• 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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    Apple Blossom

    When we moved into our house eighteen years ago there were three huge cypress trees in the middle of the garden. They were well past their prime so I had them cut down, which revealed a scrawny little apple tree in the corner of the garden which had been stuck in the shade. Since then it has...
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    Ash Hollowform (using my new Crown Revolution tool)

    As promised, here's the hollowform I turned yesterday using my new toy, the Crown Revolution hollowing system with my custom made handle. I finished it on the lathe with polishing mops and carnauba wax this morning. It's a two piece hollowform, as per the demo at my woodturning club last week...
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    Crown Revolution hollowing on the cheap(er)

    I have been lusting after the Crown Revolution hollowing system but at around the £150.00 mark for the 1/2" dia shaft system it's a bit over my impulse buy threshold. However, you can buy the "blade only" option for half that, and what you actually get is everything but the handle. The handle...
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    Tel's adventures in guitarmaking

    Inspired by the Men In Sheds - The Luthier thread: I did a three month residential course in guitar making at the Totnes School of Guitar Making back in 2006, a year after my wife passed away. I stayed in a B&B in Totnes for the duration and was able to completely immerse myself. The course...
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    My call to Virgin Media today

    Been trying to register online for the free V6 TV box upgrade. Keep getting this: Oops! Something went wrong. Sorry about this - a hiccup on our end means we can't process your order online right now. If you're still interested in a free upgrade to our Virgin TV V6 box, just give us a call on...
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    Currys - Effin' BANDITS!

    I bought a new android tablet before Christmas in the Currys Black Friday sale. Very happy with it - a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 reduced from £399.00 to £299.00 - managed to snag the last one at my local store. What I'm not so happy about is that I was signed up for a customer service agreement at...
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    Another Ouch! thread

    Managed to get some lathe time in yesterday, now the temperature in the workshop has dropped a bit. I was polishing up a bowl using a dome polishing mop in a Jacob's chuck when the morse taper let go and the mop and chuck flew out of the lathe spindle at around 2500rpm, hit the bowl and bounced...
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    For RogerS - Avro Vulcan content:

    RogerS: whenever I see your avatar I'm reminded of a memorable encounter I had many years ago with a Vulcan. My Dad was in the RAF and as a kid I lived on a succession of RAF camps. I lived on a Vulcan base - RAF Waddington - in the early 60s, I can still remember the thrill I had as little kid...
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    Yew Bowl

    I turned this bowl not long after I started turning and I was never happy with the big clunky foot I put on it. So I stuck it on my home-made cole jaws this morning and re-did the outside. I'm much happier with it now and the thickness is much more consistent. It's about 8" in diameter. I filled...
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    Maple Platter

    Prezzie for my daughter. Just under 14" across. Made from Hampshire maple. I had to fix one crack but you need to look for it now. It was a bit of a b*gger to turn as the darker bits were quite soft and the rest was rock hard. It has lots of figure - what we guitar builders call 'flame', what...
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    Laurel - any good for turning?

    A neighbour is having some laurel taken out from his boundary. The plants (don't know if you'd call them shrubs or trees) are mature and stand about as high as my house and the main trunks are six or eight inches in diameter. I can have as much of it as I want, but is this wood any good for turning?
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    Anatomy of a walnut bowl

    A friend asked me to make a fruit bowl as a surprise prezzie for his wife for her birthday. I took some "in progress" shots for her and I thought you guys might like to see them. It's from a slab of walnut that came from a tree from the New Forest. The bowl finished at 14" diameter. It's...
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    AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

    Expecting a delivery today of some bits and pieces for a project I was looking forward to getting on with over the weekend. Got a text message at 11:00am "APC will deliver your order between 11:22 and 13:22 today". Just time, I thought, to go out to the workshop and clear some space. Came...
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    Another reason to wear gloves...

    ... when using thin superglue and wood dust as a filler. Don't rub it in with your finger because then the fingerprint detector on your shiny new Moto G5 phone won't recognise your fingerprint! :D Managed to sand it off (felt a bit silly sanding myself...) but my finger is looking a bit sorry...
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    Going (Banksia) Nuts in Dorset

    Picked up a couple of these a few months ago on a trip to Yandles. I've never tried one before, but they are quite nice to turn, only took a couple of hours from start to finish. It's finished with polishing mops on the lathe - triple-E, then diamond white and then carnauba wax then a plain...
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    Natural Edge Bowl

    Hi All, Here's a natural edge bowl I finished today. It's about 6" in diameter. Not sure what wood - sycamore maybe? It is from a large branch I have had in the garage for ages. This piece was heart-shaped in section and calling out for a natural edge bowl. Turned the outside between centres to...
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    Hello, my name is selectortone and I'm a wood turning addict

    Hello All, As the title says, I'm hooked on woodturning - did a little bit at school in the 60s and always had it in the back of my mind to give it a go when I retired. Fast forward 50 years and here I am, a widower with all the little birdies flown the nest and a nice big concrete garage. Two...
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