• 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

    A quick Hello

    Fáilte
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    Fantasy Tool Box - sharpening

    The hones look decent, good to know there's cheap ones without that grid pattern/large font... as I've got the impression they were giving me the odd nicked edge on occasion. Though whether that's from myself, or larger particles of diamond when being made, I dunno, but it would be interesting...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello again folks, thought I'd post a wee update for ye. Looking again at the... for want of a better word, upper frame section? (I can't use "lever" now) It appeared like strengthening things wouldn't have mattered much, for multiple reasons, Sorry I meant to take photos of this, but I was too...
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    Wood Identification

    Philippine mahogany AKA red meranti, is what my guess is based on those pictures. Going by long grain pores, (what can be similar to iroko, though not that piece you have)... and colour. If it's softer than iroko, and the colour is as red as this, then that would exclude anything else I've seen...
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    Wood Identification

    What a teaser! How about posting a picture Dr.Al?
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    Green ash.

    Hi Mike, likely you're familiar of this occurrence with holly, should you not, a thread or two from the other place what should be fairly easy to find, using these keywords... green-hue-appearing-on-freshly-ripped-holly, or holly-tree, for example. I'm just asking whether it's possible if...
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    Good luck, DaveL

    Good luck DaveL, hope the healing goes well for you. All the best Tom
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Aye Ian, 'tis very crusty lookin, though on the flip side, I won't be loosing any sleep if some of these auld gates actually do make it to the scrappy. That might work, as might welding on as much extra material as possible, anywhere/everywhere , since there's no design constraints other than...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello all, thought I might as well give ye an update on things, as it seems I could have hit bit of a snag. Not sure yet, so will have to do some testing now with things partially assembled. Difficult to test otherwise, as too many things were clamped up with prior mock ups. Whether or not this...
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    Seven Heirlooms - First instrument complete

    Have you tried fabric softener Malcom? That's fairly commonplace on the OLF and the likes, should you have stumbled across "supersoft" before. Two heat blankets are often utilized for the "fox bender", and curious to know why you've stuck with the one.... Might that be adapting the forms to...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    That's it in a nutshell Ian, though one could say I'm re-building the retractable castor system, in order to make it more sensible for use in a small shed. The older system below, didn't lend itself well for the extra component?, (what's paramount to the design) ... :geek: Cheers All the...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello all, got back to working on this last week as there was other stuff what needed doing first. and might I say, very eagerly wanting to get the workshop back to a somewhat functional state after that! Not started with the other lever yet, as I've mainly been mucking about with scrap for the...
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    Sip sander drive belt

    I'm guessing these machines are on the way out, in favour of another design with integral dust collection, though I'd hope this is not the case. Re- belt tracking, I've modified my machine, which made things slightly more difficult, and did for interests sake, look up some manual or another for...
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    Sip sander drive belt

    Sorry I can't be of more help, but hope some others can mention what may be suitable for you. As you see, many companies sell this sander, Rikon in north America possibly being the biggest retailer of them I suppose, should that still be the case, not that you'd want to get spares of them with...
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    Sip sander drive belt

    Hello, and welcome! Here's a recent thread which might help somewhat, should you have a job sourcing one locally from a belt supplier, or UK or EU tool dealer, then there's names and the models of a few other companies still selling them, in the thread on the Ozzy site...
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    Seven Heirlooms - First instrument complete

    Indeed, I found that I was missing a lot of practical stuff when looking strictly on the luthiers sites, which many of the folks here had the answers to. Mainly getting away from all the sanding and jigs, after reading the effects of what can happen doing so long term, with tropicals and...
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Hello all, after some procrastination, I got started by cutting the stuff to length, and grinding the beads off this auld box iron. I figured I'd make the upper lever design shorter than before, as the last one was a bit awkward to place a foot on at times... i.e, squeezed in-between the pedal...
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    Seven Heirlooms - First instrument complete

    I'd be interested to know if you have any, as that is one of the "go to's", but I suspect there are a few "bibles" which I cannot recall... Perhaps you're a member of some other luthiers forums, like the OLF, MIMF, ANZLF,or some others? Re-the planing, I was referring the pins rather than the...
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    Seven Heirlooms - First instrument complete

    Interesting take on the thicknessing of thin stuff, which you don't often see on the luffiers forums. Is that mentioned in the Cumpiano book? Things are looking quite productive. Cheers All the best Tom
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    A wheely good workbench solution, Version 2, Now we're rolling!

    Thanks Jonathan, I did see those types whilst searching, but as the name would suggest.... they're rather expensive! :ROFLMAO: (where's my coat?) I did go back and had a look at the Screwfix offerings, and seen three which might be suitable, (with the help of a hacksaw, that is) though not...
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