Recent content by Bainzy

Loving the photos in this thread. I haven't actually taken out my LN in over a year, and I swear looking at it now, the handles have got slightly darker. I wonder if in time it will eventually look like an old Stanley Bedrock...

Interesting stuff. It looks even better than Brazilian Rosewood imo, but then again it doesn't smell anywhere near as nice.

Are these discontinued now? When I got a 5 1/2 jack a few years ago, I ordered it with Coco handles, and ended up with both types as Cherry were the only ones in stock. In fact it took absolutely ages for CHT to get the Coco handles from LN, but eventually they got some for me. Likely to...

Thanks for sharing, building a shooting board is a task I really need to get sorted soon at some point. I keep thinking about how I can make it perfectly adapted to what I'd do with one (building guitars) but then realise I'm probably trying to reinvent the wheel. :lol:

Personally I can't stand the scummy bits in hard water, whenever I'm in Nottingham (for Uni) I always take about 20 seconds to scoop all the bits out of my tea with a spoon, and the water is one of the first things I look forward to when I'm coming back to Yorkshire. :lol:

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I used the article to tune up mine, and am very pleased with the results. Mine was an old Stanley Rule & Level chamfering chave (missing the chamfering attachment) that belonged to my grandfather, so being able to continue using his tools was reason enough to upgrade instead of replace. The...

Sorry to hear about that John, I know how you're feeling as I had a similar experience myself this week. While trying to separate a glue joint made with hot hide glue that didn't loosen from kettle steam, I had a craft knife wiggling around in there. It got stuck, and when it came free it shot...

Well I guessed there was either a 90% chance you lived in Bingley, or a 10% chance you were just a fan of Pride and Predjudice. :lol: I'll send you a PM when I get some free time for template building, I might have some other templates by then (such as some '59 Les Paul ones).

Sure, more than happy to help - this is the first time I've built a Les Paul style guitar, and I can safely say already difficulty wise it's a totally different ballgame from building a Strat, but much more rewarding. Nice score on the Mahogany, I searched around quite a bit to find a supply...

Looking great, I never realised there were any others that built guitars here in West Yorkshire - I've been cracking on with my Les Paul this week if you're interested: UK Guitar Builder's Forum. Just out of curiosity, where did you find the reclaimed Mahogany for the body? I've got a set of...

I've got a plane from that era that was my grandad's, I've dated it to probably around WWII period since its exactly like the immediate post war ones except it doesn't use brass for the screws or adjuster wheel (and brass wasn't used on Stanley planes during WWII). It isn't the best Stanley out...

Have you had a look at the UK Guitar Builders Forum? I'm a regular poster there, it's a good place to ask questions like this and check out other peoples work. I'm only building electrics right now, but once I turn out a few more successful builds I might branch out into acoustics - the main...

If I made a cap iron for my (No.65?) Spokeshave that works like a chip breaker out of brass, what is the minimum thickness I should really be using to have it perform well? In the "Working with Handplanes" book, the spokeshave tune-up article recommends making one out of 1/4" stock, yet the...

I thought this article was quite helpful when I first started out, highlighting the different ways I could go about it: http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/w00003.asp