Recent content by lurcher

I would buy the Stanley 5001 chisels always on eBay for peanuts. My best set are Maywood palm tree 2" / to. 1/8" very very good chisels. Also you can still get some very good sorby chisels from turners retreat

Washita stone for everything had the jap rubbish to wet good oilstone sorted all you need camber all my planes except. My no 7 / 8 Jointers

i have 2 bought ones from ebay all leather well made £8.00 delivered and good quality never made any of my tools chisels go rusty as yet and had them 3 years.

its all a big con mate ive had a collection of record planes all with rosewood handles 7 , 6 5,1/2 5, 4.1/2 4, 3 all with stay set cap irons to well i got email to say the buyer was refunded and i could keep the money from the sale . but what happens to all these tools i just had a stanley no 4...

i want to no what happens to the planes and other items someone is getting some food items

hi david there are now restrictions as to which countries will allow wood into the country i sold a full set of record stay set planes and some infils to a guy in usa and youre country will not let in rosewood so the seller may be worth contacting i sell with ebay global shipping program and...

does anyone have any experience with the rapier brand of planes. i got several over a couple of weeks and at the weekend i set up a 4,1/2 paid alot of attention to the blade flat back and very sharp the build of the planes is very good there up there with the old stanley and record very well...

go to a local joiners workshop and ask ware he sends his saw blades for sharpening as they will also sharpen handsaws or be cheeky and ask the local joiner to teach you or come to me and i will teach you a lifetime skill.

hi does anyone still use oil stones . i have a nice collection of all natural stones washita charrnley forrest slate and others i find i use them more now than ever before and they have made my diamond stones nearly redundant. i find i can get all that is needed with a good washita and a strop...

split them with a chisel and square up with a shoulder plane or router plane

Thanks I do have a local blacksmith who will do it willingly I just couldn't remember the way round it . its the medication sorry had a big spine op 18month ago and pipper it need another now dammed for life with it bloody building trade.

Hi do you think I could alter an old brick hammer into a curved gutter adze for bowl carving ?

wake up and get in the shop and sort it man some people on here are so busy moaning i think they must be archair woodworkers some people should not have tools use your own skill to sharpen them without a damn jig learn learn that hat we did a apprentices so you got to do it or you will never...

hi could you pleaseenlighten me on these stanley chisels i have some and a set of marples and a set of footprint . as they seem to be of the same standard of manufacture alot thicker than the marples and footprint but after that what i the ig attractioon for some people. lurcher

hi lads i as at newark oodwork and powertool show on saturday and had the good fortune to bump into master peter sefton who was demonstrating the line of woodriver planes . well i wasvery impresed with the build quality and the very good fit and finnish of the tools during the day i had tried...