• 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

    Small cyclone system...WIP

    Whilst furkerling around at the back of the garden tool shed the other day I came across a 'Dust Commander' cyclone which I 'acquired' when I worked for Ax a few years ago. At the time I rigged up a decent system that worked well, but the collection drum was never satisfactory and it was far...
  2. Woodbloke

    Staining English Walnut?

    I'm under way with another major project in the 'shop but realised I needed to cut a new top and bottom: As you can see, there's a distinct colour mis-match between the two boards and I eventually need to make the lighter one the same (or as near as damn it) colour as the other one. My...
  3. Woodbloke

    The Tapestry

    Along with thousands of others, we've decided on an excursion to the BM in the New Year to see the Bayeux Tapestry and to that end, SWIMBO ordered a little light reading: ...to prepare ourselves for the occasion. We've been to several of these prominent events at both the BM and the V&A...
  4. 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
  5. Woodbloke

    Cereal shovel...

    SWIMBO's idea here; a cereal shovel in an oddment of English Walnut (needed to be a food safe wood) started yesterday afternoon and finished just now. Based on a much smaller one in Olive we bought from the garden centre a while back. A 75mm deep hole bored with a 45mm Forstner bit and then...
  6. Woodbloke

    Secret hinge boxes....

    After a good old rummage this morning, hidden inside this assorted pile of offcuts : ...of Walnut, Oak, Olive Ash, Paduk, Mahogany (not 19th cent Ian) Swiss Pear, London Plane & American Cherry are an unknown number of secret hinge boxes, popularised by Rob Cosman (like him or loathe...
  7. Woodbloke

    'Ere be Dragons!

    I was noodling about yesterday by the pond waterfall and suddenly spotted this green, slithery thing: ...disappearing under a lily leaf. I like dragons and have got several indoors (alas not real ones😢) but it appears they were once a 'thing' long ago: ...so I wondered if one had started...
  8. Woodbloke

    A Bit of Picture Framing.....

    On our last visit to Japan during 'Cherry Blossom' season (a tick off the 'bucket list', much like Rog S's recent aeronautical adventure) we were after some woodblock prints with cherry blossom as a theme. When we arrived at our hotel, we later went for a stroll in the local area and chanced...
  9. Woodbloke

    London International Woodworking Festival

    With the demise of the excellent Yandles show at Martock, Somerset there's been somewhat of a 'black hole' for decent woodworky events in the South, but this recent one is pretty good. I went to the first one some years ago just prior to Covid and will be going to this one. Anyone else likely to...
  10. Woodbloke

    Fixing a Chipped Japanese Chisel Blade

    Not so much a sharpening thread as a 'fixing' one. Last week when chopping out the rear panel rebate corners, my 12mm Japanese chisel stopped behaving as a proper chisel and started cut weirdly. When I took it out of the cut, it soon became evident as to the reason: Being a 'silly billy'...
  11. Woodbloke

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

    My wife likes to collect little odds n'sods when we're on a our travels; they have no special financial value but she 'requested' a smallish wall hung cabinet to display them, mentioning that It needed a door to keep the dust off. I hoiked out a few lumps of Bubinga, a couple of which were crown...
  12. Woodbloke

    Router bit?

    Right chaps, can anybody please point me in the direction of a router bit like wot this is: ...which will machine a bead and then leave a gradual bevel? It's the sort of detailing found on Chinese furniture: ...as so, but it appears nigh on impossible to find one - Rob
  13. Woodbloke

    Puzzled I am and so was the V&A....

    I spent an enjoyable few days last week with No.1 son and No.1 grandson (boy energy!!) in Bromley and on Wednesday last, I spent a fandabby day at the V&A. Just as I was going down the exit tunnel towards the Tube, I decided to look in on the last gallery on the lhs and spotted this very...
  14. Woodbloke

    Ash trees...Good News!

    According to Ch4 news this evening, there's been a breakthrough. Boffins have been able to germinate and grow hundreds of ash 'die back' resistant seedlings in a week or so; I didn't fully understand what they'd done or how but it seemed pretty impressive...also that the technique could be done...
  15. Woodbloke

    Woodie chipbreaker

    My current refurb project of an old try plane is making progress but I've discovered that the chipbreaker will need a considerable amount of work to bring it up to snuff: It's well out of square at both ends, but more worryingly, the threaded bolt is now very loose in the brass insert. I...
  16. Woodbloke

    Woodie Plane Re-furb

    Andy P came over for the afternoon last week and brought me a fairly decent old wooden try plane: ...which he wasn't going to use and did I want it? It's in pretty good nick and hasn't been beaten to death with a big hammer, as is the usual case with many of these old woodies, though I've...
  17. Woodbloke

    Good stuff!

    I had small but irritating leak in the 'shop which let in the wet when the 'typhoons' blew in the Autumn last year. It's been sealed with silicone for the last 20+ years which isn't ideal, so I tried some CTI clear adhesive/sealer today (after having cleared out all the suspect old sealant)...
  18. Woodbloke

    The Yaca Cabinet

    I thought so too....what the hell's 'yaca'? It transpires that it's resinous softwood from the South Pacific. Google AI has this to say about it: 'AI Overview Yaca (often spelled Yaka or Dacrydium nidulum) is a premium, versatile softwood timber native to the South Pacific, specifically...
  19. Woodbloke

    Christmas has come early!

    There was a rat-a-tat on the front door just now, whereupon SWIMBO took delivery of a parcel: It was from MikeG who a few days ago asked for my postal addy as he had "something" for me and upon opening it, out tumbled a pile of lovely Bog Oak...not the little cast iron cat, who seems to find...
  20. Woodbloke

    JK cabinet with a 'V' door

    Noodling through my various books (and online) recently, I came across this cabinet with a shallow 'V' section door: ...which I initially thought was beyond my meagre abilities to knock together. However, with most things JK, it's not quite as difficult as you first imagine, though granted...
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