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Thought you might be interested in this old mortiser. I guess it's a Hand Tool as you just have to hang on the lever to cut the mortises. Saw it in the Friday Flea Market in Hitchin last week. From a demolished yard belonging to a builder/undertaker of the old brigade. The chisels are U-section...

Does anyone have a .pdf or scan of the instructions for the stanley guide pictured? It's for an enthusiast in Australia who wrote to me. As you can see I borrowed the pic from eBay.

I picked up a gents' saw like this one for 2 quid at an antique shop. (this image pinched from eBay - my blade is a bit shinier thanks to Alf's acid treatment) Beech handle with nice patina. It's by Hazeon London which seems not to ba a major league name. Searched this site. Anyone know if it's...

Anyone heard of or shopped with Workshop Heaven? They are selling the odd item in eBay and seem to be an alternative source of LV and L-N stuff, but they have no name or address, or an "about us". I can't find them on the UKW "List" or in any postings. I must admit I prefer to see a physical...

I decided to reshape the teeth on my R&L Dorchester tenon saw from crosscut to rip. I reviewed all my books and web articles, took my time, jointed the teeth and slowly reshaped the teeth to a new rake angle. Then had another go. Then... ...I will let you work out the bad news :oops: The good...

I want to glue some 25x40 oak lippings to an 18mm veneered MDF dining table top using biscuit dowels. I was considering Extramite as I thought it would be stronger than PVA (I have used it in the leg mortise and tenon joints already where the forces are in shear). I was concerned reading some...

I was reading one of ALF's recent Blogs about difficulty in getting Yankee screwdriver bits, This is especially so for the smaller 130 size, which has a 7mm diameter bit (advertised at "1/4 inch" for some reason). I know Stanley used to sell an adaptor for the 131 but even they are tough to get...

I was at the Hitchin flea market on Friday and picked up "a couple of old rulers" for a quid. They were lovely old mahogany winding strips with dovetailed boxwood contrast marks. Unfortunately some philistine tried to plane off the owner's marks (Mr C. McVicar) on one side of the lower one with...

I plan to finish a newly constructed american white oak dining table to match existing "Tudor Oak" furniture. I don't like heavily coloured varnishes, and I want most of the colour to be stain. In the past I have got a good colour from: 1. a base stain of Bichromate 2. Then when dry, Vandyke...

If anyone needs a few plane totes and fixing screws there are some on eBay here

I have searched around the forums to try and find the best profile for a three lobed nicker such as on a #78 or L-N #140N. I slipped in a query in another post but it got lost in the thread. I can find info about length, and Bugbear has provided a great little design for a holder, but what...

Whilst at a garden centre, trying to persuade SWMBO not to waste good tool money on a bay tree, I was poking around in the tree stakes barrel, and found two 30mm stakes which were obviously much heavier that the rest. I like unusual sources of timber, and for a couple of quid I decided to get...

and minor gloat... I just picked up a Stanley no. 5 from a local flea market for 20 quid, mainly because it looked like a well-cared-for user, and it has a Smoothcut laminated blade which is worth almost the money anyway. Question - It seems to be Nickel Plated. Were they ever made that way or...

I have a 1980 repro dining table (Buckingham Productions/Larkswood)which has a top which seems to have wood lipping fixed around a manmade top, and veneered all over in oak. The lipping has moved and telegraphed through the veneer. It is currently finished in a tudor oak coloured cellulose...

This is not so much a "how to" as a "one way to" reduce backlash after fitting a thicker blade to a bog-standard 1970's bench plane. There are other ways but this is the one I chose. I thought you may be interested. I have recently fitted a Ron Hock blade and chipbreaker to my old Record No. 6...

I have had my L-N 4 1/2 for about 6 months now. I sold off all my Record smoothers and replaced it with this one gorgeous plane. It's still as pretty as ever of course, but also the lever is still as stiff as ever. If I have it set so that my feeble fingers can actually unclip it, the blade...

Who said Record planes don't fetch much? This grubby little No 2 just went for £143. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6224006210&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 I couldn't have that in a collection (even if I had one) it needs to be put out of its misery surely. A...

I nearly lost my workshop last year by a mistake that never crossed my mind before. I always keep flammables - meths, polishes, oils etc - in a closed cupboard, so that on the odd occasion I may have a blowlamp going there is no danger of a fire. Naturally I keep my wire wool in there with the...

The Record BS250 which I have used for 12 months for hobby work is an excellent benchtop bandsaw at an unbelievable price. It will resaw hardwood at the full 120mm depth accurately with a skip 4 blade, and there were improvements to the fence support and blade guard that are not mentioned in...

As a self-taught hobbyist, even following teachings of the old testament prophet Charles Hayward, I have struggled to produce shavings from a hand scraper, mostly only "dandruff". I have even tried letting down the hardness of scraper blades to get a decent lip. I have the best Clifton burnisher...