• 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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    3D printer questions

    Thanks, much appreciated - one for the tuit list!
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    3D printer questions

    Slightly off topic, but would that work as a vacuum bag for veneering, and do they do larger bags that 30x38cm? I have tried the 'vacuum cleaner bags for clothes storage' before and never found this reliable, so looking for alternatives that do not cost the earth - not come across filament...
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    Marquetry advice

    Was not sure if this was the best forum for this or not, so feel free to move if not Mods. I have been having a play with marquetry and lasers. While I have some way to go in terms of getting pieces with an exact fit (laser kerf is the main problem) the other problem I am having is how to keep...
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    Jewellery Chest - not quite a WIP, more like random photos

    The dry fit of the drawers therefore looked something like this: In hindsight I should have cut the runners and drawers from the same piece of timber. The drawers are all cut from the same piece, but the effect is spoilt by the dividers not matching. Ho hum. Perhaps the biggest decision was...
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    Jewellery Chest - not quite a WIP, more like random photos

    Not sure of the photo limit for posts, so rather than lose the first post I will add another! Finished basic construction. Note the back piece dies not come up fully - I knew I wanted to hinge the lid here so have a solid piece of timber to add to enable this Then it was time to size the...
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    Jewellery Chest - not quite a WIP, more like random photos

    SWMBO asked for a jewellery box for Xmas. She asked in early October, knowing the rate at which I find time to work, and I finished it this morning, so pretty good estimating on her part! About 12 years ago when I was starting to move from DIY into woodwork as more of a hobby, I made her a...
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    Puzzle Boxes

    Just come across this wonderful video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NreYBwzRQk Which led me to this book via the makers website: https://www.grand-illusions.com/enter-i ... 2x36282815 I have just ordered myself an early xmas present :)
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    Lathe advice

    So I know very little (ie pretty much nothing) about lathes, and what has generally put me off even a cheap one is you have to add to the price of a lathe the price of tools, chucks etc and a £200 entry level lathe suddenly becomes closer to 4 figures if you add sharpening kit. As such, keeping...
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    A foray into lasers......

    Hi - thanks for the good wishes. I am having loads of fun with it, but not in great demand from others just yet. The biggest issue is actually getting good quality laser ply - the stuff available now labelled as poplar ply or lite ply is rubbish for taking a crisp image and nothing like the good...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    3 jewellery boxes made as teacher gifts for my son's, last day at school today. Made from recycled iroko and maple veneered mdf, ran out of time to make a tray insert so he filled them with sweets instead. No fancy joints, he requested 1 on Friday, which morphed into 3 over the weekend as he...
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    A foray into lasers......

    Now to get serious..... Another obsession for a while has been puzzle boxes, including escape boxes. For those who have not come across these, they are a series of locked boxes with a puzzle or task that gives a combination to open the next until you get to the end. Many are cut with a laser...
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    A foray into lasers......

    So something for the workshop, something for the workshop.... something to store all the bits of hardware we all accumulate - boxes, that's what I need! Now we are getting somewhere. Bit of a steep learning curve in terms of software, but YouTube comes to the rescue and we now have...
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    A foray into lasers......

    My name is Steve and this is my confession. About a year ago I started to become somewhat obsessed with lasers. It started, as many such obsessions do, with YouTube. We have all done it, watched a video that makes something look so easy, sells the benefits without any of the downsides, has a...
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    Japanese House Building Query

    Currently very limited time to get into the workshop, but I do watch the odd YouTube channel to see others doing it! One I dip in and out of I think has been mentioned here before - Shoyan Japanese Carpenter. Clearly very talented but does use modern tools as well as traditional joints (and...
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    Timber and gates

    I have spent the last 3 months, on and off, doing some work for a friend of SWMBO's. The latest job was to install 2 6ft x 6ft metal gates to form a new driveway entrance. These were old and the standard curly scrollwork stuff that was standard fare at one time so fairly flimsy. Said friend has...
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