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Thanks for that, the description is great. I think it was the angle I was unsure about and when I had a go before I made the cut out on the main piece square not with one edge with an angle. Thanks again Dave

How do I make a "door block and wedge" for hold doors for planing etc

Thank you Bugbear, I understand now, many thanks for that. Now I know what part of my weekend will be spent doing.

Many thanks for that I will read that and any other info. Being new means an avalanche of info.

Thanks for the swift reply. I have exactly that honing guide. So it must be me. How does the very-simple-to-make projection block work, I am sure it should be obvious

Hi, I am still new to all this but loving it. I have in the past bought a variety of "sharpening jigs", Stanley for instance and haven't had a huge amount real success, probably I don't know what I am doing. I did see on this forum a system from Axminster called Vertitas (maybe). Is this a...

I am glad that the hand cut M&T has come up as a tricky joint, as after the dovetail the M&T is the other one I am having trouble getting right. Lucky for me I posted this topic I feel less frustrated and will take on all points raisied. Thanks

One day I will be able to say that... roll on that day

Thank you OPJ Interesting about only one dovetail in the course, it was hinted to me by the lecturer that we probably won't do it again. But a newbie to this I felt challenged and as I said the multi facets to that process I thought a lot of practice would improve my dovetails as well as...

Many thanks seanybaby you are correct about rarity of dovetails on site. I suppose what I should have said is that it is a complex joint and if I can do that well then most other jobs would encompass some or many of the processes involved in that joint.

I am currently doing my 1st year of a 2 year ICA Carpentry course and I am thoroughly enjoy it and learning and re-learning. My question is how much practice does it take to make say, an accurate dovetail joints. We had an this exercise given to us we did it once, it got marked then we moved...