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When one desires to remove the bluing, acid removes it handily. Citric acid works, but Phosphoric is much faster. I use a phos. acid meant to clean concrete available from home centers. One needs to...

It is possible to accidently make the tenon no longer square off the rail. The effect is the same as John'o describes, just the other half of the cause sometimes. I find in the classes I have done...

Ah, SG--the split nits make much more sense for the look of the saw. If nothing else, the back edge of saw plates began receiving a curved treatment instead of the earlier straightline through the...

Hi Scribbly--Nice saw!

Hi Ray,

It's fairly easy with American makers to know when they made the switch to the improved saw bolts. A little harder with the English makers. The old names hung on...

I think I've been misunderstood. It's not that the split nuts indicate a Fulton saw or not, just that split nuts indicate a pre-1880 build. Even after Sear's buy out, it would still be a Fulton saw,...

Hah, the cabin and out house is still there. But the catalogs are long gone.

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Lived there nearly 9 years. Life was good. Two of...

Hi Prozac,

In the following picture, the lamb's tongue is that carved place where the lower handle to cheek connection is:

http://wenzloffandsons.com/saws/lv/no-8_0003a.jpg

I don't have a...

Hi George,

Yes, it is a later one. The earlier Fultons had a bit more shape to the handle, earliest ones had a lamb's tongue detail.

The Warren & Ted medallion is to be expected. Smaller...

Hi George,

No worries. I probably came off bad for writing that about Facebook and apologize if so. My issues are with them, not anyone using them.

The bolts and nuts you describe are the...

Hi Prozac,

Unless the saw has split nuts, it is unlikely to be before 1888 or a touch later which is when the Glover patent came about and began to be used. None of the Fulton saws I have seen...

Jones,

If this is a hand saw type of saw, and if there is simply an even curve in a paortion or the whole of the blade, you can simply arc it back the opposite way tp remove a curve. No beating...

Hi Craig,

There must be some good usable vintage hand and back saws available for less than premium hand saws there. If you are new to hand sawing, I would suggest tool markets, boot sales and...

And to illustrate the mark...

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A well made Russian version of the Record 043. Even has...

Hi Bob--yes, my understanding is between 9 and 10 percent, depending on the specific alloy, mainly the brass alloy. In my case, the alloy 260 has a nominal density, lbs/cu. in. of .308 and 1018 is...

Hi Ian--no, the Tyzack of at least that vintage and older is decent steel. Way better than say the Flinn saws available for about the same or a little less than current makers' better saws. When the...

Actually it takes more pressure to bend alloy 260 navel brass than it does an equivilent thickness of the steel traditionally used for back saws. Brass is also a good bit heavier than steel of...

While it is true there is slop, it is just a little bit more than my vintage Starretts and a less than my vintage Stanleys.

As for comparing the LV offering and Chris' magnificant tools? Sort of...

Yep, but it is impossible to do with 1/8" to 3/16" thick shop-sawn veneer, at least if it is wider than a couple inches like the examples above...

As for jointing thicker pieces flat for...

Hi Zen,

That's what I do (wedges). I find it more controllable for me as to the amount of pressure I am applying.

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Works...

I've never said it isn't worthwhile for you or someone else, Jake. What I have tried to repeat is that because I don't seem to experience the problem you mention to a degree I think something is...

First Jake, I would disagree that I am a traditionalist. At the very least you and I have different criteria for making such a claim.
Second, I have and will continue to advocate vintage plows. That...

Ok, the camera is not cooperative (driver on the computer I think) and cannot download the pictures I took. I tried scanning the irons and one cannot see what needs to be illustrated.

In lieu of...

I'll post some pictures later tonight (my night) of some blades and make observations about them--as well as a few other comments.

For now, let me simply add that nit-picking at a series of...

Hi Scribbly G.,

I don't have a lot of time--waiting a call back--so this is brief and probably heretical.

Disston had variability in the quality of their saws among even the same model line....

You know, you must hold me in really high regard, Jake. Basically you are saying that I am a liar. Pity that.

It's not about perfect results--care to let me measure your grooving? It's about...

No loyalties to any tool company but my own. Loyalties to people, sure, but not to companies. For the record, I own precisely two Veritas planes. Same number as LN planes. Most of my tools are from...

Me thinks--not that anyone asked--it is an exercise in futility when time and money could be better spent. But it's not my time nor money.

While I am on record writing that trapazoidal...

Let me preface this with the statement that the finish of the bottom of the groove in Derek's photos is fine. In fact, in the typical groove or rebate, tear-out is a who cares. So too slightly angled...

The LV spoon bits are made by them.

If I needed spoon bits (meaning I didn't have my vintage ones) I would buy the LV ones. Spoon bits are rather simple tools. Clifton hasn't had any competition...

Lee Valley is the only source for the Veritas planes. They have no distribution in the US other than some retailers can stock certain widgets of the Veritas brand.

Buy them from LV directly and...

You could fairly easily make a hook rule using any "plain" rule of your choice.

Take care, Mike

Yeppers. For me, the idea is to take as much as possible without--or with as little--tear out as possible.

Here's a #3 on curly Bubinga. The piece was *very* rough sawn. Goal was to make it...

To give a visual to what Jake is talking about, this page from a US Army book gives the gist of it...just don't take this for gospel either in the amount of shaping (curveture) but especially those...

With HSS blades you may not feel a burr with other than the coarser grits.

As long as the plane is bedded well and the plane itself reasonably flat, as long as the blade is sharp, as long as it...

Hi Jisk,

In the picture of the shavings, it appears as thought the board below the plane has chatter marks? Or is that curly figure? If it is chatter, it would appear that the blade is simply set...

Full of what, Derek? :U

Welcome Mike!

Take care, Mike
yeah, the scrapers are one of these days...:doh:

Well, when you awake...

When a card scraper is pulled, there is little pressure on the outer edges of the blade and mainly the middlin of the scraper is used...which amounts to nearly the same...

If you use a hand scraper, though, it too uses a bowed blade unless you are using a thick LN/LV scraper plane blade that cannot bow (which I have done, it works).

In that sense, I see little...

Sorry Jake. My evening morphed into a late night working. When I did come back to the thread, Jeremy had plopped his picture in.

Mike

Hi Jake--the picture I posted is the LN versions (of the Stanley). Stanley also produced a two-ended version with, of course, two blades so it could be used on both sides of the rebate.

I'll take...

Hi Jake, Yeah, pretty much. Mainly just grinding the corner off at an angle down to the point so that it doesn't drag. So any angle from above the "sole" down to the leading edge should work fine....

The bottom edge of the iron is honed to each tol. They all vary slightly as to how much of the iron tip protrudes.

It is honed as another bevel with its back edge slightly off of being parallel...

Hi Jeremy,

Yep, I knew they went basically up and down. The plane would need to be vertical anyway, especially cutting on the opposite side of the stock.

One would need a spare set of skates...

Hi Jeremy,

I cannot recall if the #55 can also have the three skates at an angle across the width? I know they can vertically. But if they can be positioned at an angle front/back, that would...

Aside from the continued BS, Jake, the way I have made irons for skewed woodies is to make the profile using hollows and rounds and then miter cut it at the angle I desire to bed the plane. As you...

Nah, I am not talking about "springing" the plane, Jake.

I am saying to make a skewed cutter in the profile of the 42 mm one.

The point about springing a plane had to do with wooden planes in...

My point is, as stated, I have not tried a *skewed* molding blade profile in a #55.

My correlation--personal experience--is that with skewed planes that do profiles (albeit simply ones) like a...

And the easier pushing would be my main point. A slicing cut is always easier than merely forcing a straight-on blade into the grain. Less resistance. Hence the skew suggestion.

fwiw, I have and...

Not a silly test, Jake.

While panel raising planes are made for cross-grained work, the majority of the cut is with the grain--which often undulates or reverses. I have tried a panel raising...

It's typical of a thread which shifts from conversation to personal agenda attacks. Seems that often the attackers are comprised of just a couple of the same people. This time I am sadened by a...