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I'd say it's mid to late 1800s just as a guess. All of my English saws still have split nuts and a stamped plate and those nice heavy medallions.

I've had gobs of synthetic stones, and would never give up a set of arkansas stones with loose abrasive to go with it for any of them. That includes naniwa's best and shapton's best.

Really...

I think you'll find that loose finish grit is the only you'll tolerate unless you come across an IM 313. You can put silicon carbide grit on a fine india in an IM313 and then eliminate it pretty...

stylize it a little and start a revolution!!

Holding onto the bottom of the handle for a lot of work will rub my hands a little but, but I have a bunch of the cheap "mechanic's gloves" around the...

next thing to do is take the operation to a similar physical form with the disston saw. the only rub is...the rub. raking the disston saw from the handle puts your hands ahead of the blade and I...

there are demonstrations of a pitsaw of that type from williamsburg here in the states. I haven't seen a frame pitsaw. since the pitsaw is used vertically with someone pulling at the bottom, maybe it...

There's something else he's doing that I do and have seen at least a dozen comments about "no real woodworker doing it". But that comment is always made by someone who has no clue about planing...

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Caspar Labarre Beelden Werk.avi - YouTube

Watch the shaving coming out of the plane. Everything I figured out in isolation,...

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you may not be surprised to find that I've made (from scratch) one of these frame saws -I made a test saw, which is shown here, hand filed the blade and then made a...

Caspar Labarre Beelden Werk.avi - YouTube

He's planing with the chipbreaker near the end.

Yes! Thanks for finding that. Now I want to do it. Notice how much more authority he has with the saw.

I should probably add if you could make a fixture or a frame saw like I describe for ripping - i'll bet there are examples out there with the handle extended beyond the blade, you could really haul...

I've used a frame saw like this doing the same thing, just to try to find something easier than other somethings. I found it pretty miserable because one hand is above the blade and the other one...

the metallic fixtures are not affixed to the frame - they are moved around as needed and then held in place by blade tension. if you look at the saw, you'll see the dark stains where the fixtures...

This may have been true for non-technical subjects. For the technical pictures, the drawings were generally careful to display things accurately and perhaps emphasize certain things that are not...

M2 has some vanadium carbides in it. Silicon carbide will probably partially cut it, but aluminum oxide will not. If efficiency is important along with fineness combined, diamonds are necessary.
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OK, here's a test you can do that will split the stones into two categories.
1) King Gold - if you have the king gold, it will leave a fairly bright polish on hardened steel. you won't have to...

Courtesy of the weak yen, I see the kitayama stone is now the equivalent of $36.54 in japan, including a consumption tax and the cost of shipping (as in, total price to your door there). Someone...

king's 4k and 6k stones had S-1 or S-3 on them depending maybe on size? at least that's what I can recall.

the 8000 grit stone that became sort of the retailer standard here for a while had a G...

sure, but I don't know if they do any better than they would on any other piece of mild steel. Or better yet, good quality blanchard ground cast.

however, I remember bill tindall mentioning this...

tumbling media is something I'm less familiar with. I like to get lapidary media because those folks just can't tolerate a good even scratch pattern.

I would imagine that shapton would have a...

Oh yeah, anything in loose grit that's 3 or 4 micron is going to be a world away from a fine arkansas stone in finish. the edge is just rowed and ragged. I tried 5 micron loose diamonds at one point...

there's a reason it doesn't matter - we plane the top center off of a convex edge. it's not sprung. if the board is convex on the edge, you can feel the plane changing because it cannot maintain the...

by the way, i've used 220 grit SC on the fine india, I guess I'd forgotten, but it's at the corner of the shelf right above my bench - i use it when "manufacturing" chisels but have changed my...

The same is true for me - the solvents in great quantity - stoddard and naphtha were bad enough. The odd smelling transitional solvents are worse and some of them need an aromatic solvent to thin...

What you're attempting to explain is how a plane will plane a flat piece of wood and keep it flat.

What we're doing dimensioning is planing a piece of wood that's not flat to flat. whatever does...

40 inches long for the board. Edge 2" wide. The shavings are even thickness end to end. I'll have to make a few more to get the thickness as I have already cleaned up the last group with a leaf...

The entire board is flat until the last four or five inches. Flat to a starrett edge.

You mention of changing cut thicknesses aren't there, the board is just flat but falls off as the toe of the...

the lufkin rule in one of my 12" combination squares is 53 hardness. A pretty solid number - a little harder than most saws, but not hard enough that it'd be brittle.

i'd imagine most of the blades aren't fully hard and if they're some kind of mid hardness, they'd still be blankable.

probably would be a bear to harden them because they'd move and then you'd...

Amber varnishes and hard copals that are short oil are definitely long gone. They were replaced by much cheaper synthetic lacquers and enamels. What remains for boat varnishes now as soft varnishes...

If anything, your description would leave the toe of my board high as the hands on the back are probably in the last 5 inches. Double the length of your board, double the thickness and increase the...

Actually, here is my procedure - it is toe down and tail down at the ends of the cuts, but through the middle, the cut is even. It's not so much a habit that i'm doing something uneven, it's that the...

well, the spiers plane is steel but it scraped without issue. I honed at slightly less aggressive than 90 degrees on the scraper and things seemed to go OK, but if it's mild steel, it could be just...

Not discouraging anyone from scraping, by the way. I think I will probably when making an infill plane, scrape the sole flat. When making a plane for myself, I will scrape it and then lap it until I...

Oh yeah, it's everywhere. Probably up to 55 gallon drums, but I did at least see 5 gallon buckets of it or 50 pounds. I'm sure it's used as blasting media when something really aggressive is needed. ...

Try squares, probably. the blade of a smaller square would be just about ideal thickness for a plane screw washer. can just be run through a blanking machine -already even thickness and surface...

Typical dimensioning goes something like this - let's assume facing or thicknessing. You get a flat back side - if you don't, you'll just fight all kinds of nonsense on the face. even if the face...

oh yeah, it's a very small amount.

if it's diamonds, it's literally like what you can pinch between two fingers and not too much more than that and sprinkle it on like pixie dust.

At 4000...

This gap you're talking about is doubled on wide boards, but the thickness of the shaving in heavy work is also about .008" or something, though that's probably more like .005 or .006" in work.
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There's no difference in friction that I can discern, but rather the issue is being able to come on to the board end and off in a very heavy cut and have a flat surface. With the plane dead flat...

I finally had a chance to clear the toolmaking and varnishing stuff off of my bench. I've scraped a bunch of planes to the point that they are lightfast to the edge of a starrett straight edge no...

yessir on the substrate. Just as I mentioned with the bonding grade diamond, the charge can really be anything hard enough to work over the steel. Diamond is convenient if you're sharpening something...

Very good result! It's hard to get much past 8" on wheels without getting into some danger or high cost.

I grind the bevels freehand on an 8" contact wheel on a belt grinder, but it's not really...

(not dictating, by the way. I've just been through probably 500 stones due to an unhealthy fascination with sharpening things and the toolmaking fuels even more looking at grinding because I...

If you're going to grind bevels by hand, the medium crystolon is a good choice, but only in an oil bath like the IM-313. it breaks down and clogs itself with its swarf otherwise.

I've never come...

I was wrong - it's that particular book that I have, and I haven't yet sold it. it's also $45 on abe books now (fortunately) and $95 on amazon here.

I do remember in the special planes video (I...

the more you use both the india and washita, the more you'll get to like both. It's a different thing than friable synthetics where you love them at first and then their inability to hold a shape...

Not grinding the edge off and starting with the fine india is what I would do. if a washita is strong cutting and the steel involved has no significant carbide volume that isn't iron carbides, then a...

I'm fairly sure I dropped the planes book off at half price book a few years ago. That's a place where they give you about a dollar a book.

If I did, it would be normal to pretend to be mad, but...