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Can't resist stopping to measure every shaving? Is this compulsion holding you up? Veritas has the answer. Of course this presupposes we don't actually like the preening bit of the cycle, which, um... 8-[ :lol:

From the PWW editor's blog, I discover well-known bearded guru and UKWS member, David Charlesworth has been hospitalised with pneumonia. Just wanted to wish him well really, and hope he's better very soon. Anyone have any more recent info on how he's fairing?

Hadn't seen this mentioned over here, but following on from the Miniature Shoulder Plane, LV have come out with a Miniature Edge Plane And if you've always fancied a Bevel-Up Smoother but couldn't quite justify the price, how about: Unfortunately no wood will be harmed during the ownership...

John Makepeace - Enriching the Language of Furniture Happened across this via the local news this evening. An exhibition of Makepeace furniture is currently on at The Devon Guild of Crafstmen, before going on tour to various corners of the country. 18 Sept – 29 Oct 2010: The Devon Guild of...

May be old news, but I stumbled across this one while trying to identify an unusual plough plane - lots of lovely pictures of woodworking tools, ancient, modern, factory- and user-made. It occurred to me that the latter might potentially also provide some unusual inspiration for Secret Santas...

Or How To (Maybe) Give The Impression of Being A User and Not A Collector. As I don't actually finish projects very often, and this one has been particularly long in the making, I'm revelling in the novelty and thus this may get long with lots of pics. There's also much use of gratuitously...

Quangsheng No.3 Bedrock Pattern Smoothing Plane Somehow I managed to find a flimsy but sufficiently plausible excuse to satisfy my curiosity and order one of these planes from Workshop Heaven in December. Being a good little plane junkie, I only unpacked it, fondled it, hoicked the iron...

That recurring topic of getting holders for hex bits to fit Yankee screwdrivers may now have to die - in three sizes! Cheers, Alf

Gah, I absolutely loathe cross-posting, but I know some of you true galoots seldom venture beyond the borders of our argumentative world here :wink: , so: Yes, you read it right - spotted this on WoodNet and thought there might be others like me, too tight-fisted to have stumped up the cash to...

Yes, you read it right - spotted this on WoodNet and thought there might be others like me, too tight-fisted to have stumped up the cash to see for themselves otherwise. :lol: Scroll down a tad here - you will need to register but it doesn't object to a UK address. Cheers, Alf

Jim Reed has cropped up a couple of times on the forum as a supplier of less common plane blades and one-offs - as I just came across this link to his details on Woodnet I thought it might be helpful to post same. No affiliation, never even used him (yet) but I've heard nothing but good things...

Bit of a shot in the dark, but as I promised my brother I would... On the off-chance of tapping into the "old joinery apron*" network was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for someone to replace a front door on a listed cottage near Tonbridge. Off-hand I couldn't recall anyone in the...

So 10000 then. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members who's amazing acts of generosity have managed to render me speechless (yes, really). I hesitate to name names 'cos I know I'll forget someone, but Fizzy gets an on-topic mention 'cos despite dropping out of the...

Link. My favourite line has to be "Once you've lapped your chisels and blades to a common thickness (a trivial one-time exercise)"... :lol: Cheers, Alf

After promises some months ago I've finally finished (what'll probably turn out to be the first version :roll: ) the 044 page. Anyone pointing out mistakes, anomalies and plain simple cock-ups will be sighed at but ultimately welcome. :D The 044C is barely mentioned, so if someone with a lot of...

Am I going insane? Have ANC actually brought a delivery into Cornwall and then taken it out again up to Staffordshire in order to deliver it?! (While at the same time apparently managing to lose track of one?) ](*,) Cheers, Alf

Some people, and you know who you are, are finding it terribly amusing to wind me up to increase my posting rate. Heck, I found it mildly amusing the first half a dozen times and mildly irritating the next six :roll: but by the time I get to 10,000 you'll have either driven me nuts or I'll have...

Due to extreme generosity on the part of another forum member I find I have a pair of these spare, so in a spirit of passing on favours received... Essentially the not-at-all-famous PPPCs but wooden bars not included. :roll: First normal-postage-area-livin' person to say "er, yes please" via PM...

We seem to have had a lot of folks struggling with posting pics, so I thought I'd try and find the easiest way possible and lay out a how-to on that method and that alone, as clearly as I could. I may have failed... All you need is the image you want to post saved on your computer and that's...

Given the current flurry of tenon saw posts I thought I'd better actually have a proper look at what I have "spare". Not alot, but fwiw. Blades came out looking a bit darker than reality. 12", unknown maker. Beech handle with "Patent" nuts. 2 7/8"-3 1/16" under the back. Currently toothless...