• 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

    Potential Stars Waiting To be Born.

    I agree with you and, being an electronics engineer by profession, I'd rather keep my watch simple. It's amazing how many electronic design engineers I meet who have mechanical watches. This is mine. I've no idea what model it is (it was a birthday present from my other half a few years ago)...
  2. Dr.Al

    Union Educator lathe

    I can't help with the machine specifications, but Morse taper dimensions are here: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/metalwork/data/morse
  3. Dr.Al

    Bedside Table

    I hadn't, but I have now.
  4. Dr.Al

    Bedside Table

    After lunch, I decided to re-flatten the planed sides of the two pieces that had warped and then feed them all through the bandsaw to make them square but a couple of millimetres oversize: That didn't take long: The three at the back have some knots that I'd been hoping would be cut off by...
  5. Dr.Al

    Bedside Table

    Placing them in stick seems like a good idea. I'm not sure how much the weight will help - I suspect that if it wants to move it's going to. I bought the (air dried) wood fairly recently so I don't know how much more drying it has to go.
  6. Dr.Al

    Bedside Table

    I haven't had much time in the workshop since the last instalment, but I have made a little more progress. On a hot day a few weeks ago, I sawed the planks up a bit more, using the Mini Moravian bench in the workshop (to stay out of the sun) with a fan blowing all the sawdust into my face to...
  7. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Similarly practice/practise. I can see the logic in simplifying all that but I always found it surprising in the land of simplified spelling that they differentiate vice (sin) and vise (clamping thing) whereas we have the simpler common spelling in that case.
  8. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    That's a new one on me. I know what a shaper is and have been a bit confused when I've heard it being referred to on American woodworking sites (why would a woodworker need a shaper?). Now it makes sense. I'll add it to the table. Does anyone know what a shaper is called in the US?
  9. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    I've removed it from the table. That was a new one on me; added.
  10. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Header rows now changed.
  11. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    My sincerest apologies. I started with English & then changed it to England to avoid the complication. Also, I do a lot of cryptic crosswords & get thoroughly lost with all the words that are Scottish specific so I had no confidence that the words were the same across the border! I'll amend as...
  12. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Added, thanks
  13. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    You'll notice I was very careful not to title the columns "English" and "American" :)
  14. Dr.Al

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    A thread on another platform got me thinking a little about differing terminology and I thought it might be interesting to collate a bit of a look-up table of differing terminology. What follows is off the top of my head and I'm sure I've missed a few and probably got some wrong so I'd welcome...
  15. Dr.Al

    Lost! Now found.

    They've got the metric only one and the metric and imperial one, both available in either length. This is the metric-only 2 metre one. This is the metric-only 3 metre one. When ordering, check the part number (SKU). If it's got 24 or 34 in the middle, it's metric only. If it's 25/35 then...
  16. Dr.Al

    Lost! Now found.

    The short answer is no, but if you get the Facom DELA.1051.300 (sold by a few different suppliers - that link is just the first one I found), then one of the sides is just millimetres: The BMI tape measures have that layout as well (as long as you get the ones with 34 in the part number...
  17. Dr.Al

    Lost! Now found.

    I rarely do, mostly on metalwork things and almost always with optical assistance. That's partly why I like the layouts I do. So many rules have millimetres on one edge, half millimetres on the other and inches on the back. If you just want whole millimetres then you can't always get them on...
  18. Dr.Al

    Tool ID

    Can we look forward to your photo of a home-made rug in the Post a photo thread soon? 😉
  19. Dr.Al

    Lost! Now found.

    I do too. Seeing that Presch one makes me tempted to go shopping, although I tend to use one of these whenever I want to measure from an edge.
  20. Dr.Al

    Lost! Now found.

    The Presch one looks like a good layout to me and would be the one I would go for. If you want to measure on the mitre side (which I'd imagine is a fairly rare occurrence), you would flip the rule over and it would work perfectly. With the Workpro one, if you flip the rule over it looks...
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