• 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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    Scheppach 36V charger

    I wish to buy a battery charger for Scheppach PL55li 36V cordless plunge-cut saw and have failed to find one with Google so far. Does anyone know of a possible source or whether another make of charger would work?
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    Keen Bench Drill

    I recently found this nice little Keen drill press by M C Gooding of Keens Road, Croydon. It was rusty and movement was very stiff. Some oil got it moving freely and I gave it a quick trial and found I could make 5mm dia, holes in ¼” thick mild steel plate quickly and easily. Although I...
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    A rasp making experiment

    Whilst doing family history research I was interested to find an ancestor who was a file cutter., presumably a man who made files by hammering a punch to cut the teeth in steel blanks held by leather straps to a bed of lead. Apparently, such workers were highly skilled and well paid but the...
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    Wooden Router Plane

    This illustration of a “Wood Router or the Old Woman’s Tooth” is taken from How to Make Woodworking Tools by Charles H Hayward, a book presumably dating from WW2 as it states that it is in complete conformity with the Book Production War Economy Standards. I decided to make something similar for...
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    Making sheaths for knives

    Here are a few photos showing how I made sheaths for the knives described in my recent thread "Making knives". We don't have a forum for leatherwork so I decided to show them here. Please note that I am very much a novice at leatherwork. Here I am punching holes and using pop rivets to hold...
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    Making knives

    The recent thread "knife making" discusses bandsaws for metal cutting and also mentions linishers. No doubt these machines would be very useful but might be considered rather costly for an occasional knife maker to obtain. This thread will be about how I made a pair of knives without using a...
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    Yorkshire pattern plane adjusting hammer

    You could pay over £800 for a plane adjusting hammer ..... or you could make your own for almost nowt :)
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    A pigtail and a carver's screw

    I decided to make a “pigtail” to fit the unused end of the motor shaft of a bench mounted disc sander in order to mount polishing mops on it. It was mainly a matter of straightforward turning and boring, the only real challenge being cutting a thread on the tapered end. I did this by “hand...
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    Making an iron for a moulding plane

    The owner of this plane likes to collect Irish tools or tools with an Irish connection. It is marked “Booth – Dublin” but sadly it had no iron. It is quite a beast as the mouth opening is a little more than 2 5/8” wide (~67mm). I offered to make a new iron and this is how I did it. The boxing...
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    How to deal with red tape

    I was intrigued recently to learn about the lawyer’s bodkin, used to pierce and lace tape through the pages of a document such as a deed, the tape then being tied to keep the pages together. I couldn’t resist the impulse to make one and try it out. I used offcuts of mahogany for the wooden...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Some years ago (in 2012, I think), AndyT posted a most interesting WIP in Another Place about making a chair that converts instantly to a set of steps, useful in a library or study for accessing the upper shelves of a bookcase. A few years later, whilst on holiday in Lisbon, I saw a rather...
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    Plane Storage Boxes

    They are made of walnut, mahogany and elm. I think it is a good way of using some offcuts.
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    Netsuke

    My first attempt at this type of miniature carving. Hornbeam with ebony eyes.
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    Two rusty heads

    I bought these two heads on Saturday. Please can anyone tell me their correct names? I found a very similar looking tool to the one with the nail pulling slot in the 1938 Marples catalogue, where it was called an orange chest hammer.
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    A marking gauge with a slight difference

    Some wheel-type marking gauges have the advantage that the cutting edge is at the very end of the stem. However, some people (me included) do not get on with that kind of gauge. This is an alternative approach, with a cutter mounted in a hole at 45 degrees to the axis of the stem and secured...
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    F. Brittain Brace

    I recently "won" this brace at auction. As you can see, it is in very poor condition but I intend to try and get it back to usable condition. The worst fault is the broken brass frame. I'm thinking of attempting a repair by silver soldering but I would be grateful for any suggestions.
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    Woodworm damage repair

    I have been given an old oak chest with some localised woodworm damage. I have injected treatment liquid into the holes but the edge has crumbled in the area shown in the photo. I intend to fill the holes with coloured wax but I would be grateful for any suggestions for making an inconspicuous...
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    Containers for Sewing Needles and Pins

    These small gifts were made from scraps of boxwood. The threads and knurling were cut with hand tools.
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    An Auger Stock

    I recently received a request to make a stock or handle for holding an auger bit instead of using a brace. I believe that such stocks used to be quite common in the USA but I have never seen one in the UK. This is what I came up with. It is made from a piece of 1" diameter steel barstock...
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    A Gouge for Spoon Carving

    This is something I made earlier this year: a gouge intended for spoon carving, usable one handed. I had tried using ordinary straight gouges but found myself holding them by the steel part rather than the handle. The starting point was a rectangle of 1/8" thick gauge plate (O1 steel). I...
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