• 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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    Glue Lam Beams , post office built in early 1970,s.

    Ever seen Oxford Road station in Manchester? That's an example of glulam on steroids... "three overlapping conoid structures although they are only viewable from above" is what the books say. Built 1960 and stunning (if you are into glulam, that is). I've worked on CLT, but never glulam, I'm...
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    Bosch Routers

    AFAIK before this fad for "palm routers" we had single speed laminate trimmers for decades, going right back to the 1950s when Stanley Electric Tools created the modern laminate trimmer. For laminate work you need a high speed because that speed will drop quite a bit under load), but for...
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    Repurposed block plane !!

    Almost sacrilege! We have a shop locally selling "upcycled" products. It's a concept I detest - to me it all seems like junk which has been slapped together by a tastelesss, talentless moron (with a ridiculous price on the tag to boot). They took over from a business selling "crystal healing...
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    Bosch Routers

    My local Bosch dealer says he still has stock of the GOF1250CE, but even Screwfix appears to have dropped the GOF130 now. I was told that the GMF1400/GMF1600 were USA imports but didn't sell well, and that the GOF2000 was also withdrawn 4 or 5 years ago due to poor sales (although Brexit may...
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    Hand tools in restoration work - recommended blog and YT channel

    Some traditional wooden planes have their uses - my own favourites are my half set of rounds and hollows which are invaluable for spliced repairs to in situ mouldings in historic buildings. Side beads also have their uses, especially for sash repairs, and sometimes sash ovaloes and lambs...
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    NOt sure which router, appreciate any advice

    Fairly easy to repair, I found. The B&D Switzerland ones always seemed to run with less vibration than the Italian-made models.
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    NOt sure which router, appreciate any advice

    I've had a deWalt DWE625 (basically a yellow T12) for about 14 months now. It is used on tasks such as grooving out door bottoms for drop seals (14mm wide x 50mm deep - generally in 2 or 3 passes), recessing automatic fire door closers into door heads, mortising for hardware such as concealed...
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    Glue up when cold

    A litre lasts me 3 to 5 weeks, so TBH i don't know much about shelf life once opened. In terms of it being a specialist glue, not really, it's just that it sets fast (20 to 40 minutes depending on temperature) and is weatherproof, so it tends to fit our needs for much of the time. And that short...
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    1/2 router something like Festool 1400, Dewalt 625, Trend T11

    If you can find one, take a look at tbe deWalt DW622 - same size as a DW621 (so smaller and lighter than the average 1/2in router), 1400 watts, excellent dust extraction through the left hand column. Downsides are the odd sized guide bushes (shared with the Makita RP1110 and the DW626), the...
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    New table saw (UK)….. that is the question

    It was specifically tools I was referring to. I at one time worked in the USA and found power tools to be far cheaper there, although the trick was to buy mail order across a state line which used to avoid State Purchase Tax (which was about 7% where i was based in CA at that time). If you level...
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    Diamond plates

    Same as Vaunt, surely? Both "house brands" of ITS aren't they? Either way I have one of each brand after someone nicked my Ultex double sider
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    Glue up when cold

    That's chalking. When you open the joint it looks like chalk From past experience yes, although in my case I have been incautious enough to leave glue overnight or over a weekend in my van or on site a dew times. Neither environment is guaranteed to be heated. For me it boils down to avoiding...
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    New table saw (UK)….. that is the question

    I'm in the UK and I was a DW745 owner. The model was "replaced" a couple of years back by the DW7485 which has a 210mm blade size and costs circa £420 or so here. This is a similar physical size of saw to the DW745, with a similar tubular metal framework, and is priced in the same area that the...
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    Diamond plates

    No, they just cut slower
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    New table saw (UK)….. that is the question

    Pity is they no longer sell it in Europe AFAIK
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    Glue up when cold

    My experience is that water based glues like PVA (that's what Evo Stik Resin W is) start chalking out at around 2 to 3°C mark and that when held at sub zero ice crystals form and wreck them. Chalked glue in joints may hold for a while, but can fail prematurely. The temperature of the wood also...
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    Glue up when cold

    What temperature is it where you are? Where I live we've had overnight temperatures below -7°C (19°F) for the last 4 nights with daytime temperatures at or below freezing point most days for about 12 days, now. At work I currently have an exterior door and frame repair to undertake and can't do...
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    New table saw (UK)….. that is the question

    From experience: I've had the DW745 and it's a bit of a curate's egg IMHO, at least on 110v. The rip fence adjustment is really rather good, very fast and pretty accurate for a lightweight saw and with an auxilliary fence which allows you to keep the crown guard in place for bevel and narrow...
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    Tourist rip-off

    I k ow what you mean - on a recent visit to Scarborough I was appalled to find that all the Scarborough rock was actually made in Filey!
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    Newbie Woorking Hobby

    So no scribes, either? It's always fun teaching apprentices to scribe complex mouldings in oak
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