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Ciao Andy,
I'm following your tool cabinet build. I find it is looking very good.
For half blind dovetails, I use an ordinary card scraper for completing the cuts along the grain, as many guys do;...

Ciao
This blade is 3/4".
It is for Stanley 45 or 55, I don't know if it could fit your 3-052: the blade notch seems to be on the correct side altough the shape maybe it's not correct? However you...

Sorry double post

Thanks Ian,
I agree with your point of view👍
You are right and thinking to your words maybe my planes are too much numberous. But I couldn’t leave go them away, so I often use of changing them for...

Ciao,
Very good rehabbing job, I like the result with new handles too.

Planes are never too much. Keep them both! May be you could hone on one a back bevel for a stepper cutting angle for some...

Good advice, thanks. Me too, I need to make shims for my Record 077A:2tsup:
Ciao
Giuliano

Many thanks, I’ll take it.
Regards

Thank you Paul,
The Benjamin Seaton's Tool Chest represents a piece of history.
CS writes about a book on that chest...I'd like to read it but seems be unavailable....

I liked much the contras...

Thank you,
This one I think reaches 30-40 kg of weight, I can lift it but however with a considerable fatigue. For mine I plan of building a base with casters so I?ll able to move it easily around...

Ciao:),
I needed a storage space for my hand tools, something that contained enough tools for working to the majority of projects by hand.
So I built this tool chest, based on traditional English...

Hi Stewie,
very beautiful your moving fillister plane!
I agree with you about the capacity of easing the chip escapment in the Varvill plane, although me too, I would say more difficulties in...

Hi,
from the mark on plane body seems it was after the WWII. According the Wolfgang Jordan site, the mark was registered in 1953:
http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/ece.phtml

This on the...

Ciao,
I found a logo like that one on your plane blade:

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As Paul said, it should be European (Germany)
You can see the Mark on the very good Wolfgang Jordan's site:
...

Hi Derek,
very nice your mallet. I like the choice of adding a brass insert.

Wooden Holdfast? Why not? I have not a lathe but a 1" beech rod is easy to find. Thanks

Here it is...



http://youtu.be/Brx35B4iKy4

Thanks all for compliments




Grazie John,
I made blades myself. The main blade comes from a larger blade I cut. The nicker was a 8 mm plough cutter.

i have a short video of plane at...

Hi,
I built my moving fillister and wish to share with you.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2ezk0a9.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/ieqrfs.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/111im9l.jpg
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Thanks Paul for these info:)


So, why the double cove, for accomodate the right index?

Ciao
Giuliano:)

Nice saw!
I was wondering if a such type of handle was only suitable to right-handed people or if a left-handed person, like me, could use it confortably.

Ciao
Giuliano:)

Hi Derek,
This design was quite common in Austrian and German older exemplars:
Kleines Werkzeugmuseum (Nuthobel)

Regarding Timewarp Toolwork planes, it's a good idea for tempting a...

Thanks Matt, was been fun to see shaves come out from them.

Hi,
I got these tongue and groove planes some years ago from ebay and now I decided to restoring them. I like to use tools I have, so I tried to put these old ladies again at work.
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Hi,
I would add the distance of chipbreaker from cutting edge also. Although there are discordant opinions to this, a chipbreaker very close (0,1-0,2 mm) to cutting edge seems to improve the...

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:aus::italy:

All clear, Ian! It was a misunderstanding! :- I tought 12° was the grinding blade bevel not the seat (Matt in the first post indicated a 15° angle for the seat:?) but more likely the guilt is of my...

Ciao Matt,
nice plane and a demonstration that wooden low angle planes can exist!



Why a so low blade bevel?

Giuliano

Hi Stewie,
Another fine job, as usual. The wood is simply stunning!

Ciao
Giuliano:)

Would be interesting to see doing a try with . Do you think you'll restore it?
Ciao
Giuliano:)

Hi John,
The book "British Planemakers from 1700" encloses a Joseph Cooper and Son, planemaker in Birmingham from 1878 to 1888. So, if the same Cooper, yuor plane is quite old.

Regards
Giuliano

Hi,
your sash filletster plane is interesting. It seems of early type, with the escapement for shaves on the right side (on the bench sash filletster), differently from those, like that...

I shaped the file by bench grinder without anneal it. Only I soak it frequently in cold water while the job is progressing. When my thumb, kept near the edge, cannot stay there (too much heat), I...

Grazie Matt,
No, isn't too much difficult to plane out, if you first make the body and then adapt cutting irons to profiles. The position of nickers is a critical point, but not more difficult than...

Ciao, :)
I just completed this panel raising plane and I would want to share my satisfaction.
I have to admit, this plane required more attention, due to skewed geometries and the need of...

The raised ring onto the body is a feature of type 14 planes (1929-1930).
Ciao
Giuliano:)

HI:),
I prefer a wooden scrub to the jack plane for the first preparing job. It is a very handy plane. Its lighter weight and the heavy cambered blade make a difference on preparing long boards....

Hi Derek,
very nice your plane,too. Good idea the added handle!:2tsup:
Me too, I had to make several cuts before to find the right feeling with this plane. During these first cuts I understood that...

I think its name has been wrong, should be named St Andrew's Cross.
This, differently from St Peter's one, was x-shaped. :)

Giuliano
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I like type 10-11 planes also. In my opinion they had better blades than SW planes.
The raised ring below front knob should prevent its breakage during hard use, but in my experience this never...

Grazie for appreciating my job.
The building is quite simple. The most difficult task was to grind the blade with the correct angle, although for such a narrow blade is easy to correct mistakes.
...

Hi,
I recently restored a dovetail plane. It cuts the male element of sliding dovetail joint. Differently from Japanese tradition, USA and European planes for cutting the female part of joint are...

Sorry, yes is Douglas fir (abete di Douglas, in Italian). :2tsup:

The wood is Douglas pine, used mainly for outdoor furniture, specially windows.
The plane can be used only right-handed so your question is correct and a cleaning up could be requested for tearout...

Ciao,
I have a wooden moving fillitster plane; it works well for raising panels. Same technique showed above: first rebating then the slope is made by tilting the plane properly. Because the cut...

Ciao,
Me too, I always have seen plough blades with a steeper bevel than 25°. I have a Stanley 50 acquired as old new stock and blades (unused) all have 32° bevel angle. I knew that this steeper...

That's incredible:o
I would like to buy some of his stools.
An appreciable man!

Very good collection!!:2tsup:
What about the Falcon Pope block plane? At what Stanley block it refers?
Ciao
Giuliano

I have some British old dado planes. They are cheap, fast and efficient. Only 1-2 min for cutting a net housing. I find, in this case, the different way simply better.


Ciao
Giuliano:)

Well done!
The choice of making a scrub plane is also very good. A very useful tool in our shops.
How did you manage blade hardening?
Ciao
Giuliano:)

If I had to choose a Country for a far journey, that would be Australia.:2tsup:
Unfortunately Italy is really too much distant for my possibilities:no:
However, never say never......:roll: