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That, indeed, is my problem. I understand the solution, however, as the slot is 4mm wide and the tang is 7mm, it means I have to file 1.5mm on each side. This is not a trivial amount of metal to...

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Unpowered - 22" John Moseley & Son plane
Powered - the shed lights.

SWMBO had a birthday and I made these boxes for her. Missed the date by four months, but it is the intention that counts.

I think it is one of the newer Stanley planes. Probably late '60s or the '70s. At some stage Stanley started producing "cheaper" tools for the home DIY market. These usually do not have the company...

Two years ago I had a similar problem. The best advice I got was to clean the blade corner a bit and continue using it as is.

Lightwood, would you mind sharing the whole catalogue with the world? If you could send me the images of the pages I'll be happy to OCR them and combine to a PDF file. I will need them at 300DPI...

Congratulations. It is a very nice plane. When I got mine it was sharp and ready to use straight from the box. Polishing the blade might have been useful, but with my experience at the time I doubt I...

The bloody flash hides all shadows. Here are some more photos.

The panel is supposed to be floating, but I am afraid it got glued up when I glued the frame.

The finish is BLO and Hard...

SWMBO asked for a new tray. This is what she got.

If the saw is not in a really bad state, you may want to look for a local saw doctor. For a very reasonable price they could bring your saw to a working condition. I doubt they will clean rust or...

A carcase saw is yet another type of a back saw. Some will claim that it is typically smaller than the tenon saw, but I guess that both names can be correctly applied to both saws. I believe that...

Well, nothing fancy, except that the proud builder had recently celebrated his fifth birthday. He did need some help from daddy. Here he is presenting his first project and working on his makers...

You can get new Jennings pattern bits from Tools for Working Wood (Do a search for Jennings to see them). Adapters for hex drive and 3/8" sockets are available from Lee Valley. Some other bits are...

Thanks BTman and artme.

The rack is completed. Finish is BLO and traditional wax, hardware is Brusso chain hangers.

Unfortunately, the whole thing is not as stable as I would have liked it to...

To shape the top piece, I first mark the shape and a few vertical lines down to the arc. I saw down these lines and than saw the waste out. Cleaning up is done with a spoke shave, followed by sand...

I use a sliding bevel set to about 5 degrees for (almost) all the angled cuts. The nuki (middle piece) is made of three parts of a single piece tenoned into the hashiras (uprights). To align the...

My mum's birthday is coming up soon, so I made a necklace rack for her. As I need to allow some time for shipping, I was busy doing the work. Now that I am waiting for the oil to cure it's time to...

Here is what I use...

Looks really nice. How did you shape the seat?

Thanks for posting this guide. I was doing some reading on hinges recently and thought you might find the attached interesting.

Thanks all.

Here is a photo of the cabinet in its place. I guess it explains the otherwise strange choice of colours.

Nice work.

Here is a small cabinet I made for the bathroom. Made of pine. This is my first painted job, and I have learned that paint requires as much preparation as clear finishes. This is also my first...

Hi Ken, it looks like a nice find and I hope you enjoy it.

As Frank said, I doubt they have much value as antiques, but they can make great users and are really nice to use.

The best source...

It comes up really nice Afro Boy. May I ask what glue you use? I have had some bad experience with end grain glue ups and was wondering how you solve that.

Your work has inspired me to try some...

I guess everyone uses their favourite variation on the same theme.

I tend not to plane across the grain - I find it hard to avoid tear-out at the far side.

In the past I had used the scrub...

And a bit more...

Back from work...

The glue is dry and here are the planes in their place. I also mounted the small side rebate plane.

The metal planes are mounted between two "hooks". The toe slides under the top hook just enough to allow the heal to enter under the bottom hook. The plane drops into the bottom hook and is held...

It is a great project, but I doubt I can get more than 10 m/ht with the water pressure at my place...
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Here...

And here are the boring bits. :doh:

Thanks all.



My MIL sends them from Rio de Janeiro. Yet another advantage of a MIL that lives in Brazil. It is worth having them, though. Just the other day I was cutting some timber when...

Hey Tony - I am a living proof that this problem is not specific to farmers. Junk has been accumulating in my shed at an alarming rate, and I have always been reluctant to restore it because I did...

Thanks Peter.

Do you know what dowel size fits these? 3/8th does not enter the hole, so I assume it is 5/16 or thinner...

Does anyone know what this bit is for? It has the words "Preston England" and the Preston logo on one side, and the number 7/16 on the other. The diameter of the head is 7/16 inch.

Does anyone...

Here are the doors (and some steps on the way).

According to Hoadley's "Understanding Wood", changes in moisture content of Sealed indoor timber are much smaller than those of unsealed timber. He states that for most of the US the MC of unsealed...

As you can see whatever workout it gives me is far from being enough.

So I finished cutting and four-squaring the boards. Now it's only grooving, trimming to length, cutting the joint, gluing,...

Today I ripped some boards for the cabinet doors. GIT was running round me taking photos, so you can see me doing this fun activity. I cut at about 10 metres per hour. (It is normal to use a...

Harry: I've been busy with work and studies. I have been away from the shed and away from the forum, but the withdrawal symptoms were too bad and now I am indulging in my addiction again. Life can...

I am using the Veritas steel straight edge.

This is a WIP thread for the hanging tool cabinet I am building. As usual I start taking photos a bit late in the process, but I hope you do not miss too much moving forward.

The cabinet is built...

Thanks everyone.

The carcass measures about 1200x900, so cutting isn't much of a problem. I guess that once I get to the 1800 range I will have to start using some of the methods suggested here....

How do people mark the pins from the tails (or vice versa) when the boards are longer than the bench height? The only method I came up with is to clamp the boards to a square piece of timber - as in...

Thanks everyone. I guess I will leave the current nail in there, and if it wears out too soon I will replace it with something better.

It is that one. I will try to list everything later, but I will know more as I restore them.

I think that the photos the seller put on eBay did a lot of injustice to this box. (Not that I...

Thanks all.



I believe it is a D-8 Disston saw. The medallion dates it to 1896-1917. The blade is very rusty - I do not know if I can save it.


Yes - about one for each tooth. :)

A few millimetres. Also, the curves are less pronounced than those in the diagram. The width at the centre is smaller than the wide part of the dovetail.