David Storer
Contributor

I understand your drift on the ethics of using types of glue for repairs that mean that joints can not be easily disassembled. For me, however,...

Backlash is predictable and easily manageable. I quite enjoy 'spinning the dial'. When you have a plane in your hands that is well tuned with a...

How about PU glue? Might that work? It will, reputedly, glue together almost anything ... although it might be difficult to work with and I have no...

In primary school (up to age eleven) in England, we were encouraged to bring a small sharp penknife to school as a more reliable and economical way...

My old dad (GRHS) always used to say you should never give a knife ... "it cuts friendship". When he gave me a knife, he'd always make me pay a...

Thanks. That's basically what I did. I set the cap iron in my vice, which has softwood lined jaws that I don't mind getting beaten up, and hammered...

'User malfunction' confirmed. So you don't have to be a body-builder to bend a cap iron. The base of the cap iron is supposed to be flat. Mine...

OP coming back. Apologies for radio silence. Just coming out of an 8-hour power outage ... another regular feature of my location. I'll take some...