• 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!

Recent content by Jonathan

  1. J

    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Ian what’s the story with the Rip fence on the SCM
  2. J

    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Interesting Rob, never heard of them before, will look into what’s available over here and give them a whirl
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    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Rob, yep it would work, just wire wool is just a little messy with WD40. I always apply wax with fine wire wool, can’t remember where I learned that one but it de nibs and doesn’t leave any scratches.
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    Hot cup mark on table

    Having worked with quite a few polishers over the years my guess the meths could have had something else mixed with it that was top secret passed down from the masters. I know for a fact they have things ready to play with when people are watching, similar to the secrets in F1 engineering. I...
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    New Workshop layout, your thoughts please.

    Ian I would go surface mount for everything on a white background for a workshop, I always end up moving stuff. I went with the 600mm square LED lights which I divided into 8 different zones, I really get shadows. Regards layout, you have been in the business long enough to know what works for...
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    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Ian if your lacking elbow grease you can always put a orbital sander on top of the pads, makes it super easy on big surfaces
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    Squares for track saws

    Clamping a track to the end of the board will probably be more accurate than using a track square as the square is prone to human error ……I built mine to use when I was doing some solid wood floors, it was quicker to use on the floor rather than get up and walk to the chop saw….. I really don’t...
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    Squares for track saws

    I made my own square for my ts 75 out of ply also made a 2500mm long one. Was very easy to make. If you interested I will dig then out and take photos
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    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    My go to when I see rust on cast iron machines tables has always been Scotchbrite pad and WD 40
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    Musée des Arts Décoratifs (and musée d'Orsay)

    As Doug say this skill is out of vogue at the moment, hopefully it will come back. I spent pretty much the hole of 2014 designing and building a private library and the cornice was 3d carved. I found this Russian guy to help me with the carving, his work was incredible but he struggled to make a...
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    Old Glue - an experiment

    I’ve used this one before it’s ok https://www.screwfix.fr/pattex-colle-a-bois-biberon-750g.html I believe Leyroy Merlin also sell Pattex, well they do here in Spain
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    Old Glue - an experiment

    Steve when I left the uk I was in a similar situation to you with glue. At that time it was evo stick green and blue bottles and I thought they were the only thing to trust……now I just buy a locally produced D4, it’s not expensive and is equally as good as the big brands. I would of thought if...
  13. J

    A Japanese style garden shed

    Is the infected area soft enough to get a probe in so as to feel how deep the rot has gone? If it’s not too deep I would treat with something that will kill the infected area, the just leave it. I would shy away from filling the infected area with anything that doesn’t allow the area to...
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    Much needed smaller sliding compound miter saw.

    Cutting up an odd shaped piece of Olive wood, it jammed up and then…..BANG! should never be done on a cross cut saw, I was being creative. This is my stash of Olive
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    Much needed smaller sliding compound miter saw.

    Scot I was about to do something similar to you but then I bent the arbor on my DW708 (a big beast) and couldn’t find a arbour replacement, so I bought a small Kapex. It’s lightweight enough to take to site and only two screws to hold it in place in the shed. I do have a little Elu chop saw...
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