• 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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    Combination machine a wise move?

    Hi Tom. I guess that for some a machine is something you use, for others dialling in and improving them is enjoyable too. Some thoughts. If for space reasons you have to have a wheeled base you could possibly having decided where the saw will live mark the locations on the floor that the wheels...
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    Combination machine a wise move?

    It depends Brian on the specific machine (or for that matter tool or anything else) you end up with - which is why I included 'luck' in the list. After that it's a matter of each to his own... :)
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    Combination machine a wise move?

    Not to be rude Brian but that is the classic response of some when tolerances are mentioned in the context of woodworking or woodworking machinery. This from hard earned personal experience is however the reality if you want a machine to perform accurately - or for that matter want your joints...
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    Combination machine a wise move?

    Some observations about putting machines on wheels. It's not unusual (especially on US forums where many work in garages) to see woodworkers routinely talk of putting their machines on wheel sets. This probably is best avoided. I did some measuring to find out what the possibilities were when...
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    rise and fall on hammer table saw

    Thanks for the steer Ian - the extra information is a big help. I definitely won't be asking Felder to sort it out...
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    Combination machine a wise move?

    I'd confirm much of the above regarding layouts and inconvenience. There's to my mind no reliable substitute for sitting down and laying out a large scale drawing (paper is in many respects better than CAD unless you are very used to it) of your workshop, dust system drops, power points...
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    rise and fall on hammer table saw

    Thanks Ian, that could be highly relevant for me. I run a mid 2000s Hammer K3 perform (the discontinued long cabinet/long slider version) and interestingly enough it has of late developed a stiffness in the blade height adjustment as it approaches the highest setting. Much like yourself I've...
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    Router table insert plate build (rings laad)

    That's heavy work done manually Tom. Full marks...
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    Hi 2

    Wine boxes have become difficult to find Bob. Only the expensive Bordeaux and similar now come in them. Not only that but they became fashionable. I've as you say of late seen huge prices asked on EBay and the like. The wine shops here hang on to what they have for use in displays and look at...
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    Hi 2

    Thanks for the interest Bob. The workshop has been developing since the 90s when the heavens aligned and I got the chance to build a large double garage with a loft over head accessed by stairs - it was a long held ambition. It's still a work in progress, but has stabilised to the point that...
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    Hi 2

    Thanks again all.
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    I think to be fair that while the sought for outcome is very simple (the classic two finely finished faces meeting in the required location and at the required angle) and is not hard to maintain (via re-sharpening using a time and labour efficient method) that there's an awful lot of complexity...
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    Router table insert plate build (rings laad)

    I'm not precisely sure what you want to do Tom but the starting point in the following method of cutting the opening for a router plate is the radius of the router cutter you choose to use because it determines the radius of the corner in the table opening and consequently the radius of the...
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    I'm tentatively coming back in.... My post was to share a finding. I make no claim to superior knowledge, and won't be arguing about any of the following - we each have to find our own route in these matters. Constructive input is of course welcome. I've been sharpening since I was about 10...
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    Hi 2

    Thanks WWW. The saying that 'you can never have too many clamps' seems to be true. It's not that everything is in use all of the time, but on the other hand most get used at some time or another. It's problematical here in Ireland to find mid job that you don't have the right clamp - what's...
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    A pity I think - but I'll be lying low.
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    Well... I can safely say that you won't be arguing with me. The feedback is tabled for what it's worth - the hope however was that it might actually be useful to somebody The paring requirement arose out of a need to marginally re-locate the reference face of some mortises which ended up having...
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    Chisel Sharpening - Subtleties in Flattening Backs

    Hi all. This is just to share some fairly esoteric thoughts/a recent discovery in respect of flattening chisel backs. I've been doing a lot of fine paring of the sides of large mortices in beech recently to fine tune fits as a part of a bench build (stretcher joints) and found that my Japanese...
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    Choice of Router for High Accuracy Deep Plunge Cutting?

    Thank you for the links Mike - I'll put the drawing on file pending a decision on which router to go for. The FOG group (unlike one or two other brand specific forums that have been around) seem pretty factual and open in what they report. I don't have CNC but do run a round column Taiwanese...
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    Choice of Router for High Accuracy Deep Plunge Cutting?

    Hi Mike. Your description of your experience with the Bosch GOF 1600 CE when plunging seems to mirror mine with the GMF 1400 CE - moving about on the guide posts until the plunge is locked. My dust collection is also marginal. I didn't mention it as I figured that the problem was possibly a...
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