• 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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  1. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    Until I read that I hadn't even realised that flat green bowls were a distinct thing to crown green ones. I know nothing about bowling! I found this one really satisfying as a fairly quick project. The main reason was the cylindrical bit on the handle - turning that to a fairly smooth but...
  2. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    I've never tried or thought of it (although I've added lead weight to other things for other reasons). The Lignum Vitae is pretty heavy so I can't imagine it would really need any extra weight.
  3. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    Thanks Nick. I'm interested to see how I get on with it. It won't get used (by me at least) until after I've put the lathe away - I've only got one bench (unless you count the portable one or the travel tool chest) so stuff being hit will have to wait until the lathe is hanging from the...
  4. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    If I had to pick the tools that I enjoy using the most, it would be a dead heat between five: the metalworking lathe, my home-made block plane, a Stanley #4, a Veritas router plane and the humble chisel (probably the curvaceous Ashley Iles 12 mm dovetail chisel if I had to pick one). If I had...
  5. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I'm honestly quite surprised it exists. I was just being daft.
  6. Dr.Al

    Thicknessing jig for hand planes

    Wood by Wright did a fairly scientific test comparing putting it sole down to putting it side down. The conclusion was: it doesn't make any difference.
  7. Dr.Al

    Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

    That's quite likely - there were several different areas in Dolphin so it's plausible that it was multiple sellers.
  8. Dr.Al

    Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

    It might be I'm wrong (and I'd be very happy if I am). I haven't been down there since I heard about it. My info was based on hearsay about them moving to Axminster and then looking for info on the web. They had a facebook page, which used to be...
  9. Dr.Al

    Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

    Sadly it's no longer there. The seller briefly moved to a nearby antiques centre in Axminster but then decided to retire in October last year as I understand it. I'd been there a few times and always came away with a few things, although the visit where I got the lathe stuff was by far the...
  10. Dr.Al

    Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

    Hmm, now that's a thought, tools to justify having tools. I'm liking this thought 🤣 The number of accessories is definitely excessive for the amount of turning I do. A lot of it was down to one very fortunately timed trip to an antiques centre in Devon (one of these places with lots of...
  11. Dr.Al

    Which drive centre?

    I've got a similar one to Chas too. I think it's this one from Axminster. I've also got a four prong type (again with a sprung centre pin) but I've no idea where that one was originally from as it was a junk shop find.
  12. Dr.Al

    Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

    Ha! No, nothing like that I'm afraid. I'll always be bad at putting stuff back, but every now and again I'll do a tidying blitz & it's nice for everything to have a proper home (not least because it makes it easy to check I haven't lost anything).
  13. Dr.Al

    Workshop Uses for 3D Printing

    I managed to clear an extra sort-of-drawer (more a shelf on heavy duty full extension drawer runners) and that meant I could do a bit of a rearrangement of the lathe accessories (which have accumulated a little since the original layouts thanks to some fortuitous ebay finds). I've now got three...
  14. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Having spent quite a while improving my home-made lathe, I thought it would be good to give it a test run to prove I hadn't done anything wrong. It turned out I had, but only in that I hadn't tightened up the pair of nuts that set the preload on the bearings, so it turned smoothly for a while...
  15. Dr.Al

    It's back!!

    +1 on the thanks. I was just about coping without but it was a close-run thing.
  16. Dr.Al

    Greetings from a new member

    Welcome David. It looks like you'll fit in nicely here. Those are some beautiful bits of furniture in the photos: I really like the design & style.
  17. Dr.Al

    Temptation time

    Do they actually have a shop? Looking at the website it looks like it's a manufacturer and online sales outfit. They do say that you can collect a pre-order from them but nothing obvious to say that they have a store you can go into and browse.
  18. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    It's quite an interesting process. I've tried it quite a few times with mixed results. The first time I did it was for a gift for a friend of Carolyn's. The friend (Hayley) lived in Finland and had been planning to fly to her home country (South Africa) for a half-marathon but for various...
  19. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    Thanks both (and sorry for not explaining things well enough for you to follow @Mike G!)
  20. Dr.Al

    Dr Al's Latest Folly

    I posted this on my website yesterday but didn't get round to sticking it onto the forum so I apologise for the delay! The last, relatively simple, job for the tommy bar hole cover was to fit it. I used an M2 × 16 mm cap screw, two washers and two nuts. I'd have preferred a nyloc nut, but I...
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