• 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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    Record SS...date?

    That should confuse the next owner! 😃
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    Record SS...date?

    There's always the problem that owners can swap or upgrade features, particularly those parts where people have strong preferences, such as the handles and the Stayset option. I don't know any more details myself and only have a few Record planes of my own.
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    Record SS...date?

    All I know is to take note of what keen collectors have studied, deduced and shared, eg here: https://www.recordhandplanes.com/dating.html Rosewood suggests it's before WW2 and Stayset that it's after 1931. You'll need to work through details not shown in your photo - which was plenty clear...
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    A little bit of wadkin history

    Marvellous doors, well done. On the lock, a proper locksmith could make you a key but I bet you could too. You'd need to get a blank of the right type and size, then open up the lock and file notches in the key to correspond to each of the levers.
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Excellent news. I'm not surprised (as it's you!) but I'm really pleased. You'll get the first trip in the Teardrop before much longer 😃👍
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    Simple bar stool design

    My suggestions: 1 Stand it on a flat surface and add thin wedges until it doesn't rock and the seat is level. Draw around the legs with something to mark horizontal lines. This could be a pencil shaved thin on one side if there's not much to remove, or a pencil on a bit of thin wood if it's a...
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    Joint Practice

    What's your preference with the bridle joint for separating the waste? - Drill an undersized hole near the end, freehand, coming in from each side, then pare back to the lines? - Drill a full sized hole by machine, bang on target, leaving minimum to be pared away? - No hole, just chop out the...
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    Joint Practice

    I think you've got it sussed! I've only done a few bridle joints and I agree that they do feel harder.
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    19th. Century piece from Switzerland

    Maybe they did things differently in Switzerland but that doesn't look like there's any provision for differential movement across the grain versus along the grain. I'd expect the horizontal runners to be fixed at the front, but held in a housing/dado without glue to allow for movement...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Very stylish!
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    The scratch awl

    If this is what you do to achieve your impressive levels of accuracy, I reckon it's a thoughtful detail of technique worth copying. Thanks Derek.
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    19th. Century piece from Switzerland

    Maybe the split on the second side would close up if you prise the last bit of transverse trim off first? And refix all the trim with thin, flexible nails only.
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    Slightly off topic - Abrafiles

    There's a few on eBay at the moment...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Showing up fine here. Lovely work, as ever!
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    The Shetack Saw

    Just looking again, it could be Enox: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/298558837954?customid&toolid=10050 According to Grace's Guide, the Enox brand belonged to Fry's of London, who were suppliers to the aircraft industry. And here it is in 1937...
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