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...

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. I watched that livestream too @rocknroller912, and have ha...

@tv101 There are a lot of factors in keeping hand tools sharp and my experience over 60 years of woodworking is that’s there is no magic bullet that’s suddenly going to work. Particularly so in regard...

I think the only important question is, does it work? Sharpening is something we should be doing regularly, "getting quite blunt" should be synonymous with "no longer usable for shaving" rather than "...

Attachment : image.png Keeping my tools sharp and effective is one of the challenges that I've yet to master. Chisels, planes, screwdrivers, some - if not most - of them are getting quite blun...

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It's *never* a stupid thing to stop and ask a question Indeed, just try to avoid my system of asking all the questions about one little details of the design and the route the truss rod slot without ...

I felt a bit stupid asking but better to ask than to do it wrong and screw my neck blank up. It's *never* a stupid thing to stop and ask a question. And if you don't know the answer, there's no such...

This forum is great much better than all the other social media groups Why can I only press the "like" button once for that post?? It deserves more!

@louis123 Congratulations Louis stay in touch and keep us all up to date with your future builds and studies.

I am very happy i can tell you that i am probably going to follow a study course on instrument making. It is a 5 year course and i am very motivated to learn about different instruments. My plan is to...

@louis123 That's fantastic Louis. Well done. Follow your dreams. 👍😁 🎶🙂🎸🙏