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Here's my approach: Wrap the stone in a rag. Put the wrapped stone in a zip lock bag. Add enough of your favorite light solvent (turpentine, mineral spirits, naptha) to saturate the rag. Seal it up and place somewhere safe in the case the bag leaks for a couple of days. Open the bag and scrub...

old hammer handles are a good source of wedge material

"Perfectly accurate" just means more accurate than you can measure in your shop. I once bought a 7' section of aluminum bar at a salvage yard. Something like 4" wide by 3/8" thick, hardened extruded. It was perfectly straight until my jointer plane technique improved enough to detect that it...

My miniature jointer for small scale work is a 5-1/4

odd that a blade that has been successfully sharpened many times before is failing on the same stones. is there anything else you're doing differently? honing fluid? as far as the diamond stones aging out, try sharpening something else with them, see if the problem persists with a different...

Most of the time if I'm mitering with a handsaw it's small dimension stuff, glass stops and the like. I use a bench hook a lot like Mike G., but a miter trimmer to finish. I find that if i lay out the miter with a knife I end up a lot closer to true.

(1) natural stones are gentle to steel and will create a longer lasting edge ..... Tactile feel suggests that there may be some truth here. Logic says there isn't. I have no data. (2) nothing is better than the finest carbon steel (attributable to planing - for chiseling, this may still be...

All of them.

All of my deadblow hammers are soft face, but not all of my soft face hammers are deadblow.

that saw is marketed- and widely used for- cutting plastic plumbing pipe. I assume that most of that work is done on the floor rather than on a bench, though for cutting pipes already in place in framing the working angle could be anything. I've never used one but I have seen them plenty of...

Interestingly, or perhaps not- here's a modern saw in not too different configuration;

Oh, and I don't have a specific use in mind for it. I've been curious about the form since seeing similar in antique art, so I've had the idea of building one to try it out bouncing about in the cobwebby recesses of my brain for a while. I guess I'll explore it and see what it's good for in my...

the teeth are probably a bit big for sawing modern cardboard egg cartons, besides they now have hinged lids. might work for opening some of the more recalcitrant modern plastic packaging, though. interesting saw form, egg crate saw. as a small cheap saw it probably never caught the attention...

Kind of a mashup of obsolete styles of saws. I spent zero dollars making this. Finished tuning and filing it a few minutes ago. So far I like it. the plate is from a worn out George Bishop crosscut. the handle is patterned after an Atkins keyhole saw. the wood is from my scrap pile. the nuts are...

I'd doubt it's a hinge mortise plane. Every one i have seen is long and narrow with the cutter close to the sides to fit within the stops on plowed jambs. It really does look like a router plane though.

Stones like that I generally use isopropyl as honing fluid

Barkeeper's friend. Although that may be a usa thing only, I don't know

If it's cutting what you need it to than it's sharp enough. I do like to play about with different stuff but it's not that I need to, more that I like to push the envelope. There have been a few points along where my sharpening took a bit of a leap in edge quality. The first was probably...

Certainly making that distinction a part of the discussion at the outset would have set the course of conversation on a narrower track, but it wasn't so it didn't. So now we're here, discussing both at once without much distinction. We'll survive. I teach sharpening at the local woodcraft...