• 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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    Bundwerk barn

    Framing for the annex is done. Those cantilevered joists are for a loading dock.
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    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    I use Stan Covington's methods for setting up Japanese chisels. He has detailed instructions for setting the crown.
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    What I have fixed today

    The day I moved shop was extremely humid and the tools were cold. Instant flash rust on unprotected surfaces. Made me mad because the machines have been in a climate controlled workspace for the last 12 years without a bit of rust anywhere. Then this. I spent a couple of hours this afternoon...
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    Surely not?

    Might be real. A kind of "tensegrity" construction.
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    What I have fixed today

    Yes, I can understand why. The beneficial effects are often not obvious. How do you know if COs levels are too high? Or particulates from cooking dinner? It is easy to just ignore them. There seems to be two philosophical positions on this. One is to add all kinds of sensors for CO2, VOCs...
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    What I have fixed today

    The house we bought recently came with an ERV, an energy recovery ventilator. These have become fairly common in modern houses here that are built to be more air tight. They exchange stale household air for fresh air while retaining about 70-80% of the energy in the conditioned air. Anyway, one...
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    Bundwerk barn

    Oregon has a mild climate and the soil freeze line is only about 12 inches deep. I'm not sure how deep his footings go but probably just two feet/600mm. It does look like he has inserted metal supports for the beams. Oregon is earthquake country so tying the beams to the piers is essential. The...
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    Bundwerk barn

    Reuben is back at work on the barn. This summer's task is to make what he is calling "The Annex," an approximately 20ft x 20 ft addition to the right (as you are facing the front of the barn). The site is tucked behind the saw mill. You can see the rough opening into the barn. Since the site...
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    A tad of mirth

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    New garage shop

    Well, we moved. Again! After almost a year in the place we decided that the house we bought just wasn't what we wanted. Although it was lovely inside and had plenty of space, there were some issues that we (and I in particular) just couldn't live with. First was the traffic noise, especially in...
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    Drip irrigation.

    We used a drip system when we lived in Oregon. In that climate there is very little rain from June to September. The system works best for row crops as others have said. It is helpful to have a separate valve for each line. It also is worth calculating how much water you need and whether your...
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    Clients late father built this shed early 1970's

    A "gambrel" roof. More storage/head space under the roof for a given peak height.
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    I believe that is called a shaper in the USA as well.
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Two days ago the linguist John Mcwhorter discussed something similar in the New York Times :https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/opinion/british-american-english-language.html?searchResultPosition=1
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

    The range maps say yes but I'm in the southern part of the state and I've not seen it around here. More likely farther north.
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

    Cornus canadensis, a low growing form of dogwood.
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    Lost! Now found.

    I'm a big fan of Incra rules. No parallax, positive marking to 0.25 mm. https://incra.com/measuring_marking-marking_rules.html
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    Seals for sliding sashes

    In the USA, but perhaps the info will help. https://conservationtechnology.com/building_weatherseals_components.html
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    Router bit?

    Here is one from China. I agree that is seems dangerous to use. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Rosewood-sofa-Line-Cutting-Knife-Line_1600761089643.html For my Ming table I used a scratch stock with a shop made cutter and some careful carving around corners. I had a favourable wood...
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    Unusual scrapers, or are they?

    I've been unable to find out anything about this wood. Could it be Ulmus parvifolium, the Chinese elm? Edit: with a little more digging, it may be Catalpa bungei, or Manchurian catalpa. Not an elm at all.
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