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I found out that the only chisels I own that will keep an edge with the the wood I am presently working with - holm oak - are my Marples Blue Chip from the early 70's, of which I have only three, in 4mm, 8mm and 12mm, and my old, pre-WW2, Burys & Co. in 1" width. My remaining chisels are of a...

Hi I need to straighten (more properly said, to shoot) the edge of an 18mm thick, 600mm long melamine-faced board. The amount I need to remove is about 1mm at the the most. As I live in an appartment, I must use only handtools for cutting. I'm not skilled enough to make it straight and square...

Hi, I have no idea if this is the right forum to post this. If not, I apologize, plase moderators move it anywhere you see fit. I'm in the process of completely overhauling/repairing my old and pretty much battered WM 625 E05, early 70's vintage, aluminium risers, made in Ireland. I don't want...

Hi I have always been a bit puzzled by the way my planes depth adjustment must be tweaked when I use my shooting board. When cutting end grain with the board, I set the iron depth as usually recommended - I back the iron until it no longer touches the wood, then advance it by steps until I...

Hi, Does anyone know how this sort of "axe" is called and what is (was?) used for. Looks like an axe that has lost its other half. Not in a pretty state, as you may see; and the lettering (manufacturer's name?) can't even be fully read, so I can't even use that for searching. Thanks for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epHHVlm ... ubs_digest G.

I have owned for a number of years a Bosch PSB 650 RE drill, of their green (amateur) line. Pretty bad quality piece of equipment, as I have come to expect of the Bosch Green line, bad electronic speed control, totally unreliable at slow speeds, and a worthless keyless chuck. I use it very...

Hi everybody I’m in the process of reconditioning a rather battered 15” wooden jackplane I recently bought with the purpose of making an acceptable working tool from it. I am not familiar with wooden planes, so I must ask for your help on a number of details. I believe the wood to be holm...

Hi A friend gave me Stanley Sweetheart no. 36, 9”, cast iron spirit level, visibly used but in good condition. The japanning seems to be original. Most likely the plumb vials have been replaced as, in contrast with the center vial, they are just too shiny and bright, and the rings are painted...

Hello Sorry if this is wrong forum to post this – I couldn’t decide if a leg vice should be qualified as a woodwork, a tool or a jig… This may be an elementary question, but I have no experience at all with leg vices, and am interested in the subject. Independently of the locking “mechanism”...

I have several IKEA wood countertops in a kitchen. To protect/maintain these countertops I have always used IKEA's Behandla brand oil, according to their instructions. According to their former leaflet, this was a blend of tung oil with some other ingredientes. The most recent info I read from...

I am fully (should I say painfully? :( ) aware that my kind of "woodworking" is awfully substandard when compared with the works by the usual contributors of this forum. There are a number of reasons for that, no point in discussing them. However, there just may be someone lurking with...

...I do have a view :D :D :D And the view, in about ten minutes time, will be the departure of the last leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. The start line is smack in front of my balcony, rather less than 1 mile (NM, mind you!) away. No wind to speak of, so it's bound not to be very exciting...

Hi I was always told a coping saw blade should be assembled so the saw cuts on the pull stroke. It made sense to me, as every time I tried to do it on the push stroke the blade would bend rather quickly, or even snap, no matter how much tension I put on it. But recentely I stumbled upon an...

Hi Some time ago this chunk of a stone, about 80 x 40 x 20mm, came into my possession in a very sorry state. It had been used for sharpening or polishing some implement, I can't guess what (neither wood nor metal were manufactured where it came from). It is a very soft grey stone wich, when I...

Hi When I need to pare something near the edge of a board, for example the tip of a dowel, I usually use a chisel flat against the surface of the board (bevel up, of course…) However, at times the piece to pare is too far away from the edge, or in some inconvenient location, for the chisel to...

There are thousands of them all around the Net, of course; I stumbled upon this one, which I found very interesting and easy to build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkyuovHRiE

Hi I have been asked to enlarge the holes in a pair of candlesticks, from (on average) 21mm to 22mm diameter, and from 15mm to 25mm depth (see pictures below) I don't have access to a wood lathe; if it wasn't for the deepening, I would just use a small abrasive drum to enlarge the hole...

I posted something about this in the Buying Advice forum, but either the matter is not interesting enough (in which case I apologize for getting back to the subject) or it went unnoticed - I got just one reply. I went through the search tool but found no real enlightening answer to my quest, so...

I woould like to buy both a dovetail saw and a flush-cutting saw (the dovetail saw actually to be used more fore sawing small parts in thin wood and general small work than for dovetail sawing proper) I hesitate between Veritas (about which I always hear a lot of praise) and Pax (about which I...