• 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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    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    That's a fun project. Why do we make these mistakes? It's infuriating!
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    Scribing joints

    Thanks. I'll have a look at that. I'll need to sign up for a free trial I think!
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    Scribing joints

    Thanks Mike. I'll definitely be working with templates and full size drawings/rods but there will inevitably be some (hopefully minor!) gaps which will need to be fettled because of slight variations in the components etc. The chair back I'm contemplating will be really quite curved and will...
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    Scribing joints

    I'm talking about scribing joints in furniture (e.g. chairs) rather than scribing, for example, kitchen worktops/cabinets to walls. Does anyone know of any resources describing the techniques for doing this? Joyce touches on it but doesn't go into detail. I can, for instance, see how it could...
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    Newbie Woorking Hobby

    Well done both of you!
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    Ian returned from Virginia

    Until recently, they used Trilanders between the Channel Islands. Proper piston engines; very noisy. I quite enjoyed it usually. Here are my kids in a good position to offer the pilot helpful advice on a flight from Alderney to Guernsey.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Shame about the mortise mistake, but so easily done. I was talking to an expert about chair making recently, and forgetting the "handedness" of components is a classic gotcha. Apparently Alan Peters once made 12 left handed chair legs for the 6 chairs he was making so it can happen to anyone.
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    Chair Steps Project

    This is really good stuff!
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    Round oak table (a la GE Street in the V&A) Day 5 Stained

    Mike, out of interest, what is your aversion to sandpaper? Do you consider it to be "cheating" or untraditional in some way, or do you just not like the dust? I've spoken to a few people who think that craftsman of old would have loved to have access to modern sandpaper and that they didn't...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Brilliant project. I'll follow with interest.
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    Round oak table (a la GE Street in the V&A) Day 5 Stained

    Might they be marks from a heavily cambered plane blade (e.g. scrub plane) rather than an adze?
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    Thanks Al. I've also got a (rarely used...) lathe so I guess I could have done that too! Anyway, I think I've solved the problem. I couldn't find any suitable washers so decided to remove the counterbore. I've got an assortment of end mills (they came with the lathe) so put one in the pillar...
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    Mike, thanks for taking the time to respond and take a photo of your machine. I actually think yours looks the same as mine. The red arrow on the photo below shows what I think is the edge of the counterbore I'm referring to. The screw head sits down in that and, because it's a tight fit in...
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    Round oak table (a la GE Street in the V&A) Day 5 Stained

    Looking good
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    Yes, it needs calibration (tiny adjustment - width of a pencil line or perhaps a fraction less), but the way the screws fit into the acrylic piece means it isn't adjustable! It shouldn't be hard to remedy though.
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    Agreed Rob, but some of the joints I'm planning on doing need to have tight dominos I think so I'll have little to no adjustment.
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    I should have added that the instruction manual does refer to calibrating the "sight screen" in this way, which is why I'm a bit flummoxed!
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    Thanks Al. That did cross my mind. I'll see if I've got some suitable washers.
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    Festool domino df 500 alignment question

    This sort of issue has been covered before, but I think I have a new question. When I use the line in the acrylic "window", the side-to-side alignment is slightly out (a little more than the thickness of a pencil line). I've tried adjusting the acrylic window, but mine seems to "self centre"...
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    Axminster Newcastle

    I've got a mental block on this too. Sometimes I can do it, but often resort to watching a video to remind me how to do it! When our children were small they had a pop up tent which folded down in the same way, and I struggled with that too. I think part of the problem is that it kind of blows...
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