Recent content by Carl P

Alas, I don't need to ask... :oops:

If you don't mind cleaning one up, I have a few from car boots that are waiting to be cleaned up and sold on ebay. Quite happy to send one for the shipping costs, let me know if you're interested. It wouldn't be a named make though, and obviously I'd check everything was working properly and...

D_W - Thanks for your explanations, they are much appreciated, I think I've got it now, just need to try it in practice. For a fuller context, what radius is the camber on your jackplanes? Cheerio, Carl

Glad to hear things are moving on well - looking forward to the pictures. ed65 - Carl P wrote: ...diluted vinegar with some acetic crystals for good measure... Why dilute the vinegar and then add acetic crystals Carl, isn't that one step back and one forward? It is indeed! The reason for the...

A vinegar, or diluted vinegar bath helps dissolve rust - I left a very rusty Record 52 vice in a big plastic box full of diluted vinegar with some acetic crystals for good measure, after a couple of days (you shouldn't need that long as you wouldn't need to dilute it as much as I did) I scrubbed...

In which case, how many eyes do you have left, and how many did you start with? And does the answer make you part of the alien sharpening conspiracy that seems to be sweeping the woodworking world of late? Cheerio, Carl

Just recently bought a wheelwrights tool chest that had three stones in it, an India with little use therefore perfectly flat, a coticule well used with a slight hollow, and what I assume is an Arkansas which was well used and quite flat - they all looked like they'd been used freehand but with...

Thanks for this post - I've learnt a lot, and it's sparked some interest as I had previously considered the subject of drills to be a little, well, boring - the only problem is, it's opened up a whole new slope, damn you! Cheerio, Carl

I've just finished this kerf plane, started months ago, but moving house delayed things - I used the screw fence idea, but wish I'd used the bridle plough method for the fence. It works well in that it made it a lot easier to start the kerf and keep it straight, but I used 6tpi on a 9" plate...

Andrea, I like your plane very much, I followed the link and I was wondering, are the arms fixed to the fence with only dovetails? All the plough planes I have come across have needed to be adjusted with a mallet, I would be worried about the arms shearing away from the fence - But I imagine...

Just wanted to say thanks for taking the trouble to do these videos - I must confess to not having watched them all, but that's because I haven't made a plane, yet - but it won't be long and I'll be making a 14" jack, and I will be avidly watching the lot! (I'm making sure I have plenty of a...

Must admit I had to google it - there's a heavy metal festival apparently... Just wondered if such things could be used as part of flattening oilstones, I got a joblot of very used ones a little while ago - so dished even Jacob might cast them aside! I've tried sand on a paving slab, it sort of...

Is that WS the renowned Birmingham planemaker?

Reading this is like watching 'Dave' on TV, all your favourite repeats full of loveable characters saying the same old stuff over and over again. Life affirming stuff - if Jacob and Bugbear swapped positions, or even worse agreed with each other it might precipitate an existential crisis of such...

Thanks for that, the penny finally dropped as to why it's better on the pull, it's anchored to the handle so less flex, excellent. Incidentally I'm sure there's a rather tenuous actress and the bishop joke in there somewhere if I could be bothered to think it through, Cheerio, Carl