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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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...