• 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. TomTrees

    Seven Heirlooms - and one for my great niece, too.

    Have you tried fabric softener Malcom? That's fairly commonplace on the OLF and the likes, should you have stumbled across "supersoft" before. Two heat blankets are often utilized for the "fox bender", and curious to know why you've stuck with the one.... Might that be adapting the forms to...
  2. TomTrees

    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    That's it in a nutshell Ian, though one could say I'm re-building the retractable castor system, in order to make it more sensible for use in a small shed. The older system below, didn't lend itself well for the extra component?, (what's paramount to the design) ... :geek: Cheers All the...
  3. TomTrees

    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello all, got back to working on this last week as there was other stuff what needed doing first. and might I say, very eagerly wanting to get the workshop back to a somewhat functional state after that! Not started with the other lever yet, as I've mainly been mucking about with scrap for the...
  4. TomTrees

    Sip sander drive belt

    I'm guessing these machines are on the way out, in favour of another design with integral dust collection, though I'd hope this is not the case. Re- belt tracking, I've modified my machine, which made things slightly more difficult, and did for interests sake, look up some manual or another for...
  5. TomTrees

    Sip sander drive belt

    Sorry I can't be of more help, but hope some others can mention what may be suitable for you. As you see, many companies sell this sander, Rikon in north America possibly being the biggest retailer of them I suppose, should that still be the case, not that you'd want to get spares of them with...
  6. TomTrees

    Sip sander drive belt

    Hello, and welcome! Here's a recent thread which might help somewhat, should you have a job sourcing one locally from a belt supplier, or UK or EU tool dealer, then there's names and the models of a few other companies still selling them, in the thread on the Ozzy site...
  7. TomTrees

    Seven Heirlooms - and one for my great niece, too.

    Indeed, I found that I was missing a lot of practical stuff when looking strictly on the luthiers sites, which many of the folks here had the answers to. Mainly getting away from all the sanding and jigs, after reading the effects of what can happen doing so long term, with tropicals and...
  8. TomTrees

    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello all, after some procrastination, I got started by cutting the stuff to length, and grinding the beads off this auld box iron. I figured I'd make the upper lever design shorter than before, as the last one was a bit awkward to place a foot on at times... i.e, squeezed in-between the pedal...
  9. TomTrees

    Seven Heirlooms - and one for my great niece, too.

    I'd be interested to know if you have any, as that is one of the "go to's", but I suspect there are a few "bibles" which I cannot recall... Perhaps you're a member of some other luthiers forums, like the OLF, MIMF, ANZLF,or some others? Re-the planing, I was referring the pins rather than the...
  10. TomTrees

    Seven Heirlooms - and one for my great niece, too.

    Interesting take on the thicknessing of thin stuff, which you don't often see on the luffiers forums. Is that mentioned in the Cumpiano book? Things are looking quite productive. Cheers All the best Tom
  11. TomTrees

    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Thanks Jonathan, I did see those types whilst searching, but as the name would suggest.... they're rather expensive! :ROFLMAO: (where's my coat?) I did go back and had a look at the Screwfix offerings, and seen three which might be suitable, (with the help of a hacksaw, that is) though not...
  12. TomTrees

    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello there all. Me thinks it's time for a review on this mechanism, after using it for the last 5 years or so, in a one car garage... At the time, I wasn't aware that I was making the proverbial oxymoron, but in actuality, it's turned out to get me into trouble on a few occasions... for a...
  13. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Thanks for the additional measurements Jonathan, I forgot that I'd been expecting such elements would be brought up!, but thankfully not before I'd got some measurements first. :) My saw having a left tilt arbor, an old Startrite 275 that is, being preferable it seems... Not seen which way the...
  14. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Now you tell me! 😄 ... and there was me like an eejit, questioning the Sawstop reps if they were gonna introduce one with their venture into the UK market, seemingly those folks aren't too worried if someone gets a very nasty kickback! I did look into Grizzly tools for such an extrusion (in...
  15. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Thanks Jonathan, that is a rather nice hefty walled extrusion, looks like a Felder machine, if the paint is anything to go by, and looks to be compliant with the Euro regs what's seemingly at 15mm max height. I guess I have my answer then, and 42mm should provide ample space.. otherwise they...
  16. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Hi Ian, I was referring to the low fence orientation what's mentioned in the SUVA manual, titled Arbeiten an der tischkreissäge. I tried finding the date of publication just now, and cannot open the file for some reason. Now I'm not sure if what's mentioned is strictly referring to use of a...
  17. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Hello again folks, I've been pondering a bit more about the job, as space is so tight in there at present, it's hard to think straight when yer standing on a lawnmower, lol. Seems that I've got some luck, in such that the trespa being a bit shorter than the extrusion, it might lend itself nicely...
  18. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Sure you can buy about 15, M10 star knobs for under a tenner from the big river, or you can make yer own fugly lookin ones instead! :unsure::ROFLMAO: Though they seem about right clearance wise, and also of suitable width in surface area, as the fence isn't made of very substantial thickness...
  19. TomTrees

    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Hello again folks, might as well post an update on things. Onto getting the holes marked out, just needed to fettle things first.. I always find bending things a head scratcher, but only a few clamps were needed for this thin stuff. I fully intended to add a little more depth to this WIP...
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    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Been eyeing up things, and think I'll be better off not trying to succeed in having the two jobs in one. Perhaps if I had some aluminium plate instead of the Trespa material, I could open the ends of the slot to enable sliding the auxiliary fence off, instead of removal with the bolts captured...
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