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This summer I will be visiting Devon and Cornwall together with my wife. It's long since we have been in England! My daughter was 2 last time, and now she lives on her own. Only a short visit to London in the mean time. Anyway. We will be visiting the usual stuff. Dartmoor is high on the list...

On the Dutch woodworker forum a thread has been started about several projects, claimed to be made by mr. Beuker, but which have just been nicked from the Dutch/Belgium forum. Some examples: https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/something-else-i-created-t105605.html...

In the last "Gildebrief" from the Dutch antique tool club Ambacht en Gereedschap http://www.ambachtengereedschap.nl/ was a very interesting article about the earliest Dutch moulding planes found in the Skokloster castle in Sweden. The article is written by Hein Coolen, one of the owners of...

I just bought an India coars/fine combination stone. An IB-8 to be precise. I know this stone was used as a one and only stone by many people, probably some still do. I have a question though. I tried it with a couple of vintage plane irons. Easy to raise a wire edge on the "fine" side. No...

I got some mortise chisels, with the typical 19th century Dutch/German look. But one of them is an I&H. Sorby. Ever seen anything like this? It certainly isn't a pig sticker. It also hasn't the reverse taper of the Dutch chisels (wide at the edge, narrower towards the handle), but is more or...

Today I chopped the mortise for a try plane. At the end I was curious how the edge had held up, in light of several discussions last week. This was the mortise. This is the edge under a 10x looking glass. Still very smooth, no chipping at all. It also still feels very smooth on a thumbnail...

Because I am in between serious projects, I decided to make a wooden plane. Beech, in the English tradition. This is a jack plane. A jack plane needs a wide open mouth, luckilly, because whatever I tried the mouth only got larger... It's 16" long with a 2 1/8" iron.

On the popular woodworking blog is a blog from Chris Schwarz about efficient handplaning. He urges us to do all handplaning at once before the wood starts moving, cupping, bowing, twisting whatever. I don't really understand this one. Would't it be better to leave some material to be able to...

I saw in a corner of my eye some discussion about the "loss" of knowledge about the correct use of the capiron, in another thread. And I thought, why not start a new one? It is kind of interesting how these things work in this world. My interpretation: The capiron was invented in the 18th...

I have aquired a few chisels that look pretty old, mainly because of the long, tapered, octagon handles. There is a 1/2" paring chisel from Thos. Ibbotson and some very narrow chisels from Moulson brothers. The handles are very long 6" to 7"! Anone care to take guess at a manufacturing date?

Steve Voigt started a new endeavour, wooden double iron planes along the lines of the early 19th century, the summit of wooden bench plane making. They feature especially made LV tapered and slotted irons. http://www.voigtplanes.com/ Good luck to Steve.

What? You guys visit the Seaton Chest, and i must read on an Australian forum about it? :evil: :wink: http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=196097 Some very nice pictures, adding much to the book about this chest. Do you have more pictures? I'd like to make some planes one day and...

We had a discussion a while ago about the time when the beveled edge chisel came onto the market. It was believed that it was a late 19th century invention, because you find all kinds of early firmer shaped ones and only later beveled chisels in England. Then the Dutch chisel found on Nova...

Mechanics of chipbreakers and high cutting angles in woodworking planes. Kees van der Heiden, The Netherlands, 2014. Abstract. When using handplanes, tearout is a typical problem. Two methods to prevent tearout are high cutting angles and chipbreakers set very close to the cutting edge. In...

This occupied a lot of my free time this year. Some new experiments to see if there is anything usefull in these chipbreaker thingies. I really hope Steve Elliott will get the article up on his website this weekend. Just to get some stoke going, here's a short videoclip...

I started tidying up my few Higgs hollow and rounds. And now I have a problem. One of the irons is too far gone. Rust has eaten almost straight through. I have plenty of old irons, but all of them are way too thick. This one is 18th century so at the business end it is not quite 3mm thick, more...

I have put some pictures on my blog about all the woodworking related stuff I've seen on my holliday trip in Burma. Enjoy. http://seekelot.blogspot.nl/2014_08_01_archive.html

Anyone wants to make some clogs? Here's how to. Interesting techniques. This certainly is "workmanship of risc". Don't forget to look at the links suggested by youtube too at the end of the video. Some interesting Spanish clogs to be seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5BLJhiMO0

What kinds of awl's are these and how do I sharpen and use them?

On Jeff Gorman's site http://www.amgron.clara.net/sciencereport16.html you can read a bit about forces on plane irons, quoting a scientific article from Forest Products Research. Jeff's webpage makes me very curious to the rest of the article, but it seems not to be available online, probably...