Thread: DIY Stanley infill LA Block!

Hey Guys, inspired by some of the efforts on this forum by Derek et al, I decided to try my hand at making a Stanley infill. I based it on a lowly #110, and turned it into a low angle block. The lever cap was done using hacksaws, sanding spindles in drill press, disc sander, sandpaper, etc. Took a long time! The timber is all Blackwood. I decided to add a little friction-fit hand-hold out of blackwood as it was looking ergonimically and aesthetically unpleasing. The screw is a stainless steel bolt bolted/recessed into a chunk of brass that I 'turned' round in the drill press. I still need to think up a way to add some knurling/grip around the head of it...
The hardest bits were flattening out the inside of the metal body, and once the infill was in, getting the mouth co-planar with it! In the end I turned a T shape out of jarrah on the lathe, and glued a piece of 60 grit on the wide bottom. I then stuck the narrow shaft in the drill press, set the plane at the correct angle in a drill press vice, and slid it around on the table under the sandpaper to create a kinda poor man's milling machine setup!
Enough talk....