• 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!

Fantasy Tool Box - last post

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The travel tool box is complete. Ready - when the time comes - to be fitted inside a hard case when the time comes to fly to New Zealand. Total weight is 16Kg (40lbs). Dimensions: 540mm long x 280mm deep x 210mm high.

The final part of the build was to add a carry handle. Earlier, I was planning on a shoulder strap ...



... however, this is not practical - 16Kg over a shoulder is not comfortable and difficult to manoeuvre. So I came up with this ...



Dovetailed for strength. The dark wood is Merbau, which is very hard and rigid. I am not sure what the light wood is - an interesting scrap.

It's a good height, and comfortable to hold. The underside is rounded and the top side edges are chamfered ...



The handle rotates and folds out of the way to open the top ...





The feature I am most proud of is that the handle can be lowered and locked in place to prevent the top opening during travel ...





Regards from Perth

Derek
 
I seem to remember that these tools are for a furniture making course you will partake in. Having seen the making of this box, it’s contents and a few of your other projects I am really looking forward to seeing what comes out of that course. I hope you will share it with us.
 
AndyP said:
I seem to remember that these tools are for a furniture making course you will partake in. Having seen the making of this box, it’s contents and a few of your other projects I am really looking forward to seeing what comes out of that course. I hope you will share it with us.
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Thanks Andy. The school has a good rep and I am sure I will enjoy the mountain/forest surrounds as much as the activity inside the workshop. I expect to jazz up the project a little, but otherwise just happy to enjoy being part of a group. The course in not until August 2026, so there is some time to go.

Best wishes for the festive season.

Derek
 
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