• 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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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Yes the wheeled jack from my SCM is brill and when I’m finished all my kit will have back wheels that just skim the ground so that when the jack is used they come into use. Yes thanks, I really can’t wait either! Ian A pic of the jack
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    Shop air filter

    Now if I didn’t actually have an air purifier with a Hepa filter I would snaffle that Gary, even have all the parts sat in store!
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    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Well that’s a good idea too, but as yet I haven’t acquired any powered sanding stuff over here, sanding never really was something I did when furniture making, and I can’t see myself doing it in the house with Pam’s aversion to dust lol. @Woodbloke bet it wasn’t that much of an accident, you (...
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    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Most helpful thank you Jonathan, I bought some green pads today and with WD40 it really worked a treat on my cast iron saw and planer, just about back to brand new look! Cheers Ian
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    Hot cup mark on table

    I read somewhere a while ago so please don’t act on this, that the ring is caused by moisture getting under the surface and into the shellac and a warmish iron on top of a dry absorbent cloth was the way to go. But as said someone with some knowledge will be along soon. Ian
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Thanks Frank, I’m going to look at what you’ve suggested and ponder! Unfortunately the company Whose top quality fitments I want to use only do 2’ and 4’ ones. Ian
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    All good points thank you Adrian, I’m very fortunate to have the rest of a three story Barn for an awful lot of the things you mention, particularly the timber and ply storage. All dirty metal bashing will also be out there. I have (not shown) an air purifier which I shall have on a timer, but...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I’ve never caught the pocket screw bug, but I could imagine that the action of screwing them together will pull things out of line a bit? I’m sure there are ways to cramp it all tight so this won’t happen. Ian
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Thanks a lot for that Gary Thanks a lot for that Gary that’s pretty much the sort of information I needed, as you say yours works out at 100 lumens per foot squared and mine is almost 60, I intend to try the eight screwed up in place before I put the plasterboard up and if it’s not enough get a...
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    The Niff-Naff Cabinet; glazing, waxing and finally DUN n'DUSTED!

    Super work Rob, can’t fault it at all, and the arris removal on edges is perfect, not too much but just enough. Ian
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Oh good thanks, yes my bench will be up and down on wheels too. I have also planned for a socket off to one side near the bench from the ceiling so it’s there when and if needed. I deliberated about having it directly over the bench and thought that would mean the cable being on the bench top...
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Thanks Mike, so you have 8 tubes, what size of room is that pls? I certainly am anxious that it will be a bit dim in mine. Not too worried about shadows over the assembly table as I can add a work light for the occasional time I work on it, mainly used for storage of parts etc.
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Thanks for doing that Scott, what sort of size are the areas please? Yes thank you Mike, all very helpful! The bench, well I’ve never had a freestanding one before and the whole bench is going to be a bit of a testbed for some ideas I’ve got. But you are right that end area needs to be looked...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Beautiful Robert, the fit of that lid is amazing. Absolutely perfect!
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    I’m planning the lighting and sockets for my new 12ft x 21ft workshop ceiling height is 8 ft. After much deliberation I am going for 4’ led tubes 4000k 95 CRI 1800 lumens per 4’ tube giving 10,800 for 6 or 14,400 for 8. The beam angle is very wide at 120° which equates to a spread of about 17...
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