Recent content by Rosewood

Hi Mike, They look fantastic, and I bet they feel as good in the hand as they look, thanks for sharing your photos. Chris

Thanks Richard and rxh, It was one of those 'couple of hours' jobs that took most of the afternoon and early evening, but it was worth the effort. Since then I've found the Blog of Bill Rittner, who makes replacement totes for Stanley, Veritas and Lie Nielsen planes, and has documented how he...

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I have this very nice Veritas Scraper plane, but I just could not get on with its tote, it made my hand and wrist ache after a very short period of use. I eventually used it by pulling it rather than pushing it, just to avoid the tote. By chance I discovered Veritas have kindly have provided...

Hi Pete, Thanks for your suggestion, I followed in your footsteps and bought myself some 3mm silver steel and made the pins. I didn't have a drill bit just under 3mm, so I chose to drill them out at 3mm and use a little screw to tighten up on the pin. The profile of the tips took me a little...

Hello, I'm resurrecting this old thread as I've made a number of marking gauges along similar lines to the veneer cutter. Unfortunately as you can see in the photo they are not yet marking gauges because I keep dithering on one essential element, the cutter. I'd originally though to go with...

Hi Mark, Thanks for the links, it's great to see how people approach the same basic design. I had to look up what a 'pig sticker' mortice chisel was, they look quite a intimidating! Hi Pete, Thanks for posting the pictures of your marking gauges. I notice that you had some brass 'V' shaped...

Hello, I am after a bit of advice, this is a veneer slicer that I recently made, the design is borrowed from a well-known American company! It generally works well, and I like the fact that the locking mechanism clamps the shaft into the ‘V’ of the square hole in the fence. I’m going to make...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone is using the DMT Dia-Sharp Extra Extra Coarse for grinding primary bevel duties? Is is coarse enough to do the job effectively and fast? Many thanks, RW

Hi, Thanks for the comments, I’m pleased with the way it came out and that it works. Mike, I’m very new to woodworking, and so turned this jig into a bit of a project – testing my ability to hand plane the wood flat, square & to the right dimensions and to mark out & saw accurately. It is made...

I have just finished my inlay thicknesser, the design was taken from ’Popular Woodworking Magazine’ (November 2011 #193). The frog and plane iron were kindly donated by my Dad, although he didn’t know it at the time! The first test seems to indicate it’s capable of consistent thicknessing...

Clifton sorted me out when I had a twisted plane iron, they even set me a set of cabinet scrapers for the inconvenience, so I'd hope they would sort your problem too. If not, Workshop Heaven do them for £4.70 they are listed under Clifton Plane Irons. Chris

Hi David, Thank you for responding to my post, your DVD’s are proving to be extremely useful to me as I try and refine my skills and understanding. I’m not using a planer/thicknesser and so I’m using my jack and #7 to correct major errors in the wood. I will investigate the Rob Cosman video you...

Hi Stephen, I whole heatedly agree with you on the DVD, it has great charm in the way it was put together, and the information and delivery is excellent. What you have described makes sense and ties in with the information on the DVD, however, it’s one thing seeing it done, and another...

Hello, I have been watching David Charlesworth’s ‘Handtool Techniques Part 2: Hand Planing’ DVD, which I hope will bring greater accuracy to my hand planing when I put the information into practice. The DVD has been a wonderful eye opener, in my naivety when I read something needs to be ‘dead...