• 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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  1. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Oh, and the latest jointing (for drawer number 4) with/from the pine skirting me and my little one had rescued from a local dumpsite (well, ok, someone garden but when we managed to find the owner we asked and he said it was ok). After I'd completed one of the sides (back or front, I forget...
  2. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Drawer number 4 in the making. Now, before I started attempting these drawers (of which I've always been slightly afraid) I'd read Pekovich in his brilliant book, say that 'only introduce one new technique to your woodworking, per project'. Well, drawers one and two had grooves for the ply...
  3. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Well, you obviously have a good track record of being right 😀
  4. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I used to work for a (very intelligent, but generally unable to control his temper) client who owned a mug with the same statement. Persevered with his tantrums (well, the staff could never get anything right even if they did the job the way he'd wanted it, the last time) for almost a year. Then...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Oh well... Ealier today, entered the rabbit hole of trying to get perfectly parallel. Though I never succeeded at thar, I did however manage to get away from the dreaded loo roll as door-stop-support (or more accurately, support to the door stop). I don't claim to have the best of finishes, but...
  6. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Good point. I did orientate it with the appropriate angle. But in the rush, I just managed to make it 'roughly' parallel to the door when it touches. Will go get my pencil, mark parallel around, and try to flatten it a bit more... Thanks for that. Indeed, yes I do have a same/similar problem...
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    New doorstop for the freshly decorated/plastered bedroom. Wife had been using a toilet roll leftover, so I thought I'd surprise her by chopping down a piece of sycamore thats been sat unloved in the garden (lots more sycamore too but that's drying, appropriately). Anyway, after seeing it she...
  8. shafiq

    Tool thefts in England

    This is no joke. A guy that used to live in (I suppose, council property or something sort of high-turnover flat) the opposite property overlooking ours. One night he was jumping through the various gardens at my house and the neighbours. Yielding what looked to be a massive forearm length...
  9. shafiq

    Is there such a thing as 'cheap' paring chisels!

    Got yourself a right dwal there. I know you're going power tools, but give that number 05 a nice sharpen and you'll love it. Very nice chisels indeed.
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    Tool thefts in England

    £17,000 worth of tools/damage and the police just wanted to give him a crime reference number. I had a (aluminium, road worker type) brick lobbed at me from the other side of thw road from a Highway Maintenance type vehicle. Police officer first called me up to help prepare me to say I'd not...
  11. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Blum under drawer sliders, 3rd, 3th and 5th set placed. 1st drawer (well, 3rd) no in progress. But decided to recycle one that I've been holding onto for years. Only it'll go in back to front and its therefore only the (new) front I need to arrange. Sides thinned out to the required 16mm. Pics...
  12. shafiq

    Workshop Companion reaches a million subs!

    Sorry.
  13. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Seems to have worked well. After which I used some of the melamine faced chipboard to make a second shelf in a corner which was really not being utilised well!!. Thought of @Accipiter and recycling at its best.
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    Thanks Malc. Pocket screws is the word I was looking for. Anyway, all removed now. Will give it a light sanding with my Metabo (and posh Mirka discs I'd have one know 😀) and give it a little lick of quick dry varnish. Built 3 mm too long too, so (slider rail) wouldn't engage the...
  15. shafiq

    Workshop Companion reaches a million subs!

    Yes, IMO he is really good. Doesn't tend to be long winded slow explanation and IMO he gets straight to the point in an easy way. Even sets up simple tests to get his points across and it sits in my brain. I'd say my current 'lots of jointing' probably helped by him alot.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    After careful measuring and slowly taking off stock, over a matter of days. Today the easy bit after the final bit of groove!! All squared up and the 12mm bottom slid in nicely. But then, tried to get some thin pine flooring type screws (the ones that hide between the grooves) in at an angle (I...
  17. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I made one of these. But then just before posting up, I realised folks might not have a clue what it is. Not wanting to bring the level of the forum down, I invented a name - pat pending - and gave it some shape. Say hello to my new Glue Applicator Stick. Thumb goes here...
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    The 'Working In (almost) Complete Silence and I Made This' thread

    I even had the (not shop vac, but a Miele) vacuum level all the way down. Very therapeutic (not getting a shout from upstairs 😆).
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    The 'Working In (almost) Complete Silence and I Made This' thread

    Nowt much. Just the groove. But no trolls were disturbed.
  20. shafiq

    The 'Working In (almost) Complete Silence and I Made This' thread

    Self explanatory really. But if you made something using hand tools only and you managed to not disturb the troll/ogre. Then post a pic here. Try to use less words but feel free to get/give a good idea of how you made it. By way of example, tapping with a mallet would probably not be completed...
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