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Hi Arron,

try http://www.antiquetools.org/sharp/index.html .

Hi Carpenter,

sailing in ebay I have found, sometimes, parts of stanley planes. You could try there.
I hope this is useful for you :)

Hi All,

I want only a confirm to one my thought: being a organic stuff, the hide glue, if I covered with water it the evening before and next day I don't melt the glue for the use because I'll...

Hi All,

...from long time, I am thinking to build hand plane (wooden planes) therefore I have built two steel pieces for two floats. I have to file the teeth.
But I'm in confusing... I don't...

Hi Derek,


Very great and fine job:) !!

Hi Gatiep,

You are right!!;)

Hi All,


mmmmhhhhh let us see... mumble mumble mumble.........

If I well understood, the motor could be the type asynchronous monophase with the capacitor which serves for starting the run....

Hi Robert,

Even here in Italy, black locust is cosidered like weed. It's an infesting species.
If you have one in the garden, after little time you will have a forest of those. On the other...

Yes Schtoo, I just thought.
I thought to put a cork panel on it when I'll work with soft wood like pine,fir and so on.

Did you read "The Workbench Book (Craftsman's Guide to)"
by Scott...

I am thinking from much time, how to build my own workbench.
I saw some links on web which tell of the topic. Well, I have just purchased the timber (black locust) for the top because I...

Excuse me, but nothing on head of Meo (the cat):rolleyes:

...one thing.. the saw had the safety set on :o .. stupid photo, I know..:o ...when I'll have another photo with me at work...

Hi All,

When I am at work and I have many daily contacts on telephon with others, I would like to know how they are, how is their face.

Therefore it comes well to have a section like this.:)...

Hi Derek,

It is a pleasure to meet you again. I saw your item on web, I don't know where, a foreigner forum perhaps ;) . It is a good idea, but how you have been about throat. Did it be not it...

Hi<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_152226", true); </SCRIPT> JTonks,


I had already seen those links time ago, however thanks the same.
It has been from there that I have...

Thanks a lot;)

Hi Don, I'll try to restore my own scholastic knowledge about electrical engineering: if I don't remember wrong, brush motors are motors which have two small pieces of grafite which conduce current...

Thanks.
Another small question:rolleyes: : is it true that hide glue not needs of any clamps? I think when I'll veneer a large flat surface and I have not a press.:( :o

[QUOTE=knucklehead]....... it used simple box joints and soft solder. Thats an easy way to experiment with plane making.
...........P.S The solder will probably be O.K. but I would not use the soft...

Hi All,


Another question about hide glue.
How many times I could re-heat the glue until it loses its characteristics?:confused:

I have clicked ENTER before to write something...:o
Now I have edited.....

Hi All,

I have been fascinated from infill planes. I have seen some guys who have built a few and I wish to try to make one.
Is there anybody who has built one? When I say it, I want to say to...

Thanks, I'll do a straight side on my veneer.

Thanks Sturdee, another advice please: I have veneer as some stripes. To cover a bigger surface, Do I have to put a stripe over the other and after I have to cut it with a very keen knife? I hope to...

Hi All,

Let us begin immediately to break the ice. I have to restore an old furniture, which has, did have, some surface with ruined veneer. I just removed the old veneer and now I must replace...

Hi rod1949, I think I have understood at what you refer :rolleyes: , but believe me, it is. I spend from Friday to Saturday all my free time in Vinci (FI) where I bought a house, very old house...

Where or what is FI, could it be Foot Ills, no that would be Piedmonte
Hi Iain,

excuse me for the late, but I have access on the computer in working time only:cool: , and last Friday I was in...

oh,oh, I have seen that there now is around midnight.
Golden dreams..........;)

Thanks HiString, I found him. One question: what time is it there ? (only to know what you do when I write to Australia:D )

Hi TassieKiwi,

no,no,no. Here in Italy we haven't nothing or little about old tools. Here we have a lot of electric tools. I don't want to say that one must put away electric tools, but the feel...

:) Yes, WE are. I have not had much time to travel in this forum, but i think if their woodwork is terrible, my is VERY VERY terrible :rolleyes: . My scrub is very very far... I haven't tried an...

Unfortunately I haven't digital camera and even whether I would have it, I have not done much. Time spent around "wood" has mostly been about "reading and learning". However when I'll have a...

Hi, the correct way is :" mia moglie SWMBO parla poco l'italiano. Capisce?"
therefore it was vary good.
Excuse me, a little : are you sure that those music boxes come from Italian production ? I...

Hi namtrak,
I hope the whether is good, in August. Always it is.... excuse me, and you remain there in Australia ??:D
About your translation, you had to say : Buongiorno Signor Geppetto, because...

By personal experience, I am sure it'll be.

Many thanks.

Yes, of course:D

Hi Wood Borer,

I'll try to do it :o .
About woodworking I don't know if it is can be said it is a very popular hobby.
One moment, now I think, no.. it isn't a very popular hobby.. I don't know...

Hi All,

I am new. My name is Gabriele and I live in Vinci (FI) -Italy. I have always been a lover of the "self made" (I think it would be said thus:o ).
When I was young, I looked my grandfather...