• 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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I know people like to see pretty lumps of iron, so heres one I just finished. A guy in Australia asked me to look out for a machine. He was very impatient and bought this from a guy in Kilmarnock, without looking into the logistics of moving it. It was located up a very long farm track with no loading facilities. I arranged for a courier to collect it but he couldnt get it on his tail lift, no wonder it weighs 1.3tonne. I then arranged for a farmer to load it, but then the couriers refused to accept it because it was over a tonne, Even though I payed for a double rate and had someone to load and unload. In the end I hired a luton and drove up to collect it. A luton can hold 1.5tonne. It was a long day and a scary return journey. Theres no where to strap anything down in a luton. The van had the stiffest clutch I've ever experienced and ive driven land rovers most of my life. I felt like I had a club foot by the time I got home at midnight.
Its taken 6 months to do this because my Mrs is broken and I've been putting a wet room in and other stuff. Plus the guy said take my time because hes not sure where he will be living, Oz, UK or Israel.

With a bit of luck I will be doing a few of my own machines in the new year and theirs some really cool stuff amongst it.

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Stunning work as usual. Looks better than new, and I expect performs as good as new now.
 
Absolutely superb! What a first class job. That sets the standard for restoration work.

Andy

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I had the earlier version of that Wadkin......
great peice of work.....
plus I really like the colour....

AJE78......
need to do the same on a newer nmachine, sadley not a Wadkin......
those green scouring pads and WD 40 or the like will polish them up.....
Ill be useing a vari speed car polisher machine.......
 
Cheers Clogs, off to hardware shop now to get some of those pads now! Plenty of WD40 in the shed but no pads!

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Interesting to see the cutterblock has provision for moulding knives.

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Wadkin seem to be a bit hit and miss with that feature. The 9" RB has it as standard, the 12" and 16" RD only as special order. I'm not sure what the story is with the RZ and RM - except that Jack Forsberg's RM has the feature, as does a local RM.

wallace":lbsf6j3h said:
...With a bit of luck I will be doing a few of my own machines in the new year and theirs some really cool stuff amongst it...

Looking forward to seeing your WIP threads - when you get that far.

Cheers, Vann.
 
Cabinetman":22s2ea50 said:
Wonderful work, what a brill bit of kit that will be able to tackle anything thrown at it. It’ll cost quite a bit to post it abroad though, airmail?

You'd be surprised how relatively little it costs. I got a quote to ship to israel and it was around £350. That excludes import taxes and haulage to the docks and £500 for the crate :shock: So quite a few quid in the end.
 
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