• 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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    Xmas

    Breakfast and presents at my gaff, then up the road to the kids' mum's house for Christmas lunch. The deal is, I supply the turkey and pork (our lad doesn't like turkey, apparently it's dry and tasteless) and their mum and her partner cook and, best of all, do the dishes. Then I have to walk...
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    Knife making

    Thanks all. It looks like converting a wood bandsaw isn't a great idea for the reasons you give, and if nothing else because of the overall costs. A possibility if one comes up at the right price might be an old/ vintage Rockwell/ Delta 14" saw with low-speed gearbox for metal cutting. They seem...
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    Knife making

    I'm still looking into this. It'd hardly be for wood, just handles I think. Is the tension on a blade for cutting metal much greater than for wood? Just wondering how the bearings and overall frame of, say, a small-ish Axminster or Record bandsaw would fare.
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    Knife making

    Just a thought - is it an option to take a regular vertical bandsaw and reduce the speed (with a vfd, for example) to use as a metal saw?
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    Knife making

    I just watched this interesting video, and now need to watch it again. Really enjoyable, too.
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    Knife making

    That's very kind of you, Tom. It'd be great to talk about the process, I'll send a pm? That said, you don't want me in your workshop just now as I seem to be going down with this flu thing that's going around! Thanks.
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    Knife making

    Maybe we could initially use an angle grinder with a cut-off disc and create curves on a linisher? More grinding and mess, but it could work ok. I'm hoping to get away with my Sorby Pro-edge with a 40g or 60g belt for general shaping, tho that won't allow for concave shapes - I took a look at...
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    Knife making

    The biggest issue with such a saw for us is space. We've reached a point where everything has its place, but any more and we'll be putting something away to get something out, and even then we'll struggle for floor space - the ones I've seen look pretty big. If he was regularly cutting larger...
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    Knife making

    We're the opposite side of the country, Andy (South Wales) :)
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    Knife making

    Back in 2022, I read Dr.Al's thread on making a beautiful knife at the forge in Hereford, and soon after took my son to have a go at beating a billet of steel into the shape of a knife. (It was a snowy day shortly before Christmas, such a treat.) He loved it, but we never got around to finishing...
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    I don’t like our new induction hob

    Same, as soon as a pot drips a little too much and water touches the wrong button, the hooting and hollering starts. Wipe it all down, then wipe a bit more, restart the hob and off we go again, round two. ps It was the ex's decision to have it fitted, so maybe that colours my opinion, too.
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    It's back on the grinder now! In the photo is one part that sits on the motor side of the spindle and through the stone; the other side is just a flat bush/ flange. Still getting wobble, currently thinking about getting a cheap CBN wheel instead!
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    OK, I've tried rotating the stone relative to the shaft and it's not making a real difference. So I checked the bush again, and it's about .3mm difference in height, one side compared to the other (photo). Would this be enough to cause the wobble at the edge of the stone? As I write this, I...
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    '60 Where the wheel is clamped by means of a single central nut, the nut should be tightened only enough to ensure that the flanges drive the wheel and prevent slip. 61 Where a tightening torque is recommended by the machine manufacturer a torque wrench should be used. Otherwise tightening...
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    Thanks all, it's nicely on there now. Tho to tighten the nut I had to use an impact driver on the lowest setting, having spent far too long trying to tighten one nut without the opposite end loosening - again, I searched online for guidance and it seems some have a recess for an allen key in the...
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    Thanks Lurker.
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    Very quick one - are the paper labels around the centre of grinding wheels the blotters? Or is a blotter in addition to the labels? I've tried to search the net and failed. Thanks.
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    BAILEY No7 value? Advice sought.

    Thanks all. On balance, I think the £100 I paid for it may still be about right based on the prices listed, as you say Mike. I did wonder such things as - are woodworking tools the same kind of value now as several years ago? I remember talking to the chaps in Axi in Cardiff before they...
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    BAILEY No7 value? Advice sought.

    Edit - on reflection, should this be in the Hand Toolery section? Apologies if so. I need to sell this as it gets no use these days - I bought it when trying to learn to make tables about seven years ago for £100. Looking at Stanley/ Bailey No7 on ebay they seem to vary a lot from about £50 to...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Not exactly fine woodworking :) The centre's about 80cm deep, the sink is a bog filter (the basket's in there til we decide what to do with it, it'll have moneywort in due course). Once the water is ready, we're hoping to get some stickleback to keep in the pond. The pump's 24v, and the cable...
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