Recent content by Ikisumu

I have saved up my comment to keep this thread up as long as possible. I am a die hard fan of wooden planes, and I absolutely admire their looks and features. So Clean and Sophisticated. I just can't help wondering how do those planes would feel like. I just have nothing else to wonder about...

The copper midlayer on cast iron is often applied to prepare a surface for a electroplated nickel layer, which is again a substrate for decorative chrome plating. See some general information here. I'm afraid you have now removed the corrosion resistant layer off the lever cap. It can be...

What Chems and Pete said. I've done my share of routing, and in case of burn marks, those variables were often in consideration in aforementioned way. However if you have been very unlucky, your piece of MDF may contain extra amount of mineral fillers. MDF was (is) quite notorious of being a...

I assume you are looking for user tools. There must be something like hundreds of past tool brands in circulation. For example in Sheffield alone was a large number of them already. Of those pieces of old Sheffield steel I have, there's never been anything to complain about, they've all been...

Thank You guys for your nice words. You may certainly apply the theme as much as you want. :) Samu

Well, you can use the magnets to magnetize the iron before sharpening. There'll be a nice fluffy array of steel residues right at the edge poking out and going under the bevel. Will do interesting things with finer stones. You can also throw it through your pile of chips and shavings to find...

Don't move! You are close to truth! :D Seriously, the aforementioned wooden plane I checked out had one of the most boring irons I've encountered. I was able to sharpen it, and I was able to use it to plane wood, but... I just lacked "the bite". The hardness of the steel was less than 60...

Hello, It's made badly. Throat looks like to be really too narrow for the blade. There seems to be no sufficient clearance to tilt the blade if needed. It may be even got stuck in there already. It only tells me that before coating, the wood for the body was not sufficiently stabilized, i.e...

Ok. Thanks, Vann. Samu

How is it with Records, how thick the blade can be that depth adjustment still works sufficiently? Doesn't it adjust the depth via chipbreaker like in Stanleys? Or am I completely wrong here? Samu

Hello Derek, I was about to suggest the same procedure, but then it came to me that especially the "cleaning out most of the waste with a chisel" could already be the stumbling block for many. :? The other difficult thing to figure out could be in not seeing that one could really chisel the...

Thank you very much, guys. There was no design template in use, only basic templates. :) Well I used three different rectangular templates to make the cavity for the latter one, but I believe that does not count yet. :) I have a reason to believe that some professional designers are often...

Well, to find an equivalent substitute in the properties of other existing handplanes, I guess there could be an alternative. I could think of using shoulder planes providing wide adjustability in sole toe piece positioning. You could set the blade protruding quite far, and wide opening of the...

Oh yes, really really fine craftsmanship, and wonderful wood. 8) Samu

Thank you very much, you are very kind. At that point I had some routing practice behind me already. And it was relatively sound way to spend some scrap pieces instead of burning them in the fireplace. Here is a couple of more. They are made pretty much the same way. The one is a bit more...