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I’ve found both really useful. The No4 is much lighter to use than the 4 1/2, but the 4 1/2 is useful for wider boards. If you have to choose just one, I’d go for the No 4, you can get by planing most boards with it and, in my opinion, it’s better for final smoothing.
I too prefer to hand-sharpen my chisels. To help maintain the correct sharpening angle I stand a 30 degree triangle of wood next to my sharpening stones which I use as reference for holding the blade at the right angle at the start of and during sharpening.
I also found narrow chisels difficult to keep square to the stone. I found it helpful to attach a 3 or 4 inch thin strip of wood at 90 degrees across the back of the blade (held on with a small criss-crossed elastic band), which emphasises visually if I’m presenting the blade out of square to the stone.
Might sound a bit cranky but it works for me!
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You could try here:
Thomas Flinn & CoI’ve ordered saw screws and nuts from them before and they seem really helpful.
Best regards,
Having in recent years retired and come back to woodworking I too have had difficulty in planing squarely. I don’t remember this being a problem some 42 years ago when I was at school!
I too had the same problem with more than one plane. I checked that the jaws of my vice was fitted correctly to ensure it held the work vertically when clamped. It didn’t. Correcting it eliminated that as an issue and once I practiced and improved my technique a little I started to find it easier (still wouldn’t say easy) and quicker to square work pieces.
I think also my work bench maybe a little high and could be affecting a fully natural feel to way the plane is presented to the workpiece. I’ll be dealing with this issue soon too.
Finally, eyesight. I’m older and the eyesight in one of my eyes is quite poor, which would affect my 3D vision. So what looks like a squarely presented plane to the woood, may in fact not be! Can’t do much about this other than be aware of it and learning to compensate through practice.
Above are just a few other ideas to look at as well as ensuring blades and planes are set up correctly.Hi,
I think it’s for drawing parallel lines.
I found a similar thing here http://www.draftingsteals.com/folding-parallel-rulers.html. -
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