• 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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    Alternative to wood for eg plough plane fences?

    Andy, any movement is more likely to be caused by inaccurate set up or less-than-sufficient tightening down. The material the fence is made of is of minimal concern as long as it is still/rigid enough - a problem can occur if the fence flexes. This happened to me recently. The original fence I...
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    Shoulder/Moving Fillister Plane Rebuild

    This plane has given me the fits. I made a new blade for it, using M2, to replace the Stanley #93 cut down that was doing duty. It turned out well (top blade) ... ... but initially the damn plane would no longer cut! What is going on? I re-sharpened it. It could shave hair, slice through...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - one more saw to fit

    Steve, thanks for the compliment, but I disagree. So far, 13.8 Kg ... and this includes everything to date plus a block plane, all the sharpening stones, spokeshave. There are three planes to make: trying plane, smoother, and coopering plane. I am hoping to come in under16 Kg. (that is...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - one more saw to fit

    This is the current inside of the tool box lid. It contains a 10" dovetail saw, a 10" crosscut joinery saw, a small, very fine toothed 6" dozuki , and a 5" fretsaw... A saw which I frequently turn to for dados and sliding dovetails, especially stopped versions, is a Japanese azebiki. It...
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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    Tom, the Veritas has a skewed blade. My little fillister has a straight blade, mainly because it is also used as a shoulder plane (I made it for my travel tool box). The Veritas Skew Rabbet Plane, to use the full title, is a terrific fillister, as good as it gets. I use this plane a lot, and it...
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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    Maximum 5 minutes. And that includes sharpening the blade and setting up the plane ... Even my little shop made moving fillester would manage this ... Regards from Perth Derek
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    Fantasy Tool Box - spokeshave

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    Fantasy Tool Box - spokeshave

    I think I prefer brass knobs. May try and find some smaller (these are the same size as the SS). Also added a little curve to the brass front as it looked blocky ... And the rear, which I forgot to show before. Wide flat area to push with thumbs ... Regards from Perth Derek
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    Fantasy Tool Box - spokeshave

    A spokeshave is an essential part of a tool kit. I use them quite a good bit, for curved parts of chairs and table legs. There were a few considerations when building one: Firstly, it needed to be compact and light, as with all the other tools included in the tool box. For example, my HNT...
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    Richard Maguire aka The English Woodworker

    He looks stressed. Also, this is a poorer topic choice to make a comeback with since it is unlikely to grab the attention of those who want to learn to build. It is not creative - and Richard can be so - and suggests being a little burned out, which may have been the reason he stopped before. I...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - combination shoulder plane and moving fillister

    Two planes used in all furniture builds are a shoulder plane and a moving fillister. My go to in my workshop is a Veritas Skew Rabbet Plane and either the Small or Medium Shoulder Plane ... The Skew Rabbet Plane (rebate plane) is the more important of the two, and used - strangely enough -...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - sharpening

    No criticism taken, Lons. Your post reminded me that I should comment about the importance of flatness, and where this is relevant. Regards from Perth Derek
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    Fantasy Tool Box - sharpening

    A couple of points to consider: Firstly, in any sharpening system, where flatness of media is a concern, it is the coarser media that is important to have flat. These are intended to remove steel faster by grinding and, therefore, influence the flatness of the blade. In my system, the 1200 and...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - sharpening

    The diamond lapping film is amazing as a travel system since it is so light when added to perspex. I would not consider it a replacement for a diamond stone or waterstone in a workshop as I have no idea how long it will last. I do expect to get at least a few months out of a single side - it is...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - sharpening

    Yes, the green 60K is a wonderful strop as well. I no longer use leather as it dubs the edge. I no longer use wood as an underlay as it moves and warps after it gets wet. UHMW is fine for the aluminium plates, but it is not stiff and flat enough for film. Film is better on perspex. Regards from...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - sharpening

    Of course one cannot take tools in a travel tool box and not have a way of sharpening them. My preference in my workshop is to freehand sharpen on ceramic waterstones, for example, Shapton or Sigma stones. The issue here is that they are heavy, both individually and collectively. Every oz and...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - one last puzzle box

    This was to be a box for two marking gauges, but I managed to squeeze in another tool ... which is great since I was not sure if there was going to be space enough in the tool box for it. A little packed ... as a puzzle box should be :) First out is this wheel cutting gauge. It uses a...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - Tuning the Record #043

    It is not necessary to heat treat HSS (M2) blade steel. It comes treated/hard, and is impervious to being cut with an angle grinder. One of the reasons I used it. For the clamp screw: Drill the clamp first. Start with a drill size as a pilot hole. Insert a blade, add a double layer of blue...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - a box in a box

    The scratch stock blade is HSS, and what's more, it is very hard steel! Man, making that bead was hard work! I started the cutout with a small angle grinder, and then used diamond files. Wore out a few. The advantage of this steel is that it is pretty abrasion resistant, scraping creates heat...
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    Fantasy Tool Box - a box in a box

    One more box finished. This goes in the lower section of the tool box ... Opening it up reveals ... A Record #043 with fence and blades, and two other objects, one a small dovetailed box ... This is 2" long x 1" wide. Inside are blades for a marking knife, a lead sharpener, and a...
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