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I have never used an infill plane. Everyone who has seems to think that they work better than any metal bodied plane for smoothing. A wood plane does a nice…

This plane belonged to my father and may have been my grandfather's. The base is stamped "Rapier 400" and "Made in England". The cap iron is stamped "Rapier" and the…

Hello, I just purchased a Stanley No. 82 scraper at a flea market. It is in beautiful condition. I'd like to know more about it. I also would like to…

    Lever Cap Position When Advancing Plane Iron      Here's a question to the gallery.  Once the plane iron is laterally adjusted, do you: A.  advance the plane iron, if necessary, with…

Speaking of Roy Underhill, he's going to be teaching classes at The Woodwright's School in Pittsboro, NC.  Check it out here. forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the…

Take it easy on me now fellas I'm just learning about sharpening saws and need some advise before I do something to ruin my crosscut DT saw.  Is it advisable…

Hello all, I recently started wood working. I purchased a 4 1/2 smoothing plane from Lee Valley. I have 1000, 4000 and 8000 Japanese water stones. I 'am looking for a…

Did any of you see Roy Underhill's episode this weekend about the "path of these Zen-master artisans"?  Mindfulness. self-jigging tools, the martial-arts quality of woodworking.  The search for "unexcelled complete awakening…

Back in Oct 2008 Chris Gouchnour did a test on a bunch of chisels. As a rule I take some of the info and sort it out and make a…

Hi, Just a post to say that I went to the Lie Nielsen tool show at the Crucible in Oakland, CA on Saturday. There was a goodly crowd in the…