• 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

    Record SS...DUN

    I thought that the handle/tote were Rosewood, but having taken off the handle and sanded the underside it's Beech, so definitely post WW2. Cutter is the original pattern as well, dating up to the mid 50's when it was altered - Rob...who may make some new ones out of proper, pukka Rosewood
  2. Woodbloke

    Record SS...DUN

    Thanks Andy. Looking briefly through the linkie you kindly sent it's got a Lateral Lever No.4 pattern (1952>57) and a Frog pattern which ended in 1956, so if I were to plump for half way between those dates, around 1954 seems to be a reasonable guestimation? I'll do a bit more sleuthing...
  3. Woodbloke

    Record SS...DUN

    I've just received this little beauty in the post: It appears to have unvarnished Rosewood handles and a hight front knob and with that style of machined frog I'm guessing it's quite old. Hopefully @AndyT could shed some light on it's approximate date of manufacture? - Rob
  4. Woodbloke

    I Do Like Facebook Marketplace

    I agree....nice job - Rob
  5. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    The same Al, I call African Blackwood 'ABW' - Rob
  6. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    ABW is so fine grained and dense, it can take incredible detail without bits breaking off. This is the top of a small Rosewood pot: ...in ABW made by a pal on a 'rose engine' and left straight from the tool. The little knob is genuine ivory made by the late Bill Jones, a well respected...
  7. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    Most accent detail stuff on my projects (catches etc) is African Blackwood, which is easier to work if you treat it like metal so rather than use a chisel, I use a metalwork file; works a treat - Rob
  8. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    Home grown has to be English Walnut and imported would probably be Teak, though it's a bit difficult these days to get hold of the genuine article. Having never used it, I'll be interested to see what the American variety is like, having bought a few sticks: ...amongst a few other odds...
  9. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    As I'm at Yandles tomorrow I'll have to keep a look out for some of these woods, notably American Walnut (& Cherry), Brown Oak if they've got some (unlikely) and hard Maple which I've never seen there before - Rob
  10. Woodbloke

    Clamps

    I don't loathe them per se, but I think you have to know their limitations in that they may slip and that they don't offer much in the way of a cramping force, but they're ideal for a way to apply some pressure when you can only use one hand. In my view, they're a useful part of the cramping...
  11. Woodbloke

    Clamps

    I've had a couple of Bessey and Ax single handers for years and both have been excellent but St.David of Charlesworth made the comment somewhere that they don't offer enough pressure for a really satisfactory glue up; for that you ideally need clamps with a screw thread - Rob
  12. Woodbloke

    Hardest part of hand planing for me is planing edge square to face. Tips?

    I would add to all the comments that your bench top should be dead flat in both planes; check with a spirit level and adjust accordingly with packers under the bench legs. The bench top is your main reference and if that's level and true it makes it easier to hand plane an edge, knowing that...
  13. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    You're more than welcome Malc - Rob
  14. Woodbloke

    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    This short clip from Rob Cosman is interesting, detailing ten of his least favourite woods: You may well be very disappointed with London Pane; it's soft and 'wooly' (for want of a better word). I thought it might be good stuff but I've ditched all my small bits of London Plane, apart from a...
  15. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    Same here; if I can't sleep the next day is next to useless and akin to a 'car crash'. I also used to like a glass or three of vino in the evening with SWIMBO but I've now found out the very hard way that although alcohol gets you off to sleep, it won't keep you asleep. If I then wake up to go...
  16. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    Fair enoughski! No expert here, but eggs, although high in cholesterol themselves, don't contribute themselves to cholesterol levels in human beans...very happy to be corrected by more knowledgable folk. I'd advise not to take statins if under 'pressure' from the medico; bloody horrible things...
  17. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    Anything added to the milk would have to be, under UK regs as I understand it, listed on the label on the bottle n'est pas? Unless my eyeballs are deceiving me, I can see no reference to additional added ingredients on the label. When Google was asked the question about additional...
  18. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    Stangely, oats is about the best breakfast you can have. I can't abide the texture of cooked oats aka porridge which makes me want to throw up, but oats on it's own with toppings and fruit is yummy - Rob Edit - milk needed as well in case you were wondering:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:, organic skimmed...
  19. Woodbloke

    Marmite

    Tried it Andy, and it's still far too salty. There's not even Lo-Salt on the table any more which was my preferred 'go to' so over the last few years. I've not added any additional salt/sodium to any of my grub for quite a while; SWIMBO likewise, although she has a pot of sea salt on the table...
  20. Woodbloke

    Marmite

    Looooooove Marmite, but it's way too salty! A quick question to Google suggests that Bovril has even more salt than Marmite - Rob
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