• 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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    Wood Repair / Wood Putty / Wood Filler

    I have been repainting wooden sash windows and doing general repairs with standard 2 part Ronseal wood filler - the usual stuff in a green tin we all use routinely. I have now got to a window cill and the base of two pillars by the front door that have some serious defects - a bit of rot...
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    Separating lids from boxes - how do you do yours?

    There have been some simply stunning examples of boxes lately in the 'what you last made' thread and elsewhere, and the fit and finish always looks excellent. Having been less than successful myself I wondered how people are separating their lids from their bases as it is the step I struggle...
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    Kumiko - more machines than usual

    I know a number of people here admire and/or have tried Kumiko - just come across the following video which mixes machines and hand skills far more than usual: Certainly some impressive machinery for what I always thought was mostly a handcrafted tradition
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    Marquetry advice

    Was not sure if this was the best forum for this or not, so feel free to move if not Mods. I have been having a play with marquetry and lasers. While I have some way to go in terms of getting pieces with an exact fit (laser kerf is the main problem) the other problem I am having is how to keep...
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    Jewellery Chest - not quite a WIP, more like random photos

    SWMBO asked for a jewellery box for Xmas. She asked in early October, knowing the rate at which I find time to work, and I finished it this morning, so pretty good estimating on her part! About 12 years ago when I was starting to move from DIY into woodwork as more of a hobby, I made her a...
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    Puzzle Boxes

    Just come across this wonderful video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NreYBwzRQk Which led me to this book via the makers website: https://www.grand-illusions.com/enter-i ... 2x36282815 I have just ordered myself an early xmas present :)
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    Lathe advice

    So I know very little (ie pretty much nothing) about lathes, and what has generally put me off even a cheap one is you have to add to the price of a lathe the price of tools, chucks etc and a £200 entry level lathe suddenly becomes closer to 4 figures if you add sharpening kit. As such, keeping...
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    A foray into lasers......

    My name is Steve and this is my confession. About a year ago I started to become somewhat obsessed with lasers. It started, as many such obsessions do, with YouTube. We have all done it, watched a video that makes something look so easy, sells the benefits without any of the downsides, has a...
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    Japanese House Building Query

    Currently very limited time to get into the workshop, but I do watch the odd YouTube channel to see others doing it! One I dip in and out of I think has been mentioned here before - Shoyan Japanese Carpenter. Clearly very talented but does use modern tools as well as traditional joints (and...
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    Timber and gates

    I have spent the last 3 months, on and off, doing some work for a friend of SWMBO's. The latest job was to install 2 6ft x 6ft metal gates to form a new driveway entrance. These were old and the standard curly scrollwork stuff that was standard fare at one time so fairly flimsy. Said friend has...
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    Jet 16-32 Drum Sander Query

    I have recently managed to snare one of these from a well known auction site and have been having a play with it over the weekend. I really wanted it to sand flat veneered pieces for box making, but I seem to have issues with it either not taking off any material, or sanding through the veneer...
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    Leather, wood and glue.....

    I know there are a couple of members here who work with leather so I am hoping for some advice and guidance as a complete newbie to this craft. My son (for complicated reasons) is after a number of small boxes, which I can cut from 3mm plywood and assemble. However, he would like a lid to be...
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    Dovecote - finished!

    Rather embarrassed to say I haven't posted anything in ages, but am slowly plodding away in the background taking months to do what some of you do in hours or days! Latest project, after the collared doves have AGAIN managed to build a nest on the sky dish, is a dovecote. No real plan here other...
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    Vacuum Cleaner / DE?

    I have a (very old) yellow perform DE that I use primarily for hoovering up sawdust/chippings/spiders/gunk around the workshop. It has a 62mm hose on it of about 5ft, then I have taped on an old flexible hose from an old standard hoover to give me another 5ft of reach - in this way I can get to...
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    FTB Saw Blade

    Anyone know whether flat top blades (FTB), as opposed to alternate top bevel (ATB) blades, are banned/frowned upon in the UK and/or Europe? CMT do one - 285.624.10 but I can only find it in the US. Freud do one too - the LM72R010, but I can only find that in the US as well. Ironically, at least...
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    Orangery ideas - roof skylights/lanterns?

    So SWMBO is fed up with the kids monopolising the TV with games consoles, hogging the sofa with their mates and fighting the dog for an armchair, so she has 'suggested' we might like to create a space of her own, while dropping pointed hints about orangeries and conservatories...... A quick...
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    Linear bearings and rails

    Random question, but does anyone know of a good supplier of these? Ideally cheap, but accurate (I know - they are usually mutually exclusive!) Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/VEVOR-SBR12-10 ... RYN4EWNEMZ They seem to vary hugely in price for seemingly the same thing so I am...
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    Sketchup download

    I have just had to replace my ageing laptop and am spending the evening installing all the software that I use (deep joy!). On trying to download sketchup, I can only find a web version, not a downlodable file. Is this the only way to get the free version now? Or am I missing something...
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    wet rot

    *sigh* I have one of those little jobs that in the space of a day has turned into a massive problem, hampered by an inability to travel or source timber. I have a large bay window in my workshop/annex as seen in the photo below - taken about 6 years ago when we moved in It is approx 12 feet...
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    Fascia Boards

    Is there any reason why I shouldn't replace some rotten facia board with WBP ply? I could lip with solid timber if the edge contains voids. The existing appear to be pine of some description but I estimate (from standing on the ground admittedly) these are between 8" and 10" deep - getting a...
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