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• Flattening a Bench Plane

  2011-07-21 15:40:57

  Often an old plane may need to have some work to be done on it before it can be used and having a flat sole and frog is essential. We test our planes for flatness with a feeler gauge on a dead flat granite inspection block to the tolerance of 0.038mm or 0.0015” (1.5 thousandths of an inch) - if the plane is very flat you will feel it suck on to the flat surface and 10 mm float glass is a good alternative, if an inspection block is not available. If the sole is damaged or not flat we re-flatten it as follows.

• Demonstrating at the Hammer Felder In House Show

  2011-05-18 15:02:11

  I was invited by Felder UK to join them in Milton Keynes to test and demonstrate their newly launched Hammer A3 26 Planer Thicknesser, for the UK press launch and for their In House Show open weekend. It was the first time I had been to Felder’s headquarters since I purchased my machines from them in 2005. They had moved since I last visited them, to a great showroom with a demonstration area which they have set up.

• Cherry and Lacewood Table - Student Project

  2011-04-11 19:25:22

  This cherry and lacewood table was designed and made by a long course student; this was his 5th of 6 projects he undertook in the Spring term. The legs have been made from 3mm thick cherry laminates to form the 3 legged curved understructure which is jointed and glued to the lacewood veneered, circular top.

• Burr Walnut Cabinet - Student Project

  2011-03-24 14:11:29

  One of our students has just completed this burr walnut TV cabinet using a lot of veneering techniques; end book-matching using a crown veneer, edge cross banding using a straight grained quarter sawn veneer. As you can see, using these two veneers gave a great contrast using the veneer cuts to their best advantage. The doors and drawer front were book matched burr walnut and was matched across the pilasters on the front and sides of the cabinet.