• 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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    Drawknife Making Project

    The finished article.
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    Drawknife Making Project

    I finished by cleaning up with abrasive paper, grinding on a wet wheel, then sharpening with a diamond plate followed by an oilstone. I hammered the handles well on, cut off the waste, cleaned them up and finished with Tru-Oil. The photo shows a diamond plate in use.
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    Drawknife Making Project

    Pete, you are nearly correct but I used a hot air gun rather than a hairdryer. I made a "barbeque" small enough to allow the ends to be outside it to avoid them getting red hot. I heated the cutting area to red heat and quenched in cooking oil, then tempered in the domestic oven. Then I...
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    Drawknife Making Project

    AJB Temple - I'm not usually so quick :) I clamped the blades to the bench and shaped the bevel by filing.
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    Drawknife Making Project

    I bought strips of O1 steel (gauge plate) 6 mm x 25 mm x 500 mm and marked out the basic shape. I drilled small holes at the positions of the inner corners then cut away the waste with a hacksaw. Then I cleaned up with files.
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    Drawknife Making Project

    I started by turning some handles of hornbeam.
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    Drawknife Making Project

    This is a project to make drawknives using the tools that I had available. I used a 10" Isaac Sorby drawknife as a guide for the shape and dimensions. However, I wanted a smaller size so I reduced the cutting edge length to 6". WIP photos and description to follow.
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    Greetings from Surrey

    I'm another new recruit who has been known to post elsewhere. I have been doing woodwork and metalwork off and on for more than fifty years. However, I have never had any training and my knowledge of both subjects is very uneven. In a way I think that is a good thing as there is much still to...
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