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Very glad you all liked it too and thanks for sharing the extra information on Hayward (and copyright)!
@Orestis, nice to see you made some of the tools. They look very good. How do your scraper and block planes do? I thought about those ones myself. So far haven’t worked with either type of plane at all. Or with cabinet scrapers for that matter, but just this week tried to make a scraper from an old saw blade (0.8mm). Not an instant success at scraping and creating curls (just tiny ones and mostly dust), but very good at removing old finish, much better than sanding. Should maybe try with some bought blades first. What did you use for a scraper blade in the plane you made Orestis?
I also liked the small router plane in the book, but just made another inspired by Paul’s one (though it ended up quite different, because I followed an old one I’d seen on ebay that I thought was very pretty too). I attach some photos of the one I made (I realised after finishing that the iron doesn’t retract very far in, so I made the thin protective filler for the round whole, so the iron doesn’t get hit and blunted when putting it away in the toolbox).
Cheers to all,
Sebastiaan