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  1. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Thanks Andy, that was really useful... however, I tried it and although the hoop went on further than it had, it wasn't really enough, so I decided to pare a bit away with the chisel: and then pared a bit more again when that didn't allow it to go on far enough either! After that, it was...
  2. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    It's been too hot to spent much time in the workshop today, but I've done a little bit on the hoops. Given they were mostly loose, I decided they all needed to come off to be dealt with. Loose in this context mostly means that they would rotate freely, not that they would come off easily. To...
  3. Dr.Al

    Even more trammels!

    Wow, they're really lovely.
  4. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    The 10 mm chisel was quite bent: rather than just having been raised up at the tip, there was a clear bow to the shape with both the tip and the back of the flat area leaning away from the centre. I'm not brave enough to try to bend a chisel back into shape, so I went with the only sensible...
  5. Dr.Al

    More trammels

    Like Andy, I've often admired the old ones. Every time I've been in Bristol Design they've had a few different sets of them, but I've never needed to use them and have generally assumed I could make them myself if I ever did.
  6. Dr.Al

    Todays find.

    Me too. Or one of these wonderful things.
  7. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Is that Matt Platt's business though? The linked site is woodtoolshub.com whereas I thought Matt Platt ran Workshop Heaven. Given the linked site is half the price of Workshop Heaven it seemed worth checking
  8. Dr.Al

    Todays find.

    It's a stand for holding an angle grinder so you can use it as a cut-off saw. This (probably A.I.) photo gives the idea:
  9. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Quite a lot of years ago (long before I started woodwork) I had some knives that needed quite a bit of attention to get them sharp. In an attempt to sort them out, I bought a set of three waterstones (plus a Nagura stone, which is used for getting a slurry going on the 8000 grit one). I use...
  10. Dr.Al

    Todays find.

    I think I've got one of those somewhere. I think I used it once :) I don't think mine was a very good quality one, which probably stopped me from using it more. It took a lot of setting up for the grinder and in the end I decided I could do it freehand just as accurately and far, far...
  11. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    For the 15 mm one, which was demonstrating an impressive level of cussedness, I decided to be brave (not my chisels, after all 😉 ) I turned on the medium (1450 rpm) speed bench grinder and then turned it straight back off again :). The 200 mm wheels and the high quality bearings means it'll...
  12. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Hard to say for sure, but they aren't bent. Whether it was the ruler trick (which I use on plane blades, but never chisels) or just lifting up the handle a bit I don't think there's anyway to tell.
  13. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Unfortunately, they're definitely convex. Concave ones are easy with wet-and-dry on glass or with the diamond stone. Convex is, in my experience, a chore. The bit near the handle has already been ground away (not by me) on these ones.
  14. Dr.Al

    My take on Richard Maguire’s (The English Woodworker) danish stool

    That looks really smart Steve. Making curvy things (especially curvy joinery) is something I haven't dared try just yet. You've managed to make that look really elegant. Presumably oak based on the pictures, but what's the woven top made from? How hard was that to do?
  15. Dr.Al

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    I had a message from a chap on the MIG-welding forum saying: The chap in question is a someone I've had quite a lot of interaction with over the years and he's also sent me a couple of his old tools to add to my collection. While sharpening isn't one of my favourite things, it felt like the...
  16. Dr.Al

    Looking for info and experiences with different Narex chisels?

    I had a go a couple of days ago just to see what the blunt chisel thing is like. I've got a couple of never-been-sharpened-by-me chisels that I inherited so one of those got grabbed and shoved into a 180 grit CBN wheel on the medium-speed bench grinder for a couple of seconds. It then got used...
  17. Dr.Al

    Cutting disks

    When I get angle iron and structural steel flat bar (which both come with a similar thickness of mill scale), I tend to "just" remove all the mill scale before doing anything else with it. That's partly because I'm typically TIG welding them (so need a clean finish) but it also has the...
  18. Dr.Al

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; wall hanging sans door/glass.

    Not me guv. That'll be @SteveMP: https://thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/looking-for-info-and-experiences-with-different-narex-chisels.11805/#post-202212
  19. Dr.Al

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    How far is Lavenham? I was curious and did a little browse on Google Maps. The way I tend to do it is search for "antique centre" and then look at the pictures. If any of the pictures look interesting (i.e. they have a selection of tools in shot), the antique centre gets added to a "Junk...
  20. Dr.Al

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    Also worth considering that if you find one on one of the local for-sale sites (gumtree, FB marketplace etc), there's bound to be someone on this forum who's local and can pick it up and post it to you.
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