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Hi I chain-sawed out a cherry stump for someone a few years ago. Not knowing what to do with it, the stump lay on our drive slowly rotting and splitting. Recently, I found someone able to slice it into slabs, shown below. These are roughly 1 metre x 400 mm. Despite the splits, there appears...

Hi All I'm in the process of making a copy (more-or less) of a Spiers panel plane. I've got the dovetails cut on one side of the sole (with a few gaps :( which I hope will fill when I start peining) ...see pics...and am contemplating the secondary bevels that enable the locking of the sides...

Hi I was wondering if the Norris experts on here would be able to advise whether the handle on this looks original please. It looks OK in other respects to me. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/antiques-collectables/tools/listing/3105939444?bof=xm7f1oDo Cheers Richard

Hi Folks I've always thought a good combination square would be handy. I spied this Moore and Wright 992...I think from the early 1960s? I'm assuming that they were very well made back then and this would likely be accurate. Is that a reasonable assumption. Would a new Starrett be a better...

Hi there thought I'd share my latest toy which I bought off a local auction site - obtained for a reasonable price I'll add. A Spiers #1 panel plane. It is generally in great condition...iron, infills (particularly the back)...but, oh dear, how it has been blinged. I guess it must have had...

Hi All I've used spokeshaves from time to time, mostly on things like guitar necks, and have a couple of older Stanley flat-soled spokeshaves that work fairly well, one with the 2 adjusters and one without...actually the one without is probably the better tool. But I'm far from proficient with...

Hi spotted this on a local auction site https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listin ... 2654407201 It looks in really nice condition but has no identification, so wondered if it was a 'home made' plane. Did infills made by the big makers always have a name somewhere? Cheers Richard

Hi there I was rummaging through my late-dad's tool box and stumbled upon an old battered cast steel Ward 1/2 inch chisel (with an embarrassing handle made from a bit of dowel). I thought if it was decent steel, I could turn a new handle and give it to my Bro on his birthday, as a keep-sake...

Hi - spied this on a local auction site https://www.trademe.co.nz/antiques-coll ... e7268c-001 I wondered if the tote had been replaced as it looks in different condition to the rest of it (although I guess it might just have been sanded and re-finished). Overall looks in reasonable nick...

I was given this old folding rule/spirit level years ago and it languished in a drawer until, the other day, it caught my eye and I thought I'd give it a slight smarten up and get the thing folding and unfolding. It really is a lovely thing and there is something tactile about wood and brass...

Hi All well, it's taken over a year to get this finished so thought I'd post the result even though it is far, far from perfect. Although there were a few power-tool moments, the vast majority of the build was with hand tools, planing to thickness, shaping the neck with spokeshave and rasps...

Hi I'm in the process of building a guitar which calls for a 3/8 square hole in the neck to insert a metal 'anchor' to enable attachment of the neck to the body. Anyway, since the book I'm following didn't recommend trying to make a 60 mm deep square hole by hand, I bought a 'cheap' mortise...

Bought this S&J saw from a dingy shop (cheaply). The lighting was bad I didn't spot the deep rust pit in the middle of the blade under the surface rust. It has an ugly handle and aluminium fixtures (didn't know that was a thing) so all in all an UGLY saw. I cleaned off the rust and gave the...

Hi there Picked this up at a junk shop for a trivial sum. I'd appreciate some advice on how to restore it - I presume it is worth restoring being a Groves (which I understand were a good make in the day) and being reasonably straight and not especially rusty. It looks to me like the split...

Hi Folk. I came across this small 15 tpi Tyzack sons and Turner backsaw (the best of 4 saws I got for the total of NZ$20...10 quid). It looked like it had been rattling around in someones toolbox un-loved for quite a while judging by the scratches and dents and some of the teeth were a bit...

Hi All I've never chiseled a mortice - so now is my chance. Picked these and the plane up for 20 quid ($40NZ) which I think was a pretty good deal (as long as I use them). Some of the chisels look unused. They are Marples or Stormont and appear to be very good steel. The 1 inch chisel is a...

Hi All thought I'd share my latest plane. I've been meaning to finish this for years - the metal has been in a cupboard partly cut out before I lost interest. Anyway, I finally got a round tuit as they say. It's (obviously) a low angle block plane, just a bit smaller and a little lighter...

Hi All Well, perhaps against my better judgement, I've just bought a 'new' post-war Norris A5 off a local auction site. Its been sitting around and has developed a bit of rust but other than that has never been used. Why hasn't it been used?...no idea, but the iron is still coated with the...

Hi All Wondered if anyone had experience with Preston Infill smoothing planes? I have spied one on our local auction site for around 200 quid and wondered if I should take a punt (having always wanted a Norris and having not been able to find a nice one for a decent price). Does this look...

Hi I have started a jewellery box for my daughter using sapele. In hindsight I wish I had bought a different wood (cherry or maple) rather than using leftovers. I had intended to rebate a floating sapele panel in the lid frame but thinking about it now it may look rather boring, being red and...