• 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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  1. TomTrees

    Quick introducton :)

    Hello, I'm probably not making sense, and was merely poking asking the why/where/who, as I've not came across many articles which include such a tool for preparing stock. I've seen differing style frame saws for resawing, take David on the other forums for example, but not many else who's...
  2. TomTrees

    Quick introducton :)

    Welcome Michele, Curious on what source of timbers you'll be planning on using, since a kerfing plane's quite a specialized tool to have made, right off the bat!... and especially so, with your wish list not mentioning much apart from the sizing and squaring raw timber bit. Seems like you might...
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    Lathe sanding drum, hand held belt sander abrasives, a good choice?

    Thanks for the replies folks. I perhaps should have specified not wanting to convert the lathe into a semi dedicated wide drum sander, as I keep it crammed up against the wall, so it'll be slightly annoying to use this wee drum, as it'll need to be fed from the back of the machine. Space being...
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    Lathe sanding drum, hand held belt sander abrasives, a good choice?

    Here's an example, this sander came up from the site "Powertools.ie", when I typed in Makita belt sander, 100mm... What say ye, about the likelyhood of this sized unit staying produced, or is there another sized unit I should be thinking about, in order to suit a custom made drum?. I see the...
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    Lathe sanding drum, hand held belt sander abrasives, a good choice?

    Hi Steve, I was just figuring there would be such for handheld counterparts, as it is with floor standing machines. From what you suggest, it might seem a good idea to thrall through various companies what sells hand held sanding machines, in order to see all/most of them, makes something which...
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    Lathe sanding drum, hand held belt sander abrasives, a good choice?

    Hello all, I need to thickness some UMHW cutting board strips soon, and thinking I could put my lathe to good use here, if I rigged it up as a mini drum sander. I have a hefty faceplate which came with the machine, and some suitable composite materials for making the drum. Not looked into this...
  7. TomTrees

    Outfitting a Startrite 275 tablesaw... (overhead tablesaw guard)

    Hello folks, Getting back to working on this machine now, so might as well post some of the work I've done in the time since which I'm sure most of you have seen. Just getting things out of the way, in order to make some up to date posts soon enough. Got an insert installed onto the extension...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Thought I'd post a wee update, having used this for some time now, and can report no niggles whatsoever and extremely pleased of the revision. Absolutely no gripes at all about moving the bench now, even if it's just a few inches. Such can make a big difference for the four legged helpers. Some...
  9. TomTrees

    Fresh Meat

    "What's the crack" Darren. Welcome to the forum. All the best Tom
  10. TomTrees

    Link to BGHM German machinery safety guide PDF

    For anyone who might be interested, the whole thing has been translated to English, and the PDF can be found in this thread on the Felder owners forum. I think you may have to join up, but free to do such. https://groups.io/g/felderownersgroup/topic/file_general/109282625 Ah yes indeed Mr...
  11. TomTrees

    Beginner still reading & YouTubing my way into it.

    Someone uploaded a few Jim Kingshott videos onto the tube recently, quite good watching aswell. and could mention Phil Lowe for another few videos to watch, as well as Tom McLaughlin for a transatlantic audience. Quite a few more specialised videos from others too that most could recommend...
  12. TomTrees

    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    Is that a skewed blade on the Veritas plane Derek, and it that why you're using it o'er your own one... or is it that the tote is just more comfortable? Cheers All the best Tom
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hi again folks, I guess that's just the misery what's likely apparent in all my pictures... "Tis hopefully only a temporary thing. 😅 Sorry, not got a video for ye yet, as I've been painting lots of things in the meanwhile, and much like near everything else of recent really... without any...
  14. TomTrees

    New to real wworking

    Hello and welcome, an interesting subject making beehives, and heard of terms like "National beehives" before, though I've never really looked into it. It would surely be a good way to use up thin short stuff, as I'd bet there's a lot more wood than you'd think in them! All the best Tom
  15. TomTrees

    How long to cut a rebate (unpowered)?

    I'd think the moving fillister plane would be the quickest/easiest hand tool for the job, if that was what you were asking? All the best Tom
  16. TomTrees

    Seven Heirlooms - First instrument complete

    Not used the stuff myself Mike, and unfortunately the OLF has gone offline last week! There was a very prominent member only mentioning he'd try to buy it or recent, as the place was getting very quiet, with the owner seemingly not logging in for a very long time. Older software wasn't updated...
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    New person

    A welcome from me across the sea.
  18. TomTrees

    Richard Maguire aka The English Woodworker

    Glad to see Richard pop up on my feed again, and a welcome back from me. Should this longer style of presentation of his return be, what might become be the norm... Then I guess it likely might consist of some real time working, hopefully with an adequate amount of close ups of the work where...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    That's quite understandable Mark, as this ain't my first rodeo, so I've likely left loads out, along with changing the terms for components, I can see why my posts have been confusing. Seems a theme at this stage, that all my posting seems to be best read backwards, haha! Indeed a video will be...
  20. TomTrees

    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Not much more to do on this, so thought I'd show a little progress. Needed to raise the hinge up some 10mm, to allow for the pins/bolts of the "disengagement levers", (in order to line up with the hinge), and I wanted to have everything flush on the underside of the bench strechers. Whilst I...
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