• 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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    WIP hammer handle for Japanese gennou hammer

    If I recall the heavy one is 350 or 375 and lighter one is about 260-280 but I might be wrong. I got the river red gum from Cook Woods in Klamath falls when I was ordering something else and they said I could get free shipping if ordered x amount more. A block of the river red gum was about the...
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    WIP hammer handle for Japanese gennou hammer

    Both handles are Australian river red gum. The bottom one is my daily user. The upper one is too heavy for most furniture work and the handle is a little short, but I drag it out now and then when something needs bashing.
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    WIP hammer handle for Japanese gennou hammer

    Stan's instructions are excellent. I've made a couple of handles using his guide. And I found his prediction true that the first handle will be OK but the third one you make will be the one you want.
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    Shop air filter

    Sometimes called a Corsi-Rosenthal box but it has other names. Five 2" thick air filters taped together with a cheap box fan.
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    A Japanese style garden shed

    I mixed up some borate salts (Borax and boric acid) in ethylene glycol, heated and stirred until dissolved. A recipe from the internet that replicates a commercial product here called Boro Care. Then mixed a portion of that 1:1 with water and treated the rotted area and end grain of the beam...
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    I just added essentially the same strip lights to my garage shop. 500 square ft, 8 ft ceilings as well, 11 fixtures x 3600 lumens per fixture for roughly 80 lumens per square foot. It is a little brighter than that, though, since the lights are clustered more toward the back of the garageThe...
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    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    I'm reminded how even relatively small pieces like this one require an enormous amount of time and effort when done right.
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    Musée des Arts Décoratifs (and musée d'Orsay)

    Thanks for this post. I vaguely remember learning about Charpentier years ago. A current architectural sculptor working in the USA , although not in art nouveau style, is Alexander Grabovetskiy. He sometimes teaches classes at a woodworking school near me. On my list of classes to try someday.
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    Hickories

    it is a favored wood for tool handles because it resists splitting. Also makes nice flooring because it is hard and resists abrasion.
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    I'm not OTT.

    As it happens I'm off in an hour to get the oil changed and tyres rotated. I clean them occasionally but I've never taken them off the car to do it. That is impressive!
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    Recommendations for a Silent bathroom extractor fan

    Panasonic WhisperQuiet fans, if you can get them where you are.
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    Hickories

    Yes, that is part of the method. I should have included a pic of the bark. This from the internet. It is impressive on a large tree.
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    Hickories

    Where I live in southern Indiana is famous for its hardwood forests. In addition to oaks (20 species!) walnut, cherry, beech sycamore, etc, there are half a dozen species of hickory (Carya). My favorite is Carya ovata, commonly called shagbark hickory. It is dropping seeds now and I've gathered...
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    A Japanese style garden shed

    I'm leaning that way now, thanks all.
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    A Japanese style garden shed

    The scribed posts are my favorite part of this. In Japanese this foundation scheme is called ishibatate or ishibadate 石場建て , which I have seen loosely translated as "standing on stones." I did not exactly find it difficult to do but it did require patience to chisel, fit, chisel more, fit more.
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