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I ordered a small plastic shed from B&Q online on Tuesday 13th June The acknowledgement e-mail gave me a delivery date – today Friday 16th June Recent experience with delivery from other suppliers of large items, Curry and Argos, has been good. The delivery times were either quoted accurately...

Just out of curiosity I was wondering what application calls (or called) for a precise 52.5 degree chamfer. The reason I ask is that when I bought my 55 it came with a couple of extra bits. As well as the 40 and 41 Stanley blades which cut 45 degree chamfers it also had a user made blade which...

Having followed some of the spirited discussions on this forum about sharpening I thought I’d let you know that all the views about ceramic, water, oil, diamond or slate media and hand versus honing guide are all wrong. The way to sharpen chisels, at least according to my DIY Manual, is to...

'Restoring' a Stanley cardboard box. The cardboard cover for my cutter box was pretty awful, falling to bits. Before After, the flash makes it appear brighter than it is. Actually a pretty good colour match to the original. The secret, Daffodil Yellow Paint (a good match to original...

How many combination planes should I buy? Obviously if I were a collector the answer is lots. However for those buying as users then is the answer something like marking gauges, more than one so that you can leave a set-up unchanged during the course of a project. Reason I ask is that I was...

I have a copy of The technique of Furniture Making by Ernest Joyce (Fourth edition, revised by Alan Peters). I was reading through the chapter on dovetail joints and stopped mid sentence. A page has fallen out of my copy, just when it was getting interesting about secret dovetails. Would...

I have a query about ovolo cutters for a Record 405. Since it’s hard to find these online I was thinking about making some. The manuals available online show either three optional cutters 1/4, 5/16 and 3/8 for the older model plane or two supplied cutters 1/4 and 3/8 for newer models...

A dog poo handle that is. I fear I may be beginning a plane collection problem, although I’m nowhere near the stage of some of the members here. :D I bought one of the later 70s era Stanley 13-050 models. Unlike the vintage planes there’s not a lot of information about these on line. What...

I've got fed up trying to hold a jointer fence onto my no #7 with clamps, it always felt unstable and unbalanced. I'm an occasional hobbyist when time permits so I find a fence useful. So I decided to commit sacrilege and drill and tap my plane. Hopefully I won't be judged too harshly since my...

I was recently bidding on an e-bay item, was the highest bidder at the time, and decided to increase the maximum I was prepared to pay. When I had upped my limit I was surprised to see that while I was still high bidder and the price remained the same, the number of bids made which is visible...

I have a couple of wooden planes which have lain unused in a box in my garage for a long time, a coffin smoother with a 2” iron and a fore plane with a 2 ¼” iron. No idea of vintage but both belonged to my dad so probably cheap examples from the 1930s pre-war era. The planes themselves have...

Santa kindly brought me an Axminster own brand small router plane. I’m very glad he did buy back in November at £26.94 since I see the own brand small router plane, with the same specification and illustration but a Rider name tag, is now priced at £44.96. I find the small plane handy to use...

Rake and Fleam guide I’ve had a couple of my dad’s old saws in the garage for a long time and recently decided I’d like to try to sharpen and use them. I bought a few saw files from Axminster, got a cheap Eclipse 77 saw set and a test saw for my first experiments on ebay and built myself a saw...

I have to reinstate a small area of ceiling(about 10 square ft) following a roof leak. I’ve never worked with plasterboard but I have plenty of ply. I was planning to use a ply base and prime it with a PVA wash for my plastering attempts. It’s a textured ceiling which should help to conceal...

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I ordered a JET Wetstone carving tool jig from Axminster on 31 March 2014. At that time the web site described the item as "Temporarily out of stock" I waited a month then queried Axminster customer service about a delivery date on 30 April 2014 and was told “This item is not due into stock...

This is NOT a sharpening query, I’m not asking about how to grind the chisels, more a query about what grinding angle would be usual. I’ve bought a set of out-cannel gouges, just to see if I might cut finger pulls etc by hand instead of all the noise and dust of a router. They were very cheap...

Brief review of the Soba (Axminster own brand) 7 jointer I ordered an Axminster 7 jointer bench plane last Friday evening, dispatched on Monday, delivered mid-day Tuesday which was impressive. The catalogue illustration shows a Groz logo on the lever cap but the supplied item was in a Soba box...

I was intrigued by the idea of using a batten with a birdsmouth notch to hold a piece against a single dog for planing after seeing a video demo (edit: found this again, it's at http://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/?p=1434) . It looked really effective at holding the stock for diagonal planing...

A handtool epiphany – all thanks to Norm Abram I don’t want to start yet another sharpening debate but my woodworking experience took such a turn for the better recently that I felt I should write it up in case it helps others at a similar stage in their hobby. Although I’ve been woodworking...