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Hello, Several of my mates have just started having kids - i thought i'd make the kids names out of letters. I've found some nice purpleheart to start with. Each letter will be about 9cmx7cmx2cm. Ish. My plan is to saw out the waste to a square cross section and then round over the edges to...

Hello, Bought a record 350s bandsaw yesterday from dm-tools and it appears to be arriving today, which is astonishing! My question is: what's the best way to learn about using bandsaws? Presumably these things need fettling more than a plane would, for example! Alan Holtham has a dvd - is...

Having now got a good understanding and some success planing, i need to learn to saw! However it seems to me that there is less information out there about this. Have i just been looking in the wrong place? I found this interesting: http://www.vintagesaws.com/library/primer/sharp.html ...and...

Hello, So i've been mainly using handtools up to this point but i feel the need to speed up preparation of wood for practice. I've invested a fair amount in planes, and can cheerfully flatten wood now. So i think i'll go for a saw first. I've got space and power issues (single garage)...

hello, currently flattening some small boards by hand for a chisel tray. i've got good face sides and edges, shot the ends and thicknessed the board, so i'm on to the last edge of each board. the distance from the face edge is about 6cm. i'm struggling to mark this using one of the wheel...

There seems to be a general sense that old steel is better than new steel. At least to some extent. People chasing old chisels, for example. I was wondering why this is? I found a link to this article from Ron Hock's website. It starts to explain some of the science of steel but doesn't...

Hello! My grandfather's stanley hand drill chuck is missing a spring and it's driving him potty! It's one of the springs that keep the chuck teeth (? not sure what the correct name is!) upright. He claims that buck and ryan used to stock spare springs. While this may once have been true (i...

Hello, Slightly intrigued by the Ray Iles English Pattern Mortise Chisels that tools for working wood sell. Does anyone know if you can get these in the uk? There's a hint on the ray iles old tool store home page but i couldn't find any further info. If not these, what other British mortise...

Hello, I'm mucking about trying to learn how to flatten boards by hand at the moment. Lots of fun. Currently trying to flatten some shocking pine from B&Q and am struggling with all the various issues you can get! I've got a reasonably flat bench, am using a no7, 5 1/2 and a scrub plane...

Hello! So I spent the weekend flattening the backs of some new LN chisels and the back of a plane blade. One of the things i found really hard was to keep my 1000 grit king stone flat. The 800 and 6000 are easy to flatten, but the 1000 grit destroys the wet and dry paper i've got very quickly...