• 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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    Bad Axe Saw Set

    If I remember rightly, they developed that tool to set their own saws in the factory, so that's exactly the intended use case. It's probably on sale mostly because a certain personality type tends to see a 'special' tool and want to buy it.
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    De-magnetising

    It won't wear off in the conventional sense, since the 'natural' state is to not be magnetised. Magnetism gets applied to it by external interactions, and the demagnetisers will just remove that - there's no 'demagnetised' effect that can prevent it from being re-applied. As Al says, though...
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    New Forum bugs/feature requests/dislikes etc

    Just to change topic away from editing timeouts... The site is quite happy to serve up the forum pages at either https://thewoodhaven2.co.uk or https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk, but logged in status doesn't transfer from one to the other. I usually open it without the www, which means when I...
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    Being daring with 21mm sawn boards

    How critical is it that you end up at 18mm? Most types of project can be tweaked to accommodate a slightly different material thickness, so even if what you get after planing is more like 16 or 17mm then it's not going to be a complete waste.
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    Any LINUX Users here

    You don't actually need to find the cross - clicking anywhere in the darkened border, outside of the actual image, will dismiss it.
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    How would you approach this carcase joinery?

    I don't think you need a dado there at all - have the side-to-side parts of the dividing frame joined to the cupboard sides with either a mortice and tenon or a lapped dovetail, then join the front-to-back runners into them. That way the cupboard sides are undisturbed and available for your...
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    Any LINUX Users here

    I'm posting this from an Ubuntu VM started up for the purpose, where everything looks fine so far. There's no real reason to think it wouldn't be, as all the common Linux browsers are the same as the popular Windows ones. Of the possible desktop systems, it's really just Mac you have to worry...
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    MAGNETS! do you?

    No no, the lip goes at the top (forgive the terrible low light photo): You might need a spacer behind the bevelled piece for the thicker toe of the Veritas low angle planes, but the handle protruding from the back isn't a problem - a Stanley #4 does that as well, and I have two of those...
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    Creating a curved rebate

    OK, here goes:
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    Questions about drawers

    Will a photo work instead of a sketch?
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, in the last two and a half months I've had any number of distractions and a few good chunks of time spent resting, recovering, and not woodworking. But in between, I've managed a few sessions. I've never attempted traditional drawers before this, so decided to do one on its own to prove...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    It's been a while since I updated this one. It's not abandoned, just (as the thread title suggested) slow. Last time I was cutting tenons on the front side-to-side drawer supports, with very narrow cheeks as they were going to go into the sides of the vertical panels. The joints that connect the...
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    There is a (very) little curve, though those photos don't really show it. It's a little more visible from the house side, but even then it shows more in real life than the photo: Either way the client is happy, and I can ignore the mistakes and gappy joints long enough to be happy with it too.
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    I'd forgotten how long it is since I last posted here. The project wasn't abandoned, but between my health and other things going on, didn't get finished before the winter. It all got unpacked around April and chipped away at over several weekend visits, until two weeks ago all the pieces were...
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    Don't read if you are veganitarian

    Or this slightly less picturesque one, which was Christmas dinner this year gone: Having done it a few times before with chicken, I decided to do it to a goose because it'll be basically the same thing, right? Turns out while the motions are the same, the force required for some parts is an...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Another short session today, but getting on for an important part. Over the last week or so, in between family duties and storm damage, I'd been dimensioning the front drawer runners - the ones that will be visible. Only the front and top surfaces are really critical for these, so I was a bit...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Finally it feels like a bit of actual progress is happening. Having routed out the housings for the centre divider, and had the CUF visit that always seems to come when I reach for power tools out of laziness, the tongues were done by hand, with a #78: Of course, the timber continued to be...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    Well, I did say this would be slow. It's not been abandoned, just shelved while I was informed I had more pressing projects to attend to. After getting back from Christmas with the family, though, and with weather that wasn't favourable to fixing the back garden, I managed to pick it up again...
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    Having got a variety of quotes for the timber, ranging from £800 including VAT and delivery to £1200 plus VAT and delivery, the order was duly placed for the former option and it arrived on site a few weeks back. At that point I could only get over there for a day to help unload, but this week I...
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    Planning a pergola... and building it

    I've got a commission to build a pergola at some point this summer, currently in early planning. The client for this one is my mother, so there's plenty of leeway for collaborative design where appropriate. She's not fussy about the materials or construction, but I'd like to use green oak and...
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