• 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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Those boats remind me of caravan holidays in Conwy when we were kids. We used to go over the river to Llandudno where there was a boating lake. Dad made us a model launch, balsa wood, painted, complete with working rudder and a propeller screw powered by one of those flat batteries that had one short brass tongue and one long one. We had no control over it, though, we just had to wait for it to returnto shore. We also had a sailing yacht, but that was bought, not made by dad.
Happy memories.
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It's not fine furniture, but I've just finished this office unit. My office is tiny and I had far too much Stuff on the floor and on my desk. But this has improved things somewhat. All melamine, pocket screwed together (Mike... :) ) It's difficult to photograph because I can't get far enough away from it to frame it, so you'll have to stitch these together in your mind's eye.

The bottom shelf pulls out for access to my shredder:
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Above that I have a fixed shelf for my PC and then another for a Linux box I bought years ago and have rarely used..

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Then above that I have two adjustable shelves for other Stuff.

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The back is made in sections with gaps between them to facilitate plugs and cables.

I've also just received a new USB hub and some of those desk hole liner thingies, so tomorrow I should be able to finish the job, all cables neatly tucked away.

It's already looking heaps better than it was.
S
 
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Made this gate a few weeks ago, a taller version of some I had made ealier this year:

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Current project needs some box posts, machined up some Oak to get 4 pieces, 1550 long X 100 wide X 22 thick :

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To make the box, I used my CMT lock mitre spindle moulder head to machine the long sides:

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Had a bit of snipe on the ends but there is enough length in this one to trim back, but I will tweak the SM fence for the rest of them (4)
 
I'm not sure if this really meets the definition of "made", but yesterday I took 24 wooden bowls I'd previously made into work and did a charity sale for the M.E. Association (give a donation to charity and take a bowl away, with suggested donations marked on each bowl).

Two of the bowls (the big ones at back left and back right of this photo) weren't for sale: I just filled them with quality street / roses / celebrations to help entice people over.

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All 22 of the for-sale bowls sold (for prices varying between £5 and £50) and the final tally on the justgiving page (which excludes gift aid and will also hopefully be boosted a little further by the company charity committee in due course) was:

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I applaud you Dr Al for doing this to help those dealing with M.E.

Its a horrible horrible illness to deal with.
 
I've never heard of a sale of any turned items doing anywhere near so well. Fantastic!
 
Mike G said:
I've never heard of a sale of any turned items doing anywhere near so well. Fantastic!
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Just what I was thinking, always a bit sad when all the hard work appears to be a bit expensive.
Then I noticed that you are now Petrified Pine Mike, it makes me wonder what category you can attain next, (and what it could possibly be, Bog Oak?) well deserved with your wips of course!
 
Fantastic Dr Al! That's a really great way to dispose (if that's the correct term) of turned bowls as it's all too easy to accumulate the things. I take a half dozen at a time to either the Wessex Rehab at our local district hospital in Salisbury or to the Hospice Shop in town. I know the that they get sold but I don't have a clue what sort of spondulicos they make - Rob
 
Cabinetman said:
How did you get the turquoise on the base? Last time I got that colour was using dyes.
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It’s just Rubio Monocoat peacock green oil on the base Ian, the rest is oiled in their pure (clear) oil. I like their oil plus 2C range when I’m in a rush as I add a bit more of the part b accelerator to the oil so it goes off quickly
 
I drilled a hole in the base of the spindle and epoxied in some M10 studding - this is secured with a nut under the triangular base which has a hole drilled into the centre. The thicker square base of the pillar is just a decorative surround as it didn't look very substantial with just the spindle. I did toy with the idea of morticing this into the base but time (and common sense) prevented me - nobody will see the nut! There are 3 rubber feet to give space under the base so the nut does not foul the floor.

The fretwork is oak veneered ply cut on the laser, there is nothing behind it. Took a while to find an image I was happy with and even then had to trace it through Inkscape to get something useable. For anyone else considering this, appending the words 'stencil' or 'stained glass' to your image search or pattern search will make a massive difference to the usability of images for laser cutting, otherwise there are a myriad of cut-outs to faff with, ensuring they do not drop out of your final surround (DAMHIKT!)
 
I had a push on using up my offcuts in the week before Christmas and made sixteen playing card boxes (two had already been snaffled when I took the picture.

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There is a combination of Cherry, ABW, English Walnut, Birds Eye Maple, Madrona, Bubinga, Kingwood, Myrtle, Elm, Masur Birch and Vavona.
 
AndyP said:
Hardly the last thing I made but to continue the usefulness of stair spindles theme this was made in the living room of my flat with just a saw, a drill and sandpaper more than 35 years ago.
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Brilliant idea 💡 👍

I've had a pair of stair spindles, very much like these, for about 33~35 years... did have an idea on what to use them for (Falconry Screen Perch) but time never permitted making it.
 
Made this mantelpiece for our newly finished kitchen, it’s so high to cover up a mistake of the guy that fitted the plasterboard, I’m told it couldn’t be patched without being noticeable (yes I know).
Not my best work and where the Ogee parts come together needs a bit of fettling. I didn’t have my Spindle cutters so it had to be made by passing the wood across the table saw at an angle, not something I can recommend at all.
The top piece is held on with a couple of screws in keyhole slots so not seen.

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This next pic is the top lifted up and covered in all the different stains for Madame to pick which one she preferred.
The dark one on the left - way beyond my level of understanding, seemingly it picks out the brick tones.

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And a final shot of my stain and French polishing box.
 
Blackswanwood said:
I had a push on using up my offcuts in the week before Christmas and made sixteen playing card boxes (two had already been snaffled when I took the picture.

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There is a combination of Cherry, ABW, English Walnut, Birds Eye Maple, Madrona, Bubinga, Kingwood, Myrtle, Elm, Masur Birch and Vavona.
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Wow, you have been busy. Your boxes look amazing.
 
Cabinetman said:
Made this mantelpiece for our newly finished kitchen, it’s so high to cover up a mistake of the guy that fitted the plasterboard, I’m told it couldn’t be patched without being noticeable (yes I know).
Not my best work and where the Ogee parts come together needs a bit of fettling. I didn’t have my Spindle cutters so it had to be made by passing the wood across the table saw at an angle, not something I can recommend at all.
The top piece is held on with a couple of screws in keyhole slots so not seen.

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This next pic is the top lifted up and covered in all the different stains for Madame to pick which one she preferred.
The dark one on the left - way beyond my level of understanding, seemingly it picks out the brick tones.

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And a final shot of my stain and French polishing box.
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Never give them too many choices, trust me. :) Looks good.
Looking at your wood burner is it a two door model?
 
Setch said:
What colour is ther Garlic & Dill Sauerkraut!?
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Haha, pretty much as normal, off white light green, but the important thing is that it’s raw and unpasteurised. Extremely good for the gut biome. And delicious but also the containers are airtight with a polishing rubber inside.
Just remembered it’s from Waitrose, they also do a red/pink kimchi which is raw too.
Ian
 
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