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Spear and Jackson saws pamphlet if anyone is interested. Some of the fold lines have broken. See photos. £1.25 to cover postage in UK or can find out postage for elsewhere.

All four volumes of the practical woodworker. Some damage to the covers but the pages in good condition. Very comprehensive works. £36 delivered in the UK. PM me if interested.

Thank you. That’s interesting. Was it much out of flat? I guess I was hoping that being Veritas I wouldn’t have to worry about that. I dislike flattening a lot but understand it’s a necessary evil. I’ll have a look at mine. Never thought about using clear acrylic as the platform before. I...

Thank you everyone for your responses. It’s the first time I have worked with sapele so it’s good to know what it’s character is. Great suggestions about table sawing it or placing another piece over the top. I love how there are usually always solutions available. I will work on technique and...

I’ve been making another oilstone box in sapele, and as with my previous one I have been getting a lot of tear out when router planing the bottom of the recesses. Is this likely to just be a sharpness issue (it is a veritas router plane and I’m still getting used to trying to keep the iron...

I’m planning on making the English Woodworker’s shooting board. It is a bench hook anyhow and has some good skills I need to develop. If it is out of square then he mentions you can plane the edge back into square but I would probably just use it as a bench hook by that point. I made the Paul...

Did you enjoy it? Did he enjoy it? That’s all that matters right?

I had a go at an oilstone box. I’m pretty pleased with the result although it’s a long way from a fine piece. I think it will grace the workbench nicely especially after it gets worn in. I made it with a piece of sapele I had. I was pleased to use it although since it was a random offcut it may...

Thank you. Makes a lot of sense and as you say very simple!

It’s a beautiful piece, love it painted too. I am intrigued by this ‘squaring device’ though. Any more info or photos?

Boker Congress Whittler. Has 4 carbon steel blades and rosewood scales. It's in excellent working condition. I didn't get this as a collector's piece so all the blades have been rebevelled and there are some scratches on the main blade etching. I've had it from new for ten years and used it...

Ok, so I was prepared to just leave it and see how I got on. But I watched the Bill Anderson excerpt on restoring rebate planes on YouTube (woodandshop) and he mentioned zirconia for lapping. I thought I might as well give it a try just for experience so bought a metre of 80 grit cloth backed...

That's a really great suggestion, thanks. I was thinking that I'm going to need to bolster the end grain sections well on both sides with sacrificial pieces on this first box I'm doing. Hopefully it will be simple to find a workholding solution for it.

I can't believe I never thought of that, just turning the box over to get the other side of the stone! Great idea. I love these decorative boxes though.

Thanks all. I don't have a Forstner bit but I can see why it's an attractive idea. I started a box yesterday with a piece of sapele which was only just thick enough really for a 1" stone. Of course I didn't take into account the amount of wood removed by the saw ripping it in half and then...