Recent content by Jason

In my experience, Marples chisels are almost always "flat" out the box.

Dave Budd's blades are £15.

Flat backs are probably no great advantage for chopping. But an advantage for pairing. I suppose I'd inspect the back and see how much work I was looking at. If it's not going to be arduous and it's a chisel that'd be good for pairing then I'd go the extra distance. Otherwise, I might think...

As long as the stone is dry, pencil eraser works very well. (as far as I can tell the trend cleaning block that comes with their stones is a common or garden pencil eraser repurposed) There's more to sharpening than shaving hairs off your arms mignal. Some of us like the backs of our plane...

It's a faff, you tweak and re-tweak the inside of the screw head, thus allowing it to screw in a tiny bit more until - hey presto. Also, that's an exceptionally smart looking router.

I know it's your review. And I think, from a hand tools perspective, it should count against this product that it's not suitable for many of the basic tasks that a wood worker using bench tools like chisels and planes would typically expect a sharpening stone to do. So I'm wondering where you...

I paid about £120 for mine - mint condition + nice shop made stand. They're nice lathes ~ I'm very, very happy ~ , but you're up against lathes with variable speed dials, scroll chucks, common thread sizes and such. The ML8 is a bit esoteric. If there are chucks and the like, sell them separately.

I know because the review linked to in the original post said these stones weren't suitable for working on the backs of plane irons and chisels. So I figure you might as well get one that is.

If it's got a hollow, it'll belly your blade one way or the other. Neither of which you want on a bench tool. If you wanted to do the final polishing and take the burr off on another fine stone which was flat, then I suppose this might be of some limited use. But I wouldn't call that a glowing...

I keep reading folk praising the quality of these cheap tools - but I ain't seeing it. I'm just seeing cheap. The diamond stone looks exactly like what I'd expect from a cheap diamond stone. It's not flat. Possibly for knives or axes the concave side of this would be okay, but for bench...

I have 2 blades (and 2 chip-breakers) for my #5 Jack. That way I get two planes in one - and no fiddly set-up to speak of switching between them either. I pair a thicker after market-blade with the original thin chip-breaker. And I adjust the mouth for nice thin shavings for this combination...

Clifton are fine. They need a better PR department, but their planes are top notch. As is their customer service. As are your consumer rights should for any reason you think a plane you've bought in the EU isn't what you expected.

I've got this one. :o It's a rabbet plane.

Less usable once the handle has broken off though. That's the rub for me. If the handle was up to some chopping or even if the tang was suitable for a user made replacement then I'd agree that what we had here was a usable, if not ideal, tool. As it is though, it's a chisel that can get to...

Do ten year olds get inspired by doing bench work? Wouldn't they rather be making bows and arrows and tree houses? Obviously I don't know the particular fella in question, but I'd at least suggest that one of those Swedish Sloyd carving knives should be on the list somewhere. Mora do a very...