• 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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That's a very smart bit of work. Did you glue the mirrors on in the end?
 
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That's a very smart bit of work. Did you glue the mirrors on in the end?
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No I didn't glue them in Andy. I took good advice from others on here, and fitted them into a rebate, held in with beading that was screwed in place.
 
We have an in-ground irrigation system that needed some upgrades, including eight ugly 2ft tall plastic pipes and valves to prevent backflow. In an awkward corner right near the street, three feet from the sidewalk, between our driveway and the neighbor's driveway. I asked the installer about screening them and he suggested buying a plastic rock cover. Yes it is a thing. Not cheap and fake and only a little less ugly. I decided to use up some scraps from various projects instead. Western red cedar pickets from a defunct gate, Port Orford cedar posts and cap boards, and copper flashing. The design matches fences in the neighbourhood which are almost entirely made of WRC pickets. No joinery was harmed in the execution of this work. Exterior grade screws only. But I did hand plane the posts and bevel the cap boards to shed water. It should age nicely and be hidden more by the shrubs and be less obvious over time. I was particularly pleased that I had a use for those cedar pickets. That was one of those "to-good-to-toss-maybe-I'll-use-them-someday" decisions that actually paid off.
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There are glimpses of it in my last few YTs. I have more space than before, but it is fragmented and not such good quality space. The roof leask in multiple places. I was paddling, quite literally, a couple of weeks ago. I have to be careful about whre I put stuff lest it gets wet. Several of my jigs, which used to slide sweetly, now stick and are a pain to use, because they have got damp. Some are going mouldy. We have had a few glorious days recently, but more generally it's been raining, pretty much non-stop, since the end of September. So everything is on the damp side.
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That sounds a bit like my workshop however my water issue is ground water as the shop is set into a hill (I found a newt wandering casually across the floor one day after particularly heavy rain). The box though is lovely.
 
Turned my first bowl on a bowl/ pole lathe on a course last week. It’s a bit rough but i’m happy with it. Included a couple of pics of the tools which may be of interest if you’ve not seen them before.
 

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MattS said:
Turned my first bowl on a bowl/ pole lathe on a course last week. It’s a bit rough but i’m happy with it. Included a couple of pics of the tools which may be of interest if you’ve not seen them before.
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Thats excellent, I have never tried a pole lathe but always thought it looked a lot harder than a electrickey driven one
 
The extra coordination required between hands and feet must be a challenge. Some lovely grain pattens in that bowl.
 
Having turned spindles before the hand eye coordination wasn't too bad but the angles and ways you hold the tools for a bowl took a bit of getting used to. Good fun, and I plan to build myself a lathe.
 
duke said:
What type of finish are you going to use or leave it bare?
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I usually leave the bare, they get chucked in the dishwasher so I font think a finish would last long.
I regard them as disposable but the last few I made out of some 6mm thick beech have lasted years.

It only took me an hour to carve it from a piece of split beech log.

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Pete Maddex said:
I usually leave the bare, they get chucked in the dishwasher so I font think a finish would last long.
I regard them as disposable but the last few I made out of some 6mm thick beech have lasted years.

It only took me an hour to carve it from a piece of split beech log.

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I agree Pete, have made a few and coated them with food safe waxes etc., and like you say it doesn't last long.
 
Beautiful box. Where did you get the pig suede? It's been a while since i bought some, last lot i got was from ebay.
 
fezman said:
Beautiful box. Where did you get the pig suede? It's been a while since i bought some, last lot i got was from ebay.
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Thanks.

I have used Identity Leathercraft in the past (based in Matlock) but have switched to GH Leathers who were recommended by Andrew Crawford and are a fair bit cheaper with a much bigger choice. They also do goat suede.

Website is https://www.leathermerchants.com/

GH do a free swatch service and unlike Identity also will send out a free colour chart.

Cheers

Robert
 
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Beautifully made box. Thanks for the contact details for the leather merchants recommended by Andrew Crawford
Fred
 
A very tall (1950mm) bookcase in ash for a granddaughter's new apartment, It stands on a sloping floor in an alcove which is nowhere near square. Because of the size and the narrow access staircase I decided on a self assembly construction and used Lamello Clamex connectors to join it all together. Inset Tonk strips were used for the shelf supports.

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If that alcove is not square did you make the case equally off square? The gaps all look very even to me.
Thosse KD fittings look a cut above the Ikea ones.
 
I bought a offcut of cow skin from Blenheim palace flower show which I thought might look good as the top of a box.

The underside of the top and base are made from 6mm ply veneered with ripple maple, the top frame is Wenge.

Brown oak and cow skin box by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

I did a simple lift off lid by cutting rebate and them sawing the lid off and fitting thin mitered strips.

Brown oak and cow skin box by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete
 
My literal first humble arthouse piece on an actual lathe, as opposed to my previous things knocked up using a drill and a bolt.

Epoxy grooves go in opposite directions - a real test of my technical skill.

It's a butt plug - for broom handle and head, just in case it wasn't obvious.

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I also made this quite recently - an almost bomb proof ledge and brace side gate - with top end grain weather protection using an aluminininum strip. Made from 25mm thick reclaimed pitch pine boards which has quite a lot of aluminininum paint and about 5 coats of weathershield flexible paint on top of that - T&G joints sealed with hybrid mastic to allow it to move, but not open up and allow water in, even if the paint splits, which it shouldn't.

Breadboard ends "just because" I wanted to practise them again, having not done any for years. Yes redundant with ledge and brace I guess but wth.

I was given free reign on the design and she wanted a door "that would see her out and better than the cheap stapled together trash", oh and it has stainless steel base kickplates front and back as she has a rather tenacious dog that clawed through the old one - good luck with this one lol.

"Olde worlde" hardware, which is reflected with reclaimed blacksmith made strap hinges on the reverse (which oddly I can't find a picture of) and metal studs were my idea.

Aluminininium and Stainless steel were sprayed with smooth hammerite to match the hardware.

Whole frame had to be remade as well as was rotten, it's not obvious but the frame sides don't actually touch the ground, about 10mm off to stop endgrain soaking from below

Has garnered quite a few comments from the locals nearby, customer is pleased as can be :)

Not bad for my first scratchbuilt door, just don't tell her that :)

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I presume the black gate is the previous one. Is that right?

Why the gap at the top?
 
Here's a thing wot's half made.

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Bog Oak and some of Cabinetman's mahogany. Two of the drawers fitted, yet to be detail sanded, plinths on the lhs - Rob
 
Starburst walnut coffee table using bandsawn veneers with tapered curved laminated legs. Inlay lines are ash Finished with Danish oil
 

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