• 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!

Recent content by Stuart

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    Lathe tools

    I’m looking at new tools having just purchased a new lathe and was wondering about these replaceable tip tools versus ‘normal’ ones. In my mind they’re just scrapers but it can’t be that simple, can it? What are the pros and cons of the tipped ones? And in passing what on earth happened to...
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    The thing with workshops is they’re very personal to you and how you work. I found the ability to work from both sides of my bench quite useful at times. What I did do was mount it on some of those castors designed to lock up or down and they proved extremely useful depending on what I’m working...
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    Chucks

    Thank you for helpful comments. I did talk to the Axminster staff but they are clearly biased towards their equipment and I was looking for a more rounded view. For what I will be doing the versachuck is a bit spendy Doug. I’ll look in more detail at the axminster chucks. There is the added...
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    Chucks

    I’m about to dip my toes back into the spinny world after a number of years away. Having flogged all my gear I’m starting from scratch and the world of chucks has changed quite a lot. Is there any one make that’s better than the others? The axminster ones look pretty good and as I’ll be getting...
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    One for the kids

    There’s a really good guide to box lining here: https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/how-to-line-boxes-drawers.106375/I I don’t use leather anymore but find it equally applicable to other materials. I’m afraid felt can be horrible to line with, depends very much on the quality but not...
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    One for the kids

    Mitres ‘reinforced’ with dominoes. Normally it’s just mitres but I found the shaping meant clamping was difficult and the joints kept slipping. Dominoes prevented that kept it all together. No, I use a self adhesive velvet. Card cut to size then the velvet applied and then all stuck on with...
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    One for the kids

    I promised myself some time ago that I’d make ‘nice’ boxes for each of our 3 children. I didn’t just want to make bog standard stuff and it took me a while to find a design that I was comfortable with. These are zebrano with maple insert and highlights. The zebrano is a bit of a pig to work...
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    3"x3" Posts

    If you really want 4x4 posts then consider changing the spacing of the panels. I’ve done it before and whilst you tend to end up with a half panel it does avoid all the issues with existing concrete ‘lumps’ being in the way.
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    ‘Stop’ butt hinges

    Thank you Andy and Robert. Niche don’t have the size I want (16mm is too small). Andy, I did something similar years ago without great success. That drawing is a great illustration of the principle though. It looks like I’m going to have to unchain my wallet and go for the smart butts. This...
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    ‘Stop’ butt hinges

    Sorry Rob, it’s more of an impressions when fitted as opposed to a how to fit thread https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/box-hinges-first-impressions-updated-with-install.8536/post-142525
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    ‘Stop’ butt hinges

    I’m looking for some stop butt hinges. Choice appears to be limited to either Brusso (bit ugly out the back) or the smart butt (eye wateringly expensive). I’ve found the thread on here that shows both being installed and the smart hinge definitely looks more ‘professional’ and would be my...
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    What to do with Off Cuts?

    As some have said making small boxes means I tend to hoard even small pieces (and by that I mean as small as an inch square depending on species) which results in quite a lot of offcuts. I really do need to have a clear out and like others the log burner is used in this respect. And if that...
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    What Is Your Self Afflicted Annoyance

    That's mine as well. drives the missus nuts when I mute the telly and ask 'what was that?' and then listen for the next 10 minutes only to never hear it again!
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Latest batch of boxes.
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    Reclaimed sapele

    Like Ian I wonder if it’s iroko? Could be the colour out of the camera which can change things but I thought sapele was redder (I’ve got quite a bit!).
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