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As with the others I'll go with the Narexes just because of prior experience. They've always been startlingly high quality for the price; the only reason I replaced mine is that I like London...

Tapping the spine works for a back saw because there's a back, obviously. Hand saws are a little different; as far as I understand the idea is to put the middle of the plate in tension while the...

I'm not Adam, but I've done some timber framing. Trying to chop a 1" wide mortise like you would a 1/4" mortise is a fool's errand, the chisel will just bounce. It's used more for cleaning up the...

I had much these same issues and settled eventually on a 30 oz urethane mallet as something that will not bruise and split the chisel handles. I'd prefer a wood mallet—the urethane gives too much—but...

I'd want an anvil with a horn if I was going to make a gouge, but you can make them in the way you described. Be careful with the flute if you choose to mill it; it is a really bad idea to make one...

There are lots of designs that work. One thing I did want to mention, though, is be careful what you make it out of. Traditional English mallets are usually done in beech, which is on the soft side...

I suppose it could be, but brass can't take a heck of a lot of tension and that design isn't ideal. I think they're great for transferring dimensions but as soon as you put them down you can't trust...

I have a set of those, and also numerous other dividers. They are very, very pretty and I really enjoy the opening mechanism, but there's nothing to hold your setting, which can be an issue.

I have three, and don't really have the floor space for all of them, but I'm not willing to live without them. My shop is a one car garage, and I have only the bandsaw for stationary power tools; I...

Sounds good to me. I suggest you get the 3M micro-abrasives (http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=33004&cat=1,43072) if you haven't already; I find that I'm not happy with edges that aren't...

There are better chisels; there are possibly better saws (although this is debatable). But the Narexes are very, very good, as good as I've ever seen a Cr-Mn chisel, and they're at an excellent...

I've never used Klausz's bench (which I imagine would be exceptional), but I have used a modern "European", a Nicholson, and a Roubo extensively. The modern Euro benches have tail vises, which are...

Yeah, sure. The problem with that is that a traditional English pigsticker has a really really big bolster, a huge tang and is thicker (although not necessarily a lot thicker). The Narex bolster is...

The Narexes are not pigstickers, but they are surprisingly good, especially so for the price LV was offering them at. I bought too many, really, when LV had them on sale and tried them out, and as...

Depressingly, hardware store saws are almost uniformly terrible. Oddly enough the only exceptions to that that I've seen is the two sided Japanese saws (ryobas) with the impulse hardened teeth;...

I have the 22" Pax rip. The handle sucks, the teeth are over set and it wasn't adequately sharpened when it came to me; however the steel is pretty decent. I don't think it's worth the premium over...

The great thing about the Veritas plow is that the fence is fantastic. The sad thing is that the depth stop won't stay there; a common failing of all friction based depth stops, in my experience. I...

Did he go into any detail about chisel storage in the chest, or does he just store all his on the window rack? I have, uh, a lot of chisels and what I've done works for now as long as I don't get...

Honestly, my thinking is whatever coarse techniques float your boat; 800x isn't a bad place to start, I use a 1000x Norton I'm reasonably happy with. I don't like the Norton 220 (not aggressive...

The chief difficulty I have with using a metal vise like that as an end vise is that the vise will rack if the dog holes are not centered on the vise hardware, and if the dog holes are centered on...

The workmanship on the Putsch webs are terrible. I got mine working but I had to re-set and re-file all the teeth; it might have been easier to make one out of sheet stock. The Japanese webs...

I did just notice that recently. I've never really noticed that I have that problem myself, but then I do switch hands with regularity. Thank you! I'll have to play around with it some.

Good Western woodies are shockingly, shockingly sophisticated beasts. I have three coffin smoothers that I use on a regular basis, and have my favorite among them, but I have no idea why I like it...

I have both (too many) Disstons and a frame saw, and the problem that I've found is that a 26" frame saw tends to have its balance point too far forward, which means it stresses my wrist out. I...

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Others have mentioned this, but basically a 14 pt crosscut is the wrong tool for the job, which is why it took so much time and was so arduous. For something like that I actually...