I’ve been gifted a small 11kg anvil, but have no idea where to start with metalworking in general.
Any tips for how to get started, what kind of projects are sensible and easy for beginners etc?
Thanks in advance.
I use the Pegas blades with the saw from Workshop Heaven (also where the I get the blades from). I find they don't snap as often as cheaper blades do, and they hold tension well.
I’ve picked up some second hand carving chisels/gouges. They’re good quality Sorby and Pfeil, but they have a fair amount of rust.
It’s in small patches like freckles, across both the main shafts and into the various cutting shapes.
Any recommendations for getting it off? Thanks!
I’m not sure water resistance and being food safe are the same, especially with resin based glues.
Everbuild 503 has an allergic reaction warning and an ecological toxicity warnings from a glance at the SDS. Not what I’d want to eat off.
(I’m no TB3 fanboy, I wish other glues would get FDA...
I was contemplating something similar. After David Charlesworth and David Savage passed away, and many others are leaving teaching…who will start to take their place?
I think you are the first person I have ever seen challenge what seems to be the current orthodoxy and suggest that LN may have ever produced a less than heavenly plane. Are we allowed to do that now?
We might not all like it but Dionysios is probably right.
LN planes don’t seem to have any patent protection (LN has only 5 filed patents in the US, with one being for an improved router plane). I suspect there isn’t much available intellectual property protection around planes based on the...