• 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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    19th. Century piece from Switzerland

    Maybe they did things differently in Switzerland but that doesn't look like there's any provision for differential movement across the grain versus along the grain. I'd expect the horizontal runners to be fixed at the front, but held in a housing/dado without glue to allow for movement...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Very stylish!
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    The scratch awl

    If this is what you do to achieve your impressive levels of accuracy, I reckon it's a thoughtful detail of technique worth copying. Thanks Derek.
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    19th. Century piece from Switzerland

    Maybe the split on the second side would close up if you prise the last bit of transverse trim off first? And refix all the trim with thin, flexible nails only.
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    Slightly off topic - Abrafiles

    There's a few on eBay at the moment...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Showing up fine here. Lovely work, as ever!
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    The Shetack Saw

    Just looking again, it could be Enox: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/298558837954?customid&toolid=10050 According to Grace's Guide, the Enox brand belonged to Fry's of London, who were suppliers to the aircraft industry. And here it is in 1937...
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    The Shetack Saw

    Interesting. I don't recognise those blades, sorry. There used to be "nests of saws" with three or more different blades that would fit on a single handle, but they used a slot at the end. However, I found a listing on eBay that showed this saw, which is tapered like yours and does look like...
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    The Shetack Saw

    Way back over a century ago in 1924, one Edward Oakley had a bright idea. Corrugated iron sheeting was a popular material for all sorts of roofing requirements, but it was difficult to cut. As far as I can tell, the standard tool was a cold chisel with a long curved edge, like this: (picture...
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    What I have fixed today

    The door hinges on our fridge have been squeaking for a while, despite me squirting a variety of lubricants in their general direction. But the other day, the door lurched a bit alarmingly and needed to be closed with more gentle attention than it normally gets. Looking closer, I could see that...
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    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Excellent as always. How much wall space do you have left for the next one?!
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    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Or you could just use abrasives!
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    Work in Progress: brass and walnut try square for travel chest

    I was joking really... I think it's probably a fairly challenging bit of blacksmith work to get the tips the right shape and hardness, and the middle bit just springy enough. There aren't very many originals to borrow for copying!
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    Work in Progress: brass and walnut try square for travel chest

    I thought you'd like it! I think it works because of the relationship between the holes in the template and the twin tips of the tool, sprung apart. One tip will be against an edge of the hole and the other will be cutting arcs across the opening. I hope that makes sense, it's easier to...
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    Work in Progress: brass and walnut try square for travel chest

    No, I mean the cut-out to fit a fancy bit of brass, as seen here: Ok, that's on a mitre square but that's because it's the only fancy one I have. A passer drill was a production tool to rout out that sort of shape, by muscle power, quickly and precisely. There's a good explanation here...
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