• 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

    Today's build. Screwed it up here and there.. but it was only supposed to be temporary in order to use to build the real table saw workbench.. Accidentally mounted the saw base 2 inches higher than I meant to.. Overall table saw work surface ended up being FOURinches higher than my assembly...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Uggggh. I wish. No. I have nothing but a No. 5 plane, and planing end grain seemed like it would be beyond my ability to have a good outcome at this point in my journey. SO many mistakes, and a lot of hackish fixes. The legs ended up quite a bit off from each other due to lack of a good stop...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    The veneer on this plywood not that great, but it is a piece of shop furniture.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Got the right-to-left, and left-to-right measuring tape installed, and lines up pretty well to the blade. All that's left is making a stop block this weekend, and to start building the table saw workbench..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Sorry, Andy for not making it.. I was working on this over the weekend. By some miracle, I managed to get the wings to line up correctly, despite nearly everything going wrong with the build. I am going to need to break out the router to try to get the pieces on top of the legs to line up, as...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    That workbench will be getting a drawer box installed as soon as I get my table saw workbench built, which will provide some antiracking support.
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Things are progressing slowly but surely.. Miter saw station is almost done. Got the T track channels routed out for the flip up wings.. Once I get the miter saw station finished, I can dial the miter saw blade in and add a stop block and measuring tape, and can start building the table saw...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Second project done. Refinishing a rusted metalworking table from the owner's father, to replace a rotted out wooden garden table..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Nearly everything is cordless Dewalt. I went that route specifically to make everything portable back to the U.S..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Hoping that this is the last coat needed on the metal table base. The metal beneath keeps wanting to peek through..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    For anyone paying attention.. There is a metal table to the right that is currently in the process of being repainted with paint over rust product. I have a tin of a darkgreen outdoor paint that will be used on the flipped bottom plywood panel, and a new plywood top. Once that mini project is...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Fast forward a bit in the build, due to me having an extremely hectic weekend, I did not take any pictures of the edge banding glue up and routing. Let's just say... That was an interesting journey. I had some spare long strips of oak from a local hardwood supplier, but.. They were a good 2"...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Originally built the table to be 40" tall. Could tell as soon as I built it, that the recommendation to build to 36" was the recommendation for a reason, so I ended up disassembling the table and cutting new legs to go for a 36" height. The table ended up built a LOT better, and the top actually...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Top and bottom plywood layers in, and couldn't get the full sheet home for the birch veneered mdf, so went with a 2 piece top..
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Well.. To get back on topic, and if anyone is interested.. I have made some progress on my shop buildout, but the going is slow. As of right now, I just got the basic skeleton of an infeed/outfeed table, and haven't made any progress towards building drawers for it yet. I did decide to not go...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    One thing I forgot to mention as an absolute requirement - Have to build a half rack for squatting/benchpress weights, with multiple dogholes for adjustability up/down to meet both my wife and I's height differences. That is actually one of the very first things I have to build, to get a workout...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Yup, I totally get it. I am debating whether to get the miter saw at all, or whether to use the table saw exclusively, and to build a crosscut sled for it. I really won't know what I have room for in the garage until I get the workbench built, so that is a secondary reason for building this...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Lol.. It carries the same connotation in the USA, only as "pocket pool"... Though to players, "pocket" billiards is a specific reference to the games played on a table "with" pockets, such as snooker, pool, Russian pyramid, etc. Versus those games played on a table "without" pockets, such as 3...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Well, let me clarify a few things about why I am making the specific choices I am making. Maybe things will be a little bit clearer. My choices go a bit beyond the overall "super motivated beginner woodworker" mindset. 1. I have been a military contractor living overseas with my wife for the...
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    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Oh, man.... While I am very very good at my job, and "generally" good with my hands, I am not so good at fixing machinery. I will have enough on my plate to figure out truing up baldes/fences to be square. It took me longer than I like to admit to figure out how to unlock the cheapo mitre saw I...
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