• 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. Peri

    Stone carving - brilliant set of project videos

    Same - I know nothing about masonry, I never knew I was that interested in it, but it's always fascinating to watch a craftsman.
  2. Peri

    After 53 years I have to take my test again!

    Mate, at 57 I'm learning to drive :D Waited 6 months for my first test, failed with 1 minor and a serious fault - minor was touching a kerb with a wheel on a parallel park, major was driving too close to the cars on the left in a 20mph zone. Waited 8 months for my next test - failed that...
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    Stone carving - brilliant set of project videos

    I can't resist sharing this find of a tiny youtube channel - best thing I've found to watch so far this weekend :) Guy is turning this Into this https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJscCTt9QpihSI-jR2bdH8ENqcWE8bS1X
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    A quick one. At work, management bought 3 Ajax lathes. I believe Ajax were a very good brand a few decades ago - these days, if it was my money I'd steer well clear. Anyway, the compound scales that came with the machine are printed, so after about 3 months all the markings rubbed off and I...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Haven't posted for a while - so a couple of boards done for Xmas presents. Horse themed one for a friend who's big into horses. I know oak isn't ideal, but it'll get minimal use and probably be much more of an ornament. Not sure what wood the horse/surround is, I'm still working my way through...
  6. Peri

    Glass for furniture.

    They're going to be at either end of the sofa, close to a wall. Each of them will have a lamp on top as well.
  7. Peri

    Glass for furniture.

    Thanks folks - top quality advice as always :)
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    Glass for furniture.

    So, my wife has an idea for two side tables she'd like. She's got some nice sculptures, and she'd like something that can show them off. As a basic idea, something like this, but with 4 glass sides and some led lighting in the top. I have two questions - first, does it need to be toughened...
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    Lovely Evening

    They were all taken with a 2009 Canon 7D - I did get into HDR, taking groups of photo's that were under/correctly/over exposed (bracketing) and combining them into one image, and also stitching groups of photo's together to make panoramas. The third and fifth photo's use both techniques...
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    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    And the magnet didn't find it? I have a small metal detector thing, but it's a bit of a flaff - I tend to use a small, super strong neodymium magnet that you can feel 'grab' the smallest bits of metal.
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    Lovely Evening

    ooo I do love a good sunset pic. 5 of my favourites taken around Shropshire over the last few years.
  12. Peri

    Plane iron getting "wrecked" when shooting: what can it be?

    Well, only something as hard as the the blade (ie steel) is going to cause that damage. I'd run a magnet over the jig and the wood to make sure there's no lumps of swarf embedded somewhere. Obviously check fixings (if any) you used to make sure they're well below the surfaces - but to be fair...
  13. Peri

    Old photo

    1990....... me about 22 :)
  14. Peri

    Veneering - I could do with some advice.

    Thanks Pete - I was watching his turntable video about 10 minutes ago :)
  15. Peri

    Veneering - I could do with some advice.

    The veneers I'm using are paper backed, would it be advantageous to use Titebond veneer glue? From what I've read that appears to be pva with inhibitors to stop bleed through, and I think it dries a slightly harder than normal pva.. I'd also like to wrap the veneer around some of the case...
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    Veneering - I could do with some advice.

    I've just received several sheets of white oak veneer (as flat as cereal box cardboard), and a rosewood veneer which is very ridged, but I know from a test piece that I glued to a bit of scrap, that it'll sand very flat.
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    Veneering - I could do with some advice.

    Ok, time for another first, I'm veneering some speaker cabinets. As it's my first time using veneer I'm not trying complicated, just fairly large, flat areas. I'm thinking of using the method this guy uses - In a nutshell he coats the veneer and the cabinet with PVA, allows it to become...
  18. Peri

    Your favourite listenings......

    Along with Stargazer, Victim of Changes, Child in Time, Holy Diver, For Those About to Rock. :)
  19. Peri

    Your favourite listenings......

    Four for the guitar lovers :)
  20. Peri

    Cutting big coarse threads in wood

    Interesting read :) I've just read that Lee Valley bought Beall - LV appear to be selling their own versions now https://www.leevalley.com/en-gb/search#q=thread
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