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Ciao Max, benvenuto

Buy the sizes and best quality you can afford. I still have my splitproof from the 80's.

My workshop is an old cowshed, half buried in the hill, stone walls with no mortar so damp. I find metall-protect from Felder works and should be ok on timber as it is designed to protect iron surfaces on woodworking machines. I have a rag next to the spray and just wipe tools after use.

I have the smallest Felder/Hammer saw. It has a tension meter so I guess yours will too. I find I can't actually get as much tension as the gauge suggests but the blade should be hard to deflect when you push against it with a single finger.

It is quite common to use camelia oil. I have used ballistol gun oil in the past and also metall-protect from Felder.

There was 40cm of snow forecast yesterday but just a lot of wet snow that fortunately did not settle. 28C a week ago, today 0C and snowing rain again. if you need a hand let me know. I don't have a lot of free time at the moment but if I can get away I will. Murrazano must be about an hour away.

I wish I had seen this when I first started using handplanes.

I recently purchased one of Kingshotts books but thought this video an excellent introduction to the handplane and how it works. Better than anything I have read or seen before.

If you don't mind it a bit smaller cut it at the mitres, sand off all the stain and finish it before re-gluing.

I have ordered the Record, on the 1st of this month, if it ever turns up I'll let you know.

I wont touch them. I bought a Scheppach pillar drill from them which is adequate but far from accurate and a reciprocating saw that lasted 3 days, my wife was cutting up pallets, shaft snapped.

As a child my dad used to go to his uncle in the mountains. I believe they used to keep songbirds in tiny cages in the dark. When they brought them out they would sing like mad. A tree was constructed and covered in glue. They would collect the birds, pinching the heads to kill them. Something...

If you want anything Star M which are also good quality try Amazon.co.jp.

I nearly always buy Fisch, they are very good and just keep going. I tried an Irwin once and it was useless by comparison. I believe Famag are very good too.

I'm thinking about building a shooting plane with a skew blade. How best to cut the blade without it overheating? I thought carefully score with angle grinder and snap maybe?

Wiha and PB Swiss are very good too.

I buy Nakahashi Seisakusho directly from Amazon Japan. Very good chisels and much more economical for me here in Italy.

Looks good but.... My mum born Chesterfield but we both live in Italy now. I think the Silverline was over 12 euro on Amazon.it

Is there an alternative to paying a small fortune for an abrasive cleaning stick as used on belt sanders and stationary disc sanders?

I wouldn't normally buy DMT because I have never had a flat one but recently saw a large coarse and extra coarse on Amazon for $35 so I bought it. I don't know why but that is what the instructions say.