I have a Millers Falls 56, extremely similar to the Stanley 60 1/2. It has the 12 degree pitch, adjustable mouth, and screw adjuster. The irons are decent steel, and the weight feels negligible in my...
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I have a Millers Falls 56, extremely similar to the Stanley 60 1/2. It has the 12 degree pitch, adjustable mouth, and screw adjuster. The irons are decent steel, and the weight feels negligible in my...
I agree. Let's go with it. Maybe I should change the f word in my spell checker to "pluck," for dubious historical purposes ;)
An empty JD barrel? I suppose it's cheaper to ship that way... ;)
The screwdrivers I tested were too soft. The scraper cut the screwdriver rather than accept a burnishing from it. Modern screwdrivers just don't have it going on in the hardness department.
I...
Merry Christmas!
Happy Christmahannakwaanzukah! Or Festivus!
I hope that there's something fun under that tree.
My mother gave me The Patternmaker's Assistant reprinted by Astragal. Why am I...
I've never had any quality plane chatter. The only planes that ever did are the Sears planes with the U-shaped bent lateral adjusters. The steel on those is garbage, and the bottom of the frog can be...
I've used several different types on different wheels. Dressing surface grinder wheels is much easier ;)
My dad uses a star wheel (the rattley tool) on his standard bench grinder and the tool that...
I have one of those in 12". It's a Zenith, but I don't know for sure who made it. I have a Bonney's patent hollow auger that only fits in it, because it's got that Fray chuck with its giant jaws and...
The heartwood is harder than the sapwood. The sapwood you can dent by looking at it with a piercing expression on your face! To clarify for another reply, no, the sapwood isn't cut, true. It is...
Hey to respond to that old first post, the Dunlap 3DBB, 4DBB, and 5DBB were made by Millers Falls. They're the offbrand Dunlaps you want. The rest...yeesh.
I count 5 in the first pic and 2 in the second counting the woodie. The KK4 and the two baileys, the Fulton (is a Sargent 409) and the Craftsman (also a Sargent 409) in the first pic, and the DE 5...
Apologies, I rarely consider power tool users since I'm not one myself. The above chart is something to consider.
I need someone to give ME a broken rosewood table!
Yew is very, very soft even when dry. It can't take an impact for nothin' and will dent if you look at it too hard. It is very elastic though and not easily broken. Since it's a conifer its heartwood...
Good lookin' bench. Mine's a laminated lumber Nicholson, but I quickly noticed the lack of a vise on it. While I *can* use holdfasts for everything, I think I'd prefer not to. I think your decision...
I have a Veritas wheel, a HF Special mortise gauge, a vintage Stanley pin gauge, an unmarked vintage panel gauge, and an xacto with about 19 squares here there and everywhere.
I end up using the...
I vote for a hammer deliberately made to ruin table surfaces.
IOW, I fold; I got nuthin'.
Guitars. Then sell them for bux, and do it again.
I've always felt that the jointer fence is more for planing an angle or bevel on an edge than for jointing a square edge. It is a whole lot harder to accurately plane a 22.5 degree bevel than a...
I'd like pics, too.
I never did see how well that elm worked, Chris. That stuff does not break, how does it hold up to abuse?
I've also got a couple like that. I think my no 7 panel saw served two carpenters for most of their lives before it met me. I have other saws to do the work, that one may enjoy its retirement.
I think to prevent pinning (the problem mentioned here), it used to be common to run chalk into the teeth to fill the gullets.
I find it a lot on old files from people who used them for a living,...
I can verify this statement. I have 5. I didn't mean to.
But the more I try to use them, the more I want to try the one I have that's inline rather than the pistol grip ones I have.
I started my own rehab on a similar Disston. I made a fleam & rake guide. I'll post when I can. Would you like the guide in here?
That's just the tip of that iceberg.
Grab a beer, sit back, and have a chuckle as you read the search results for "rare plane."
One of my favorites was the back half of a #4 billed as a "rare...