• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Trading Wherry 'Lady Garnet'

    I've probably been remiss in not sharing this project earlier, although it's been discussed a few times in various threads! I'm building a 48-foot trading wherry, a traditional wooden cargo-carrying sailing vessel, once a common sight on the Norfolk Broads. Lady Garnet will be clinker-planked in...
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    Woodworm

    Thank you for all the advice Robert, much appreciated!
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    Woodworm

    @AJB Temple What's so funny?
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    Woodworm

    Thanks. I should have said, the planks will be painted with bitumen, as this is a black-hulled trading wherry I'm building.
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    Woodworm

    Brilliant, thanks for the advice. Thinking ahead, once I've applied it and am sure that there is no active woodworm, how would you all suggest dealing with the holes? I know some would say just smear some thickened epoxy in them, but personally I look for other alternatives before going to epoxy...
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    Woodworm

    Hello again! While inspecting one of the oak boards I've purchased, I found that there a quite a few holes in the timber (DeWalt battery for scale). Now then, what should I do about this? I was hoping to use this for external boat planking. Thanks.
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    Splits in oak

    Cheers Nick! :) I should probably start a thread in the WIP forum. Thanks for this, folks with true connections to wherry building are rare these days, so I will definitely look Mr Yaxley up and see if he is still around. Thank you Richard, you all have been most helpful! This site, I have to...
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    Splits in oak

    Hi Nick, thanks for the kind words, glad you are enjoying the videos! Within reason, I could adjust the number of planks, and thereby the width, if I felt it necessary. The garboards are the widest planks, on some wherries they are 13 inches wide, and that's along the entire length. The...
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    Splits in oak

    Yes, that's correct, although I won't be steaming the frames as they'll be 4 inch square and that's hard to steam! I'm going to go the traditional route of sawn frames from grown oak crooks/bends.
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    Splits in oak

    Yes, I went up there with some specific planks in mind, and ending up buying the lot, it just made sense to get it all! What makes my wherry different from Arabella (and indeed, most boats of a similar size) is that Lady Garnet will be clinker planked, not carvel. So it's the tightness of the...
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    Splits in oak

    All of this is for boat planking for a trading wherry. The timber is currently two inches thick, but the finished plank thickness will be 1.25". By the time I come to start using it, it'll be semi air-dried, which is ideal for wherry planking. The boards are three feet wide so there is a lot of...
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    Splits in oak

    Thanks Mike. I'm trying to keep as much of the oak as possible (I got a good price but it still isn't cheap!) so just to check, which line would you advise cutting to, red, green or black? I know the black leaves the one large shake and I suppose it will keep splitting if I don't get rid of...
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    Splits in oak

    Hello all, I've recently bought a lot (and I mean a lot) of oak planking, cut through-and-through from the round. I've been busily cutting off the bark and most of the sapwood, and removing the cracks around the pith, which has had a fair amount of wet rot in the cracks. I've come to the next...
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    Sailing/rowing dinghy project

    Photo from yesterday. Steaming in plank 18, only 4 left to go after this. Meanwhile, the larger project will be starting this month, going to look at some massive oak planks this weekend.
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    Vintage tool collection - dating

    Thanks, I was thinking it might be beech.
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    Vintage tool collection - dating

    Cheers Andy. Final question, any thought on what the handle and knob are made of on my plane? I'm poor at ID'ing timber that's been stained...
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    Vintage tool collection - dating

    Thanks Andy. I'd seen that forum, but I'm afraid it didn't make much sense to me in terms of dating? The OP has divided the English made Stanleys into "types" but not sure how that relates to dates as there don't seem to be any dates mentioned? There is probably background knowledge that I don't...
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    Vintage tool collection - dating

    Sorry to revive this thread, but I was cleaning up an old Stanley No. 4, which came with the set of vintage tools, and I'm wondering if it is at all possible to date English-made Stanley planes? Online research is fairly negative about being able to date them at all, but I figured that if anyone...
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    Vintage tool collection - dating

    Andy, thank you again for the wealth of information, Salaman's Dictionary of Tools does indeed look like a handy book! Appreciate the info on Routledge, I'd been able to find out online when the company started, but wasn't sure when he ceased trading, so knowing all his tools are pre-1944 is...
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    Vintage tool collection - dating

    Link worked for me as well, thanks AndyT! Using that info, looks like he died in 1933 from online records, which is also the final year the company showed up in the few Kelly's on Internet Archive that name his company. Pending evidence to the contrary, I'll assume that the company ceased to...
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