• 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

    Lathe sanding drum, hand held belt sander abrasives, a good choice?

    Hello all, I need to thickness some UMHW cutting board strips soon, and thinking I could put my lathe to good use here, if I rigged it up as a mini drum sander. I have a hefty faceplate which came with the machine, and some suitable composite materials for making the drum. Not looked into this...
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    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...
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    Question for you machinist folks about auxiliary sliding extrusion on tablesaw

    Hello folks, getting back at working on my old Startrite 275 again, as I've acquired some materials what will get the job done... just about that is, as indeed there be some faffing involved as you would expect, lol.😅 Sorry didn't get a piccy of the skip, as it was a deep'un. Now I've got...
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    Seen this video yesterday, it seems fair warning to those who wish to crosscut with a circular saw. Here's the youtube link I took a sequence of screenshots for those who don't click on youtube's. What way would you make this cut, if you had to do a lot of them, and didn't have a compound...
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    A Youtuber visits Thomas Flinn & CO

    This new video by youtuber blacksmith Alec Steele just popped up on my feed, so should be interesting to watch. Well worth seeing, Chris basically demonstrated the whole process of a tenon saw.
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    Material identification

    Hello folks, came across a skip at the hospital with these two bits in it. It'd be interesting to know as to what the stuff is, as it's very dense and stable. Have a sheet at the folks which hasn't fared well, though it's been used as a outdoor fire screen, and eventually gotten to a state...
  7. TomTrees

    A belt sander revamp?

    This might be fun, hopefully that is! :) Been planning on getting rid of the huge splayed legs for the thing for a while, super annoying. Might as well try and improve things whilst I'm at it. Quite a bit of pondering needs doing... in order to make this machine most usable... First things...
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    Epoxy questions for a slowing things down hack?

    Hello folks I'm needing to fill the terrible gaps around a router table insert plate, which I failed miserably at installing yesterday. Hoping I could use a dust and epoxy mix of the same horrible but good material for the job. I'll have to clean things up yet, and get the plate leveled and...
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    Router table insert plate build (rings laad)

    Hello folks, will have to excuse the lack of pics, but sure I can bump this up later with some. Making a router insert plate for a tablesaw extension wing at the moment... I've only marked out the rounded corners on this 8mm steel plate, but not shaped them yet, as I've kept the sharp edges for...
  10. TomTrees

    Interesting veneering video on making a star pattern

    Thought this video would be worth posting, as I learned a few tips from it. Most notable what I've not seen anyone suggest, orientation of the grain lines for more consistency whilst bookmatching. Flipping every second veneer, (note the circled numbers) is probably a well known thing to do...
  11. TomTrees

    Link to BGHM German machinery safety guide PDF

    Here's a guide which might be of interest to some. I found the bits regarding the tablesaw especially interesting. https://www.bghm.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Seminare/Holzbranche/TSM-Web_BG_96.18.pdf
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    Outfitting a Startrite 275 tablesaw... (overhead tablesaw guard)

    Hello folks I was going to keep updating my overhead crown guard post, but thought better to post a separate thread about my machine upgrades, since I haven't studied many since then. I will mention however, that I've seen the pinnacle of design regarding this subject, if anyone would like to...
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    What's the best overhead crown guard for a tablesaw?

    Hello I've been slowly doing some work on bringing my Startrite 275 up to scratch, plus going down some other rabbit holes for fun, and getting closer to having to think about sourcing materials etc, for an overhead guard system, so thought I'd seek some folks experiences here, should they...
  14. TomTrees

    Bandsaw wheel and motor alignment, and whatever else.

    Thought some might find my experiments of interest, should one stumble across a "bargain". I've been working on getting my machine running sweetly, but have still had "fore and aft" issues, and to a smaller extent "flutter" issues. Now it's not bad blades at fault, just to be clear I've had...
  15. TomTrees

    Anyone repair their own shoes?

    Just asking incase I don't have any alcohol to clean/degrease the rubber before for bonding, as that seems to be the go to from a minutes research. Made a last for me boot today, took a bit of a while to make something which would come back out again :lol: Seems like it will be good enough...
  16. TomTrees

    Metal on a wood lathe, trying to get a chip.

    Hello folks Seems the other place where I started this post is having some hickups! :eusa-violin: Here is a lump of metal I found on the road, guessing it's a part from a lorry, as there was a lump of rubber bonded to it. Some scraping of the centre out ala Bill Carter Checking the table...
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    A new bandsaw channel

    Hello folks Just thought you'd like to see a new bandsaw channel Best one I've found on the subject of resawing, should one have a want to see that sort of thing. I know there are a few guitar builders here! This machine is more than capable for the task, a Sicar top 7. With no edits or...
  18. TomTrees

    Best chance of limiting green mallet with pith splitting

    Hi folks Just seen a few wee cracks form on this mallet which was turned from this green shrub recently. I can get you the name of the species at a later date. It was cut down about six months ago and is lovely to turn No smell or oils and no pores, also it is very heavy and sinks in water so...
  19. TomTrees

    Scandinavian workbench from salvaged Iroko

    Hello Some timber scavengers, or beginners may find this of interest Planning to turn this iroko, a timber from both the Ivory coast, and Ghana in west Africa, into a fine Scandinavian design workbench with some modifications, mainly attempting to beef up the thickness wherever possible for a...
  20. TomTrees

    Worried about starting posting again

    Hello everybody and to administrators To try and cut to the chase I have to be blunt . sorry if i upset someone , Can't you not change the website name to woodhaven.com instead of "thewoodhaven2" ? would this cause problems with the old server website "thewoodhaven" or was it ..... " the...
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