• 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

    3 Round tabletops - cutting circles

    Not sure from the text and pics, but I assume you were left with a 2mm 'ole from the router jig in the dead centre of each top?? I would have done it a slightly different way so that there was no hole in each top. Use the circle cutting jig thingie to cut a router template of the top from say...
  2. Woodbloke

    Staining English Walnut?

    One coat on the darker timber and two on the lighter stuff seems to work; very difficult though to get them to precisely match. Fortunately the construction used on this cabinet will be dowels (aka 'Dowelmax' jig) so top and sides can be stained individually prior to gluing. Were shovetails to...
  3. Woodbloke

    Staining English Walnut?

    I hadn't done that Andy so will give it a try - Rob
  4. Woodbloke

    Staining English Walnut?

    Having had a good old natter with @AndyT on the dog n'bone yesterday, I mixed up a tester pot solution of 'Custard powder' in a small Kilner jar, using 1/4 teaspoon to 2 fluid oz, then mix thoroughly with a lolly stick. The light coloured board is shown below: ...with three offcuts taken...
  5. Woodbloke

    Poor man’s shooting handle (or lazy)

    Never made one of those spindle thingie chairs, but if I were ever to (unlikely) Richards little shute on the bench top looks perfick to me and is almost certainly how I'd go about making the legs - Rob Edit - could be Fred Dibnah speaking!
  6. Woodbloke

    Planer Thicknesser Knives advice please

    For me Pete, it's not worth the risk. Over time and quite a few sharpenings my guess is that the mass of each blade sharpened at home may start to vary and whilst it may not affect the overall balance of the planer, the bearings of the planer block are going to wear quite a lot more than they...
  7. Woodbloke

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

    I disagree. It's not necessarily written on a tablet of stone that the back has to be part of the continuous apron. My Record vice has been mounted with a 'step' for the last 25 years and 10 years before that on my first bench: More than once, that little 'step' has proved invaluable...
  8. Woodbloke

    Planer Thicknesser Knives advice please

    For years, I've send my P/T blades away to be sharpened in Havant at Spindex and the 'turn around' is less than a week. At one time there used to be a collection and delivery service to your front door, but alas no longer. I would never, ever, under any circumstances sharpen my own blades...
  9. Woodbloke

    John’s workshop

    The oil filled rad takes up next to no space and runs of a thermostat which is generally set low to provide a bit of background heat. As the workshop is pretty well insulated it stays warmish in the winter and the rad gets turned off in the Spring/Summer. I have one smaller window with...
  10. Woodbloke

    John’s workshop

    Coupla pics of the way I built mine, using 'council slabs' and proper 'old skool' railway sleepers: The slabs form concrete piers down each of the sides, with the gap spanned by the railway sleepers resting on the narrow edge. The 'shop is built on top from modular panels, the outer skin...
  11. Woodbloke

    2 lessons learned today.

    The reverse is true as far as I'm concerned for the fish counter in WR Salisbury. There is no smell whatsoever and all the fresh fish I've bought from them has been universally excellent. The boss man Tim behind the counter knows exactly what I want and usually has a chunk of fish lined up for...
  12. Woodbloke

    2 lessons learned today.

    Same here and for me it's whip round Tesco, the new Lidl (50m from Waitrose) and then into WR itself for the 'nice to haves' (organic marmalade, fish on Friday etc) SWIMBO gets a lift into the hospital every Friday, so she gets dropped of at 7am, I then do the shopping in virtually empty shops...
  13. Woodbloke

    Record SS...DUN (fully)

    I decided to lengthen the length of yoke or Y lever, as it was only just bearing on the cap iron. I rummaged around and found a bit of O1 steel and a veneer pin: A 1.1mm hole was drilled through the O1 steel and a corresponding hole drilled into the end of the Y Lever. This was difficult to...
  14. Woodbloke

    Anybody try something like this wedge system if you don't have a tail vise?

    I used to use a wedge system on my first bench but it was never really satisfactory. The system shown in the clip above is ingenious provided you've got round dogs to use with it; wedges also grip better if the edges are left rough sawn - Rob
  15. Woodbloke

    Record lever cap screw

    I was sixteen when I made that in the first year of my Plessey apprenticeship at the training centre attached to Highbury Technical College (as was), Cosham. The M27 hadn't yet been built at that time but nowadays it goes right past the College and if you closely: ...there's a long, single...
  16. Woodbloke

    Record lever cap screw

    Brilliant explanation Andy; I'm suitably impressed! The last time I cut threads on a lathe was in the late 60's on a big Colchester as an apprentice piece, which was a Toolmaker's Parallel Clamp. If if recollect the thread was an M6: Current 'state of play' of the Krenov 'V' door cabinet in...
  17. Woodbloke

    Record SS...DUN (fully)

    @AndyT has surpassed himself yet again by machining another Lever Cap Screw (correct terminology this time) which is a few mm longer than the original: A couple of mm was sawn off and finally disc sanded to the right length, but a small amount of fettling was needed (arrowed): ... on the...
  18. Woodbloke

    Stanley 50 plough plane blade wobble/rock

    Great to see you posting again Alf! - Rob
  19. Woodbloke

    What I have fixed today

    My best pair of house jeans are too long and even though they're turned up to my correct leg length, the inside 'turn ups' insist on unravelling every few minutes. The iron on tape stuff is next to useless and I've tried umpteen times with it so I decided to use the hot melt glue gun to weld...
  20. Woodbloke

    Seven Heirlooms - Rear view!

    I was '78 Yr at 'Ditch and did an extra fourth year to obtain a B.Ed. Somewhere on that pic you can see my ugly mug:ROFLMAO: The Principal, Peter Lacy (middle) is still with us and over 100. Many in that pic attended a 50th anniversary event last year at a pub in Egham - Rob
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