Which tool would you recommend using to shape these two flat sections? The bump in the middle makes it impossible to use a handplane, and the spokeshave doesn’t feel precise enough to create a flat and square surface. Piece is quite wide at 1 1/2 inch. Thanks!

I need help finding a good square to get that’s actually pretty close to square. I keep hearing about woodpecker squares but they’re a crazy price… $150 just for the block and $100 more for the blade is out of my price range. I’m looking for a nice pocket square and a nice 6-7” square for under $100 each. What does everyone recommend?

I’m interested in getting a Veritas plow plane. Does anyone know if the blades for plow, combination, and box makers planes are all the same? It seems like it is - but the blade listing only mentions them being compatible with the combo and the plow and I have the blades for the box makers plane already.

Hi, there is an old (1850s) toolbox at my dad's place full of old tools, got a chippy here who can't figure out what this is for, can anyone advise? It's about 5cm wide

Hey folks,
I've got a handful of old 'perfect pattern' flathead screwdrivers. I'd love to have them in Phillips but they don't seem to exist.
If they really don't, anyone know why not?
If they actually do - where do I buy one? I don't care if they're hand made but only on Easter in Tasmania - I want one (or maybe four)

Making my first tote for a broken #5 and this happens during shaping.

Picked up a pretty odd one, at least to me. Any idea where some instructions or videos on these weird mortise jigs might be?

Hi all, the tote on one of my Bailey-style planes is loose, even when the screw is tightened all the way. I've seen people suggest filing down the screw to shorten it, but not sure if that makes sense in my case. If I take off the handle and put in just the screw, the screw itself does not wobble at all. So is it just that the slot in the wooden handle has been widened, or...?

Update: Okay, it's been explained to me why it'll help to shorten the screw by a turn or so, and/or to put washers underneath the screw head.

I also might sand the base of the tote because it seems a little uneven, unless people here tell me it's a bad idea.

Hi,

I’m trying to restore a router plane and to remove the paint and a bit of rust here and there I’m soaking it in turpentine for 24h.

Doesn’t seem to work very well though and I’m wondering if I misunderstood something - it should work ?

I plan to remove the paint with wire brushes using my drill - this tends to generate some fire sparks - I guess I should clean the parts with water before doing that ?

The wife and I walked the market this morning and found these two little tools. I love perfect handle screwdrivers and this one is in amazing condition. Cleaned up the thumb plane and got it taking shavings again. No logo on it anywhere. Paid $15 for both tools.

Well, possibly as late as 1802. Found this plane on peebay yesterday - and bought it, thus the snips say "sold". This kind of stuff always attracts my interest because I make planes from time to time and like to see what the stuff was like earlier because it wasn't crude or anything - it was probably more expensive and so far, I've gotten other planes back to 1825 or so and they were completely mature in terms of the design other than the handle is ever so slightly offset. All of the internals of the plane and the chipbreaker are the same as the best types ever made. This one appears to be a little bit before that, but it does have the mildly offset handle. The maker worked from the 1770s to 1802, and as far as I can see, this plane is completely viable for work. Though I don't need it for that, since it's sound, I'll fit it/adjust it as needed and give it a whirl.

$50. That's what surprises me with this stuff the most. There's relatively little interest in it while some other early tools bring big dollars. If you could find a mid 1800s early arkansas stone, for example, with labeling, it would bring 5-10x as much.

I'll dump my Lie Nielsen floats on ebay at some point in the next couple of months for a straight up auction and even if they end on a sunday at 3 am, each one will end up getting bid far past this.

The maturity of the technology at an early date is something interesting to me because of the speed that refinement occurred. I suspect of all of the things we hear about single vs. double iron, the fact that this occurred quickly has no romantic or mystery reasoning. It took over and got refined to a level better than most planes are made now in terms of functionality because you could do far more work in a day with a double iron plane than you could with a single iron plane and whatever crutches you'd have to come up with for woods that a single iron plane wouldn't handle.

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Does anyone know of a website or list of Yankee screwdrivers similar to the Stanley blood and gore? Like which ones are spring loaded and which ones aren’t? I can’t for the life of me find one.

Don't really know what to ask for. Things I have - nice ryoba saw, nice sharpening stone/diamond stone. Cheap chisels but they do the job well. Hand plane will likely buy used so can't ask mom to pick that up.

Kind of at a loss and can't decide. Was going to ask for a set of chisels, but honestly the $70ish dollar sets don't seem like much of an improvement and I'll probably end up slowly adding single $30-50 ones like the Narex Richter

Anything that's super useful or overlooked? Maybe a marking gauge or honing guide? Sort of lacking in measuring tools. Is that 12" blem combo sq from Harry J Epstein still a good buy? Maybe a machinest square?

Was wandering about the internet and found this, thought it would be interesting to y'all.

https://archive.org/details/NortonPikeHowToSharpen/page/n17/mode/2up?view=theater