Recent content by tja

If I remember correctly, shipping to the Netherlands was about 12 pounds at the time for a pair. Take

My pair arrived this weekend. Very nice! A tap on top and they hold, a tap on the side and they let go. On my bench the flat bit on the end doesn't sit flush on the workpiece but I've got a spacer in between anyway, so no marring of the wood being worked. Thanks Richard, Take

OK, I'd like a pair please. Let me know how much the total is, including shipping to the Netherlands, so I can PayPal it to you. Thanks for taking the trouble at the post office, and on pension day! Take Mmm, cider, remember that from my Leicester Uni days, can't get that here, apart from the...

Well if you're at the Post office anyway, could you enquire what it would cost to ship one or two pairs to The Netherlands? (If you are willing to do that, of course). I'd be much obliged. Take

Well, just got back from the holidays, if it's not too late, i'd be interested in a pair as well. BTW, in Woodworking magazine, autumn 2005, it is mentioned that the ideal angle between shaft and pad of a holdfast is supposedly about 83 degrees. Cheers, Take

On their site only 6, 8 and 10 mm morticers are shown: http://proe.cz/narexby2/index.php?c=narexby_2936 What size is the fourth one you're offering? tja

I take it you've seen the February 2009 issue of Popular woodworking, which features a 6-page article on a hayrake table by Don Weber. There's also a Sketchup model. Some pictures of his work in progress. Take

Well in Holland the small ones are popular for grating Parmesan cheese.

I recently got three french Goldenberg oval handled pig stickers, 6, 8 and 10 mm. in one buy from a dutch old tools dealer (DucoTools) who'd apparently been on a trip to France recently, as he also had some Brunon mortice chisels (round handled) and a Peugeot oval handled one up for sale. I've...

xy, I'm thinking on my feet here :-k , but in your drawing there's no sideways component in the movement of the plane (marked "Path of Plane" in your drawing), thus no slicing. I think that the axis of the board, as far as slicing is concerned, is moot. As an academic exercise let's put the...

xy, Slicing implies a movement other than perpendicular to the edge. On a shooting board, ramped or not, the movement is strictly perpendicular to the edge (assuming the blade's edge is perpendicular to the side of the plane, which is usually the case, unless you happen to have a #51 :D ). Take

This might be nitpicking and I might have got it wrong, but doesn't skewing a plane mean changing the angle of the edge of the blade relative to the direction of travel of the plane in order to lower the effective bevel angle. On a ramped shooting board this doesn't happen, as the angle of the...

I'm bowing out. Royal Mail is charging a fortune to get it to my doorstep. Sorry, Take

In this case a horizontal frame with a sheet on top and on the bottom, the one on top pushing and the one on the bottom pulling to fight the sag introduced by gravity. It gives approximately the same strength (or should that be stiffnes) as a solid of the same thickness but without the weight...

Well, would you be willing to ship it to The Netherlands? I'd love to complete the LV bevel up trio. :) Take