• 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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    My Will

    I am in the process of making my will. I have no-one to leave my tools and machines to and wonder if anyone has a suggestion how they could be disposed of. I have heard of Men's Sheds but have no knowledge if they still exist or maybe the yearly auctions that take place?
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    Not Secure

    I am finding that when I am on Woodhaven2, the website is flagged up as ''Not Secure''. Do any other members experience this and is there anything I can do about it?
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    Height measuring board

    While at Tyler's Hardwoods in Wiltshire this week collecting a few boards for my next project I looked through their extensive off-cut section and found this, a height measuring board for £200. Not sure of the wood but very well made by a customer whose client cancelled the order. The carved...
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    Titebond Life

    I will be glueing up a small Oak table shortly with some 18 month old Titebond Extend glue. Does anyone know how long this glue lasts in the bottle when kept in cool conditions? None of the joints will be under any great stress but I'd hate for any to fail.
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    The Golden Ratio

    More experienced members will be familiar with the Golden Ratio when designing things but newcomers may find it interesting. I can't remember where I got this document from - maybe UKW. https://www.finewoodworking.com/FWNPDFf ... 168048.pdf John
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    Garden Table in Oak

    The first photo shows the lengths of Oak stored in my garage. As can be seen some have significant cracking and knots but there are clean useful lengths up to 1500mm The second photo shows the legs which I have reduced to 60x60mm. After cutting the mortices I will taper them. Behind the legs...
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    Safe Moisture Maximum for Using Oak Question

    Three months ago i was given several 3.5m lengths of 90mm x 90mm Oak that was wrongly ordered for a pergola. I have had them stored in my dry garage since them. As a trial use I intend to make a simple 1m x .6m garden table. As an experiment I have cut the legs and trimmed them to an oversize...
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    Shoe Rack

    Although I live on my own I find myself fed up with all my footwear scattered around the house. So I'm making a shoe rack in the hope it will solve the problem. The timber I'm using is made up of odds and sods of Oak and Utile I have lying around. It will be approx 900mm high, 600mm wide and 350...
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    Birds of the World

    Cornell University (USA) have just issued an interesting online comprehensive list of data of the world's 10,800+ bird species together with sub-species, distribution, migration etc etc. As a retired world birder (age and bad legs) I shall find this very interesting, particularly in checking up...
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    Two Gate Leg Tables for Recycling

    I bought these two tables yesterday, £25 for the two, for the wood. One I think is Oak and the other has a pinky shade to it, perhaps a West African species. Don't know what I shall make from them but I'll keep you posted. John
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    Treatment for drawer runners

    What do members recommend for applying to beech runners to aid the drawers sliding? I have some clear Liberon Wax Polish which I thought may be suitable. John
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    New Magazine

    A new woodworking magazine from Nick Gibbs starts publication in January. Could be interesting. https://www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/quercus ... -feb-2022/ John
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    Past Projects

    Progress has been slow this year but attached are a couple of items I made a little while ago. Members of the other place may have seen them already.
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    chip breaker problem

    I can't get rid of the gap between the blade and chip breaker on my No.4 plane. My Nos. 3, 5 and 6 are perfect. I've tried tapping and grinding it but with no luck - maybe it's a duffer.. I mainly use my No.5 so can manage without the 4 but it would be nice to get it working again properly...
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    Chest of Drawers

    I started this project well over a year ago but it has been delayed due to one thing and another. I'm now well on with the drawers so should be finished by Christmas (ha ha). One fundamental error - I should have made the top drawers slightly narrower than the others John
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    New Member

    I joined The Woodhaven about a week ago. Previously I was a contributor to UKW (john15) until about 9 months ago. I am a hobbyist woodworker, working mainly with handtools in a small workshop and make pieces of furniture for myself to a reasonable(?) standard. I am looking forward to...
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    Hello

    Hi Everyone, I am an amateur woodworker enjoying making things in my retirement, and very pleased to be able to join this forum. John
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