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I saw one of these once in a class I was taking and personally I thought the saw seemed very flimsy. I agree with tnimble it is probably okay but if you want to really develop sawing skills it is like training wheels on a bike.

I would be very surprised if he went to Japanese saws, I once spoke to him ablout that, I believe in the context of cutting dovetails and his expressed opinion of them was not all that high. I believe he said that Japanese saws were for Japanese wood.

The Lee Valley store I go to is ths same as Ottawa, I live near London Ontario and can say without any qualification, if you ask any question about any of their stock, if the person you ask does not know the answer someone on site at any time will, whether gardening or woodworking. You will not...

Joyeux Noel DCC, I have 15 year old french cask reserve Glen Livet if that will do, merry Christmas to all and sundry.

Yes or as we sometimes say here dreaming in technicolour.

The other one, that sounds oddly ominous, or do you mean, (hand goes to mouth to stifle a gasp) a power tool forum?

I do not disagree witht that, I just had a bit of trouble placing my hand comfortably on the plane. Will have to watch Alf's video on same and see how she does it. As I said minor quibbles overall the plane is great, I think I have some trouble to not cuttin flat but raising a bit must work on...

Finally after a month of waiting, it was a month late coming, I went to my local Lee Valley store last Saturday, and purchased the Veritas small plow plane. When I got it home I read through the instructions, well actually skimmed them, and then went out to the shop to play, er I mean test it...

I notice to that, he has removed the pictures from the Lee VAlley Catalogue, so someone must have said something to him. I wonder what his reserve is since his buy it now is $750.

Got to wonder to, he is using the actual material from the Lee Valley Catalogue isn't that subject to copyright or something. Pity that someone doubtless had to miss out on the plane just so this shyster could try and make a quick buck.

I recently had a similar situation where I had to cut a dado in the end of two boards to fit into a slot in the bottom of a blanket box. I sawed down to the desired depth with a back saw cross grain, and then using a chisel knocked off most of the wood, and finished with a wooden skewed rabbet...

They do look interesting, but I don't know. I tend to agree with ALF on this one, how much practical use would the average woodworker have for either the match plane or the chamfer plane. I don't know about there, bit tongue and groove planes can be had fairly readily off ebay, or in antique...

Last year I found myself doing 42 half inch wide by 2 1/2 long and two inch deep mortises, and after the first three or four, jumped into my auto voiture and got mysel up to the local Lee VAlley store and picked up one of those to. As Ian said you wouldn't use it every day but when you do it is...

For what it's worth I recall being at a woodshow at Rob Cosman's booth and him chuckling a bit to another woodworker about the fact that he routinely gets some grief from the old uns about putting his planes down flat on his bench, he does C. I personally do C as well, as to damaging the...

Take a look at what's new in there, Lee Valley is also offering spoon bits for braces as well, I never thought I would live so long.

I have one that you should be able to find that would help. The Stanley Book Of Woodworking Tools Techniques And Projects. The whole premise of the book is hand tool stuff, and it starts with explaining different tools what they are for what you do with them and then he gives you a shopping...

Wonder if the blades would be compatable with a 45 or 55?

I started this whole woodworking lark in my mid forties and my first workbench was a heavy duty workmate, and given my level of experience at that point I am glad it was dumbed down as you say. I actually used it to build a real workbench, though it was less than suitable for the task it was all...

Welcome Graham I am about a half an hour away from the London ONTARIO, store and it is great. You will find the folks here to be nost helpful and reslectful for the most part, welcome aboard.

Thanks Mr. Jay, I actually already thought of him and may have to resort to his site as the saw nuts are somewhat smaller than what is on offer ready made. Thanks also dunbarhamlin for those links and the trouble you went to much appreciated. Seems that the nuts on offer are half inch heads...