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267851 "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> 2019‑02‑13 Re: OldTools] Test
Don said…

> Be nice to see a picture, if you have one like that.
> 
> Don 


and THAT made me turn out my copy of Kingshott, which is where I imagined there
was a photo, but no, he only shows Norris like builds using of course, the
square knob.  So I take out my files of cuttings, and begin leafing through (one
of those jobs I promised when I gave up the day job - catalogue the files -  and
much later, much later, after all kinds of snippets of useful information,
sketches, published drawings, working drawings by someone making an X04, all
kinds of metal plane making, and so much inspirational stuff about furniture. ..
well, you get the idea.

In the last place I look, I discover the photo I remember, on an article by John
Brown,  I’ve put some pics here

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c9f873o0nwn544c/AAANRelsjGh16bzlM6fvMV-Da?dl=0 


If the link works that is.  


We were talking about weighty a Bailey - just add metal within the stuffing -
the photos don’t show it, but  we can all  do it.   Casting some lead into the
body would work, or leave a void in the stuffing and fill it with lead shot with
a touch of glue to keep it together - or whatever you fancy.


I seem to have a list of about 25 items that never gets short enough to sneak
one of these projects into, else I’d have a go.



Richard Wilson
half a morning gone, but pleased to have a trip back through the press cuttings
files - so many of the authors gone by the wayside now, Ryecotewood  college,
all vanished..

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