• 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

    A week in the Pacific Northwest (USA). Woodworking related content

    Incredible! - Rob
  2. Woodbloke

    Intelligent Drill Press .... how much?

    Absolutely barking! Agree with Bob, simple works - Rob
  3. Woodbloke

    Making another stool WIP - Finished!

    The infamous paper/glue membrane is the way I would mount it, mentioned on another thread somewhere a while back. To the show face of the seat, spread a circular coat of glue (say 70mm), add a piece of circular printer paper (same size) add another layer of glue then add a sacrificial piece of...
  4. Woodbloke

    Box I made from Mike Pekovich’s book

    His blue tape and shovetail jigs are pure genius; simple, very elegant and they both work! I used his methods to try my hand at a kumiko project and if you like fiddly stuff as I do, you're on cloud 9! Tricky, time consuming but rewarding when it all comes together - Rob
  5. Woodbloke

    Making another stool WIP - Finished!

    Nice! I would have done that chamfer on the lathe, but if you ain't got one..... - Rob
  6. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    That's completely barking Ian! Most of the time, the Japanese use very different timbers to those in the West and as far as I recollect, there's none that they use to make furniture (Japanese Oak and Zelkova are common) which are like Bubinga and similar, though more than happy to be proved...
  7. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    There is obviously some truth in that, but beyond the very fine grades, you can't see them! We did a trial years ago when I worked for a firm making stuff for Linley (Linners) and at 320g and up the scratch pattern couldn't be seen; you could even sand across the grain and still not see the...
  8. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    The six shelves now need to be further sanded, (no chance whatsoever of an edge tool near this stuff) having come off the 80g loading on the drum sander, but being a smidge over 4mm they're difficult to hold unless a: ...rather splendid custom built holding jig is knocked together; four bits...
  9. Woodbloke

    One for the kids

    Very tasty! Never used Zebrano but I've also heard that it's awkward stuff to use; the ss hinges are great too but you might have had to remortgage the house to buy them:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  10. Woodbloke

    How does the saying go "Pink sky at night..."

    Whenever she sends us a Christmas or birthday card the back of the envelope invariably says in one corner "from oop narth" and underneath is a small, hand penned emoji of a thunder cloud and torrential rain:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  11. Woodbloke

    How does the saying go "Pink sky at night..."

    No.1 daughter lives in Carlisle and that's about par. That said, when we've visited her we've generally had glorious weather - Rob
  12. Woodbloke

    Japanese kebiki marking gauge I made from kit.

    This is one I bought recently in Tokyo: There are plenty of cutting gauges around of all sorts, but this one for me is even more useful; a clutch mechanism pencil gauge that accepts standard 0.5mm leads. Normal pencil gauges are a genuine, 100% cast iron pita 'cos the pencil constantly needs...
  13. Woodbloke

    Japanese kebiki marking gauge I made from kit.

    As I was trying to imply (badly as it happens) there's no need to import any Japanese gauge making kit from the US of A. Any half competent wood mangler would find one of these gauges dead easy to make; even the turn thingie on the end of the screw thread could quite easily be epoxied (Araldite...
  14. Woodbloke

    Japanese kebiki marking gauge I made from kit.

    Here's another one; this is a slightly bigger version with a longer stem, so could be used as a panel gauge if needed but I realised: ...that the thread wasn't quite long enough, so I made it a bit longer. This was made some years ago in Holly and Oak: ...shown with the component parts; a...
  15. Woodbloke

    Easy fit buckle - now fixed

    Heard that one before; doesn't usually happen - Rob
  16. Woodbloke

    Easy fit buckle - now fixed

    AJBT, you know we like pictures....one or two would help a wee bit here:ROFLMAO: - Rob
  17. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    The shelves were quarter sawn as I mentioned Ian and so very prone to horrible tear out and other such nasties. I deliberately left them at 5mm from the planer thicknesses, knowing that I would be sanding off a lot of material to finish at 4mm. At least quarter sawn shelves ought not to bow or...
  18. Woodbloke

    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Shelves (six) were next on the agenda. The rough blanks had been previously cut from quarter sawn Bubinga to around 5mm thick. With one side: ... and end shot in true and square on each the length needed was determined by a measuring stick; ...which was then transferred to each shelf...
  19. Woodbloke

    Japanese kebiki marking gauge I made from kit.

    I've made a few of these as well: Unless you can find a bolt with a 'paddle' attached, the tricky bit is to silver solder one onto a suitable piece of 6mm studding. I even managed to find some proper, pukka Japanese marking gauge blades on our last trip to Tokyo. There are, apparently, left...
  20. Woodbloke

    Mark

    Moi, personally, I'd much rather have a marking knife with a single bevel rather than a double. Matt E makes some very exotic knifes at very exotic prices but those Swan Morton scalpel blades aren't nearly strong enough so they'e a big 'nul points' for me. I made quite a lot of these things...
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