• 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

    Persimmon

    Absolutely not:ROFLMAO: but SWIMBO and I are well into old fartery so she decided it would be a 'good idea' for us to try it and it's actually good stuff - Rob
  2. Woodbloke

    Good Internet "Tutors"

    I didn't realise at the time, but I lived in the same village (Deepcut) in Surrey as JK when he was alive, probably no more than 250 metres from his house. I have all his books and they're very well worth reading - Rob
  3. Woodbloke

    Persimmon

    Soap can be made from the Persimmon fruit; we use it all the time; good stuff and lathers well in the shower - Rob
  4. Woodbloke

    Good Internet "Tutors"

    Saint Dave of Charlesworth is great and very knowledgable, but......sloooow and soporific. Lots of folk dislike him for all sorts of reasons, but I quite like Cosman. Matt Estela is again good, but too 'shouty' and the only Sellers worth a view is the Peter variety. Mitch Peacock is a good lad...
  5. Woodbloke

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    More book stuff for SWIMBO: A slip case for another netsuke book; hand printed Japanese washi paper covers. Trickier than normal as the boards were initially bent like a banana; flat works a bit better - Rob
  6. Woodbloke

    How to remove light cover

    I thought this was the beginning of one of those Irish jokes:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  7. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    One of the side effects of Amlodipine is swollen ankles which I had after a few years on the stuff. I went back to my GP (I insist on always seeing the same one) who changed it for Felodipine, which does exactly the same job but you don't get fat ankles - Rob
  8. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    It might be stress, but it might be the statins; say again, check the possible side effects information given on the paperwork leaflet inside the packet. Once you have a fair idea what's causing the problem, you can get your doc to kick the statins into the long grass and ask about Nilemdo. My...
  9. Woodbloke

    Joint Practice

    I paid slightly less than that ($29) for a paperback edition a few years ago - Rob
  10. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    Caused chronic insomnia!!...check the small print on the info label in the packet - Rob
  11. Woodbloke

    Newbie here!

    No it isn't:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  12. Woodbloke

    Is this board too bowed for a drawer front?

    Remember the Bubinga cabinet recently finished? If you read a short way through page 1 of the thread, I had exactly the same problem as you have now. I planed the bit of wood flat a couple of times but the stress didn't disappear and it kept bowing, as your's probably will do too. There is...
  13. Woodbloke

    Is this board too bowed for a drawer front?

    If the bow decides to return you'll find out about it in around a week's time....just keep on checking it with your straight edge - Rob
  14. Woodbloke

    Small scraps in thickness planer?

    Sleds are good and work well, but it's the length of the piece going through it that's important as the input and output rollers need to be able to 'grab' it. If they're too short you won't be able to push them through, although I have used a 6mm thick, fairly wide offcut to push stuff through...
  15. Woodbloke

    Is this board too bowed for a drawer front?

    What MikeG said above. It'll plane flat, but if as is likely, the bow was caused by the release of stress in the original timber (when cut from a bigger plank) if will come back and you won't ever get rid of it. My advice is to save yourself a load of grief is not to use it - Rob
  16. Woodbloke

    Newbie here!

    Welcome to WH2 but I think you may have come to the wrong place. The forum doesn't really discuss kitchen knives, although it does happen very occasionally and sharpening blades of any sort is a topic that's strictly 'off limits' - Rob
  17. Woodbloke

    Does brass "work harden"?

    That means that your file is also slightly blunt, as well as the brass work hardening. You can easily get away with used files (to a point) on mild steel, but ideally brass demands a brand new one - Rob
  18. Woodbloke

    Making a Rob Cosman kerf extender

    You may well find that with a very thing plate (made say, from an old Japanese saw blade) on the extender you make, it'll buckle n'bend as you start to hit it with tapometer. The ones that RC uses for Western saws use much thicker steel - Rob
  19. Woodbloke

    Joint Practice

    True! There was a programme some time ago on the televisual box where students in a lab built a model temple with trad jointing and subjected it to a fairly substantial seismic earthquake. The joints 'moved' and the whole structure (verticals not anchored, but 'loose') migrated across the test...
  20. Woodbloke

    Record SS...DUN

    It's now changed from a decent 'user' with grotty handles to something that's a little better: ...and the front knob with 'V' cut detailing: As mentioned above, it's not a full restoration project or anything like, but a general clean up, thead oiling (never been done) as well as a new...
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