I understand your drift on the ethics of using types of glue for repairs that mean that joints can not be easily disassembled. For me, however, ethics only really come into it if you are talking...
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I understand your drift on the ethics of using types of glue for repairs that mean that joints can not be easily disassembled. For me, however, ethics only really come into it if you are talking...
Backlash is predictable and easily manageable. I quite enjoy 'spinning the dial'. When you have a plane in your hands that is well tuned with a sharp blade, a little backlash is easily manageable....
How about PU glue? Might that work? It will, reputedly, glue together almost anything ... although it might be difficult to work with and I have no idea about its longevity.
Genuine question. I...
In primary school (up to age eleven) in England, we were encouraged to bring a small sharp penknife to school as a more reliable and economical way of sharpening pencils than the hand-turned machine...
My old dad (GRHS) always used to say you should never give a knife ... "it cuts friendship". When he gave me a knife, he'd always make me pay a penny for it, sometimes sixpence. Mean old b****r ;-).
Thanks. That's basically what I did. I set the cap iron in my vice, which has softwood lined jaws that I don't mind getting beaten up, and hammered it with a 2lb rubber faced mallet. I felt that I...
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So you don't have to be a body-builder to bend a cap iron. The base of the cap iron is supposed to be flat. Mine isn't anymore.
There's even a warning in...
OP coming back. Apologies for radio silence. Just coming out of an 8-hour power outage ... another regular feature of my location. I'll take some pictures in the morning. I think everything will...
Veritas scrub plane issue
In my locality, I have access mainly to very rough sawn construction lumber. The underlying stock is good, however, and well worth the trouble of dimensioning. I do this by hand, partly out of...
Nothing beats a Brooks ... once it's tamed to your ass.
I have one too ... but please don't let anybody know that.
I'm pretty much a beginner still but I find it easy to keep bladed tools sharp enough to cut cleanly and sweetly (swishhhh! - I love that sound).
After struggling for a little while with various...