• 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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    Polishing Mops....

    Hi all, I have a woodturning conundrum that I have been trying to work through for some time and I seem to be making really hard work of it and wondered if anyone else has any better ideas. I have seen several versions of a polishing mop tree I think its called - (3 mops on one spindle) that...
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    Cherry Hollow forms....

    Evening all, some turning advice if I may. This is my first time with an epoxy/cherry/hollow form (bowl). I have these two cherry hollow forms turned roughly to shape. The right hand is a better version of the shape I am going for....They are approx. 12 inch high and 6 inches across. They are...
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    Filling holes.....

    Afternoon all - I'm a very novice woodturner and and trying to turn a spalted beech blank- I have used hardener to provide some solidity to some of the softer areas and all is going well. On sanding the base and outer edge I have noticed a number of very small holes and cracks which I would...
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    Bracing for timber Shed...

    Evening all, Im building a timber framed shed - approx 9'x5' - constuction is mainly 2x2 but with several 4x2 studs in each wall panel - im making it from largely leftovers. It will be approx 6' tall at the roof plate with a pitched 40 degree roof construction on top made from 4x2 rafters with...
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    Can I creosote Larch?

    Evening all. Im after some advice if anyone can help. Im building a small garden shed with the leftover timber from my workshop build. I want the larch cladding to be black and have a load of the 'proper' creosote spare. Will applying creosote to larch cause me any problems? I accept it not...
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    fixing double sockets box in stud wall.

    Evening all, Quick question re expanding foam - I'm trying to replace some single sockets for doubles in an old house and am only partly able to secure one of them to an adjacent stud, the other end is free and flexes slightly, I was going to surround by injecting foam to secure it all up a...
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    Burnt Cladding Technique - Japanese

    Hi all. Anyone any experience of use or thoughts on the burnt Japanese timber cladding detailed here? Ive never heard of it before. http://www.shousugiban.co.uk/ or in action... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvhvR8KwWhw Thoughts appreciated. Dan :D
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    Wood preparation/drying...

    Gents, I have obtained some oak, originally for firewood. Its in very large chunks, about as big as i can carry, some are about 600x400x400. It dawned on me before i chop it all up some of it can be used for making stuff rather than lobbing on the fire. Its been cut about a month and is sitting...
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    Treehouse Design Ideas

    Guys Ive been tasked to build a tree house for the ankle biters. Not that I don't have enough to do already; but Im thinking that a basic tree house without all the bells and whistles shouldn't be too much of a chore. Im thinking that it will effectively be a 4x6 shed on stilts with a bit of a...
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    Oak Dining table

    Guys - Some advice if possible. Im thinking of bidding on an Oak dining table on Ebay, its good quality but about 8 years old. Im told the table surface has some minor marks etc as one would expect from a dining table of that age. Q - How easy would it be to sand back and refinish if the...
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    Compound Mitre Saw

    Guys, Bit of advice if possible if anyone has any recent experience purchasing a mitre saw. I'm going to buy a compound mitre saw for the next part of my shed build and have found one that seems reasonable and not extortionate money. I don't have lots of experience with these things but want...
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    Hi all!

    Im currently building a shed and have benefitted from much of the information available on this and other forums, the collective info going forward will help me. My shed will be my first step into woodworking and I intend to fill with tools and wood, (Mrs has different plans!) I am interested to...
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    Dans Shed - Large(ish) workshop construction...

    Hi all! I have finally got around to posting some details of the shed I have been thinking about for the last few years and have been doing the preparatory work for the lasts few months. I am by no means an expert in any sense as regards any aspect of this build. Im finding out as I go. I have...
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