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While living in Italy I could commonly find Italian Stella Bianca (White Star) files and rasps and also the Spanish Bellota at very reasonable prices. Both are good old brands that make solid tools...

I have a couple of old English wooden plough planes with 8 vintage irons. They work great. You can find them for much less than I paid for I'm sure, I was in Italy when I bought them and most of the...

Here most of the wooden kitchen tables have a glass sheet on top of them, but I'm not sure if it's common practice in the West.

If the glass is well supported it's basically impossible to crack...

Well maybe old timers didn't care much about smoothers as much as other planes. Afterall they didn't have chainsaws, bandsaws and planers, so the biggest the chips, the faster they would work....

Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania are not EU States while being completely surrounded by EU. Any purchase from any International sellers will cost us a lot more because of VAT and...

If you want to buy new tools you ALWAYS get what you pay for. Nobody is going to give you free stuff. You either pay couple hundred euros for good stuff, or you get cheap imported tools that are not...

Jim might be right: those look like Anant planes.

Here's ebay.de with a plane that looks exactly the same:...

I have my own timber milled so usually I get the sizes i want, but often I reuse cheap spruce planks that were used to pack glass sheets. It's like pallet wood, but bigger: 1" to 1 1/2 " by 6" to 8",...

I would use a hatchet to do the most of the work and then finish the logs on a shaving horse with a drawknife. Rasp is not the way to go.
How long are those logs?

GB drawknife might not be the...

Is the car entrance in the bottom of the drawing?
I'd move the bench away from the step and put a tool cabinet in the middle, or something that is useful but doesn't get in the way when working....

I store chisels, drill bits, files and rasps and other tools in tool rolls. I get old worn-out jeans or canvas and sew them on my treadle sewing machine. I bet you can do the same or get somebody to...

The wood probably shrunk with time while the metal didn't. I would never count on wood swelling for a repair because once wood has shrunk too much there is no way getting it like it was before and...

It should be veni, vidi, emi aeruginem. From "venio, venis", whose perfect is "veni": I came; "video, vides", perf. "vidi": I saw; "emo, emis", perf. "emi": I bought; "aerugo, aerugis", accusative...

I understand the concepts of oil, water and air hardening, but you talk about a degree of precision I would apply to mechanics, not woodworking. I know a lot of people like to apply metalworking...

Generally it is better to use oil. Water will work, but it will cool the steel much quicker and will make it hard and brittle and large items might crack during the operation, while oil is more...

Bacon grease will actually make your tools rust. Generally it doesn't happen with modern kitchenware because it is made of stainless steel but if you cut bacon or salami with old-time carbon steel...

Jim Koepke is right.

I am 19 now, in no way I can be called "experienced", but having a lot of hours per day to spend in woodworking, I have learned some things in the years I've been doing this....