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Best wishes for a Happy Christmas and New Year to Ubeaut and everyone who contributes and helps to keep this forum going!

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Noah may have used a Makita 5900B to build the Ark. Mine is still going as strong as the day I bought it 35 years ago - having cut through every kind of timber (including sleepers) and, with...

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Here's one - a MAO ratchet brace.

The markings on the angled bar nearest the pad are: MAO ABC No88 12in

Two jaw chuck accepts standard tapered bits. Ratchet is as good as the day it was...

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The advice I always follow when purchasing tools is to "Buy sparingly, but buy well".

My Metabo barrel-grip jigsaw seems indestructible. With its electronic speed control and...

Well done - especially the flats on the handle to enable the cutting edge to be oriented properly :2tsup:. Here's the LN interpretation, with a short demo video.

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Looks a bit like a woodturner's hook turning tool (e.g. see here) or similar for internal wood turning / hollowing that has acquired a chisel handle.

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If I bought one of these controllers from you:
. Which Electrical Testing Authority would test it and certify it for use in Australia?
. What guarantees would you offer?
. How would I and my...

What a find - a complete hand-held hand-powered impact drill for drilling into masonry, stone, concrete etc. Very handy, but slow.

You use it by inserting the drill bit into the handle as shown...

Good idea MalB.

The router guide shown in the original pic 1 looks identical to the guide for my Hitachi TR12 router, but measurements might show that it is for something else.

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It looks like you've got accessories from several power tools.

In addition to what everyone has identified above, picture 2 is an adjustable fence for a hand-held electric planer. I have...

Hmmm. Phosphorus-based - would have been really nasty stuff to use and store. White Phosphorus would be highly combustible, toxic and very dangerous indeed (I think it was a component of some rat...

Thanks Geoff!

I think we've moved a bit off the track of the original theme of this thread, but it's been interesting travel. I recall using Spirits of Salts (dilute hydrochloric acid) as a flux...

I have vivid memories of these - clamp the patch over the cleaned puncture, scratch the heat pad to roughen its surface, light with a match and stand well back. I recall that they burned rapidly...

I saw one of these at the HTPAA tool sale in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think it had a maker's name. Yours looks as though it has never been used.

The chappie who seemed to know...

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I agree! Over several years Terry has always given me his time and plentiful advice to ensure that I have the right tools for my work, and his support for users of his tools is excellent. ...

Hi Snafus,

Here is what is probably my next project - another workbench design that you might like to consider. This appears to be simple but very solid, and it can be taken apart for easier...

Dear Geoff,

Here are a couple of pics of the Silex No 78 sliding bevel mentioned by Sam (above).

I bought this bevel in the middle 1970's, and I recollect seeing them with mid blue paint...

Not quite a hand tool, but it is complete (except for the motor) - Ryobi wood lathe

I have always found Just Tools in St Melbourne to have a good range of quality power tools at competitive prices. Their web page of biscuit joiners is here

If you are interested in mail order,...

+1 for Dyno's and Tom's replies. Also, top marks to you for supporting Australian makers.

Choosing tools such as these is a bit like Goldilocks and the three bears chairs. I tried all Terry's...

The Swan sash mortise chisel, because it is the only tool with only two main components (one-piece blade + socket connected directly to the handle, although the handle does have a collar at the...

:2tsup: IanW's advice is spot on!

I use a honing guide (Eclipse) for creating a secondary bevel, because I found that freehand I was honing an uneven rounded bevel - the guide helps me to keep it...

These might be helpful:

here if you want a brad / pin pusher suitable for fine-scale model work, or

here if you want a more robust one for larger brads.

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Congratulations Thumbthumper and Stuffy - both right and in what appears to be record time!

I think I made it too easy:doh:

The Stanley 53 Spokeshave is the only one that does not have a...

Many thanks for this one NC - kept us all intrigued for quite a while!!

Here's a quickie.

Which tool is different and why?

Thanks Denim!

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Nice one Stu!

I have seen chisels just like this referred to as shipbuilder's / Shipwright's mortise chisels or bridge-builder's chisels. Either one suggests tools that needed to be rather...

You've got us all on this one NC!!

Is it the combination square because when it is set it can provide three measurements at one setting - length, 45 degrees, 90 degrees? All the others can...

Ah ha! The combination square because it is the only one with a graduated measurement scale (ruler), and it can be used to set all the other tools (only 45 and 90 degrees for the adjustable bevels).

+1 for HNT Gordon.

Superb tools that produce exquisite results!

Is it the combination square because the angles it can be used to measure are fixed at 45 and 90 degrees? All the others are infinitely adjustable for measuring / marking length or angle.

Virgil, I think the new Stanley SW 750 series chisels are chalk and cheese to the Fatmax that caught the OP's eye, and are targeted at an entirely different use and user.

Jim Davey is advertising...

Here's the real thing, in a set of six, at price not too much different to the equivalent cost of buying the same set at your market.

Also, if you break a genuine one that you have bought from a...

I bought a couple of 4 inch Double Extra Slim Taper just recently. These have very small shanks and, while the tiny brand name stamped in them is very hard to read even with a strong magnifying...

The Australian branch of Lie Nielsen sell individual triangular files in a range of sizes for sharpening saws here

I suggest that you give the LN folk in Adelaide a 'phone call or email - I have...

Given the choice, I would go with the 45 degree frog, as this would allow me to put a small front bevel on a blade if I wanted to increase the cutting angle a bit, e.g. to 50 degrees. With a 50...

Rather than getting several different frogs for one LN plane, may I suggest that you get a couple of planes set up with different arrangements so you do not have all that futzing around that comes...

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Well done - plenty to be proud of there!!!

Beautiful work Derek!!

Some thoughts in response to your ponderings about wide jointers built with twin blades and your question as to whether this was to ensure that one blade was always sharp so...

Many thanks Derek - very interesting!!

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Great excitement - Scribbly's plane base turned up late today!!

Three minutes after opening SG's carefully wrapped package the new (for me) base had the tote, knob and frog from the broken plane...

Many thanks for sharing these with us Derek.

Interesting to see how the working faces of their mallets have become cupped through working on those chisels, but very scary to see how close they put...

You are a real gentleperson SG!!

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Many thanks Thumbthumper - perhaps two of these:

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so that two "Rest In Peaces" = Rest in two pieces

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This is what happened when my Australian Stanley No 4 (purchased in 1976, complete with ultra-thin chatterbox cheese blade in its fitted box as shown) decided to do a dive of about a metre and a bit...

Could these be adapted as replacements??

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I tried the method described by Chris Schwarz here

It works a treat with my LNs, but that might be because the insides of the sockets are highly machined and the handles are a good tight fit to...