• 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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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    I know the feeling, I have to get off and push my bike uphill, and I haven’t got any issues, Norfolk isn’t as flat as people think. Onwards and upwards Mike.
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    Progress on table

    We all agree on the choice, but not mine to make. This was the plan: But I’m going to thick edge the top, double it up, and fit some cross supports underneath, now. I just know they’re going to move and twist, but when I did a quick moisture check they were between 9 & 11%, so not far off...
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    Barrel trimmer

    Hmm, slippery slope time, just happened to be going up the City and passing nowhere near the shop I tend to buy my gear from, loyal me, picked up a Record SC4 chuck set, thread adaptor for the lathe and a smaller jaw set, looking to get a pen mandrel next, they had one but it was a 2MT.
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    Progress on table

    Posted about this in the past: "Dry fit at this stage when I took this picture, but all cleaned up today and ready for paint, made using Tulip wood, legs, bottom stretcher and diagonals are 95mm square section, the top stretcher and rails are 95 X 55mm. Bit of a job to move it as one, so I...
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    Barrel trimmer

    Thanks all for the links and the rabbit hole I’ve spent the afternoon going down. I am now wondering, if I should factor in getting a different lathe, the Clarke I have, has a ¾” UNF, 16TPI head stock thread, and along with the 1MT, seems to be bit limiting in the options for chucks and...
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    Barrel trimmer

    My interest has been piqued with this thread; I’d like to have a go at making pens and pencils. Any recommendations for the basic tooling I would need, I guess a mandrel is an essential requirement, I have been looking at the AXI and TR options but not knowledgeable enough as to which of their...
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    A bit of a head scratcher as it’s too hot to do real work.

    For years I’ve used a Souber lock jig, Lock cutting jig can bit a bit of a pain to use when fitting sash and mortice locks, but still better and quicker than freehand drilling and chopping the waste out with a chisel, and they are very useful for fitting the standard tubular type mortice latches...
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    What Birds Have You Seen Today

    Weve been trying to count the swifts, they go in the house roof and the barn roof at the back, this year we have 4 different places they go into, that we’ve seen, annoyingly, about a foot above the Zeist boxes I made for them. But when on the wing it’s almost impossible to keep tabs on them...
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    The Benefits Of A Hobby After Retirement

    I start drawing my state pension from next week, had to wait another 2 months past my 66th, and in the same boat as @Doug , but now being more selective, in fact I’m turning some work away, I will carry on with renting my shop, which in the scheme of things is still affordable, and as long it...
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    A question for dog owners …

    We did have one, a large mat, gel filled thing, our FC Retriever did lay on it while it lasted, before it leaked. Now she just crashes on the stone floors, she does get a regular cold-water hose down, but that’s all year round anyway, which I have to say she really doesn’t mind and stands...
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    Conversion - bathroom to en-suite

    Sorry to back track, but the last pump valves I needed to get off I used an 18” Stilson with a 4’ scaffold pole on the end. And all my special “plumbing” spanners are just old open ended ones which I have picked up over the years, grind off the faces to fit the nuts and shorten the legs.
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    I’ve always known it as “2 to the door” but no idea why or where it comes from, apart from being told in to do it that way donkeys years ago. As Trevanion said, those bearing hinges are a bit of a liability, with failing and leaking grease, I also prefer to use the bronze washered ones in...
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    Mortice & Tenon Calculator

    Had a look at you calculator, I would be inclined to add 13 (½”) 16 (5/8”) and a 19mm (¾”) mortice/tenon chisel size to fill the gaps in your selected range. For me the 13, 16 & 19 are the sizes I generally use the most, and very occasionally a 25mm. However, my stock dimensioning is based on...
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    When people get the wrong idea.

    On the same theme, I’m going back to the late 1980’s, I had a trading name of T.I.S short for Telec Installation Services, (we did electrical and telecoms work) I had 6 employees working for me, I had the idea for a more accurate marketing title, adding & "Technical” into the mix, so adding a T...
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    Progress report on a Green Oak porch

    Thanks all for the direction, I committed to the curvy option; That then leads me on to what to do with the arises, I had planned to do the usual stop chamfers, but I think i need to run a shallow chamfer along all of them, to clean off the some of the edge damage first, then run a deeper...
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