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Very true bugbear, but that does not solve the problem of the Iron being too close to the front of the gap, which is clearly the case from the photo, all my wooden planes have a minimum of 1/4" gap in front of the cutting edge, as I see it there are a number of explanations. 1) The gap has been...

I have several of them and use them in My braces regularly, they are marvellous for removing slotted screws from door hinges and similar as you can put a tremendous amount of pressure on the brace pad to prevent the bit camming out of the screw slot and damaging it, a round disc of ply approx 6"...

In the winter my workshop can leave moisture on all my tools, especially big cold items like the lathes and milling and drilling machines. I dissolve machine oil in white spirit approx 20 to 1 and put it in a hand sprayer, when I have finished with a tool I mist it lightly, the white spirit...

Of course the gap will be as wide as the iron is thick, but look at the difference between the picture you have posted and the problem plane, the photo of the problem plane is taken almost at the angle of the iron looking up the back of it, you can see the whole of the ground area and there...

The plane has clearly worked in the past and the gap cannot have got smaller so widening it is not the answer. I re-iterate that the iron is possibly not sitting properly, the gap indicated by the arrow should not be that large, there will appear a small gap as the sharpening chamfer on the...

Looks like the iron is not sitting flat in the mouth, there looks like there is a gap behind it, is the iron bent or is there something behind it in the gap preventing it from sitting properly? Mine sits hard back into the mouth and works well. I posted a pic of mine in the earnsaw bros post a...

Hi Guys I am a newbie and this is my first post so bear with me if I mess up. I think the other posters are right, I have just bought a very nice 1/8" chisel on ebay which is marked Hearnshaw Bros in a similar style. I have been collecting old tools for years and like to use them as often as...