• 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!

Elm Dining Table

Cracking looking job Aidan. You were right about the underside, particularly in the steps we took to veneer it and especially in the utterly shyte masking tape that I provided :oops: :oops: for 'trying' :oops: to pull the leaves together. That said, the underside as I recollect wasn't too bad once we got it sorted out, but could have been better. However, as you say, lessons were learned and the top came out pretty good, not least thank to the decent masking tape you brought over. I've got a few rolls of that Tesa tape bookmarked on Amazon (£5 a roll) for the next time I do any serious veneering with 2 or 3mm thick veneer.
I need to see it in the wood now…buns are on me :D - Rob
 
TheTiddles":2pb55f0k said:
There's gluten free white chocolate cappuccino cake if you get here this weekend Rob!

Aidan
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Time?…I fancy a bike ride as Alyson's got the motor tomorrow to go to the gym. Cake is always good! We like cake! :D - Rob
 
Those book-matched veneers look superb Aidan.
After a while you will tend to forget all the grief with the glue up and enjoy the result all the more.

Seems like there are three workshops on view. SWMBO has let you work on it indoors too! :lol:

Bob
 
Having sat at the table today and munched through a couple of very tasty slabs of cake, washed down with some rather excellent coffee, I can confirm that the table is as good 'up close and personal' as it appears in the pics - Rob
 
I particularly like this design as the heavy legs should give superb stability without having wide legs/feet to get in the way of chairs which gives much more flexibility to fit more people around the table from time to time.
Good engineering - I'd not expect any less from Aidan!

Bob
 
I like that. Elm is one of my favourite woods. We regularly get massive ...and I mean massive ..slabs at Pugh's auction.
 
Congrats. Very pleasing to see some veneering. Don't see enough of it on the tinterweb, one wonders why when the results can be this good.
 
Graham Haydon":1g90k8gv said:
Congrats. Very pleasing to see some veneering. Don't see enough of it on the tinterweb, one wonders why when the results can be this good.
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Then you might be interested in this. Sorry, no WIP or 'before' pictures.



I had cocked up plunging the Domino in this front panel and came all the way through the front of this stile. I tried to fill in the holes with some zebrano domino's. But the client spotted it. So what to do. I routed out the front of the stile to a depth of 0.5mm. Cleaned the corners with a razor sharp chisel and then dropped a piece of zebrano veneer into the space.
 
Graham Haydon":2x1q7qyj said:
Congrats. Very pleasing to see some veneering. Don't see enough of it on the tinterweb, one wonders why when the results can be this good.
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There's plenty of examples of veneering on tinternet, some real bobby-dazzlers, if you know where to look. Veneering can be an inexpensive way of improving woodwork, a process that's cheap as chips.

Here's a cracking example of some mahogany veneering:

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cheers
fred
 
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