• 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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  1. Dr.Al

    Looking for info and experiences with different Narex chisels?

    I think I'd struggle to remember the last project I completed without using mine.
  2. Dr.Al

    Google AI or ChatGPT

  3. Dr.Al

    VFD to run 3-Phase on Single phase supply

    Yep, I agree with all that Martin has said. If the motor is a 1.5 kW one and you're getting a cheap inverter, go for a 3+ kW inverter. The one I bought for my metalworking lathe (from a decent brand, a Jaguar Cub or something like that if memory serves me correctly) came with a small book for...
  4. Dr.Al

    VFD to run 3-Phase on Single phase supply

    I've done it for my metalworking lathe and also on my woodturning lathe (which is home-made, but uses a three-phase motor I bought on ebay) and in both cases it was very straightforward. For a three-phase induction motor, they typically come star-wound, like the diagram on the right here...
  5. Dr.Al

    Looking for info and experiences with different Narex chisels?

    Blimey, they're very impressive but ever so slightly outside of my price bracket 🤣
  6. Dr.Al

    Looking for info and experiences with different Narex chisels?

    That's really impressive. I shall have to give that a go, thanks for sharing.
  7. Dr.Al

    Looking for info and experiences with different Narex chisels?

    Ooh, that's weird - I've never seen anything like that before. That's like a cross between a bevel-edge chisel and a fish-tail one. I've got a fish-tail one (from Bristol Design) but I don't use it that often. It was this sort of thing I was talking about: David Charlesworth uses some with...
  8. Dr.Al

    Football

    It's easy to be negative about innovations. Of course not all of them are revolutionary (or even a small improvement in many cases), but I'm certain that many of the tools available today would have been leapt on by woodworkers not that many decades ago. Are they all essential? Of course not...
  9. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    I would consider the same to be said of most of the novels on that shelf :)
  10. Dr.Al

    Looking for info and experiences with different Narex chisels?

    I've got the Narex "8116" chisels and have been very happy with them. The handles are quite big, but I have big hands so I found them fairly comfortable to use. In the end I decided to make my own handles for them, but that was mainly just because I thought it would be an interesting project...
  11. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    If I had any more books I'd need a bigger house. There are a **lot** more than go on that little desk shelf. Several of our bookshelves are two books deep & there are more in boxes in the attic. One of our plans for the next house is at least twice as many bookshelves.
  12. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    You can blame the Europeans for that. I've never understood why they put the writing on the spine such that it would be upside-down when the book is face-up on a table.
  13. Dr.Al

    A small project with a difficult joint

    After the glue had set, the bookcase got finished with Mike's Magic Mix and then I took a few photos from various angles. Firstly, with a few novels on just for the sake of a fully-loaded photo while it was still at home: Then a few photos of it sitting empty: Finally, a photo of...
  14. Dr.Al

    Global Temper

    Thanks, we'll do that, or something like it. Having bought the knife from a small shop 30 years ago I'm not sure I can remember where it was and even if I could I'm not convinced it would still be there. Hopefully taking it back to any Global dealer will do the trick.
  15. Dr.Al

    Mmm some treats for today.

    We have plenty of daft names over here, like Scratchy Bottom (Dorset), Curry Mallet (Somerset), Shitterton (Dorset), Tickle Cock Bridge (Yorkshire) and many, many more...
  16. Dr.Al

    WIP - my version of Dr Al’s travel tool chest and workbench

    I agree with Mike there. My chest is liftable fully loaded but it's definitely in the territory of "think before you lift", so anything you can make thinner will pay dividends later.
  17. Dr.Al

    Global Temper

    Hmm, interesting, thanks. It does indeed have a rather large dark patch:
  18. Dr.Al

    Global Temper

    I agree that there's not much chance of fixing it. It doesn't owe me much after 30 years so not the end of the world.
  19. Dr.Al

    Global Temper

    I've had this Global kitchen knife for about 30 years, although my other half uses it far more than me as I generally prefer something bigger. After using it this evening, she put it down (quite gently she assures me 🥸 ) on the kitchen work surface and this happened: That's the sort of thing...
  20. Dr.Al

    Pork scratchings theory

    I think you need to get a doctor to look at your toenails if that's what they're looking like 🤣
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