• 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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    Good Internet "Tutors"

    I've got so fed up with the annoyance of semi-skilled (at best) people spouting on that I've given up watching any woodwork-specific videos at all. I don't want to hear "hey what's up" from someone standing in front of a huge table saw ever again! Peter Follansbee is someone I can tolerate for a...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    I fixed on the hatch side pieces. These are the offcuts from the main side pieces, just glued and cleaned up. With access only from one side, cleaning up in the concave surface involved only a card scraper........and bulk timber removal isn't what they were designed for. Oh for a compass plane...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    :) Well, there's 2 flat bits built in. I wouldn't want you to get it wrong. :)
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Do you want a PDF to work from, or a .dwg, or are you just going to work on a screen grab?
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Baie dankie meneer. Dit sal 'n plesir te braai om vir jou elke dag. Sorry to massacre your language! I'm wondering whether to post some photos on the SA4x4 forum when it's finished, for old time's sake.
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    Small scraps in thickness planer?

    No, 150mm is far too short to go through a thicknesser. I have a rule that nothing shorter than my outfeed table goes through mine. I'd guess that's around 16". I too have a sheet of melamine coated something with a stop on the underside. Wax the top.....and measure its thickness carefully...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Yep. Anyone who stole it would have to paint it quickly, I reckon. I'm thinking about a tracker, but haven't made my mind up yet.
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    My wife just suggested a violin. I said that there were complimentary skills involved......but that I'd rather build a boat. :)
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    Is this board too bowed for a drawer front?

    Put something underneath the hollow to keep it from flattening out as you plane it. A ruler, some pieces of cardboard, some ply....whatever works.
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    Is this board too bowed for a drawer front?

    Don't go fighting wood in a drawer construction. You'll lose. Can you afford to lose some thickness, because it should be pretty straightforward to plane out the bend.
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    To bring us up-to-the-minute up to date... I didn't explain very well what I meant by cutting the face frame down to allow for the hatch. Well, this is the reality: That obviously leaves the frame in a very fragile state. I primed it, then slathered it in thickened epoxy, then gingerly...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Thanks Matt. Yes, it's been a bit awkward.
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Thank you. I plucked a number out of the air, and told the insurance broker that it was plucked out of the air. They were happy enough with it. I said £20,000. I also told them that there was only a very limited number of places in the country where it could ever be repaired, namely a few...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    I cut the side frame to fit around the rear hatch, and the off-cut will be fixed to the side of the hatch. No photo. It had to be epoxy to fix the edge cap in place, for a variety of reasons, but because it was joining the face and the top, it had to be black. There would be nothing more...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Here it is with the other part of the extrusion: The screw is there to balance it to hang roughly in its closed position, showing the large gap required. The gap is useful, because it means that screw heads have plenty of room without fouling the closed hatch. It is also a potential route in...
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