• 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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    Temu cutters

    I seem to be getting a number of adds from this company. They are offering free delivery, returns within 90 days and very low prices for TCT cutters and other consumables. I don’t need any of these items at the moment but the prices seem to be too low and I am wondering if it’s some sort of...
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    Patent Search

    I’m not certain but I think it might be the item on the bottom right of this photo priced at 1 shilling and 10 pence, what do you think? It will be interesting to see if the patent gives any clues. The photo is from the FW Woolworth museum.
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    Patent Search

    Snap! This has been in my tool box for so long I can’t remember how I got it or where from. I can’t remember using it for any purpose. Although it has some obvious functions - setting out dovetails etc Sorry that I can’t answer your query,
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    Advice please from our pro joiners.

    Mike This is just a suggestion for a method of pivoting horizontally. My thought was that the 12mm ss bar could sit in a router trench on the back face of the existing frame and new light and be held in place by timber blocks screwed over the trenches. Having had further thoughtsithe bars could...
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    B&Q Prices

    Just called in to pick up a few items including 2litres of white spirit. £6.50! I make that double the current petrol price. Prices generally seemed to be higher than I expected for many items but they seem to be encouraging the internet shoppers with claims of 24 hour shopping. Or perhaps I...
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    Recent regular garden visitor

    This method worked for me. The netting from the garden centre and is intended for covering fruit bushes. It’s very cheap and although mine looks a bit grubby it’s lasted about ten years so far The piece of timber in a groove makes the netting easy to fit and tension. The timber is iroko
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    Hex Bit Storage?

    I also favour the tobacco tin approach for spare bits, but a magnet screwed inside a tool box lid makes convenient storage bits in regular use.
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    Toy Box Design - Updated with what I made!

    This is a quick and easy method using 18mm birch ply with solid corners/legs. Tenons and a full height tongue join the ply to the legs. The gas strut already suggested is vital I feel.
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    My first coopering. Finished, with turnings!

    I cheated a little with this iroko tub, the hollows and rounds make the angles flexible. I didn’t use any glue and it’s looking a bit rough after about thirty years holding an ornamental fir tree, but the method is worth a try.
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    Fillers

    Brummer in natural oak colour for very small surface cracks. 12 or 16 mm tapered pellets are also handy. Most of my work was in European oak or iroko, colour matching iroko is a nightmare since the colour will normally change when exposed to light. My answer is to make any required pellets from...
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    Anyone else flying a flag

    Yes proudly!
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    Questions about drawers

    An original part of my mobile plan involved the bench drawers, each has a handle front and back and a specific use. Plumbing tools, electrical fittings. Hinges and fastenings etc. loaded into the van or car as needed.
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    Questions about drawers

    The support frames are using up 80 to 100 mm of the height. I think grooving the runners into the drawer sides is better. Extending the runners allows the drawers to be pulled out further for access.
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    More spindle moulding

    Only with a spindle moulder can you make 22mm thick cabinet doors so easily, these cleverly made cutters cut both the mould, panel groove, and scribes. Off the shelf cutters nos 136 & 137.give a choice of mould shapes. The groove for the panel is 5mm wide but thicker panels can be used by using...
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    More spindle moulding

    Todays offering is the wavy edge which was popular many years ago on occasional tables, wine tables etc. The system uses one of the templates shown on the left together with one of a range of guide bearings which are mounted on the spindle shaft beneath the cutter block using cutters F102. Two...
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    More spindle moulding

    I can’t claim the credit for this idea, it came from a young lady on the whitehill stand at a show at the NEC more than twenty years ago. There is a good case for buying the whitehill limiter block since they will make any size shaped cutter to give the right cutting circle with their block. I...
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    More spindle moulding

    As an alternative to being bored myself I thought I would bore others with a little insight into slightly different methods of use. The limiter cutters shown can be turned to give a 9mm or 12 mm rebate when run in conjunction with a 125 mm rebate block. I have three sets of knives giving moulds...
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    Timber Buildings

    A final observation on this must be a look at all the internal and external photos of Waugh Thistletons Black and White building in Shoreditch looks to me like the latest folly using timber. Well worth a Google. Cladding the outside with timber leaves me breathless.
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    Timber Buildings

    Another all timber monster. In Manchester this time, still not a structure II would care to work in.
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    Wine Table

    From my Charles lll period in European oak
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