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Does anyone have any experience or know of any reviews of Lee Valley's chisels? They have some quite juicy looking ones in their on line catalogue here: [url]http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&cat=1&p=41504&ap=1 (The advertisers speak very highly of them.) Thanks Bill

I've recently bought a japanese waterstone (6000 grade) to try out and it certainly produces a fine polished surface quicker than a comparable oilstone. But however I try I can't avoid nicking the stone when I start sharpening a micro bevel on a blade. Then it takes me a while to restore the...

I recently picked up a record cabinet scraper (bit like the veritas one) at a boot sale. It's got a badly worn double ended blade which I'm having trouble sharpening prior to burnishing it. (It's a lethal thing to sharpen, being double ended, and I don't like to offer it up to the wetstone...

I caught sight of a picture of one of these chisel planes in the Rutlands catalogue and it seems to me that it would be easy(ish) to make one up out of an old plane iron. (Perhaps a homemade handle could be attached to the iron with a shallow dovetailed tenon..). Has anybody tried it?