• 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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  1. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    After tidying up the bench up a bit this morning, our little 21 year-old (called Treacle) had a chance to check it out:
  2. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Groovy...
  3. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    While the glue was drying, I got on with the other blade. When I made the first set of grooving planes, I made the blades out of gauge plate (aka O1 tool steel). That means they're very easy to shape (as the steel is relatively soft) but they need hardening and tempering (which is quite simple...
  4. Dr.Al

    Easy fit buckle - now fixed

    Looks very smart
  5. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    Next up was a step I probably should have done earlier in the process. I placed the walnut on top of the thicker bit of beech and tapped some short panel pins into it: In that photo you can see the shape of the opening for the blade and a rough idea of where the hole (for shavings to escape)...
  6. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    Maybe you'll have to find one of the members on here that goes back and forth between the UK and US quite regularly and talk nicely to them :ROFLMAO:
  7. Dr.Al

    Seven Heirlooms - helluva lot of rubbing so far!

    At first glance I thought you were make paper Sycamore aeroplanes!
  8. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    Yeah, that's exactly the principle behind the idea. If you're using the same dimensions over and over again, why not have a dedicated plane. These are really easy to make: it took me two days like the title says and I don't think they were particularly "full-on" days, just pottering at it when...
  9. Dr.Al

    A week in the Pacific Northwest (USA). Woodworking related content

    That's all incredible! Thanks for sharing.
  10. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    I can certainly imagine them being used a lot more than the #55! At the moment I'd say that if I put the plough planes into order of most frequent use it'd come out as: 1. Rapier #43 (usually with a 4 mm cutter) 2. Pair of 5 mm (width, depth and offset) home-made planes 3. Stanley #45 4. Pair...
  11. Dr.Al

    A groovy little two-day project

    I've just finished this simple project but I thought I'd post it in three instalments just to spread it out a bit. About five years ago, I made a set of grooving planes based on an idea from Matthew Kenney in a book on woodworking with hand tools. I use the four planes fairly often as they're...
  12. Dr.Al

    Seven Heirlooms - helluva lot of rubbing so far!

    That deserves an award for understatement :ROFLMAO: They're looking beautiful Malc - the Sycamore is gorgeous.
  13. Dr.Al

    How does the saying go "Pink sky at night..."

    There or thereabouts (I didn't spend any time getting it precise)
  14. Dr.Al

    How does the saying go "Pink sky at night..."

    Do you live here? 😜
  15. Dr.Al

    What should the bevel be on this wooden plough plane?

    Ooh, good spot, yes that seems plausible. @SteveMP You could try rubbing a soft pencil all over the top of the blade and then fitting the wedge. When you remove the wedge you should see an even coating of graphite on it. If it's all at one end then the wedge angle needs a tweak. You could also...
  16. Dr.Al

    What should the bevel be on this wooden plough plane?

    I don't claim any expertise in these matters, but I tend to work on the premise that for any bevel down plane, the cutting angle is defined by the bed angle. As long as the bevel angle is less than the bed angle (and hence the tip touches the wood with a bit of clearance at the back), then any...
  17. Dr.Al

    Rain

    Ah I see. Yes, the problems of food shortages could be felt by all of us, not just the farmers/growers.
  18. Dr.Al

    Rain

    It's going to hit all businesses growing stuff similarly I'd imagine. Whether your crop is prosaic or posh it'll still hurt your profit margins.
  19. Dr.Al

    Stanley 50 plough plane blade wobble/rock

    I was curious so I went to have a look at mine: According to my feeler gauge set, the gap on mine is 0.35mm. I can't comment on how problematic it is with that gap as the #50 is probably my least often used plough plane: I can't remember the last time I used it. I tend to default to the...
  20. Dr.Al

    One for the kids

    Lovely work. Are the corner joints simple mitres or is there a spline of some sort in there (or something else)?
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