Recent content by Skip J.

Hmmmnn.. I guess that would make this the "deep end"......

Hello Paul; Using the LV edge fences is a great idea to progress now into ww'ing, especially glue-ups. However, Jacob has stated; and Mike has shown a picture of how to go ahead and first learn to do without. What some folks here are saying is that the various skills you have to learn to do...

Hello Paul; What Jacob says has merit. We all started with planes at some point before we got to "here" - where ever that is for each one of us. We've been through what you are experiencing now. Each of us worked through the problems the hard way. Most would change the way it was done if it...

Hello Alf.. from across the pond... After reading this, I was up at the library and on the check-out shelf was a copy of "Woodworking 101 for Women". The authoress included how to talk-the-talk, as well as purchasing tools and using them, and woodworking projects. Very topical, don't you think?

Newt is exactly right about that... Thanks Neil - hope ya'll don't mind my "Texanisms"...

Hello from Texas.. My #4 is fettled according to David C.'s article, including the work to the frog, plus a few extras. With the stock blade in place, it does chatter a small amount until being seated on the sole. Moving it onto the sole causes the blade to be in the wrong position and cuts...