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I have no dog in this fight, but there was considerable backlash on Cherubini's framesaw post: http://swingley.org/archive/get.php?message_id=245769&submit_thread=1

I have posted before about how (relatively) easy and fast I found it to learn to sharpen a handsaw. This is true! But last week I needed a panel saw, and decided to fix whatever was wrong with my...

Data point only: I tried a half inch through mortise in 4/4 poplar with a Narex bench chisel, and it went a little faster than the Narex mortise chisel. Maybe a little harder to keep the sides...

Yeah, at this point I'm just sneaking out to cut maybe one or two tails at a time. I can see How I might get good at this is I did it every day...

Ha, Jim, I don't believe in fancy new chisels, so that means I have to sharpen my rusty old ones.

I will compare my speeds on chopping and sawing straight down the middle.

Thanks for all the...

I have a lot of cautionary tales I don't have time to share here, but since there is so much dovetail action right now I thought I should mention this. Thanks to the largesse of some family members...

This is fascinating. If you go to the website in the background, it turns out to be woodworkers forum, of all things. The first thread I clicked on was some similarly fancy m&ts:...

This is true. Add blood meal (or other nitrogen source) if you're worried about it.

I have managed to keep up with mine starting the BBQ so far, either because of my laziness or how much I...

George, I have a newish but still made in USA Stanley hacksaw, and I don't understand how the old ones can be more rigid. I believe you, I just don't understand. Is all the tension supplied by that...

I spent a lot of time worrying about sharpening saws and reading things on the internet, probably more than 100x the time it took me to sharpen my first saw. That was a 5 1/2 pt rip, but then I spent...

Oops, sorry about the forbidden link! Needless to say, it was not to an auction for patternmakers chisels.

Noah, I won't try to post more links, but if you google Smith's Key to the Manufactories...

I'm no expert, but I did not find it very hard to cut several 36" stopped grooves with a backsaw and a router plane and a chisel on my last project -- admittedly in poplar.

If you don't have a...

No, not at all. Still, what do you call those permaloid chisels? I guess they're butt chisels based on the Stanley's I have, but that MF does look a little longer.

Now check out these...

I don't know what the pitch is, but it is the same as my 151 spokeshave tension screw. DAMHIKT.

NHPLANEPARTS (?) has reasonable prices for this sort of thing on that auction site.

Obviously not a paring chisel, but that seller is legit (based on his email list, I haven't bought anything from him yet). He seems to be drawn to older tools so maybe was blinded by the Buck Rogers...

Awesome. Make it into a miter plane.

But can they cut finger joints with it?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjSjCtjnom8

There must be something in the water in those commonwealth countries.

So glad you conquered the bandicoots and vegans, Derek! Can't wait to watch this unfold.

I just spent a lot of time flattening some white oak that I had resawn by hand, poorly. I used a Bailey no. 5 that I bought for a song, then had to spend a small fortune fixing up. I got it to the...

I just stumbled across this interesting gauge, which uses router plane irons / ground down hex wrenches for the cutters.

http://toolmakingart.com/2010/12/07/carving-gauge/

Cool idea, but I'm...

Based on something else Derek wrote, I was thinking about grinding a HSS jigsaw blade into a knife for a slitting gauge I'm making (in my head).

If you want a pin, Paul Sellers recommended piano...

My experience so far has been the opposite. There's something amazing to me about how well my 140 backsaw works, I can't get over it. But maybe I have been lucky. Conversely, I only have one high-end...

George, that's an Addis gouge, and it came in the same lot as the Phillip Law, so it could be really old, but it did have a bolster at some point. Also the handle is oak, and seems disproportionately...

Nothing fancy, but since I was just grinding some old ones I picked up to augment my 4-piece Narex set:
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Top to bottom, marks are HSB OVB, Gottschalk & Co. Birmingham -- anyone know...

Ha George, I'm going to report you to the historical twine compliance department. My best HF purchase was a 1/2 inch hammer drill for $20. Cost about the same as a box of tapcons. Worked perfectly...