Recent content by Eshmiel

Perhaps that Jacob is another re-incarnation of Jonesy (the black dagger). I notice he has splurged out his silly old tale of curmudgeon-taught sharpening somewhere upthread, as he has done on forums since 1923. There are only those who can sharpen and those who can't, says he. Presumably this...

PPS Sigh - the short little attention spans generated in the TV-watching generations. Can you even get to the end of one sentence? Not everything has to consist of flashing screens containing 1 second of cartoon character antics, you know. :-) Still, best to ignore things you wish to remain...

Hmmmm - yes, you may be right. In future I will be buying car and bicycle that does not go, as speed kills! Also, I will switch all the electric off to the electrical items at the mains. Electrocution is always a possibility - but not if there's no lecky in the wire. .... Perhaps we should all...

If you have no blade camber on your smoothing plane how do you avoid having to sand off the plane tracks left by the corners of a straight edge? Do you think that a sanded surface can be distinguished from an only-planed surface once the finish has gone on (assuming no plane tracks become...

Leksherin' is one of my many hobbies! I am attempting to adopt an even more reedy and pedantic tone than that of one or few of the other pontificators about this place. It seems all the rage. :) As to showing my furniture - well, I have many a photo. But none of the pieces are price...

It's true - some Ikea furniture can last for a while and doesn't drop to bits at the slightest knock. But an awful lot of it doesn't last - because of the chipboard sag; and a lot of it is too delicate for much normal family use. The house we moved into recently has an Ikea kitchen. The...

"The market" is not some natural phenomenon that "makes demands". It's a construct of humans, consisting of many things including misleading adverts and laws that tend to protect the seller more than the buyer, to a degree allowing sellers to lie about the quality of what they sell and often to...

Ha ha - very droll! Poor manufacturers are justified in selling dross to those they gull because otherwise they might not be able to make loadsa money and some proper manufacturer would get the dosh instead. Let's all stop making proper furniture and rush down to Ikea to buy their chipboard...

David Charlesworth does not over complicate things - he explains carefully, in detail and with great clarity many of the reasons behind the processes that some just copy and use with little intelligence. He is a fine antidote to many of the prattling over-excited Youtube "gurus" who are more...

You'd have learnt what a sharp blade in a plane feels like to use - a benchmark for testing your own future efforts to sharpen. Knowing what "sharp" feels like is the number one hurdle for those trying to learn to sharpen. Those who don't RTFM are surely the most in need of a sharp plane out...

A shed of mine in NW England, exposed to plenty of rain and high winds, has never lost a felt shingle in 20 years - although the sheet-felt covering the apex got blown to bits despite being reinforced with a batten. The trick is to use felt shingles of good quality and weight. Some felt...

It's certainly the case that any woodworking tool will need maintenance; and the necessity of sharpening planes & chisels is unavoidable. Myself I'm coming 'round to Tony Z's point - perhaps the compromise would be for retailers to offer an additional service to initially set up a chisel or...

Oh yes? :) Eshmiel

Did you notice this monster when you were at that website? https://www.dm-tools.co.uk/product.php/section/7129/sn/MAFMKS185E#.X18uMhBKj18 I have often looked at this beast with a feeling of longing; but also a feeling of how much it would hurt should the beast escape one's control. The price...

But why are they an exception? Lurker believes it's a way to force buyers to learn to sharpen because they'll have to eventually - a reasonable point but with an alternative: provide them first with a sharpened plane blade so they know what one should feel and work like; and put a Peter Sefton...