• 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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    Yet another box :)

    Thanks guys :) I guess wifey claimed the box - so that's it. What's going to be of it, nobody knows at the minute. I gave it a bit of wax and I'm going to call it the day. Or, rather, the box.
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    Yet another box :)

    ... I like the idea for them to somewhat follow the length of the side they're on... Some sort of aesthetic sensibility ☺️ But being it the third box of my woodworking career, the second one with splines/45 mitres, I guess my gusto will keep evolving 😇
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    Yet another box :)

    ... One of the "doors that opened" is that of "shaping" esisting chisels in their thickness, I believe, exactly for the purpose you're considering. I've now discovered a local flea market (1st time in 8 years living here :LOL:) and they do not have much as far as woodworking goes, but chisels...
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    Yet another box :)

    I tried to keep the chisel as constant width as I could, but my first freehand tries were too coarse, and I ended up not having it very centered :) Not sure what I was thinking, though: I should have marked it from the beginning :rolleyes: I couldn't get a nice flat edge, either. But...
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    Yet another box :)

    A small update - I wanted to fit narrower-than-my-chisel splines on this box, so I did what I think I either read here or on "the other" UK forum: went to my local flea Market and bought a suitable 2€ chisel with the intention to grind it down to the required width. It was my first experience...
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    Yet another box :)

    ... That's what wifey said 🥳 The original push was to give these tools some sort of "jewelry" type of status... Let's see how it will look when finished/polished a bit - it will likely become some nice gift for my better half ;)
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    Yet another box :)

    ... This one should have been for my first green wood tools: But I sense I made it a bit too small in the end... We'll see. Here it is, just finished the glue-up, still need to insert the splines. I want to have them pretty narrow, so I am planning to grind a cheap chisel I just bought for...
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    Wow that's a cool thing I learnt today! 😎
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    Oh this one entices me - as far as I know metals do not possess a macroscopic magnetic field themselves - they magnetize if a field is nearby, so I'm not sure how they make it work with a pure magnetic field sensor... Maybe they can generate a field too - after all what you need is a coil and...
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    I couldn't find my neodymium ones :sleep: so I went for a standard ferrite torus and that couldn't reveal anything. As you see in the pics, once I got triggered, I could spot some of these metal nightmares showing off the surface of the rest of the slab... There could be more under it, maybe? (I...
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    That might well be... I saw with my left and plane with my right, but shoot again with my left hand. Plane must have got confused. Rightly so.
  12. M

    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    Actually, on two Pete! It's just that the first one wasn't catastrophic enough to stop me and make me think! Also, I planed that face too... So it was just really on the edges!
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    Alright gentlemen, mystery solved - but quite disappointingly so :cautious: That oak piece is a small slab I got roughly one year back from a local joyner - at the time I wasn't really sure how to do my first attempts and I didn't want to start with a whole slab I didn't know how to manage...
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    Thanks @Peri - a magnet could not reveal any lumps around the wood or the jig. I have used the same setup time and again, and also with this project for a few sides already, so I'm really wondering what could have gotten trapped between wood and plane, without me noticing anything :(
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    So I am building a box using oak. This is the first time with this type of wood, sofar I've planed/sawn soft: pine and spruce/fir. I've sawn, resawn, dimensioned thicknessed and the whole procedure on the sides, I did not notice anything special behind of course the different texture and...
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    I need advice on a plough plane (availability/possibility of extra irons)

    Lovely tip Andy, thank you! (<heads over to ryanair.co.uk>)
  17. M

    I need advice on a plough plane (availability/possibility of extra irons)

    ... Nevermind: it just needed a bit of sharpening :LOL: (boy am I a noob)
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    I need advice on a plough plane (availability/possibility of extra irons)

    Sad story confirmed: Customs decided that they'd use a "statistical value" for the package: instead of the 40€ (35£), they used 53€ :oops:o_O So instead of 8€, I paid ~11€. Then, postal service decided to charge 6€, for whatever reason. Result: I'm never going to order anything beyond the walls...
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    I need advice on a plough plane (availability/possibility of extra irons)

    Wow that's a beautiful work in that thread 🤩 - thanks for the link! I was thinking of something more basic in terms of shape, but the process seems what you also outlined earlier on. In the meantime, I did a bit of research and while "gauge plate" seems to have no correspondence, "tool steel"...
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    I need advice on a plough plane (availability/possibility of extra irons)

    Just to clarify: I wasn't thinking of exploiting the plough to make mouldings. The train of thought was more: irons for plough plane --> irons with basic hollows and rounds? --> make some basic plane for mouldings, in a year or so. The problem with the market over the Channel is the overhead in...
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