• 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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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    Ray, I have never found the Record 778 to be that wonderful. It may be I am left handed. I also worked in a shop where three of the six joiners had matching scars on the palm of their hands from using a 778 to ease a storm proof top sash. I now have a Veritas left handed rebate plane which is...
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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    15 minutes. It would take me longer than 5 minutes to set up the grooving plane. It would take me 5 minutes to set up the work holding system. Chopping out the waste rather than planing would be quicker. If you have multiple pieces to cut then the average will be much under an hour each. I...
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    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    Or a grooving plane and No5 hand plane. Cut 9mm deep groove on the 24mm line. Then plane down the waste. If you have a rebate plane you could rough it out and then refine to your lines Any of all the above methods are good. It is a long time since I did such a task but I would like to think...
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    Mike's ext'n & renovation (solar panels)

    Thanks, I have had a read at the specification.
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    Mike's ext'n & renovation (solar panels)

    I presume the sealant is to stop the old render sucking the moisture out of the new render to quick and help adhesion and allow the new render to fully develop. But does it have a a long term effect. As you know, Lime render is supposed to let moisture move around. Anything that inhibits the...
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    Offcuts

    You could get a storage unit 5 times the size of your workshop racked out and catalogue every offcut you store so that you can find it when needed. Or you accept that as nice as the idea is we simply cannot keep every offcut. That any racking you build will be the wrong size or grossly...
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    Chairs - Done!

    That is a lot of work. It is oak not some mild compliant wood. Excellent work. You will be heading into the lead I am still sanding legs. Not that its a race😜
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    Chairs - Done!

    Tell me about it🤔 A common or garden thing that tests your skill and packs an incredible amount of work into each one. I am fed up with sanding. I think I have another week of it! Nick - looking good.
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    Groovin’

    The Wealden cutting discs have 4 cutters. I understood this to be beneficial because the speed of the cutter meant more cuts per second as the material moved forward.
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    Now for the Chairs

    Hooray all 12 are carved and I have started sanding and tidying the legs. The detail photo highlights the bits that need sorting.
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    Groovin’

    I keep concluding that I must like taking risks. I had learnt the lesson by 1980. So why 45 years later do I still break the rules. I especially break the rules with routers. It must be familiarity breading contempt. Adrian, I had a P52 it was a sad day when it died.
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    Groovin’

    I have bought a 6mm winged grooving cutter from Wealden. If I had had this cutter in the first place rather than a 1/4" version I would have been fine. I have now learnt that undersized cutters for undersized plywood are now essential.
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    Groovin’

    You know that rule that says NEVER cut a groove as deep or deeper than the diameter of your router cutter in one cut? Well it is there for a reason. This evening I was making a small box which had 6mm ply bottom and so it got a 6mm deep groove. I looked at it and decided it would be fine. It...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    Are you going to line the door opening so that no moisture can get near the poplar plywood. Whilst it is light and suitable for the interior. It is hopeless in any circumstance where it can get wet. I once went to look at a job where the owner was complaining that new doors and windows had...
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    Now for the Chairs

    Every now and then a piece of wood tests whether you know what you are doing. Leg number 9 is just such a piece rock hard and gnarly grain:
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    Now for the Chairs

    What I like about photographs is it highlights all the bits that need tweaking and refining. I am looking forward to finishing carving and getting the legs sanded (even though I hate sanding). I hope to get back to them and finish carving by the end of the weekend.
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    Now for the Chairs

    That is seven done 5 to go. Then lots of sanding.
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    Now for the Chairs

    Add webbing:
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    Now for the Chairs

    Detail the talons:
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    Now for the Chairs

    Carve the ball:
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