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I've been hoping against hope that we'd eventually be able to do this safely and it appears we can now, we're either in the sweet spot or the problem has been rectified permanently =D> So, does anyone have any sharpening questions they've been holding off asking about?

something else to set your teeth on edge. Those of a nervous disposition look away now! Hopefully not the start of a trend.

I was mainly curious how many have one as they're so much rarer over here, but I suppose the real question is whether owners think they make decent enough users to be daily drivers or their main value is as attractive additions to the tools on the wall :D The depth wheel turning opposite to...

I did a search and failed to find anything. Here's a pic (not mine) of the sleeve so you know what it's about: Anybody have one, use one, know anything about them? I fear they came along too early to catch the resurgence in interest in hand tools, not that the bean counters would have allowed...

I think there are a few of these scattered among the members, if any owner has had their 73's butt cap apart during a restoration or refurb I'd welcome your input. First, has anyone managed to get the butt assembly apart without breaking the washer thingy that holds everything on to the shaft...

Yeah, Paul Sellers posted a video on them a few hours ago. This one I don't think many here will mind, in fact more than a few will welcome the chance to offload their one seeing as they don't have any use for it themselves :D

I've despaired of finding a router plane where I am, at all or for money that I'd be comfortable handing over given how their price has skyrocketed since I started looking for one. I expected that if I ever found one it would need a lot of work and I'd still pay more for it than I'd want to...

Was at a market I get to visit very infrequently this week because it's on a Thursday and while my favourite vendor wasn't there someone else with a really good spread of tools was and I got a nice selection of things for a tenner, partly because it was a scorcher and the seller said he was too...

More to the point I suppose, does anyone use one? I was reminded of these yesterday when I was leafing through a woodworking book and saw one pictured (I thought bizarrely) in one of those standard establishing shots in the early pages showing a spread of kit.

Thought it would be nice to see what people had picked up at their first sale(s) of the season. I'll start. It's a bit early for car boots over here but on a weekend away we tried one and as feared it hadn't really gotten into full swing yet so slim pickings. But there were a few tools and I...

Got these a while back as an early anniversary present and have been slowing working my way through in small batches so will post a few before-and-after pics in due course. I was chuffed to have so many to pick through but to say I was thrilled to find two dreadnought/vixen files in amongst the...

Had been planning on asking this anyway and they just came up in another thread. I think the fixing method predates the term because one or two DIY or woodworking books mention them without calling them that. The term definitely crops up in the 90s, anyone remember an earlier reference to...

Very slim pickings at last weekend's local car boot but I did manage to find this for not too much: No blade-fitting mechanism, the blades simply slip into one of a pair of slots & recesses: Which I believe means the saw uses loop-end blades. Anyone have any info on when this style of...

I got a later Spearior 88 (with red medallion) as an early birthday present a couple of months ago and it's been propped in a corner for the handle to have a good chance to dry out. Started work on it last night and I have some questions related to the handle. The handle is in a sorry state...

Anyone use one of these regularly or have it as their main user? I recently picked up one for a snip as part of the same job lot the marking gauge without a locking mechanism was in: The plan was to sell the two smaller ones on after sprucing them up a bit but testing the Rapid I discovered...

Come across a few of these over the years and thought I was missing something but it did eventually dawn on me that there wasn't anything missing and they were made to rely on a tight fit between fence and stem. Obviously this could lead to a problem come a change of season and almost all I've...

Whatever you use for roughing, a rank-set wooden jack, a no. 5 or 6, a wooden scrub plane or a converted plane of one sort or another, could you measure the centre of the thickest shaving you can create working across the board or diagonally please? And the thickness of the typical or average...

My local car boot can often be a disappointment when it comes to hand tools but last Sunday I was spoiled for choice. I wasn't after anything in particular but did expect a few smaller items from the bargain bins set up by one of the regulars who has low-low prices and I wasn't disappointed on...

Over the years I've read lots of gripes about the handles fitted to the Aldi and Lidl chisels, especially from American woodworkers who seem to have slightly different standards for acceptable sizes of chisel handles. I do agree that a handle that's badly proportioned can make a chisel very...

I'm sure I'm not the only one who loves this about acquiring old tools, coming across brands you'd never heard of previously, often only discovered when you get home and start to clean it up. The last year has been especially good for this for me, with a half-dozen tools picked up with brand...