• 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. Dr.Al

    Bedside Table

    I think I've chosen my next project: it's time to make a new bedside table. For most of the 20 years I've lived in this house, I had a pine three-drawer chest that I inherited from my parents and used as a bedside table. It was quite deep and didn't leave much of a gap between the corner of...
  2. Dr.Al

    Ornate Portuguese Bench Plane

    Seen at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon (which is mostly an excellent museum showing the insides of an old power station, along with a load of weird and not-very-nice modern art, but which also had a carpentry exhibit.
  3. Dr.Al

    Like the ocean under the moon

    This is a project I've wanted to have a go at for a while. I think there's a fairly high chance it'll end up going through several iterations as I discover all the design problems but I think the journey will be interesting nevertheless. I'm going to make myself a bench plane. I don't really...
  4. Dr.Al

    Clamp of Theseus

    Earlier in the week, I came home to a large package, sent to me (apropos of nothing) from a very generous member of the MIG welding forum. He used to be a cabinetmaker but doesn't think he'll have a use for them any more and would rather they go to someone who would get some use out of them...
  5. Dr.Al

    Router Plane Modifications

    These jobs have been on my list for a while, ever since @rxh did the same sort of thing. At the time of making this, I couldn't find his post (thanks AndyT) for reference, so I just worked out my own way of doing it. Looking back now, he left the original casting unmodified, but I went with an...
  6. Dr.Al

    Very short WIP - a simple clock

    If you've come to this thread expecting something like a Clickspring Skeleton Clock, you'll be sorely disappointed :ROFLMAO: This is going to be a very short (two-part!) build write-up as there really wasn't much to it and I made my life a bit easier by using power tools for some jobs. In our...
  7. Dr.Al

    Reaching the limit of diameter

    After all the experimentation with the duplicator, I wanted to get back to more conventional turning for a little bit longer before I hang the lathe from the ceiling again. I recently bought a couple of big bowl blanks. One of them is destined to be a new fruit bowl and is big, both in...
  8. Dr.Al

    I really didn't expect that to work...

    This was an experiment, mostly to work out ergonomics and dimensions before designing something suitable for machining from lots of bits of aluminium. However, I think I won't bother with the aluminium now. The experiment started with two left-over bits of walnut (from when I made a lot of...
  9. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    If I had to pick the tools that I enjoy using the most, it would be a dead heat between five: the metalworking lathe, my home-made block plane, a Stanley #4, a Veritas router plane and the humble chisel (probably the curvaceous Ashley Iles 12 mm dovetail chisel if I had to pick one). If I had...
  10. Dr.Al

    A little table

    I gave a little bit of an intro to this project in the post a photo thread but I thought I'd do something a bit more in the way of a half-hearted WIP. We left the action with a simple welded steel frame upon which a wooden top will sit. Onto the table top... A year or two ago I was in an...
  11. Dr.Al

    From Prusa to Bambu

    If you're not at all interested in 3D printing, now might be a time to go and read a different thread. However, I thought some might be interested in how the transition between manufacturers goes for me. As anyone who has followed any of my build write-ups will have realised, I get a lot of...
  12. Dr.Al

    Spacing after posts on this forum

    Just a forum curiosity question that doesn't really matter. Is there a (good) reason why there's a big gap after some posts (seemingly particularly those with a signature line) For example, the end of a post without a signature: and a couple with a signature: There seems to be a lot of...
  13. Dr.Al

    Exercises in bowl-making

    I've posted a few things recently in the "Post a photo" thread with my trials and tribulations of trying to get vaguely competent at bowl turning. I had another go this afternoon and, rather than cluttering up the "Post a photo" thread with lots of photos, I thought I'd start a new one. I...
  14. Dr.Al

    Making a hollowing tool

    When I did a woodturning course with Paul Hannaby, I made a small turned box out of brown oak. To cut the inside shape of that box, I used a hollowing tool that he'd made. When I got home, I made my own version of that tool based on some photographs I'd taken while on the course. I used the...
  15. Dr.Al

    Today I acquired...

    A nuthatch (called "Darcy" apparently) made by the supremely talented MysterG of the MIG welding forum, aka Graham Hawkins, aka steelquirks.co.uk I've admired his work for a long time so it's great to be able to buy one of his pieces to have on the shelf. If you're interested, you can see...
  16. Dr.Al

    A few upgrades to a bench grinder

    I've decided to make a few upgrades to one of my bench grinders. This is a "before" photo of the grinder: It's a fantastic machine, a 200 mm diameter medium speed (1450 rpm) grinder that came with an 80 grit CBN wheel (on the right) and a 180 grit aluminium oxide grinding wheel on the left...
  17. Dr.Al

    Carlton Scroop 11th October

    Is this still going ahead (ref @toolsntat's post in the shows thread)? I'm planning to be there if it is (and I've even got permission to spend a bit more time there than I managed last time I made it). Anyone else from here going?
  18. Dr.Al

    Yet another box WIP

    Since I can't make any more progress on the Sycamore drawer box, I thought I'd get started on something else. I haven't really decided what that something else is going to be, but I've got this bit of American Black Walnut that I bandsawed in half before coming away: I planed the two bits...
  19. Dr.Al

    Oak framed church roof - L'Eglise Saint Giron

    We're currently staying in a small town called Monein, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. This is the local church, L'Eglise Saint Giron, built between 1464 and 1530: Assuming I've remembered the figures correctly, the main church building is 13 metres high. The roof structure (not including...
  20. Dr.Al

    Another box WIP

    I've brought my Travel Tool Chest & Workbench and Mini Moravian Bench to France for a couple of weeks. The first full day I was thoroughly knackered after 12 hours (including stops) of driving from St Malo down to Monein near Pau. It was also 32°C. With the temperature and the general feeling...
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