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Thanks RHX it truly is a lovely little spokeshave. I had a play with it and it works beautifully. If you don't mind me asking what steel is the blade made out of. And many thanks to Morfa for sorting it all out.

Might be of interest to someone http://www.screwfix.com/p/paslode-im350 ... iler/43844

I don't no about the Ebony I have never worked it, even though I have a couple of pieces that i picked up over the years not found a uses for them yet. I do own a couple of old Japanese chisel and planes all second hand brought from Japan, one that spring to mined is a slick 34mm wide, l have...

Thank Secret Santa I have a chair build to do at some point this year and this will come in very handy. :D And Happy Christmas to all

You're right there don't seem to have it on the Blum drawer runners but do on the Motion drawer runners. I find UK retailers can be lazy when it comes to products support , were as you say the Americans learn about the products there selling and gather the information for you.

If you look on the ironmongery direct web site they have a PDF for all the technical information. Next to the Drawer slide Also good prices.

Incredible work

The doors should come with a piece of paper with the dimensions that you can reduce them by, depending on manufacturer it will be between 3 and 6mm As for cutting them the T55 with a good blade should be fine I use mine all the time, if the veneer looks a bit thin I score the line with a sharp...

Also what size timber are you using. I would recommend something about 40mm x 90mm to stat with, this will give you a much better surface to sit the plane on and reduce the chances of tilting the plane on it's edge, all so if you're plane is at a slight angle to the work piece it will reduce...

your missing the point Paddy look at the plane it's a reck but it makes me money every day. It gets bounced around in back of a van it go from -3 degrees out side to +21 in side It get used for planning old painted doors to shaving end grain mitres on hard wood bar tops. It's haveing the...

ED beat me to it Bit of English oak But it looks like we site carpenter/ shop fitters cheep plane, take a finer shaving and the old box makers. :D

Yes joking. the days of super glueing a cuts are well and truly over Rest and get well

if you can type you can work

Parcel arrived today Looking forward to opening it Thanks Steve

Learning how to set up your tools probably is all part of being a craftsman there's nothing wrong with what you've done but you have learnt nothing about your tools so in the future if you accidentally drop one or you pick up another one that needs work doing to it you've got a pay somebody...