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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    Thanks Andy - it was mainly a matter of careful filing and grinding.
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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    The owner of this plane likes to collect Irish tools or tools with an Irish connection. It is marked “Booth – Dublin” but sadly it had no iron. It is quite a beast as the mouth opening is a little more than 2 5/8” wide (~67mm). I offered to make a new iron and this is how I did it. The boxing...
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    Hori Hori

    I made this one for my wife. She was a bit reluctant to use it in the front garden where it could be seen by passers by :)
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    Moore & Wright # 961, 1" micrometer.

    This small shop-made micrometer is a real curiosity. It is made of brass, copper and steel with some parts soldered together. The measuring screw is 6.7 mm diameter and has a pitch of about 44½ TPI or 0.57 mm, which is not any standard size that I have been able to discover. It has a circular...
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    Moore & Wright # 961, 1" micrometer.

    Also made in Sweden, to measure up to an Imperial inch, not a Swedish inch :)
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    How to deal with red tape

    Yes, they can be dangerous. A friend who is a retired solicitor told me that a clerk in his office had injured herself with one and needed hospital treatment.
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    How to deal with red tape

    Thanks - they appear in old tool catalogues as "lawyer's bodkins", "stationer's awls" and possibly as "paper stabbers".
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    How to deal with red tape

    I was intrigued recently to learn about the lawyer’s bodkin, used to pierce and lace tape through the pages of a document such as a deed, the tape then being tied to keep the pages together. I couldn’t resist the impulse to make one and try it out. I used offcuts of mahogany for the wooden...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. No, the hook is just to hold it together when in "chair" mode to allow it to be picked up and carried like a normal chair.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    It is quite stiff against a vertical load but quivers in torsion. It is suitable for standing plants or drinks on but not for sitting on :)
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    A small "tensegrity" table in oak.
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    Chair Steps Project

    At long last it felt warm enough to complete the chair. I ended up treating it all with potassium permanganate as I wasn't able to keep drips and splashes off the darker wood. I finished with Danish oil and wax.
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    Cycle die

    It may be worth contacting Tracy Tools https://www.tracytools.com/
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    A question for the historians …

    Very interesting - I had always wondered why this rule was marked "Birmingham" and "London".
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks again Andy. I'll go with the potassium permanganate. I need to do some defect filling and sanding first.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks Andy, I wonder how well dyes such as Rustin's or Liberon would have done in the sunny conditions. The room I intend to put my chair in faces north so I may not have a fading problem. Today I tried potassium permanganate on a couple of offcuts. In this photo the sample on the left is...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks Mike. Yes, I am testing finishes on offcuts.
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    Chair Steps Project

    The next task was to attach the seat pieces. I marked the positions of the screw holes by squeezing a screw with a g-cramp. Then I drilled pilot holes in the seat pieces and attached them with brass screws, having first inserted and withdrawn a greased steel screw to reduce the risk of...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Sadly, sliding dovetails would not work in those positions.
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    Chair Steps Project

    To my dismay, I saw that one of my housing joints had sprung open - I feared that that would happen sooner or later. My first idea for a fix was to use screws to hold the joints together and conceal the screw heads with cross grained wood plugs. A quick test on scrap wood showed that mahogany...
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