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The Veritas 30th anniversary edge plane is now available for order. Veritas® Stainless-Steel Edge Plane – Limited Edition Looks nice.

Spotted this on eBay yesterday. What will they think of next. :roll:

My new Lie-Nielsen Large Router Plane arrived in the post today. :) Here are a few pictures. The words will come later, once I've had a chance to put the plane though it's paces.

Check out this "interesting" listing on Trade Me. :roll: I can only imagine the kind of spiel this person could concoct if they were selling something that really was rare. For those of you who don't know, Trade Me is kind of like eBay for New Zealanders. NZ$450 is roughly equal to £160.

A while ago I remember someone posting a picture of an old Tectool Two-Cutter Plough Plane that they had unearthed. I think it was Martin (mahking51) in this thread, but the pictures are no longer there so I'm not sure. I've come across some references to the Tectool plane in some old...

Check out the new offering from Lee Valley. The Veritas® Honing Guide Mk.XXXXII. :wink:

My copy of Garrett Hack's book titled "Hand Tools" has a picture of a panther head saw on the cover. Garrett Hack describes these saws as follows. "Among the rarest of the rare and prized by every collector is a panther saw by Woodrough and McParlin Saw Company of Cincinnati Ohio (c. 1880)...

I recently took delivery of one of the new Lie-Nielsen small router planes. My first impressions of the little plane are documented in the review that follows. I hope you find it a worthwhile read. Packaging The Lie-Nielsen 271 small router plane arrived inside the usual brown cardboard...

Lie-Nielsen held a hand tool expo in Boston (USA) last weekend. A couple of new tools made their debut at the show. Here are a couple of pictures I copied from another forum.

Attached below are some scans from the December 1959 edition of Woodworker magazine. The scans are from an article that puts forward a theory on the origin of handsaw nibs. It is an interesting theory and I thought some of you might like to read it. The first scan below is a complete scan of...

I picked up a few old copies of Woodworker Magazine yesterday at my local second hand book shop. Building on Alf's earlier thread, here are some more old handtool advertisements that you might find interesting. Record August 1959 November 1959 July 1960 November 1960 - Note that a new...

I recently bought a couple of new Clifton/Clico Jennings pattern brace auger bits to use with a Stanley No. 60 dowelling jig that I have. The sizes I have are 1/4-inch and 3/8-inch. The problem is that these bits do not fit through the 1/4-inch and 3/8-inch guide bushes on my dowelling jig. The...

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku=4_5bronze Lie-Nielsen have unveiled a limited edition bronze 4-1/2 smoother to commemerate their 25th anniversary.

Hi, I am interested in acquiring a traditional English bowsaw of the type pictured below. These are pretty thin on the ground over here in Australia and so its a bit hard to find out much about them. I've typed bowsaws into a search on eBay a few times but all I seem to find are steel framed...