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I agree the AE squire/Nichelocks cabinet locks are great. I only use them now and am always very pleased with the quality.

Hello all I am without a lathe, or the space/money for a lathe but do need some walnut feet turned for a small chest of drawers I am making. Would anyone here be interested in turning me 4 feet to the attached design? No finish required but preferably cut to length and with the centre marked...

Received in the post last week , I got this delightful bundle. Two very substantial socket mortice chisels, one Greaves and one Spear and Jackson. These are the nice old ones with a laminated blade, still with acres of use left in them. Also nicely polished with the backs in very good order. I...

Got a package this morning marked S/S. So it's either my secret santa present or a black uniform, either way I'll save it for Christmas day.

Sent mine off tonight, should be there sometime next week. Looking forward to pictures thread already.

I'm in Please let me know which information I need to PM for logistical purposes. Really looking forward to having a complete surprise under the tree.

The frame pieces join at 90 degrees, so there is always going to be a change in grain direction unless I carve a frame out of the solid. Unfortunately this wood hates being planed across the grain, leaves a terrible, ragged finish even with a lot of skew on the plane. I think the only way to...

I recently completed a small picture frame, and decided to build it like a miniature sash window. As I was doing it I made a conscious effort to think about the order in which I was doing things, and to try and make the process as efficient and accurate as possible. Any comments from those in...

I bought an Ultex 300 maybe a year ago. So far no complaints, very fast material removal (compared to a course Norton India) and seems to have held up well to occasional use on steel and occasional lapping of other stones. Mine has a slight hollow in it, which makes it undesirable for...

Thank you all for the wealth of information. Unfortunately it looks like there is no clear cut right answer as to which size would be better. At the moment I trim my tenon shoulders with a chisel, but especially for the squaring of rebates I think a shoulder plane would be handy, and for this...

I am considering buying a shoulder plane and thus weighing up the different options as far as width goes. I am considering both the 3/4" models and the 1 1/4" models. I suppose the 3/4" will be fine for most jobs, it is rare that I cut a tenon shoulder or rebate more than 3/4" wide, but it does...

Have you found a good source for either the mechanisms or the whole clamps?. Everywhere I have seen is either very expensive or out of stock. I have seen hardware for 16" clamps advertised but no longer available. I have a few of the no name Chinese imports, and a single Dubuque one (which is a...

I just move the far stick down the board towards me, usually in a few steps for longer boards. If a board is way out I sometimes map it out with winding sticks first so I only have to do the minimum amount of planing.

Yes, I printed this out and then stuck down and carved through, before removing the paper with a plane. Sketching out by hand would certainly make this an order of magnitude harder. It's Kiaat, of which I had some boards left over. I wouldn't describe as soft but it has reversing grain and...

Recently I was asked to carve a sign, so I thought I had better get a bit of practice in the font. I have carved arial letters before but I think it is definitely worth taking the extra time to do a serif alphabet.The trickiest things are the serifs and the changing width of the curved...

Make sure to post some WIP pictures so I can see how it's done, I am thinking of making another one next year.

I made a wedge infill a few months ago infill-mitre-plane-build-amateur-hour-help-t100729.html In use it feels completely solid, which might be partially due to weight (it is absurdly heavy), but I do not notice the blade move when planing. I made the wedge with a very, very slight hollow in...

Thanks for the advice chaps. I was a bit conflicted about whether to shape to a 4 sided profile and round that, or to cylindrically round to the thickest dimension and then shape in the details. Maybe I will try both ways. In any case I think I am going to make at least 5 legs and choose the...

How successfully can one round wood (say 1 3/8") without the use of lathes, trapping planes, rounding planes etc? I want to make three stool legs which will have some taper and a bulbous foot. Is hand work with a spokeshave the best approach for this? Is there some sort of jigging that can help...

Master of cramming 2 minutes of content into a 15 minute video and vague half titles written in all capitals. I don't know why youtube insists on recommending him to me.