Excellent work @koendb, your V is shaping up nicely! Regarding the gaps, perhaps you could blend the join a bit after gluing on the neck. Filler will be visible..

Today I started with removing the angle from the neck pocket. But I went in a bit too drastic and should have left just a bit of an angle in there. Oh well I will need to shim it now, before I can glu...

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They leave "steps" on the outside edges, which form parallel faces onto which you can place the clamps, which then don't slip when you tighten them. @tv101 That makes total sense! Why did I not think...

Looking good @koendb! How did you keep the cauls from slipping around on the body while gluing up? The way I've seen other people do that ... They glue the body pieces together *before* the final cut...

Hah, a little suspense is a good thing @koendb. The first two have different nut widths, 43 and 45mm. I was talking about the third one, it has something else going on... @mattbeels Looks like it has...

Reach for the sky Louis and don't forget to look back once in a while to remember where it all started. @boo I promise, i will 😉 🤗

In which live stream was this? That puts a thought in my head. We need some sort of index/directory of what Mark covered in which Livestream. There are so many of them (yay!) and he covers so much s...

@koendb No worries glad I could point you in the right direction.

@rocknroller912 Thank you sir! Watching right now 🙂

@koendb This one, it’s worth going for a quality one from a wood supplier and not Amazon or eBay as they can be cheap versions from China which as previously commented don’t work too well. The guide a...

I find the roller style jig that Mark demonstrated on one of the live streams to be the most cost effective solution for planes and chisels. In which live stream was this? i recently bought 2 planer...

Veritas is a really good brand. Post a pic when you get it!

Decision made .... I've bought the Veritas Honing Guide "system", based on the recommendation of my local friendly cabinet maker! It's not really much cheaper than the Rutlands gadget, but the Veritas...

@bpower I also prefer free hand sharpening on diamond stones and try to only use a guide if I’ve gone off square. Little and often works for me to keep an edge. However after years of free hand sharpe...

Just to put my two cents in here. I've been a "hand tool" woodworker for a while now and I prefer to freehand my sharpening. I have invested in good diamond plates and they have been working very well...

@tv1, the nice thing about picking up a vintage one is that if you don't get on with it you can probably sell it on for much what you bought it for. And you get a bit of history.

Cheers @jonhodgson. I was stretching a bit when thinking of possible upsides for that tool! There are “vintage” Eclipse 36s on eBay for <£20. That’s probably a better approach that giving £60 to...

I guess the upside is that you're not running the guide on top of the stone, so there's no wear to the stone @tv101 - you're dragging a hardened steel edge over the stone, I doubt you need to worry a...

there is no magic bullet that’s suddenly going to work. @rocknroller912 I'm not suggesting there's a magic bullet, I don't even know if this jig is an effective bullet, my point is that with a job th...