• 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

    I’m feeling just a little bit famous!

    Mine's a pint of best and a packet of salt n'vinegar ta - Rob
  2. Woodbloke

    I’m feeling just a little bit famous!

    That means you're buying the pints next time you're in the UK:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  3. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    It is indeed and purchased from CHT some time ago. On the rare occasions I need to purchase a carving tool, the Pfeil ones are my 'go to' choice. The little blade is ideal for cleaning out dovetail sockets and very easy to sharpen on the Ax Ultimate Edge with it's belt finisher but just as easy...
  4. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    Having got the thing together, I started to roughly pencil in the internal locations for the fittings (hinges, shelf pin holes, door stop) Unless I do this it has been known for me to machine holes and slots in the wrong places, so if there's a scribbled pencil mark I know what it means...
  5. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    First time knocked together: The sides need a mm+ or so planed off (in the P/T) to give a little more clearance for the door rails....which have remained flat! Winner! - Rob
  6. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    The brass discs are gauge blocks of varying thickness which can be used for 'set up' applications or for inspection purposes in machine shops. Depending on the accuracy of manufacture, different grades of blocks can get to an insane price, but an everyday woodwork set might be the Veritas ones...
  7. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    More progress on the shovetails, this time on the sockets. I prepped my new 6mm Japanese chisel (back flattened on a 'Kanaban' lapping plate, hoop fitted, then honed at 30deg) and set up one of the pieces with the sockets: The adjustable try square is now set at 16.5mm giving me 0.5mm to...
  8. Woodbloke

    UK makers of hand tools

    Here's another one; how about Joseph Rodgers (Sheffield) pocket knives? - Rob
  9. Woodbloke

    Lost! Now found.

    I have none; not required for the sort of stuff I do - Rob
  10. Woodbloke

    UK makers of hand tools

    I'd never realised that such things existed until I saw them in almost constant use by Steve Fletcher on 'The Repair Shop'. I said to SWIMBO that those things look very handy so I now have a pair of Maun's in the 'shop and she has a cheaper oriental set (but still very good) in a leatherette...
  11. Woodbloke

    What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

    Mine is the fridge freezer door. I have to check it's closed at least a dozen times before I go to bed - Rob
  12. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    Thanks Ian, I could do that....but I haven't got any more Bubinga of the right colour and length, so I'm snookered :ROFLMAO: - Rob
  13. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    Pondering on this a little further, the obvious solution that occurred is to machine a full length cove into the edge to act as a door pull: ...which is what I did a few years ago on this glassware cabinet. The dissimilar grain on that rail would then completely vanish and I reckon that...
  14. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    As mentioned yesterday, I have a problem and it's to do with stress. Not me, but in the wood:ROFLMAO: One particular door rail refuses to behave itself and after a few days of being flat then develops a bow: ...such that a couple of bits of thin card can be inserted in the middle. This will...
  15. Woodbloke

    What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

    Lidl's still have £1 operated trolly's; I don't bother with them as the new Lidl's branch is right next door to Waitrose so I use one of their's :ROFLMAO: - Rob
  16. Woodbloke

    Banking Apps

    When I was very small, my grandad was a bank messenger for the then Westminster Bank in Colchester and every morning he had to go down into the safe and bring up the ledgers for the clerks to use. I remember them as huge, leather bound books about 50mm or so thick and every clerk had one; all...
  17. Woodbloke

    Probably Bye for now...

    Like many folk, we buy stuff from Bezos, but SWIMBO always insists on a Google comparison search ('specially if it's biggish item) to see if it can be found cheaper elsewhere and sometimes you can save a shedload just by spending a few minutes looking - Rob
  18. Woodbloke

    Right angle drill attachment

    I have one that will fit my Festool drill and it's got me out of many a deep hole. Don't know though if it can be bought as a separate 'add on' - Rob Edit - plenty to choose from online
  19. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    Thanks Ian. Got a problem with a door rail which I'm trying to sort out now, so I'd value your opinion tomorrow when I post some pics of my 'solution'. Or not:cry: - Rob
  20. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    Tails weren't too onerous to cut on the bandsaw but needed careful work, taking very thin shavings to work the Bubinga to the shoulder lines. Cabinet pieces are then set out on the assembly table, with corners marked with spotty dots and edges taped with those facing outwards. Inside faces are...
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