• 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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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    So, new things afoot! I am awake early AM thinking through what the new few months hold in store.. I am moving house from Oundle to Denford, likely starting 1 Dec. The new place is about 20 minutes down the road, and this means we can move pretty much all the small stuff ourselves, and hire a...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Got around to cutting the bottoms for the drawers this evening.. A few months ago, I bought a bunch of 1/4" squares from delivery packaging, and this is what I used for the bottoms. By some miracle, when I cut the bottoms of the first two large drawers.. The offcuts perfectly matched the two...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Didn't feel like getting dirty tonight, so decided to just assemble the 4 drawer sides, and will try to cut thebottoms and attach them tomorrow.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I may try some of your upgrades. For now.. The bandsaw came without the upper tensioning knob, so I need to either order a replacement from Record, or finally set up my 3D printer and print one. I haven't taken the time yet to make sure the cast iron worktop is square to the blade, haven't...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Also picked up a nice bandsaw for 150£ today. Wife is moderately annoyed as this tightens up the garage space for now.. But our referencing went through for the new rental, and the owners are great and have agreed to clear out the garage first, and allow me to move the woodshop before the...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Making some progress on storage. All rails in the drawer box, and a second drawer built and installed.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Hmmmmm.. Maybe you are right. I do have quite a bit of 18mm birch plywood, and it would make things a bit easier, as I would need to worry about wood movement with the mahogany, which I don't think is as much a condern with the birch plywood. Plus, it would not require stripping.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Yes, I have the mahogany dresser that I need to reclaim the wood from, strip, and stain black. The drawers from that dresser are interesting bent cotter pin iron attachments, so I am planning to use a solvent to clean up the iron handles, paint them an antique gold, for a nice pop that meshes...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    And just like that.. Nearly 3/4 of all my screws and fasteners in a single drawer, and off my wood shelves and worktops. I did manage to get a real good fit, and it slides nicely..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Drawer box in. Top box rail attached. First drawer built.. It's a big old boi.. 3/4" sides, 1/4" bottom glued and brad nailed on.. Too nervous to attach the drawer rail and try it tonight. If it binds,,not wanting that on my mind right before bed. There's a slight amount of rocking side to...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I do have a full dresser's worth of reclaimed mahogany I can use as false drawer fronts, depending on what width I can get out of the carcass sides. I am focusing on getting the drawers in and seeing if they slide properly, before I do any work on the mahogany. I am thinking of birch plywood...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    So.. Got back from the London trip and got around to cutting the top for the drawer box this afternoon. Have used pocket screws to attach two "legs" for a dual drawer bank setup. The third will be attached today (Tuesday). Because I am an idgit, for the first two, I forgot to pre-drill the...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I just appreciate having folks to chat with on this stuff. It seems as if it is a simple natural process that one has to follow to learn the craft.. I.e., "screwing everything up a little", as one is developing their own process. On a positive note... Looking at a new rental with 600 sq ft more...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Finally trying to get some under workbench storage sorted. The workbench already has a plywood floor in the lower section, so the overall solution is to cut a top to the drawer box, and have two sides, with a separator in the middle, for two sets of drawers side by side.. The challenge is to...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Next evolution: Picked up this Record RSDE1 dust extractor today off marketplace. Planning on building a small plenum box into the bottom of my miter saw station, then I am going to 3D print blast gate ports for it to connect to miter saw, table saw, router, with an additional port for...
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