• 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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    Frankenbox - now with insert

    Thank you for all the kind comments, - much appreciated. To finish off I needed to make a small insert for the additional playing pieces. Unfortunately I think I've gone too thick and in an effort to make it look a bit thinner (rounding over the top) it looks out of proportion. I may well...
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    Frankenbox - now with insert

    Couldn't get this to appear in the original post.
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    Frankenbox - now with insert

    Long lead in to this one. My wife was born in Hong Kong to a military family in the early 60’s and her father commissioned several items of furniture whilst there. Following her mums death nobody wanted the furniture so I took it with a view to reusing what was apparently good quality rosewood...
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    Lubricating aluminium tables?

    I’ve been fortunate in the past to have cast iron machines and keeping them slick was never an issue. I now have an aloominum P/T and I find keeping the top even slightly slick is a continuous task and it looses it so quickly it’s almost dangerous given the amount of force I end up using to...
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    How to hinge this?

    I'm in the early stages of the mahjong box (WIP to follow) but pretty sure I've already screwed up the design process! The intention was to use a couple of smart hinges on the lid but as I'm not including and 'lip' around the lid I can't see how I can get fixing screws in. This is the set up...
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    Design help

    A complete rethink. I was getting nowhere with the approach I was taking which was sticking far too closely to the 2 layer approach. The sizes being produced by all sorts of combinations were frankly stupid. A 3 layer storage approach means I can go to a 300 x 200 mm lid (ish!) but I will...
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    Design help

    First experience of a lost post! Let's try that again. Already on 2 layers Rob. 3 gave me some very weird dimensions and meant I couldn't use the rosewood mouldings as I really wanted but I think a revisit required to see if I can tweak the dimensions enough. I came up with this Because I'm...
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    Different 'views'

    I don't use the Mac for viewing the forum as much as the iPad but I get two quite distinctive 'views' of forums. I get the 'standard' view But also get what to me is a weird view!
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    Design help

    One of the (many) thing I'm crap at is design. I'll copy anything but a fresh, blank sheet of paper design and I'm stumped. My next project is a box for an old mahjong set that will be incorporating an engraved lid from the original. This panel is 210 x 110 mm My intention is to use some old...
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    Removing warpage?

    Next project is to make a new box for a mahjong set. The lid has original characters and we want to incorporate it into the new box but it’s so badly warped it basically destroyed the old lid. Gentle disassembly left me with what I originally thought was a single panel Further examination...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Decided to thin the legs and rails down by 5mm, - sometimes surprised by how much difference such a small adjustment can make. So, some simple joinery for the rails having knocked up a trial set first Then the real thing I decided on domino’s a while ago so that made life much simpler A...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Bob, - I gave it lots of thought and garnered opinions from here and I certainly don’t think it would be an easy task to make it that way although I would like to try at some stage. I suspect plenty of material for the offcuts box! The remaining woodworking is fairly straightforward (he says...
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    Translation?

    I’m trying to find out what this says: I’ve tried a couple of translation apps but no joy. Having said that I don’t know if it’s even the right way up! (I have rotated to allow for forum software). It could just be the Chinese equivalent of woolworths but knowing their buying habits I suspect...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Then the huge fun of the glue up! I decided a single glue up would be stupid so I did it piece by piece to allow for plenty of time (!) to get everything lined up as required. Mostly it worked! The final piece needed a couple of packing pieces and some strap clamps but was otherwise uneventful...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Plenty of fettling and dry fits in an attempt to gets nice tight joins. When happier with the fit I then trimmed the corners close to final size I was reasonably happy with the way it was going together but paying a price for having the additional strips oversize which prevented getting in as...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    A while since the last update, progress hasn’t been rapid for all sorts of reasons but I’m getting there. Contrasting wood was my first thought but given that the finish will include a dark stain (to match an adjacent piece of furniture) I’m not convinced it would be worth it. On that basis I...
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    Dark wood dowel?

    Anybody know where I can source some 5mm ‘dark wood’ dowel? By dark I’m looking at sapele colour. I only need about a foot.
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Latest progress. Carefully resetting of the router table to cut the grooves in the top and bottom to match those on the corners. Rinse and repeat for top, bottom and both sides then spent some time squaring up the grooves. I want maximum tongue thickness especially at the edges due to the need...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Cleaning up squeeze out and a light plane for the top and bottom. Unfortunately, it started to tear out so I had to resort to my favourite, battered scraper Sanded to 120 using a mirka pad. I love it as it helps keep a nice flat surface. I know an ordinary block is just as good but I’ve got...
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    'Nook" Table - finished

    Thank you for the encouraging words, with people watching I really do have to get this right! I'm not convinced a lathe turned set of corners wouldn't have provided another set of issues. The size of the bit and the depth required (40mm x 320mm) would have made it a bit of a challenge and...
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