• 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!

Newbie Woorking Hobby

Never come across a centipede table so I googled it.
Nearest thing I have got to that is a couple of plastic trestles that someone gave me plus an internal door ( the type made of egg boxes sandwiched between thin hard board ) free from facebook marketplace.
With all furniture removed, I can cut sheet with my circular saw and not worry about cutting into the worktop as it’s free and disposable. Good flat surface for glue ups and paint jobs.

I sound like a cheapskate but would prefer to spend my dosh on proper tools.
 
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With all furniture removed, I can cut sheet with my circular saw and not worry about cutting into the worktop as it’s free and disposable. Good flat surface for glue ups and paint jobs.

I sound like a cheapskate but would prefer to spend my dosh on proper tools.
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Not at all (cheapskate, that is). I use a pair if folding trestles at work (alright, so they are deWalt heavy duty ones), combined with either an old flush door or a 7 x 3ft breaking down top made from "liberated" studwork, CLS or whatever I can lay my hands on. One day I'll have a proper bench again, but in the meantime this will do me fine
 
Big shoutout to Mike for his time on Monday. We worked through several woodworking processes, such as sawing (which seems simple in theory, but in practice, well!!!). He showed me how to disassemble and sharpen a jack plane and chisels. He showed me how to measure and mark—again, this seems simple in theory, but in practice, not so much! We/I, mostly Mike, built two different joints: cross lap and mortise and tenon. His wife kindly pointed out we built a cross... oh well

Big shoutout to Mrs Mike for a lovely lunch (name redacted for privacy purposes).

Best wishes and I hope you and family have a lovely xmas/new years.

M
 
Not at all, Michael. Come back again when you've got a few of those tools from the list, and we'll have a little play getting them set up properly. And then there's dovetails.......
 
So no scribes, either? It's always fun teaching apprentices to scribe complex mouldings in oak
 
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