• 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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    Dining Table

    Part 1 - design and construction The brief is to build an 8-seater dining table to replace our existing 6-seater. We will retain the 6 vintage bentwood chairs, and I recently completed 2 (DC 09) chairs for use as carvers. Our taste in furniture runs towards the minimalistic, the clean lines of...
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    Prepping for a new start

    With the chairs done, next on the agenda is an 8-seater dining table. One of the pleasures in being an amateur is that I get to enjoy the time between builds as much as the builds themselves. My question for all is "what do you do between builds, or in preparation for a new build?". The table...
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    DC 09 Chairs - completion

    Let me think about that .... hmm ... no. :) Regards from Perth Derek
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    DC 09 Chairs - completion

    Gary, they are pretty comfortable. The seats are tilted appropriately, and there is enough scoop. I did a lot of shaping on the back, getting the right angle and amount of flat. There are many details like this that I have not included in the build - just too many finicky bits and pieces for the...
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    DC 09 Chairs - completion

    The background is the decision to build a larger dining table, one to seat 8 as opposed to the 6 as with the current table ... Since the new table will have a contemporary, modern design, the carver chairs would fit with this, and the existing vintage bentwood chairs would blend in. My wife...
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    Dining room carver chairs - Take 2

    This is, hopefully, the penultimate post on these chairs. I was unsure whether to post this one since the changes and progress sequence must appear so small to all, yet I am aware of how much work goes into shaving, shaving, shaving ... And there is still more to do, as well as more shaping to...
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    Dining room carver chairs - Take 2

    I have found that the shaping of the chair arms and back to be a complicated process, with a step forward, then sideways, and then another step forwards. It is not plain sailing. There are many small corrections to make as I proceed, and I dare not attempt to leave these until a later date. I...
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    Dining room carver chairs - Take 2

    Back on the job after 3 weeks hiking mountain trails in the South Islands of New Zealand, then returning home with Bronchitis (although I was wearing a mask on the plane, passengers preferred to sit with the crying babies than listen to me cough and wheeze!). A few more weeks to recover. First...
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    Wooden spoke shaves

    Rob, look for Stanley #84 and #85. These are wooden, bevel up shaves. I use them. Essentially, the Veritas Low Angle spokeshave is a metal copy ... Regards from Perth Derek
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    Dining room carver chairs - Take 2

    About a month ago I began a thread about designing and building two carver chairs to accompany the 6 bentwood chairs we have owned for the past 40 years. The chairs were purchased all those years ago along with a table, which is around 200 years old. We need a larger table, and time has come to...
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    Dining room carver chairs

    The design of the chair needs to compliment the bentwood chairs we have, which are original and early 1900s. The table is to be replaced with a longer, wider one. This table is over 200 years old, and has great sentimental value. It is built of Yellow Wood (top) and Stinkwood (legs). We...
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    Christmas gift idea

    Marc Spagnuolo (The Wood Whisperer) posted this idea in a recent video. I thought it great .... Japanese tool box as a wine box. Here is one I built ... And another ... Regards from Perth Derek
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    Small bevel up infill smoother

    At least 15 years ago ... possibly 20 ... I purchased a brass casting of a small block plane that someone had started but then abandoned. I think that the idea was that it would eventually resemble something like this ... ... but the casting was rough as guts and the parts all needed...
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    Another entry for the AWR competition

    The Australian Wood Review Competition is both for builders in Australia and internationally. There are categories for furniture, boxes, etc. Link: https://www.woodreview.com.au/   Entries closed today, and at the last minute I added one more. Earlier, I entered the floating bedside tables...
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    Power and hand together: Building a pair of nightstands

    The first 9 chapters of this build are on my website (bottom of this Index Page: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/index.html ). Read these to catch up on the background to the build. This features a mitred case with a curved front, and two drawers. One is a main drawer with curved front...
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    New MFT rail hinge and fence - Mk 2

    A while back I decided to dip my toes in the MFT water, and built a table and rail hinge. The hinge was made from cutting boards, which likely sounds suspect, but worked very well ... However, my OCD got the better of me, and I decided to build one in aluminium, inspired by both Benchdogs and...
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    Four travelling tool boxes

    A decade ago (!), while road testing the new Veritas chisels (then only O1 was available), I built a box partly to house them and partly to demonstrate them in use ... Then one weekend recently, I was due to be part of a dovetailing workshop, and decided that it was time to build a new box...
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    Filing and Setting the Teeth of a Dovetail Saw

    About two months ago I made a new dovetail saw. I've made about a dozen over the years, and been sharpening my own for a little longer. Sharpening and setting teeth is a skill that all hand toolers must master - in the same way as one needs to be able to sharpen plane and chisel blades. This is...
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    Current hand tool build

    I appear to have the dubious honour of the first hand tool post on the forum. Thanks for inviting me along, Rob. I started building a copy of Hans Wegner's "The Chair" in January, worked for all of that month, and then my day job and life got in the way and I was not able to return to it until...
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