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Hello, I have not seen the video in question, but this debate is really interesting. My humble comments: - setting a fine toothed saw properly with a screwdriver is possible, but on fleam toothed saws only, where the teeth are shaped as equilateral or isosceles triangles. - wood is not the...

Hello, Block or thumb planes were small wooden planes. The metal block plane is quite modern development. And some of these metallic ones has got back handles in the form of "squirrel tails" and ball handles, just to facilitate comfortable two-handed use. Have a nice day, János

Hello, It is impossible to colour wood black with ammonia. The tonal range moves in the browns. You can fume any species with high tannin content: oak, black locust, larch, cherry etc. react well to this treatment. The heartwood and sapwood (which contains less tannin) reacts differently, so...

Hello, Iroko (Milica excelsa, syn. Chlorophora excelsa) is used for medical purposes in Africa. The plant contains chlorophorin, a natural phenol. This substance could cause different, and sometimes severe, allergic reactions. The best woods for children's toys are maples, birch, pear. All...

Hello, I have made mine from two pieces of 19 mm MDF bonded together with PUR adhesive. I sawed it roughly to shape, and then screwed to a 100 mm cast iron faceplate with 4,5*40 mm screws. Then I trued up the shape and face on the lathe. I use sanding cloth on it, I attach that with double...

Hello, Hand-laying veneers is too complex a subject to sum up in a few sentences. But there are many good descriptions of the processes and techniques involved, in handbooks and magazines. Hammer veneering with hot hide glue was described in Joyce's Encyclopedia of Furniture Making (starting...

Hello, I have never ever tried it, but drilling and tapping a hardened Morse-taper arbor might present some real difficulty. A Morse-taper is a selflocking wedge, this kind of attachment is sensitive to vibration and repetitive shocks, and can come loose easily. Have a nice day, János

Hello, Keeping the symmetry of veneered panels is a wise concept. But you could veneer one side without problems in many cases. One such case is the use of thick multi-ply plywood as a substrate: O,6 mm thick veneers will not warp a 500 mm wide, 18 mm thick core. Traditional hammer veneering is...

Hello, The standard means of holding a pipe blank for turning and drilling on a wood turning lathe is a self-centering two jaw chuck. I do not know any still in production nowadays. http://www.drechsler-forum.de/phpbb/vie ... 7ddd5323d8 Pipe turning requires high skills to do it safely and...

Hello, I have looked on the net, and you can buy a left hand tap and die set for M10 or Imperial 3/8" for approx. 40 US dollar. With these and a matching right hand pair you could fabricate the required hardware from cold rolled steel rod. I have found a British supplier...

Hello, The use of universal moulder heads, wobble saws and dado heads is forbidden on all woodworking machinery (table saw, router, shaper) used with hand feed. This is mandatory EU occupational safety regulation. So the newer table saws are manufactured with purposely short arbors. Have a...

Hello, http://www.adjustableclamp.com/handscrewkits-1.aspx The hardware needed for these clamps is quite specialised, with left/right threads on the spindles and lh and rh nuts. Have a nice day, János

Dear Giuliano, the use of and endgrain insert is not that unusual, I have seen some factory made planes with endgrain mouthpieces, Ulmia made toothing planes with inlaid endgrain mouthpiece, for example. My favourite proverb is: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Have a nice day, János

Hello, Dear Gary, the vaginarius was a respected craftsman in old Britain. Perhaps my imagination is not keen enough, but this lump of cast iron is neither "frogish", nor "scabbardish", so to speak. The boys at Stanley invented the movable "knife carrier" in 1895, and in 1902 they said it...

Dear Giuliano, The fence was not required, as the craftsmen simply affixed a planed board to the workpiece at hand, to serve as a rule. Well made plane. You have got a kind of an addiction about those endgrain inserts, haven't you? :wink: Best wishes, János

Hello, http://www.olfa.co.jp/en/body/detail/72.html I use these. Have a nice day, János

Hello, Two other patents describe the Bedrock style frog, and the standard Bailey frog, but these call it "knife carrier". The US536746, applied in 1895 by Traut, Justus E. The US545732, applied in 1895 by Schade, Edmund A. I am quite sure now, that the use of the term "frog" to denote the...

Hello, I have searched Leonard Bailey and Stanley patents. What I have found so far: Have a nice day, János

Dear Jacob, Forgive me, but I am a little bit overloaded with the different spellings of greco-roman words in the different European languages. In my mother tongue, we write/spell the Greek word "etymología" as "etimológia". In German it is "etymologie", in French "étymologie", and "etymology"...

Hello, And Leonard Bailey... was he himself the godfather? Or was the name given by the journeymen? After some drink, perhaps... Have a nice day, János