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As ever Greg, you are most helpful – thank you. Clearly I am as good at searching the web as I am at planing square. Great site and I will…
As ever Greg, you are most helpful – thank you. Clearly I am as good at searching the web as I am at planing square. Great site and I will…
…2 3/8″ irons aren’t hard to find. Try eBay. You can copy and paste the following on the eBay search line: plane (iron, blade, cutter) (“2 3/8”, “4 1/2”) Dave…
…called thumb screws, as you’ll see on this link: http://www.boltsnutsandtools.com/plain-c-594_635_636_638/14-28-x-34-p-thumb-screw-plain-box-of-50-p-3824.html The only differences sometimes are, the knurled ones usually have ‘knurled’ in their description, so don’t use that as a…
…door falling all the way open. The end would have an open hook so when you actually wanted the door open you just unhook it. I thing you are going…
…& bridge. If you want an open throat, turn the iron around. It’s as open as you’ll ever need. They never were cheap. Even in the 1920’s. That’s why people…
…to the mouth opening. Once you set the frog in place, make sure the plane blade is parallel to the mouth opening. If the frog screws do not allow room…
…with the 8″ opening and he regrets it since I can do so much more than he. It’s a one time expense. If you can go with the 15″ opening…
…fence is too short, and too shallow. Grooves in the sole restrict smooth forward/backward motion. The open throat isn’t visually ‘open’ at all. Reversing the iron gives us an open…
…in the structure will be put in tension or compression. What’s going to change size is the drawer opening. The width of the opening (the width of the A3) is…
…10″ 20tpi PAX open handle Dovetail saw, 9″ 14 tpi Veritas Open handle Dovetail saw, and a 8″ 20 tpi Spear & Jackson Dovetail saw closed handle. I also have…