• 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!

Another box WIP

NickM said:
That's great. I really like the "scallops" for the drawer pulls.
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I agree, fluted drawer front recesses as done by Dr. Al are really difficult; I've done a couple and know just how onerous they are. You need to have an über toasty sharp gouge and because of the nature of the beast, you have to leave the finish straight from the tool; no 'titivating' to try and improve it.

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Without wishing to hijack any of Dr. Al's excellent thunder from this thread, herewith one of my feeble attempts at a scalloped drawer front recess. Having done a couple, it's not something I'd care to repeat. 'Tis 'ard - Rob
 
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Woodbloke said:
I agree, fluted drawer front recesses as done by Dr. Al are really difficult; I've done a couple and know just how onerous they are. You need to have an über toasty sharp gouge and because of the nature of the beast, you have to leave the finish straight from the tool; no 'titivating' to try and improve it.

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Without wishing to hijack any of Dr. Al's excellent thunder from this thread, herewith one of my feeble attempts at a scalloped drawer front recess. Having done a couple, it's not something I'd care to repeat. 'Tis 'ard - Rob
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You’ve got some twisty grain on that drawer front Rob!
This is a memento box that my Son Ben made for Pam and I’s wedding earlier this year, scalloped top a la Alan Peters.
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Cabinetman said:
You’ve got some twisty grain on that drawer front Rob!
This is a memento box that my Son Ben made for Pam and I’s wedding earlier this year, scalloped top a la Alan Peters.
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First and foremost, hearty congratulations! Second and foremost, that's a bit of a tasty box with a proper Alan Peters scalloped top - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
First and foremost, hearty congratulations! Second and foremost, that's a bit of a tasty box with a proper Alan Peters scalloped top - Rob
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Thank you Rob, we’re very happy!
Thanks again, I was very pleasantly surprised when Ben presented it out of his suitcase- he came over for Thanksgiving last year.The profile of the outside of the box is from the huge spindle cutter we used for our saddle/equestrian stuff, we always said it looked like the Tumblehome on the old wooden warships, and the top is yet more of the Tigerstripe Beefsteak Brown Oak. The guy at the timber yard said they hardly sell any of it now as it’s gone out of fashion but I still really like it.
Ian
 
Cabinetman said:
,,,, and the top is yet more of the Tigerstripe Beefsteak Brown Oak. The guy at the timber yard said they hardly sell any of it now as it’s gone out of fashion but I still really like it.
Ian
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It's lovely stuff! I've got one board left you let me have a couple of years ago when you visited and I suspect there may well be a box of some description lurking inside it :ROFLMAO: - Rob
 
Accipiter said:
🤔...sounds like a good description for a piece of old brown oak I've got buried amongst my bits of timber... only had it about 33~35 years. 5"~6"... 18"~24"+ maybe... 🤔
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Well yes, sounds just as it is really, it’s brown oak due to the beefsteak fungus with a stripe.
About time that saw the sharp edge of a plane, enough there for a nice box?
 
Cabinetman said:
Well yes, sounds just as it is really, it’s brown oak due to the beefsteak fungus with a stripe.
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Cabinetman said:
About time that saw the sharp edge of a plane, enough there for a nice box?
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🤣... agreed about that - long time not put to good use.

I need to dig it out at some point - after making the workshop more 'amenable' for such works...

'Back then' - when I got it (along with some other timber blocks...) - I made Falconry blocks of different styles (traditional and Arabian) so it was then destined for that use. Sadly I got made redundant and had other 'life priorities' (sudden death of my father the month before) take over.

Hoping I will be able to do some 're-saw' work to it - and the other blocks... 1 being of London Plane - for box making. I've seen some great projects that have sown the seed 🤔💡😊
 
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