• 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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    Now for the Chairs

    I glued up the second chair today. That is both armchairs together without their arms. I will put the four side chairs together next and completely finish them before I do the arms.
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    Chairs - Done!

    Mistakes are part of being human. The skill of the craftsman is overcoming them as you have. I use dots these days and have always used pencil marks. I still make mistakes.
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    Now for the Chairs

    A feature of my workshop the last 25 years has been the full size model of one of my chairs. Made in softwood. It is now redundant. The logical thing to do is to get rid as I would any other model or mock up. It is taking up valuable space. I really do not need it anymore as I have one...
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    Now for the Chairs

    That would have been a good idea but alas I decided to plant the quadrant on top of the rail.
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    Now for the Chairs

    The batten lines up with the rail. I am planting some quadrant on to the top of the rail rather than rebating the rails.
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    Now for the Chairs

    Nick was right, the brackets need to match. So I have made new brackets out of the old crest rails that I made and did not like.
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    Now for the Chairs

    I would not go that far Andy:) I doubt anything will ever get me to enjoy finishing. But it certainly makes it easier and less fraught.
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    Now for the Chairs

    I am back to chairs. I came accross a very neat way of holding the assembled chair still so that you can do all of those finishing jobs without having to move the chair and risk damaging it. In my case, I have a hydraulic table so this is even more versatile. The front legs are placed in...
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    Chairs - Done!

    Excellent, I might copy the clamping cauls. What is your strategy post glue up. Are you finishing the chairs one by one (blocks, sanding, chair seat) or do you intend to glue them all up and then finish them? I am currently deciding which way to go at the moment. I think I favour finishing...
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    Chairs - Done!

    Exceptional work Nick even the brackets are perfect. I may need to rethink my strategy for brackets. Just before I disappeared for a week I made some stock for the brackets and laminated the wood so that each edge had some material for the glue to hold. However they are softwood and quite...
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    Oak Timber frame (and formally a Diminished stile door (markup and cutting the diminished part?))

    I have never entirely reduced the stile. The one I have made swap from a groove (for a panel) to a rebate(for glazing) and all you do is taper out the rebate on the one side at the mid rail. Why are you tapering the entire width of the stile?
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    Oak Timber frame (and formally a Diminished stile door (markup and cutting the diminished part?))

    Here is a photo of the gauge. You use the top edge for the stile and the one at right angles for the rail:
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    Oak Timber frame (and formally a Diminished stile door (markup and cutting the diminished part?))

    Welcome.. I have made several over the decades. The details of how are in Modern Practical Joinery by George Ellis (I believe a pdf of it exists on the web). I made the gauge he recommends and will take some photos this morning. You could use the Stanley Adjustable Quick Square instead. I...
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    Axminster update

    I am busy next week but the following week I will spend some money with them and stock up some consumables etc. Over the years they have been exceptionally good to me so I will buy from them this year where I can. If we want them to survive we need to buy from them.
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    Axminster update

    I have noticed that some things have started coming back into stock. So just maybe...
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    Seven Heirlooms - and one for my great niece, too.

    Superb. They are excellent.
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    Now for the Chairs

    You do not miss much Andy. Well spotted. I have decided to be a bit of a maverick. Hence no rebates on a glued up chair. My plan is to plant an ovolo moulding onto the rails and sit the the seat on the rails. When I designed the chairs there was two things I did not like about the traditional...
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    Now for the Chairs

    Well I have done it now. I glued the first one up.
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    I am glad you are feeling better, but maybe take it easy for a few days to fully recover.
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    Exercise

    They are only any good on flat hard ground, preferably concrete. In fact on uneven or soft ground they are dangerous.
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