• 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!

The Niff-Naff Cabinet; positive progress!

AndyP said:
Very nice Rob. Why so many holes? Obviously for shelf pins but that allows for an awful lot of adjustment
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There's going to be six 4 or 5mm Bubinga shelves Andy (already cut) which gives SWIMBO plenty of room for all her nick-nacks, but they're all of varying sizes, so she's got plenty of different options for arranging the distance between the shelves.
Cabinetman said:
That was a fairly risky fix there Rob, but I reckon you could have gone nearer the ends.
No I wouldn’t have either lol.
Have I missed how you got those nicely polished chamfers around the pin holes?
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You're telling me it was risky! I had to plan out what I had to do very carefully so the 'set up' took ages before I even switched on the router. The job was deliberately equidistant from the ends of the plank, so I stuck a piece(s) of masking tape on the ci surface so that when the end of the pine was level with them after a pass, the cutter was approx 10mm away from the top or bottom. You can see the two pieces of tape on the second pic.
Chamfers around the holes were made by using a countersink bit as a way of disguising the tear out on the edges as I stupidly used a 'James Blunt' drill bit - Rob
 
Nice work as always Rob.
Tear out on shelf pin holes has caught me out a few times, especially in the old days before Brad point bits where a thing. Now I keep a stock of Festool Brad points that get there first run on shelf pins then used for months after on general stuff.
Also after years of using the 5mm shelf pins I switched to the 3mm Hafele pins, less tear out and less noticeable.
 
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