for bevel edged firmers or non-bevel edged?

They sell 'em all day long with thin cork backings at art and drafting supply stores. Serves the same function but won't scratch stuff up.

Read the original post.

He has attempted to contact Mike and has not had a reply. Hence, the post here.

"now I can't reach him and he is not responding to my emails."

With a gouge cone for a grinder.

Those guys are rather high priced. Which pretty much makes my point.

I still want to see what the high-roller crowd builds with $150 chisels and lumber from the highest of high retail outfits. ...

Five hours? Using Scary Sharp? Good God, they must have been in horrendous condition from the manufacturer.