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Here are a couple of photos after I flattened both sides. I had to remove about 5/8 inch using a heavily cambered blade in an old Record jack plane. I smoothed it with a slightly cambered jack plane,...

Ryan,
Thanks for posting this. I just placed my order with Enco with enough material to build two Moxon benches. Enco is offering 15% off and free shipping with orders over $99 (codes game day and...

@Prashun, I agree that the dovetail wil interfere with the look of the gouged surface, so I'm going to insert the dovetails from the other side which is flat down the center. I'm also going to run a...

Thanks for all the great advice! I started by planing both sides of an off cut that will become one of the legs. Here's a photo. I'm considering orienting the concave side up and leaving some of the...

My favorite is a vintage Stanley Bailey no. 4, type 11, circa 1914 with the original blade. I have a few old Bedrocks with LV PM-V11 blades and a few new Lie Nielsen planes, but the old Bailey just...

I'm a fairly new handtool woodworker and I'm building a Nakashima style bench as my first project. (I'm basically copying the George Nakashima's R bench.) I have a large 8/4 slab that my wife and I...

Maurice,

I have the ECE scrub plane and it works well even in the hands of a novice (me). My only complaint is the radius of curvature of the iron is too small for flattening boards without...