• 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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    Mixing spindle moulder cutters

    My template for producing the rounded corners was one of four different sizes that for hung on the workshop wall for about three decades. Only very recently did it occur to me that only one was needed with different sized inserts. The inserts fit on the dowel and the toggles secure the timber on...
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    Mixing spindle moulder cutters

    I think this is self explanatory, the maximum amount removed is 6mm. The corner is then band sawn off and the process repeated. My jig takes a block of wood 180mm wide which easily makes four corners. The straight lengths of edging are finished all round before fitting but the corner pieces are...
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    Mixing spindle moulder cutters

    Using the same system with cutters 127 and a straight cutter adds a little interest to the balusters.
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    Mixing spindle moulder cutters

    It looks as if your cutter works a bit like the set I use for sinking Tonk strips ( library shelf strips)Doug.
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    Mixing spindle moulder cutters

    ]I thought this might be of interest to spindle moulder enthusiasts. Most of my work before retirement involved furnishings for narrow boats and Dutch barges. This is a method of edging block board that I have frequently used, it avoids the need to clean off lipped edges and gives a “fiddle...
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    Rapier Gateshead England braces.

    There were a number of Rapier tools on the market including planes,they competed with record and Stanley on quality but at a slightly cheaper price. The only item I own with the name is a straight spokeshave which has served me well since about 1960.
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    Timber secondary double glazing

    I made a number of two over two box sashes for friend who was refurbishing a mill workers cottage in Belper, Derbyshire. The local conservation officer refused to allow the use of the thin D G units (Histoglaze ?) so we installed single glazing and thought about it for a while! Our solution was...
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    Templates for routing

    This is just a method of further reducing the stuff hanging on the walls! One template with different sizes of insert. It’s allowed me to dispose of two large spindle moulder templates.
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    The other place

    I have looked at the site on occasion but not contributed for many months, a quick look at the joke section sums it up. Had a look today and ran into a wall of intrusive advertising, won’t be trying again I think it’s time to exit completely.
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    New table design & make project

    I think a bog standard refectory table with end frames. beneath and a single stretcher with tusk tenons for ease of assembly. The waney edges and sharp corners are for the semi conscious together with any suggestion of a single piece for the top!s
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    Good woodworking magazine

    There was a number of interesting designs in GW at one time, then they made drastic cuts to contributors payments and killed it stone dead. This is one of mine that I still have and enjoy, the top is stationary and the cylindrical part rotates on a lazy Susan bearing
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    Hollow chisel morticer - sharpening chisels

    At the top is the shaped stone I used before splashing out on the proper kit shown below. I think it’s self explanatory, it was from Axi and probably sourced from b———y China! The bits are sharpened with a saw file.
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    sharpening stones

    This is a Norton Abrasives “India medium” oilstone which was 25mm thick, it’s had 53 years of wear and flattening.
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    Filling holes

    My first move would be to buy prime quality oak with fewer “features” or design out the problem by careful cutting or putting them on concealed faces. Failing that it’s perhaps worth trying drilling away the knot and putting in a matching plug. A Forster bit gives a nice sharp edged hole and...
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    Tiny tea table WIP

    The Walnut table looks superb! This is my favoured design for tiny tables. Three legs make for stability, and as a final design suggestion substituting wine glasses for tea cups will give everything a rosy glow.
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    Sharpen your fingers

    Amazing what you can get at a woodworking show these days
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    Cheap wood for workbench

    The main reason for using CLS seems to be that it’s ready planed. The frame and main members of a workbench can be made in sawn timber without problem, only the top surface needs to be loaned true, flat and smooth. The photo shows my bench made over fifty years ago from joinery grade redwood my...
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    Bright idea - after only 20 years!

    As part of my move to dispose of unidentified and little used templates hanging from the workshop walls, my eye fell on the four large lumps of MDF used as templates for making external edging pieces for the corners of table tops, partitions etc. Each time I’ve needed a different size corner...
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    Internet timber sales

    I have just put a sample order together using a company called “Timber cut 4 you” the delivered price for a small quantity that would cost about £60 collected at my local yard, The quote was a staggering £195. I can’t see any woodworker falling for this.
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    Cutting ply with a flush trimming bit.

    I haven’t tried the spiral cutters but I do regularly cut and edge plane veneered block board before lipping. I frequently use some recycled worktop cutters previously used by my son until the edges are dull, after a trip to the saw doctors they are used with a 30mm guide bush and grooved...
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