• 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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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Ended up going with a single cleat, because I am lazy, and it seemed solid enough to me. A few tools are in temporary spots for now, until I can build some smaller holders for them.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Yeah.. I could screw the cleats into the thin edge of the shelf sides. It's gonna be the heaviest shelf on the wall though, when loaded, so I was not sure about relying on just screws into the thin edge of 3/4" plywood. Though.. Come to think of it.. That top shelf has no bracing.. So I could...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Yeah.. Drill, driver.. Pin nailer, and anything else that has either a head or handle thin enough to insert between the legs. (Keep your mind outta the gutter, man.. We are talking TOOLS here!)
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I glued, pin nailed, and screwed in those top two shelves, and I believe there are screws in the last inch or so of both those top shelves. It came out nice enough, that I don't really want to get too creative trying to get the entire thing to sit 3/4" closer to the wall. I think having another...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Didn't plan out the cleat attachment that well. Should have built in a flat panel high and low flush with the back. Will end up needing to add them to the completed back, so entire shelf system will sit further out from wall 3/4" further than necessary.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Welll.. On a positive note.. This tool hanger/charging/bit storage station is probably the most complicated buld that will reside on the french cleat wall.. So once it gets built... Everything else goes up "really" fast. And once I can get all the tools, screws, bits, clamps up and out of the...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Grrrrrrr! I guess it is one of the challenges of being new to a hobby, and "not knowing what you don't know". 1. Stripped the T15 Torx driver bit that I was using on my 4.5 x 30mm screws. 2. Also ran out of 4.5 x 30mm screws I am using for the overal tool holder assemblies. 3. I have no 4.5 x...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I am pretty exhausted. Spent a good portion of the day trying to figure out this tool holder, battery storage/charging station.. Had to hang it up around 8pm..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    My god, no. It was just a battery ecosystem choice starting from zero good tools, ever. I am going with black and tan for all the furniture. Black French cleat backer board, birch tool hangers. Black frames, birch tops. Drawers, hardwood plywood, black stained mahogany false fronts.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Tool hangers, battery storage, and power station in progress.
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    Any tips on a safe longer rip on a short worksite table saw fence?

    Got er dunnn...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    One small step for man....
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    I used gaffer's tape to wrap two side caps to seal off the rear of the backer board from the wall, to keep it from absorping moisture. Backer board has DPM stapled to it. I did a decent job on the other side cap, because I think I wrapped the gaffer's around the edges and stapled it to internal...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Ain't that the truth. We'll, for now.. I have so many tools and parts cluttering the house, the wife would kill me if I bought a drill press before I got the garage sorted.. So for now, I am just going to have to wait. I did push things a little and bought a combo spindle sander for prettying up...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Welp...They say that every mistake is an opportunity to learn. Certainly getting a lot of opportunities to learn. So, with a little bit of reworking of my temporary table saw platform, I did successfully rip my 7 cleats for my first 43"H x 48"W section of french cleat backer board. Exciting...
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    Source for BBQ utensil set blanks?

    I am going tomorrow to claim a dressers worth of 100 year old mahogany, and thinking about some simple things to make for the kids for this Christmas. Trivets for my daughter, and the son in law is a big BBQ guy. Was thinking about trying to get a set of quality stainless steel BBQ utensils...
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    Any tips on a safe longer rip on a short worksite table saw fence?

    I did it! And then I did manage to rip enough for a few wall cleats, and even have a spare little rip for the first few tools..
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    Any tips on a safe longer rip on a short worksite table saw fence?

    Fortunately, this frame "just" encloses the saw to bring it up to a workable height, and was never meant to be permanent. The frame section to be removed has no outfeed built in, so it does not really serve a purpose other than to brace the two side frame pieces. Which the attachments to the saw...
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    Any tips on a safe longer rip on a short worksite table saw fence?

    So.. Just one comedy of errors after another. Got the birch plywood home.. Got a couple of 48" strips safely ripped to 5" wide, so all good there. Starting with thinner strips meant I could actually use the feather strip in the miter slot as designed. Then used the crank to move the blade to 45...
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    Any tips on a safe longer rip on a short worksite table saw fence?

    Here is the final haul for about 50£. Longest pieces are 74" x 3 1/2" 88" x 5 3/4" 97 1/2" x 5 3/4" 53" x 12" These alone prolly give me all the cleats for the 48"W x 43"H backer board, and the tool holders themselves. Everything else is available for tool holders, shelves, and tops for my new...
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