• 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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duke said:
Very nice Nick and I like the angled feet. (y)
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Thanks. Those feet are quite fiddly to make. You can do three sides while they're part of a larger block, but the fourth side is a bit awkward!
 
A small what? I had to look that up. Another new word for me.
I’m struggling to imagine how rigid it is but I guess it must me.
 
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AndyP said:
A small what? I had to look that up. Another new word for me.
I’m struggling to imagine how rigid it is but I guess it must me.
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It is quite stiff against a vertical load but quivers in torsion. It is suitable for standing plants or drinks on but not for sitting on :)
 
Three Hares carving in sycamore.

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This was a practice run in readiness for including something similar in a project I have lined up.

I need to concentrate on getting the walls of the outer circle neater. I've also learned that it's better to do the same individual stage on each hare rather than go from start to finish on each one.
 
AndyP said:
Lovely. How big is it Robert? 8” square??
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Thanks Andy. There or thereabouts - the board was 190mm width.

It says something about my wood hoarding that the board had two ink stamps from John Boddys Timber on it showing the price with VAT at 17.5% and then reduced to 15% meaning it’s leftover from a board bought in 2009!
 
Folding tap stand for a brewer friend. Taps will be removable for cleaning. The spreader bar doubles as a piece to hold the legs closed. Wood is white oak. Not finished yet, my GF will be painting some decoration on the front before I add the finish (probably water based poly).

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This was a fairly quick and simple turning job I did following a request from my other half. It's a darning mushroom, used for holding fabric taut while darning holes.

The wood is sweet chestnut; it was made out of a (cut up) single piece of wood but turned in two halves, with the head being oriented in the way you would turn a bowl and the shaft being turned as a spindle. I'd planned to glue the two halves together, but I managed to turn the spigot on the shaft to be a very good fit in the head (it went in with a bit of hand persuasion most of the way, leaving about a 1 mm gap which was closed up with a light mallet tap). I haven't applied any finish as I didn't want to risk anything transferring to the clothes my other half will use it on and I didn't think it really needed it.
 
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This was a fairly quick and simple turning job I did following a request from my other half. It's a darning mushroom, used for holding fabric taut while darning holes.

The wood is sweet chestnut; it was made out of a (cut up) single piece of wood but turned in two halves, with the head being oriented in the way you would turn a bowl and the shaft being turned as a spindle. I'd planned to glue the two halves together, but I managed to turn the spigot on the shaft to be a very good fit in the head (it went in with a bit of hand persuasion most of the way, leaving about a 1 mm gap which was closed up with a light mallet tap). I haven't applied any finish as I didn't want to risk anything transferring to the clothes my other half will use it on and I didn't think it really needed it.
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I well remember my mum having one of those, and sitting darning socks in the evening.
 
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This is a small version of a grain (or flour) ark. These were chests kept in kitchens with grain or flour ready for immediate use. The legs kept the grain off the ground and safe (or safer, anyway) from vermin or getting wet. The top on these was often designed to be used to knead your bread, though I made a mistake on this one and made it narrower than I originally intended. It should still work though. One other detail is that this one comes apart. One website that discussed this said it was so it could be moved from room to room. I think it's much more likely that it could be taken apart for cleaning.

I suspect that if you took your grain to a local mill to be turned into flour, you kept flour in these. Flour has a shelf life though, so you wouldn't get your whole harvest milled at the same time, only your needs for a month or two. If you used a quern to grind your own grain, you'd probably only mill enough for the day's bread so the ark would probably hold just your wheat or barley in grain form.

This is made from a mixture of red and white oak, with an oil/varnish finish.

Kirk
 
Cabinetman said:
Interesting the way you’ve triple stepped the end panels. I think you’re correct about it coming apart for cleaning, it would be impossible to deal with flour mites otherwise.
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The end panel joints have an inverted V profile which I found by examining photos closely. It wouldn’t work for water of course, but for powder I’m expecting it to do well. The bottom panels fit into grooves all around, with a ship lapped joint between them to allow for a little expansion.

Oh, and I’d never heard of flour mites before, but I’m not surprised something like that exists.
 
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Cabinetman said:
Interesting I imagine there has been an evolutionary development in the way it’s built, yes I had flour mites once, tiny little black specks.
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I’ve not seen flour mites, but had an infestation of pantry moths once. They love flour including nut flours. Had to clear them out of the little holes for adjustable shelves. Hand removal plus persistence got rid of them fairly quickly though.
 
Flour mites, yes, but also flour beetles. "Back in the day" as North Americans may say, particularly in their undeveloped territories, Life was a succession of attacks by wildlife - on a microscopic scale - all trying to infect us, parasitise us, or usurp our food supplies.
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Flour mites, yes, but also flour beetles. "Back in the day" as North Americans may say, particularly in their undeveloped territories, Life was a succession of attacks by wildlife - on a microscopic scale - all trying to infect us, parasitise us, or usurp our food supplies.
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My son went to Oz a few years ago and has no wish to return; nattering with him the other day he mentioned that "every bit of bloody wildlife is trying to kill you" :ROFLMAO: - Rob
 
Nothing special.

Sons inlaws wanted the painting cut shorter by 40mm.
Easy, 60tooth blade in table saw. However that left the frame with a big gap, so, redo the mitre corners using a fine 32tooth hacksaw.
The frame also looked a bit shabby after 40 years.
Used some Teak gel stain for the brown bits and Ebony gel stain for the black bits.
Then 3 coats velvet clear Woodoc 10 with the third coat wiped off with roller towel to give the matt finish.
Delivered 3 days before they departed for Mexico to take with them for their son & DIL.

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The next job was request from wife obo Social Club for some more playing card holders.

Top right is Ash (nice to work with).
Bottom right is Oak fumed with ammonia.
The other 3 are pine.

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These were delivered on Friday with an order for 2 more for specific ladies.
They are well used as some of the elderly struggle to hold a lot of cards in their hands.
 
A bit of utilitaria for the garden. I like gooseberries, but I hate picking them. So, I made this:

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It's all from the off cuts bin, and although it is a long way from perfect, I'm looking forward to using it.
 
Nice. I'll be interested to see how well it works. I'd never come across something like that (or a blueberry comb). I also like gooseberries (and we get quite a few of them) and I agree that they're a bit of a pain to pick.
 
Dr.Al said:
..... I'll be interested to see how well it works. ....
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So will I! I got the idea when we were in Sweden, where my daughter tells me that cloudberries are picked using a "sort-of rake thing". Since making this, I've Duck-duck-Go'ed Berry Rake, Berry Comb, and Berry Picker.....and yes, they are a thing, and available commercially. I'd never come across them before.
 
I'm grateful for the educational content and envious of the extent of some people's gardens...
But our single gooseberry bush is looking promising, and I shall be putting on my thick leather gloves in a few weeks time. I might even have more than a single rake full!
 
Once picked how do you collect them? The current design seems to allow them to fall to the ground. Will it have some automated bagging.
 
No, they drop into the V-shaped box under the handle, and would then be tipped into a basket. The tool will be used by drawing upwards through the branches, I'm assuming with the tool at around 45 degrees.
 
Mike G said:
The tool will be used by drawing upwards through the branches, I'm assuming with the tool at around 45 degrees.
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Sounds about right. Bluberry 'practitioners' use a horizontal sweep, tipping up to 45° all-in-one movement, but their fruit targets are much lower than gooseberries. My two bushes are circum 800mm high.
 
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