• 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!

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

You can usually tell from the bark Mike as they are all native but if there’s any doubt once one side is planed it becomes obvious
 
Cabinetman":urzrpdy7 said:
What are the blanks for Doug? That’s a lot of work you’ve given yourself!
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They’re for turning Ian,the idea being I’ll have a good stash when I retire so it made sense at the time to start collecting & drying timber, I might have over done it :lol:
 
Great stash, you could easily turn some of it into cash if you end up with too much, I should do that thinking about it, turning blanks aren't cheap.

They must be very good mates Doug. :)
 
It’s for holding books open when you are reading them, it work’s best on paperbacks the point goes towards the spine and your thumb goes in the hole.


Pete
 
Lons":315jqkcl said:
Great stash, you could easily turn some of it into cash if you end up with too much, I should do that thinking about it, turning blanks aren't cheap.

They must be very good mates Doug. :)
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Could be a good pension option Bob :eusa-think: :lol:

The new wood store took a big step forward when I managed to blag this beauty

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At the best part of 5mm there’s plenty of this industrial racking to cut down & weld back together for storing planks.
I managed to get it cut up yesterday to the size I wanted, the foot was so big I’ve managed to make two feet out of it.

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The arms I’ve cut down to 800mm projection & over all it will be 2m high so I should be able to get plenty on it, the feet just need welding on to the uprights but I’ve left that for the time being as it will be easier storing them until the wood store is finished
 
I made this Ash chopping board over the last few evenings. It's two pieces of Ash which have been edge jointed, hand planed to get to the basic shape and then the detailed shaping done with a spoke shave and rasps.

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I like that. Are you going to put a slight concave surface on it ? Reason for asking is that I'm still using my grandmother's breadboard which must be at least 90 years old. Over the years it has developed a very, very slight concave surface.

I had some maple left over from the utility worktop and tried using that as a chopping board. Flat top. Just couldn't get on with it.
 
A pair of tooth fairy boxes for grandson and great nephew.

All machined by CNC router. The bit for the lettering is 0.6mm diameter.

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I used a longer cutter than I have before for the pocket, and it chattered lifting fibres in places. A down cutter may have been better.
 
Managed to get both these wardrobes fitted, this photo shows the bulkhead in the back bedroom

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This is the front bedroom with the shelving unit installed, both bulkheads & alcoves are identical even down to the atrocious plastering with no walls being plumb so much for dot & dabbing plaster board in new houses being easier to get level :shock:

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A couple more photos of the finished wardrobes

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Just fitted a couple of floating shelves

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They were made from recycled pine 5x1” cladding boards removed from a building, they cleaned up very nicely

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The lady wanted them in a dark oak colour so they were stained with Liberon dark oak stain & finished with hard wax oil

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This is the second job lately folks have asked for a dark finish it must be back in fashion :eusa-think:
 
Doug":2bp6y9qp said:
......This is the second job lately folks have asked for a dark finish it must be back in fashion :eusa-think:
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I am all for dark furniture, but stained pine will always look like stained pine. I did it often enough in the 80s. I'm glad she like the result, though.
 
Blackswanwood":3i2s3se7 said:
American Black Walnut jewellery box.....
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I wonder if non-woodworkers will ever know just how much work and skill goes into making a box.
 
I know how much work goes into that lining :shock: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap:
 
Pete Maddex":2fup4lvr said:
Blackswanwood":2fup4lvr said:
American Black Walnut jewellery box



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I can see a squid with tentacles aloft,

Nice box.

Pete
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It's obviously Sauron! The clue is in the name: jewellery box. So that's where you keep the one ring to rule them all.

It is remarkably beautiful.
 
Like they all said... Lovely work and a visually stunning bit of veneer, full of mystical possibilities.
 
It's not much, but just to show I occasionally do something with wood !

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It's a connecting rod for the treadle of a friends Afrana sewing machine, copied from the fragments of the rotten original. All hand tools - turned on the pole lathe from seasoned beech. Fitted perfectly first time 8-)
 
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