• 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

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Nope, you just need to pass the back over a coarse/fine stone of some sort to 'shrink' it a bit; doesn't need to be very much, just enough to give some clearance between the depression and the edge. They're very good indeed when set up correctly (that takes some time!) but can be an 'acquired...
  2. Woodbloke

    ‘Stop’ butt hinges

    I can't recommend any but will probably buy the brass version (currently unavailable) of the SmartButt for SWIMBO's jewellery box when I get a round to making it...have you a linkie to the thread on their installation please? TIA. As it's going to be a fairly big box, a normal pair of...
  3. Woodbloke

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Not so much a sharpening thread as a 'fixing' one. Last week when chopping out the rear panel rebate corners, my 12mm Japanese chisel stopped behaving as a proper chisel and started cut weirdly. When I took it out of the cut, it soon became evident as to the reason: Being a 'silly billy'...
  4. Woodbloke

    Newbie

    Welcome from Salisbury as well, where it's due to be a balmy 31deg C this afternoon - Rob
  5. Woodbloke

    Paul Sellers’ traveling joiner’s tool chest

    The infamous 'Schwarz' of LAP fame published a rather good tome on 'Campaign Furniture'... ...and making a piece has been on my tuit list for at least a century:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  6. Woodbloke

    Paul Sellers’ traveling joiner’s tool chest

    Leather would work as well I fancy. The brass handles as suggested above would, I think, be too delicate for this sort of application. If I were to fit brass, I might be inclined to look at heavier duty ones that could be found say, on military campaign furniture - Rob
  7. Woodbloke

    Paul Sellers’ traveling joiner’s tool chest

    Rope handles on that tool chest wouldn't look bad and moreover, wouldn't be too spendy - Rob
  8. Woodbloke

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Never used sycamore, spalted or otherwise. This stuff doesn't look very 'docile' - Rob
  9. Woodbloke

    What I have fixed today

    Nice 'fix'. I tried the art of Kintsugi some years ago, but decided it wasn't for me; there's a Japanese lady in Oxford who supplies all the 'ingredients' as well as some very good courses. I also used to have a fairly respectable collection of bonsai trees (about 50 in all of differing sizes...
  10. Woodbloke

    Very well done our local NHS

    Struggling here to work out what the first word is. I've had a genteel upbringing......:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: - Rob
  11. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    May well have been Ian and from the info on the inside pages, almost certainly was: The book was first published in 1966 (World Cup year) with a revised and metricated edition in 1975, which is when I bought mine. The whole book is choc-a-bloc full of line drawings and minimal (though...
  12. Woodbloke

    300 year old piece from Switzerland

    That sounds like good stuff Andy, but I assume the vinegar is the distilled, gin clear variety and not the stuff you get in the chippy? - Rob
  13. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    Doable, with a classic bit of joinery, but best of luck trying it in Bubinga. This illustration from the book: ...from one of my old tutors at Shoreditch ('Stropy' Jack Maynard): ...shows how it's done. The peg to fit a square rebate - Rob
  14. Woodbloke

    300 year old piece from Switzerland

    That's a lovely piece Scott! I've never restored something like that and others will be far more knowledgeable about how to go about it. My guess is some sort of hide glue to re-stick the missing trim and perhaps a gentle wood reviver of some sort on the 300year old patina? Whatever you...
  15. Woodbloke

    Plywood pull out drawers for a kitchen.

    Nice job on the drawers Scott, but could I offer a suggestion? I assume the screws are going straight into the ends of the drawer sides...if so, continual use in the kitchen ('specially with them loaded with heavy pots n'pans) will eventually cause them to fail, in which case you'll probably...
  16. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    The back panel rebate is pretty straight forward and doesn't take too long. Firstly I secure the job to the assembly bench using battens so that it can't move: The long extension router base (just a bit of pine with an 'ole in it) is then screwed to the bottom of the OF1400 where a suitable...
  17. Woodbloke

    Greetings from the other side of the pond!

    Welcome from Salisbury and another hybrid woodmangler - Rob
  18. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    You'd never get the same amount of countersinking on each hole....ask me how I know that!:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  19. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; back panel rebate

    I bet you said quietly 'oh deary me, what a silly billy'....or similar:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  20. Woodbloke

    What to do with Off Cuts?

    As requested a few pics: Three of the boxes; each one came with a Certificate of Provenance for the heritage oak and a letter of explanation. Coupla more pics: Not too difficult to make once you get set up to do them. Much easier as a batch rather than a 'one off' - Rob
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