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Lily White Washitas were offered in "hard" and "soft" grades. The grade sticker was usually glued on one of the ends. The stone on the left is a hard Lily White Washita, the one on the right is a hard Arkansas (aka translucent). The pores are visible by the naked eye on the Washita stones, the...

I've also experienced this. I assumed it was due to a hard inclusion in the stone being picked up by the steel, creating a scratch. Slates are too soft and slow compared to a Washita or a fine India, I favor them for ww tools.

That's a nice plane! They're not usually boxed. Whittick was the owner, makers are usually more neat marking their tools. Careful with that handle, it looks like it has been repaired.

You didn't say which make of no.3 your son liked. Most modern bench plane makers have opted to make their planes significantly heavier than the older models. Last weekend I picked up a Woodriver bench plane at the store display, put it back on the shelf, it was a boat anchor, good only for...

No, it's a date generated by the software running the forum. The old html file was read into the database and that's the timestamp you're seeing. By the way, for the guy that thinks I'm David. I remember you, you're one of those that got hysterical when David questioned whether you knew what...

The article is back online. This is the official link. https://www.woodcentral.com/articles/index.php?page=2426

This is the article David published at the Woodcentral forum. The link may work only temporarily. That site is undergoing re-design and some of its old content is missing. Anyways, here's the article, you can judge for yourself what was claimed and tested. The article was published around...

I'm not sure how you map these turning tool sharpening techniques to sharpening bech chisels or plane irons. I dare you find anyone writing articles about applying buffers to bench chisels. The Bench chisel was the initial focus of David's posts at woodcentral: grind a shallow bevel followed...

If memory serves right, David didn't frame his unicorn posts as "look what I have discovered". You don't know what he said initially and you're just guessing that he's running around telling people he's discovered something new. He saw an effect in buffering an edge and he just run with it in...

Pretty disingenuous. You're one of those who consistently sh*t all over any mention of DW's posts. He must have bruised your ego pretty badly to elicit this persistent negative responses. Don't you have anything better to do? Cheers

The CEO of the company that owned the sub was in there too. So his cavalier attitude got him.

They lost contact with the sub about 1h45m after it went under. The company is such a mickey mouse operation that that was not unusual and decided to wait after the round trip time before asking for help. They were warned years ago about their lack safety and operational competence, but they...

I also have varying degrees of camber on my planes,depending on their purpose. Let's limit the discussion to edge planing.

When planing an edge, a shaving of around 2+ thousands is taken, that's the short side of the rectangle in your diagram. The other sides of the rectangle are at least 16" long, distance from mouth to heel on a no. 7 or 8. If the plane is flat within Lie Nielsen specs, +/- 1.5 thousands, then...

That's what seems like, two points. However, the heel is not making contact until after the planes has been pushed its whole length. How much flatness can we allow between the cutter and the heel of the plane? A very slightly convex plane would still work since it would effectively be a shorter...

The edge jointing and testing of the joint as described in the text, I have tried and have had good results with that. I think having the metal plane that I use flat helped in not getting a convex edge. I was able to take full shavings even after taking my hand off the front of the plane. I did...

Edge planing would be a good starting point. Plane a board with your 5 1/2, plane a differnet board with another plane. Place one over the other. Are they well matched? is there a gap? See the Nicholson reference above regarding edge joining.

I think I'm being misunderstood, despite reiterating the question multiple times. I'm not really asking how to get a surface flat or what method is best. I can figure that out on my own. Is the flatness of the sole of a plane important, then why? Many of the responses have been "technique is...

Just to throw more opinion on this matter... my cousin Carlos Herrera continued the woodworking business his father started. I was chatting with him about bombe chests and what he is outputting lately. He sent me pictures of their construction process. There's a lot of complex laminations in...

How about rubbed joints?