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Happy Birthday to me ... !!!

As a birthday treat to myself I have purchased a few more goodies from Axminster tools.

So what are we looking at here:

Stanley No#6 Fore Plane

DMT Diamond Stones

Veritas MkII Honing Guide

Joseph Marples Mortice & Marking Gauge

Axminster Marking Gauge

Joseph Marples 75mm Square

and lastly just out of shot a Japanese Marking knife.

Unfortunately, the room I will be setting up as a workshop isnt ready and has to be decorated first (sometime next week), so until then I have been sharpening tools and messing about with offcuts of wood etc.

The DMT Stones and Veritas honing guide are amazing and I can sharpen chisels and plane blades to razor sharpness very quickly. The 2 3/8" No#6 Plane Blade is a bit awkward to sharpen on the 2" wide stones but I managed fine.

More soon ...