• 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. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Design location. Easier for SWIMBO to faff around with it with the hinges on the rhs - Rob
  2. Woodbloke

    Done- hammer handle for Japanese gennou hammer

    Nice online shop with some pretty fancy tools and packaging to boot...which you pay for! At Inoue Hamono all their kit is specifically for the professional Japanese chippies, who aren't interested in a fancy box, labels or posh woods for chisel handles. What they do demand is top quality, work...
  3. Woodbloke

    Done- hammer handle for Japanese gennou hammer

    Easy to find as well once you know how to navigate the Tokyo Metro and Google Maps is your best friend - Rob
  4. Woodbloke

    Done- hammer handle for Japanese gennou hammer

    I was tempted by the huge array of hammer heads I saw in Tokyo at Inoue Hamono. Having the breaking strain of a Kit-Kat, I was sorely tempted but alas, common sense and my spending limit on the CC prevailed - Rob Edit - all the hammers that customers could play with had bespoke, home made...
  5. Woodbloke

    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    I use a grey Webrax pad to do that (like the green stuff but a bit finer) as 0000g wire wool disintigrates in use and may leave particles behind in the grain which could then turn black; not good especially on Oak with plenty of tannin in it. That said, if the Oak is well sealed (coupla decent...
  6. Woodbloke

    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    I wonder if 0000g wire wool + WD40 would be as effective? I rarely see rust on anything because of the way I accidentally built the 'shop years ago, but it does annoyingly happen occasionally. The last time was on a LN plane blade where a smear of water was trapped between the back of the iron...
  7. Woodbloke

    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    When I did have a tablesaur, (Kity 419) it occupied the space where the router table now sits. Any long pieces sawn on it went through a 'letter box' in the door (not my idea but one I blagged from the late JK...Jim Kingshott) so even if the heavens were melting outside, I could still saw wood...
  8. Woodbloke

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

    I've had enquiries on my Farcebook 'Wilton Woodwork' page, for example somebody wanted a pair of stair gates. I replied I would be happy to make them but as they were in the USA, p&p would be prohibitive:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  9. Woodbloke

    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    You've been into mine Ian, so you know the layout. The assembly table dominates the middle of the 'shop together with an open space about 2m square and it's those two things that determine what and how big your projects will be. The 'Tool Wall' faces West (deliberately) as too much natural...
  10. Woodbloke

    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    You didn't miss much Ian:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  11. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Thanks Ian; the arris on the most prominent edges was done with a tiny round over bin it the router table, then tidied with 320g paper. Shorter edges and 'blind' corners were initially done with sanding sticks where sandpaper is stuck to a bit of ply (or similar) with ds tape and the excess...
  12. Woodbloke

    IT expert advice please

    We're with Zen (thanks to Rog S) and we ditched our land line completely a coupla years ago, so it has ceased to be and shuffled off this mortal coil etc etc; we rely on our mobile iPhones for any incoming calls - Rob Edit - we're also now on Zen full fat fibre as of this year with a Eero router
  13. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    The next one will be the JK cabinet with the shallow 'V' section door. If you recollect I did a mock up in pine a while back - Rob
  14. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    I would've put steel cs screws in there Andy, but they're now rarer than rocking horse teeth - Rob
  15. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Thanks; Bubinga is very strong and stiff; doubtful it it will bend and the stuff that's going on them is pretty small and light - Rob
  16. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Glazing is fairly straight forward, but, as usual, I needed to be very careful as this little bit of AR70 'True View' glass cost £60! The frame and cabinet were waxed with some Chestnut beeswax, buffed off so all was ready. An offcut was cramped to the assembly table: ... to give something...
  17. Woodbloke

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

    A large mug of 'builders' gets me going in the morning; strong coffee at about 11am and never after 6pm - Rob
  18. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    The Bubinga in the coffee grinder is quarter sawn stuff which machines quite well through the P/T but is (in my experience) well nigh impossible to hand plane: These are the six shelves finished with the Festool orbital finishing sander to 320g and given a couple of coats of Odie's Oil - Rob
  19. Woodbloke

    Seven Heirlooms - Rear view!

    Seconded:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  20. Woodbloke

    4 pens

    Same here; got loads of different blanks but haven't made a pen in aeons (slightly longer that a yonk:ROFLMAO:) - Rob
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