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  1. J

    Will bandsaw bearing guides handle small blades?

    Playing with my broadband. ...and the rubber sealed bearings still going strong after 4 years since I got rid of the standard metal shielded bearings.
  2. J

    Will bandsaw bearing guides handle small blades?

    Can't confirm that personally as mine have not yet failed. Shielded (as supplied by Record) - 3 months Rubber sealed - 2.5 years and still clear.
  3. J

    Will bandsaw bearing guides handle small blades?

    There is a fix if you can find sealed versions - e.g. on ebay http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/tools5.html
  4. J

    Will bandsaw bearing guides handle small blades?

    Who woke me up with an enchanted notification? My opinion on ballbearing guides after a couple of years - Ruddy noisy, especially when you get softwood resin making their surfaces lumpy. The sealed bearings are much better than the ones supplied, but brass or coolblock rubbing guides are far...
  5. J

    Marples Deluxe x4?

    Oh alright then, it's quite a nice improvement on the no. 4 of its day, in having the adjustable mouth. There must have been a reason they didn't sell too well, especially as a Marples plane. That was before Record took them over surely. Many of those "patent" designs had some flaw that...
  6. J

    Slip plane ?

    Oh yes I forgot that one.
  7. J

    Slip plane ?

    There's a Record 2506s currently in eBay. Planecraft book shows one in use to open up a door shut. You would need to buy a pair of the LN or Stanley ones.
  8. J

    Marples Deluxe x4?

    I presume the £103 price tag is purely down to the "rarity" of this plane, and nothing to do with its condition, design or intrinsic value which I would put at about £8 tops. Then people pay £100 for stainless steel toast racks from the right designer. Daft I call it.
  9. J

    edge planing

    Oh point taken, and I have tried all sorts of methods of getting the perfect square edge - shooting boards, router jigs, bolt-on side plates. In the end scribing lines both sides and planing down to the line with the plane meant for the job gives the satisfaction of getting to a good edge in...
  10. J

    edge planing

    The method of putting your fingers under the sole as a fence is surely for those who have a cambered blade, using the plane's position side to side to tune up the angle minutely. With a flat blade it's a bit pointless. I mean they put a handle there to hold onto didn't they? It's also a good...
  11. J

    Record plane iron

    That blade marking is pre 1960 and they take a nice edge. Need to do a lot of work on the plane and cap iron to fit a thicker blade properly. I would stick with the old one.
  12. J

    Old Mortiser

    That's true. Though if they have morse tapers they will have been machine made pretty accurately anyway. And I expect banging out a joint in a door stile in redwood was not too precise a job. Nearest 1/32nd and plenty of glue and wedges!
  13. J

    Which side rabbet plane?

    I use the Recdord 2506 for tweaking grooves for sliding lids, but you must have the fence to go with it, else it cuts deeper and deeper. A fence from an 078 can be fettled to fit fairly well. Main problem is cutting your hand when you forget there's another blade looking right up at you.
  14. J

    Old Mortiser

    I was wondering how you would work the mortice from both sides, but on closer inspection it looks like there is a side handle just above the Morse taper chuck which I presume rotates the entire quill through 180 degrees. I didn't have time to sharpen up a chisel and try it as SWMBO was already...
  15. J

    There is something wrong with me mind

    I think there may be a gap on the left hand side for quite a while!
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