• 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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AndyP said:
Yep melamine lacquer has been my finish of choice for quite a while now. i am sure I had mentioned somewhere earlier.

That was the practice for the knotted pen?;)
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I haven't forgotten that one Andy and was only looking at the blank you made for me this afternoon. In order to convince myself that the pen above wasn't a fluke, I've just glued in the tubes for a Bog Oak pen and will have another go in a day or two - Rob
 
AndyT said:
Go on, treat yourself!
I bought mine from RDG and it's been entirely satisfactory for what I've used it for. Like this one, which now comes with a pair of springs on:

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INDUSTRIAL 2 WHEEL CLAMP KNURLING TOOL15.6MM SHANK - RDG Tools

INDUSTRIAL 2 WHEEL CLAMP KNURLING TOOL, NEW TO RDGTOOLS. SHANK SIZE 15.6MM X 9.4MM WILL FIT SOME MYFORD’S ALL DEPENDANT ON WHICH TOOLPOST IS BEING USED, THE HEAD SELF ADJUSTS TO CENTRE HEIGHT, HEAD CLAMPS ON WORK BY THE KNURLED NUT ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD, A LOVELY QUALITY TOOL, THIS IS A SPECIAL...
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Did you make the little setscrew with the odd 28tpi thread?
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Thanks Andy. I was having a look at some knurling tools earlier, but it's useful to have a recommendation.

I did not make the 28tpi thread! I'm afraid I drilled out the hole and re-tapped it M6! The threaded post is also M6. The small screw holding the collar on the shank of the blade is M4.
 
woodstalker said:
Sorry Phil missed this.

I used a load of scraps of different colours. Some shelves, a bit of my table, window frame, walnut and a some pine for the hat brims. They are about 8” tall
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Thanks very much, I will look at what is in the scrap bins.
I know there are a few bits of Teak and lots of Beech.
 
More boxes including my first wooden hinge one.

I didn’t even think of attampting a Cosman box, to be honest I’m not sure I like them enough to have a go (I do admire the skill level to do themwell though).

Having purchased his hinge jig and had many a happy hour trying to produce custom size dowel (lots of shavings and kindling produced!) I managed to get it right. I make a fair few boxes for sale and for me the real pain is making the base box prior to veneering. I thought I’d try buying some and wasn’t really surprised how poor they were quality wise. I therefore thought they’d be ideal donors for experimenting with.

Long story short, after much ‘adjusting’ one went in the log burner and this is the other:

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Given the amount of work to turn a crap box into something useful I’d have been better off starting from scratch!
Maple veneer with mahogany trim and hinge.

Then I went all rubic:


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(Yes, I veneered the bottom). Did you know there are over 43 quintillion combinations in a 3 x 3 rubic cube?

Then the rest:

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Nice boxes, inc the one with the RC hinge. They are tricky little blighters (there are more succinct nouns in the English Language that could be used) but I found that by following RC's instructions to the letter, the results came out reasonably. He's actually discovered that Renaissance Wax is the ideal finish for his boxes but appeared somewhat dismayed that to purchase a tub or two in Canadia would cost him an arm and both legs :ROFLMAO: - Rob
 
Cabinetman said:
Really like that Maple and Mahogany box, did you Mitre the M veneer at the corners? It’s super neat.
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No Ian, far to complex and skillful for me! I veneer the ends first then front/back and make sure there’s a nice close fit. A light sand eases the edges to an ‘almost’ invisible join.

This one was my first real attempt at what might be called full panel veneering (albeit small panels) and I intend to try a few bigger panels in future projects.

Unfortunately for me, the coloured stuff sells quite well whilst ‘plain’ timber tends to sit on the shelf.
 
Stuart said:
No Ian, far to complex and skillful for me! I veneer the ends first then front/back and make sure there’s a nice close fit. A light sand eases the edges to an ‘almost’ invisible join.

This one was my first real attempt at what might be called full panel veneering (albeit small panels) and I intend to try a few bigger panels in future projects.

Unfortunately for me, the coloured stuff sells quite well whilst ‘plain’ timber tends to sit on the shelf.
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That's odd really - I think the plain work tends to look far more elegant, skilled and timeless. Perhaps your prices are too cheap for the plain ones. Peculiarly it can be human nature to perceive more value as the price rises.
 
AJB Temple said:
That's odd really - I think the plain work tends to look far more elegant, skilled and timeless. Perhaps your prices are too cheap for the plain ones. Peculiarly it can be human nature to perceive more value as the price rises.
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I agree re the the elegant skilled and timeless. A man I knew had a corner shop and the Birthday cards which were a real bargain weren’t selling, as Adrian said, perceived value, so he took them away put the prices up and brought them back for sale a week later, did the trick.
 
Cabinetman said:
I agree re the the elegant skilled and timeless. A man I knew had a corner shop and the Birthday cards which were a real bargain weren’t selling, as Adrian said, perceived value, so he took them away put the prices up and brought them back for sale a week later, did the trick.
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I've got a similar tale. I sold some furniture to Liberties in London, decades ago, and after a few weeks the buyer rang me up. "Mike, we're getting lots of interest, but it just isn't selling. We need to do something with the price".

Oh bugger, thought I, as I was half way through making the next one. I couldn't afford a price cut.

"I'm going to put the price up by £500 (that's probably £2000 in today's money), and we'll see what happens". He rang me within a week ordering 2 more.
 
AJB Temple said:
That's odd really - I think the plain work tends to look far more elegant, skilled and timeless. Perhaps your prices are too cheap for the plain ones. Peculiarly it can be human nature to perceive more value as the price rises.
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I don’t feel that they’re particularly cheap at generally just under £100 for a small box. Feedback generally is that the coloured ones are unusual and people are drawn to them.

It’s down to me to decide if I want to keep making them.

I’ve got a bit of a break anyhow as apparently new wardrobes are more important than boxes. Who knew?!
 
Cabinetman said:
No, I hate the stuff, I think I must have had a bad experience with it when I was young.
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As a Carpenter/Joiner I mainly come across softwoods and now MDF has crept in to take it's place for skirtings and architraves etc.

Sapele veneer used to be very popular for flush doors in the 1980. Reproduction furniture made from mahogany was very popular around the 1980's also.

I did occasionally get my hands on some 100mm x 20mm sapele (it was often used between internal doorways as a threshold) and I got a batch of rejects. I made a glass fronted showcase, corner cabinet and several small tables from it. I found that it could trear up with a hand plane so a scraper was mainly used to finish it off. The alternating grain gives a really nice finish when polished but it is a tricky wood to finish.
 
Blackswanwood said:
Following some advice on here I have agreed to do some for a local hospice charity shop so hopefully a few more!
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Great stuff Robert, but as discussed earlier, please ensure you offer a reasonable price for your boxes to the staff 'cos they won't have a clue and will more than likely move them on for far less than than you might expect. I made a few pens from some 'el cheapo' Ax kits and suggested £15 each; last time I checked in the shop they'd all gorn - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
Great stuff Robert, but as discussed earlier, please ensure you offer a reasonable price for your boxes to the staff 'cos they won't have a clue and will more than likely move them on for far less than than you might expect. I made a few pens from some 'el cheapo' Ax kits and suggested £15 each; last time I checked in the shop they'd all gorn - Rob
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Thanks Rob and yes, I approached it as per your earlier helpful advice and I’m pretty sure we are all aligned. Apparently I’ll also get a gift aid credit when they sell one which while not the purpose of the exercise is a nice little bonus!
 
As part of my chair project, I need to draw some arcs with a largish radius. Too large for the compass I had. Flushed with the fun of making the fine adjustment mechanism for the small router plane, I decided to make some trammel heads. They run on a 6mm steel bar.

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I like that a lot. Another great justification for a metalworking lathe!
(I've thought about making some trammels but haven't needed any, so it's never got to the top of any list round here.)

How is the fine point fitted, assuming it is a separate piece of steel?
 
AndyT said:
I like that a lot. Another great justification for a metalworking lathe!
(I've thought about making some trammels but haven't needed any, so it's never got to the top of any list round here.)

How is the fine point fitted, assuming it is a separate piece of steel?
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Yes, a separate piece epoxied in. It wasn't quite as snug a fit as I'd hoped for, so my plan to use a bit of loctite was abandoned for the gap filling qualities of araldite!
 
I made this hand mirror a while ago, an elderly man gave me some mahogany from the 1860s, it's made from a single piece, finished with boiled linseed oil.
 

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I'd love to know where your orders come from, Robert. You seem quite busy.
 
Mike G said:
I'd love to know where your orders come from, Robert. You seem quite busy.
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They just keep coming where people have seen one I’ve made and asked if I would do them one. I’ve had a few requests via Instagram which I have declined. It’s not a business but I do sometimes wonder if it could be made into one … but I don’t need the hassle!
 
A couple of signed and stamped, limited edition prints by the Japanese artist Hiroto Norikane, purchased at Ginza Colour Print in Tokyo last November:

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Framed in Bubinga with Bog Oak splines, acid free mounts and backing card as well as museum quality non-reflective glass. Lot of lovely mitres here for you Mike G :ROFLMAO: - Rob
 
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