• 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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    Seven Heirlooms - Rear view!

    They really do look stonkingly good Malc. What a journey from start to finish. You should be rightfully proud of what you’ve achieved.
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    Veneered wall art

    So I’ve got to make a decision. Either abandon and move on or go down the ‘box’ route. I’m incredibly tempted to try the box but it’s going to be a lot of work and quite expensive if it fails! Only one to find out I suppose …… They are laser cut Rob but those aren’t black edges. Shadow lines...
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    Veneered wall art

    Funnily enough I had a similar thought overnight. I want to keep the final product as flat as I can but I also need to ‘dress’ what might be exposed ply edges. The overall size is in my control and thinking about it 1700 x 1000 is too big. I’m reasonably happy with the 1700 but will reduce...
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    Veneered wall art

    I can’t claim massive credit as it’s laser cut. The design side is via the software that supports the laser. I always swore I’d never get a laser as it seemed far too much like hard work for my addled brain. But I realised if I wanted to get some of the ideas out of my head then that was the...
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    Veneered wall art

    Thanks anyhow Steve. That was my last hope so I think this particular project is now dead in the water. That’s incredibly kind of you Paul. I’ve attached a photo of the sort of thing in question and even putting this together at about 325 mm square was ‘fun’ enough to make me feel that anything...
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    Veneered wall art

    Thank you again Steve, I appreciate comments from someone who’s been there, done that! Stitching is a nightmare with about a thousand pieces. I’ve just completed a much smaller version of the same pattern and that was bad enough. I also don’t have access to a bag press so something this big in...
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    Veneered wall art

    Thanks Steve. Not what I was hoping to hear, thought that using ply would mean forces wouldn’t be such a problem. A guess is it’ll take a couple of weeks minimum, possibly longer. Your assumption of partial veneering is quite correct. At what point would you veneer the back? First thing or...
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    Veneered wall art

    I’ve been asked to make a fairly large (1700 x 1000 mm ish) coloured veneer ‘wall art’. Given the chosen design and size I’m well outside my comfort zone but actually quite enthusiastic about doing it. I’ve got quite a lot of small scale veneering under my belt now and never had a significant...
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    Lathe tools

    Thanks for the helpful responses. Not a broken record at all Jim. I’ve got my eye on a set at a reasonable price and the seller is prepared to post (why do some people try to sell a pile of rusty poop for top dollar without even attempting to clean first?!). I’m trying to stay away from buying...
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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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