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The advice is much appreciated. I took the blade out and sharpened it again, and got it good and sharp, I think. With the piece in the vise, I was able to take really thin shavings rather than dust. When I put it back on the shooting board the new edge was a definite improvement, giving very...

Thanks for all your responses. I've put a photo in. When I'm using the board and plane there's nothing moving around except the plane on the runner - I'm pushing the piece against the fence and at the same time feeding or pushing the piece against the moving sole of the plane, while keeping the...

Any suggestions on the following would be much appreciated: I made a shooting board following instructions in Vic Tesolin's great book The Minimalist Woodworker (it'll be me that's getting it wrong, not VT or his instructions) . It seems okay - it's square in the places it needs to be, and...

Thanks for the post and advice. I persevered with a plane iron and got a fairly good result, even if it took me about two/three hours on coarse 3m and w/d paper. I've been surprised by how much graft it takes. Putting a blue marker line on the developing bevel helps, I found, gives you a bit of...

I do, and it's my first post. Perhaps I don't get the joke yet ... Anyway, if anyone can help - I want to re-grind the primary angles on some bevel edged chisels and a couple of plane irons to 25 degrees. I haven't been able to do it myself even with the coarsest papers and have made a bit of a...