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Welcome. I couldn't see the table on your facebook page, so I sent you a friend request. I have been watching your videos on Youku. I am slowly working out how to make a pingtouan, so I find your...

your video? Are you Xin Quansheng? Its difficult finding the videos on Youku for someone with no Chinese.

Dave,
People die from mosquito bites and get eaten by animals now and then, internet fraudsters are no different. He didn't have a working backup.

Greg

Not a book, but a blog that contains very detailed construction information about seventeenth and eighteenth century furniture and examples of reproductions being built:...

I'm in.

Ian,
I'll be cutting it by hand with a fine saw, so making the cuts isn't the worry, but I'm not sure about the angles or what the joint is trying to achieve. Its not a high strength joint, there...

I suspect its a tool for kumiko more than it is a block plane

Mick,
The Gustav Ecke book is the Google books link. I wouldn't say its really well organised (the figures aren't quite in numerical order for example), but there is enough detail to see how things...

I want to make something that involves a joint called a hooked mitre. I can't find much about how to make this joint or indeed what the key idea of it is.

Is the idea that as the mitred together...

Ian,
Yes, it has zero rake (see picture). When (if I live long enough to need to) I sharpen it I'll give it a bit of negative rake, it is a bit rough to start as it is but the cut yesterday was...

Ian,
A progress report. Sometimes I am either ridiculously slow, or time passes very quickly. A bit of both in this case.

I developed a need to finally deal with the turning saw problem so I...

There is a saying in English: "better is the enemy of good".

You don't absolutely need a vice, I use a couple of G or F clamps and some thick-ish pieces of wood so the piece is self supporting and work toward a stop bolted into the bench top.

Can I get a reversible chisel?

The reversible hammer drill was the real sign of things to come - the vendors discovered that they could substitute gadgetry for knowledge.

Can someone explain why a reversible hammer drill is...

Dibbers,
I'm a bit less optimistic than you are. The Amazon market place disaggregates the products sold by one of these small businesses, which is fine if you are selling niche products (Vesper...

Ian,
I don't know where Idan is, but in the part of Indonesia I'm most familiar with there is basically a wet-ish season and a dry-ish season. A cold day is 24C, a hot day is 33C; the weather there...

why not look at local wooden planes?

There is undoubtedly an element of truth to Amazon needing to get their systems straightened out before handling huge volume, they are after all as much a logistics company as anything else and...

Mick,
Your wife will know exactly how arbitrary the discounts to retailers are from the publishers and distributors, when I knew about such things those discounts ranged from 10% to 40%. The Book...

Searching for planes and chisels - basically nothing there. Bessey clamps - none of the ones I want. Camera lenses, limited range, expensive (one was 3 times the price I can get it from HK). Books...

Goodvibes,
No need to apologise. In my experience, extended family stuff is best for rough rip sawing and making big mortises with a big pig sticker, and less good for dovetails and paring...
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed. This thread has been a bit more contentious than I thought it would be. My original question was about fumigation, there being no question that moulding...

Goodvibes,
There's no question of the item being prohibited, its likely to be beech or a similar timber, not rosewood, ebony, mahogany, lignum vitae or the rest. The BICON permit will cost $120 to...

Ian,
I agree. Its the uncertainty that goes with engaging with the judgment of a customs officer that makes me uneasy. I think I'll just have to bite the proverbial bullet in the new year and see...

I'd like to buy locally, but... the HNT Gordon planes are AUD1780 for five pairs, Jim Bode has second hand sets for USD295 up. If I buy a set for USD400 I'm likely to still be ahead.

I see...

I'm thinking of buying a set of moulding planes from overseas (possibly from Jim Bode). What I'm wondering about is fumigation of the wood. Importing small things with incidental wooden components...

Rob,
Pictures will come eventually, but instead of the cauls and battens I'd hoped for, the day produced plants, dowels, poking about in a junk shop, lunch and far, far too much time spent with an...

Rob,
Flatness is an interesting issue, particularly with pine. The growth rings can be awkward, but on the relatively big things I've built so far it hasn't mattered. It will matter with a chess...

All,
Thank you for the advice.

I don't have enough experience to have spent much time with cranky grain and have tended to deal with it either using a sharp smoothing plane set very, very fine,...

I have been thinking about a toothing plane lately as I get closer to doing some veneering. Its not something I expect to use much and a toothed blade for one of my planes is an idea that might make...

a chipped sole, what looks like a broken tote, and you don't seem to have a functional need for it... seems like a no brainer. Isn't the hunt a big part of the point?

John,
Its a thought, but the backs are very roughly sawn and would need a fair bit of smoothing. It also seems to be a good idea to take the top layer of wood off the ex-working side (for some very...

Ian,
This sounds like a nice option. I'll experiment with it on some bigger pieces of wood.

Greg

Rusty,
Thanks, there is very little blunt trauma and quite a lot in the way of meat cleaver. What happens to the top is an open question yet and I'll work it out with the owner of the table when...

Ozka,
Thanks, I'll have a look for the video.

Greg

Derek, Ian,
I didn't buy the table, it has some sentimental value to a cousin of mine and because of that it deserves more effort than would be otherwise sensible. It was out west in the weather for...

I have an unusually horrible problem: an old, much abused and weathered table (Victorian) from a farm, broken down into its component parts. It arrived wrapped in plastic like a victim in a certain...

Eskilstuna is a place, not a company, its stamped on tools in the same way that Sheffield is found on English tools.

Making some wax polish is on my list of things to do, and this blog has a fair list of recipes and should give some sense of the range of options: The Barn on White Run | Custom Blending Paste Wax in...

Thanks Ian. I'll experiment with it some more and see where I get to.

Zac,
Thanks for the response, but its not the little three pointed nicker, but the big pointed slitting cutter that is toward the back of the 45 that I'm asking about.

Greg

The cutter that I have has a rounded tip, as do many other original cutters and the Stanley drawings of the cutter (you can see it in a drawing on The Superior Works - Patrick's Blood & Gore: Plane...

cool, thank you.

Are you saying that its basically an aesthetic decision to keep the leaf embedded in the stile as flush as possible?

In cases where the knuckle is completely inset into the door, I believe it is so that the rebate in the frame will support the leaf, minimising the side load on the screws while not interrupting the...

When rebating a hinge into a stile so that the hinge does not interrupt the line of the carcase or frame, the rebates are angled or tapered in the carcase and sometimes in the stile. In the stile...

Schwarz is good at marketing: rename something that already exists so it refers to one of his products then promote heavily. Personally I think that the marketing is better than the books are, but...

Derek,
The rebate moves the offset of the pin out by the depth of the rebate (a bit over 10mm, I didn't actually measure). The effective tenon length I am aiming for is only about 35mm (remember,...

Derek,
Rebated mortice and tenon joints end up with fairly constrained tenon widths if the rails are not extremely wide. In the current case it seemed silly to make a really long narrow tenon for a...