• 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. Mike G

    Big problems ebonising.

    I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem I have ebonising oak. I've done it a number of times over the years and never run into this before. I prepared the oak by wiping it down with a very strong tea solution, but it's worth noting that the scrap pieces I've been testing since DIDN'T have...
  2. Mike G

    U3A

    Is anyone here a member? What was/ is your experience?
  3. Mike G

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    I have finally had enough of my lever-adjusted Stanley 50 Combination Plane. There is simply too much slop in the system, and I am constantly ripping out chunks and then cutting nothing at all with the merest touch on the lever. So, what should I buy, chaps? Obviously I am talking about a second...
  4. Mike G

    Drip irrigation.

    We're sick and tired of drought*, and sick and tired of watering the garden manually. Has anyone installed or otherwise have experience of a drip irrigation system? What do we need to know before we buy? *For any of our South African members smiling to themselves and mumbling something about...
  5. Mike G

    Featured Content

    If you click on "What's New?" or "New Posts", you get a page with a whole lot of threads listed. Above those threads are a series of headings......and the second on that list of headings is "Featured Content". Ours is empty. Is this user controlled, or controlled by the-powers-that-be? What's it...
  6. Mike G

    Any headline writer....

    ........who doesn't use "Fleeting Streeting Meeting" to describe this morning's events is missing a trick.
  7. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    I've just returned from a fun 4 hours in A&E, with my right leg in plaster up to my knee. I have ruptured my achilles tendon, by tipping off a saw horse as I was wiring up a switch for my extraction system. I landed on the foot of another saw horse. I won't know for a week whether or not I need...
  8. Mike G

    Dust extraction.

    Last week, in machining up a whole lot of bog oak, I suffered an absolute workshop catastrophy: Now, the thing is, I've got a perfectly good extractor mounted in the corner of my workshop, wired up, and working: I'm sure I must have posted about it previously. I got it from DaveL, when...
  9. Mike G

    Are all NVR switches the same?

    Yeah, I know they're not. But single phase plastic things that looks the same externally? I have a dodgy NVR switch on my bandsaw, which needs replacing. I have a perfectly good one on my extraction system motor, which I intend bypassing to switch via a double pole isolating pull switch...
  10. Mike G

    Bog oak and ash

    Work on the teardrop has ground to a halt for the time being, so I have turned my attention to a job which has needed doing for a while now: my bog oak collection. Here's my store with half a dozen boards already out: I need some long straight bits for the teardrop, but with the size of these...
  11. Mike G

    Acetone

    Does anyone here use acetone? Where do you buy it?
  12. Mike G

    Thicknessing jig for hand planes

    I've had a jig for thicknessing thin strips of wood by hand in my mind for many a long year. Now, I'm about to embark on a lot of Kumiko*, I thought it high time I got around to building it. *Don't be ridiculous, of course I'm not. But I am going to be making some louvred doors. I found a...
  13. Mike G

    It's back!!

    That was obviously fairly serious. Thanks to all who got things fixed.
  14. Mike G

    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Apparently we need a new dining table before christmas. I'd better get on with it, then....... This is what I am going to build: It's an 8 seater trestle table in oak, Jacobean style. I toddled off to Thorogoods in Ardleigh, and came back with a car full of oak: It's a mixture of 2" and...
  15. Mike G

    Restoration of a Bailey pattern plane (Stanley No. 7)

    This isn't aimed at the regulars here, who know how to get a plane working again. It's more aimed at newcomers and beginners who might have an old plane which doesn't work, and don't know where to start. I recently bought a Stanley No. 7 plane in poor nick, and have just spent a couple of hours...
  16. Mike G

    Distressing oak furniture

    Has anyone ever successfully distressed a piece of oak furniture? If so, how?
  17. Mike G

    Mystery chisel

    Has anyone any idea what this might be? I bought a job lot of chisels for my son-in-law-to-be, and this was amongst them. It is really heavily and crudely made, and reminds me of a cold-chisel, for stone-masonry.....but with a wooden handle. Clearly, the handle isn't original. The...
  18. Mike G

    Green ash.

    I mean green colour, rather than unseasoned. Today I was machining up a whole load of ash I've had stored away for years, and one of the pieces was really weird. The shavings coming off it were green! I had to check carefully that it was actually ash, and not a piece of pressure-treated...
  19. Mike G

    Good luck, DaveL

    .........or at least, good luck to your surgeon. I'm sure @DaveL won't mind me saying that he's had a really tough time these last few months. I don't think I've seen anyone so debilitated from hip arthritis as he currently is. Climbing up the step into his workshop is a bit like conquering...
  20. Mike G

    Everything, all at once.

    Anyone who has visited us in the last 3 or 4 weeks has been required (yes, it's compulsory) to go away with 3 or 4 bunches of grapes. I've spent this afternoon mashing and sieving the last of them, and bottled 6 litres of grape juice. It had to be done because the wasps are just starting to get...
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