• 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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    Lathe advice

    So I know very little (ie pretty much nothing) about lathes, and what has generally put me off even a cheap one is you have to add to the price of a lathe the price of tools, chucks etc and a £200 entry level lathe suddenly becomes closer to 4 figures if you add sharpening kit. As such, keeping...
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    A foray into lasers......

    Hi - thanks for the good wishes. I am having loads of fun with it, but not in great demand from others just yet. The biggest issue is actually getting good quality laser ply - the stuff available now labelled as poplar ply or lite ply is rubbish for taking a crisp image and nothing like the good...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    3 jewellery boxes made as teacher gifts for my son's, last day at school today. Made from recycled iroko and maple veneered mdf, ran out of time to make a tray insert so he filled them with sweets instead. No fancy joints, he requested 1 on Friday, which morphed into 3 over the weekend as he...
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    A foray into lasers......

    Now to get serious..... Another obsession for a while has been puzzle boxes, including escape boxes. For those who have not come across these, they are a series of locked boxes with a puzzle or task that gives a combination to open the next until you get to the end. Many are cut with a laser...
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    A foray into lasers......

    So something for the workshop, something for the workshop.... something to store all the bits of hardware we all accumulate - boxes, that's what I need! Now we are getting somewhere. Bit of a steep learning curve in terms of software, but YouTube comes to the rescue and we now have...
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    A foray into lasers......

    My name is Steve and this is my confession. About a year ago I started to become somewhat obsessed with lasers. It started, as many such obsessions do, with YouTube. We have all done it, watched a video that makes something look so easy, sells the benefits without any of the downsides, has a...
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    Japanese House Building Query

    Currently very limited time to get into the workshop, but I do watch the odd YouTube channel to see others doing it! One I dip in and out of I think has been mentioned here before - Shoyan Japanese Carpenter. Clearly very talented but does use modern tools as well as traditional joints (and...
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    Timber and gates

    I have spent the last 3 months, on and off, doing some work for a friend of SWMBO's. The latest job was to install 2 6ft x 6ft metal gates to form a new driveway entrance. These were old and the standard curly scrollwork stuff that was standard fare at one time so fairly flimsy. Said friend has...
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    Jet 16-32 Drum Sander Query

    Thanks for all the comments chaps. To clarify a bit more - I have a 0.6mm walnut veneer stuck to 12mm birch ply, giving me 12.6mm in total. On running this through the sander, I have gone through the veneer (so sanded more than 0.6mm thickness) at the start and end of the workpiece, which is...
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    Jet 16-32 Drum Sander Query

    I have recently managed to snare one of these from a well known auction site and have been having a play with it over the weekend. I really wanted it to sand flat veneered pieces for box making, but I seem to have issues with it either not taking off any material, or sanding through the veneer...
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    Leather, wood and glue.....

    I know there are a couple of members here who work with leather so I am hoping for some advice and guidance as a complete newbie to this craft. My son (for complicated reasons) is after a number of small boxes, which I can cut from 3mm plywood and assemble. However, he would like a lid to be...
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    Dovecote - finished!

    Just by way of an update on this, I wanted it finished by 5th June, finally managed to get it mounted today :oops: Would I make another? No, probably not - weighs a ton, was a real pain to get all the angles right and cutting slates was a nightmare. Fortunately flashing tape hides a multitude...
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    Dovecote - finished!

    Rather embarrassed to say I haven't posted anything in ages, but am slowly plodding away in the background taking months to do what some of you do in hours or days! Latest project, after the collared doves have AGAIN managed to build a nest on the sky dish, is a dovecote. No real plan here other...
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    Vacuum Cleaner / DE?

    I have a (very old) yellow perform DE that I use primarily for hoovering up sawdust/chippings/spiders/gunk around the workshop. It has a 62mm hose on it of about 5ft, then I have taped on an old flexible hose from an old standard hoover to give me another 5ft of reach - in this way I can get to...
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    FTB Saw Blade

    Anyone know whether flat top blades (FTB), as opposed to alternate top bevel (ATB) blades, are banned/frowned upon in the UK and/or Europe? CMT do one - 285.624.10 but I can only find it in the US. Freud do one too - the LM72R010, but I can only find that in the US as well. Ironically, at least...
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    Orangery ideas - roof skylights/lanterns?

    So SWMBO is fed up with the kids monopolising the TV with games consoles, hogging the sofa with their mates and fighting the dog for an armchair, so she has 'suggested' we might like to create a space of her own, while dropping pointed hints about orangeries and conservatories...... A quick...
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    Linear bearings and rails

    Random question, but does anyone know of a good supplier of these? Ideally cheap, but accurate (I know - they are usually mutually exclusive!) Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/VEVOR-SBR12-10 ... RYN4EWNEMZ They seem to vary hugely in price for seemingly the same thing so I am...
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    Sketchup download

    I have just had to replace my ageing laptop and am spending the evening installing all the software that I use (deep joy!). On trying to download sketchup, I can only find a web version, not a downlodable file. Is this the only way to get the free version now? Or am I missing something...
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    wet rot

    Small update as I have spent half the day arranging with Army logistics to ship some of our scientific equipment to NI! After squaring off the cut away timber I added some small off cuts to give myself a good face to work to, then cut down the legs of an old pine bed to give me some 90 x 90...
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    wet rot

    As you insist - slowest project ever coming up, as SWMBO went into one yesterday on the state of the house so I spent the day mostly doing housework with her and the kids 'helping'. No pictures of the rot but you can see what I have chopped away (far more than I wanted to, and still some...
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