• 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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    What is this wood?

    I salvaged this wood from a pallet and would love to know what it is. Its a hardwood, that is quite pink in colour and I would say its similar to the colour of my flesh. The grain is a little bit crazy, breaking out in several directions. wood in question in the middle. Sapele/mahogany at the...
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    Magnets a sticky question

    I am hoping for some help with a little sticky question. I am making a small wooden box from some mahogany/sapele. Its going to be used to store a pair of glasses (specs). The lid is annoyingly a little loose, and will fall open if tilted, but it does slide beautifully. I am thinking of using...
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    Hammer for a child aged 8

    Tool buying advice sought. My son aged 8 would like a claw hammer for Christmas to add to his tool kit. What would you recommend. I think a smaller hammer might be more useful right now, but I still have my 16oz claw hammer from a similar age. I'm not looking to spend big money. He said he...
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    Banjo WIP

    I've made loads of progress since my last post, in fact I have finished and I have a complete and playable banjo. Continuing from my post last time I cut the fret slots using a pull saw. No photo of this as its not very exciting. Then I drilled holes and inlayed some paua shell fret markers. I...
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    Banjo WIP

    A bit more progress. The rough shaping is now complete. I have cut the slot in the drum for the neck to slide in to. The neck slides all the way into the drum. It now looks a bit like a banjo. I have also cut the slots for the tuners. I drilled two holes and sawed between them with a fret...
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    Banjo WIP

    The fingerboard glue up worked well and it stayed flat. The next step has been to cut out the shape for the neck using the paper template as a guide. Then uncut it out mostly with a panel saw but the top bit between the 5th tuner and the headstock had to be cut with a fretsaw. I made this...
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    Banjo WIP

    Here will be details if my latest project, a banjo. The plans are available at https://www.banjohangout.org/archive/300493 and it all looked quite feasible. This thread over on Banjo Hangout has loads of detail and it really was very kind of the author Rudy to write it. I have made a couple of...
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    A slow chest of drawers

    :? That saw might be posing for the photo but I find that too steep. And o have found the saw sort of whips around making for a wobbly cut. I find this sort of angle better, but I'm happy to be corrected.
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    A slow chest of drawers

    What sort of angle are you holding the saw at? I thin k that will have a lot to do with the straightness of the cut. When I rip saw in my vice I have to kneel down the get the saw at a sensible low angle. Also not smashing the saw through the wood helps me, steady and slower works for me. My...
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    Pencil or chocolate box

    So this is a gift for my brother. Its a pencil box, but conveniently it also holds bars of Green and Blacks chocolate. This was my first time of building a box, and first for making dovetails. I am pleased with how it came out especially as the only electricity used in the production was an...
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    Cutting window beading

    Thanks all for the advice. I ended up doing 45 degree mitres. I made a mitre block using a YouTube video from Paul Sellers and then carefully cut all the beading to size. I was well chuffed that it all just worked until I realised I had the beading round the wrong way. Here is a picture of the...
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    Cutting window beading

    I am rebuilding the small front porch, which has single glazed glass. To match up with next door I am intending on using wooden window beading. My question is bearing in mind I don't have any fancy machines, should I cut the beading at 45 degrees or should I do like when fitting skirting and do...
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    Help with porch design

    Please can I have some help from you lot again, you always have good idea (mostly ;) ) We live in a lovely little cottage, but there is no porch at the back of the house. The back door leads straight into the kitchen. I am now thinking that a small porch or something else would give somewhere...
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    Burglars

    My neighbors outbuildings had an attempted break in last night. I am thinking of getting a shed alarm for mine. I don't have perminent power there yet. Any thoughts on this, which has a remote alarm for in the house and is battery powered: https://www.ultrasecuredirect.com/wirel ... -p425.html...
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    How to fit a window?

    I am at the point where I need to fit the window in the workshed Here are some images of the window held in place but not fitted. Does anyone have a diagram/photos/video of where to put the breathable membrane. Should it be cut square or wrapped inside the frame? Any help gratefully received...
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