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As I have mentioned earlier, I ground up an worn out jap waterstone to make what has turned out to be an excellent stropping compound (on leather). I was wondering, if there any chemistry type people who understnad these things, is there a way to dissolve old waterstones rather than grind them...

HAs any one advice on this? They seem simple tools but how do you get the best out of them? Cheers Jonathan

This is what appeared when I split some bits of dry cricket bat willow for kinderling earlier this morning Even the smaller hole in this picture (1 1/2 mm) is very large by normal standards The biggest holes are 4mm diameter, standard p2 bit to indicate scale. Theres a body part sticking out...

I hope everyone is ok Woke this morning to find a large section of fence flapping about, the posts (4x4) look to have snapped clean through. Incredibly we still have electric power here (mid suffolk) although it fades in and out a little sometimes. Usually the power goes off at the drop of a...

Interesting provocative article on Tony Konvaloff's site http://tonykonovaloff.com/?page_id=1064

Just wondering if anyone has used it to buy stuff? Not knowing Swedish, not sure what is what on there site, wether they will sell worldwide or just within Sweden etc. There is always some good axe heads for sale on there.. :)

Unexpected trip to a car boot this morning-after getting some good ash and alder logs from a certain place nearby-resulted in this little set of items 16" x 8" square, looks to be shop made. Victorian style hand-stamped numbers 2 turnscrews, larger one-unknown maker with "1945" & war...

LOL I posted recently about discovering a nice planing stop in my bench, and of my intention to refurb it and include it in my refurbed bench. Today I had a rather nasty experience. I had set a screw at one end of a heavy plank, to use as a tempory planing stop to plane a smaller plank. Usually...

I have begun to butcher my workbench :shock: well actually it WAS in a pretty rough state. It needs tidying up, reduce the length by 2 feet to 8 feet. I inherited it when I moved to Bournemouth (now living in Suffolk), it was built around 40 or 50 years ago using 10 x 2 pitch pine for the 2...

Does any one know a source of supply for Lignum Vitea or Horn beam timber? I am looking for small planks 2 to 3 inches wide, 1/2 inch thick, 9 inch long minimum. I have never used these timbers before, what are they like for working with, glueing up etc? cheers Jonathan :)