• 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

    Your favourite listenings......

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    Sunday 02/02/25 in Lidl

    My missus brother got one and it let the magic smoke out, may have been the first time use, or very new, though was likely tasked with a job for a circular saw.
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    Big bandsaw needed

    I made one for my saw to suit the existing round fence rail, though evidently didn't really think things through! Something what simply lifts off is much more sensible, with only a length of flat bar needed, as seen on many saws like the Far Eastern Felder x10 machines.. Small beans...
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    Diamond plates

    I haven't looked on the bay to see if single sided diamond hones, what's bonded to a hefty steel plate are still being sold or infact made, and whether the same quality as the ITS (which I presume are the same as on the Faithful hones?) What's the price difference between the current ITS...
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    Diamond plates

    I use a fancy Dia-sharp 1200 grit, what I got from Stu-mac (I thought it were finer, but seems I'm wrong) It will put a mirror finish on the back of a chisel, and compared to a 4000 grit King waterstone, seems a fair bit finer, as the waterstone will leave a hazy finish. I also use some cheapie...
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    Back bevel

    I don't polish the cap irons, just honed on the fine stone. Re-curved, pretend the curve is non existent... regarding geometry, treated like those new fangled types. I've not got my own variation on this, it's either you use the cap iron, or you don't. i.e the shaving straightens up when it's...
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    Back bevel

    I use a regular Bailey's too, with a 50 degree honed edge on my cap irons, open mouth as not to clog the plane, (clogging being only noticeable when cap iron is honed beyond 45 deg) and a very fine camber on my smoother (obviously)... as my cap irons aren't honed super steeply, i.e enough to...
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    Glue up when cold

    After unsuccessfully attempting to patch up a door... which I had been storing for a day or so in the house, and thereafter glued at a height a bit under a chair level, I figured I'd need to up my game a bit. I suggest getting one of those infrared thermometer guns, should you not have one...
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    List of things to do!

    But it's missing the arrows, and where are the numbers?... not to mention in-between's, strikethrough's, scribbles, boxes, ticks and measurements? If I were to guess... looks to have all the hallmark's of a pre-list to me Duke? I mean those corners of you're jotter, aren't even rolled up yet!
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    Bob '9fingers' Minchin

    Thanks for the knowledge Bob, I hope his family knows how helpful he was for folks like myself, he was very generous with his wisdom and time. My condolences to the family of the great man.
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    New table saw (UK)….. that is the question

    If you're meaning, won't leave a finished surface, then perhaps you should look into carbide tipped blades, seeing as there are some cheaper alternatives popping up here and there nowadays, than from Lenox etc.. seemingly for around the same price as M42 here. Hard to tell which is from the...
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    A belt sander revamp?

    Hello again. I've since got things cleaned up enough to press on with it. Plenty of adjustment, which should be plenty for two sheets of 3/4" ply, plus accounting for some floor discrepancy. With things partially assembled, I was somewhat able to check how the legs adjusted with some...
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    Aye that's the same deflector as per in the guide. Thanks to Bob Minchin (9fingers) for the induction motor PDF document, I've got the choice. ;) I was assuming a compressed air system hold down clamp, as seen on these type machines would be an available attachment for crosscutting. Not gone...
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    New table saw (UK)….. that is the question

    I'd never spend my money on something with a universal brush screamer motor, as the consumable nature of such, doesn't lend themselves to making proper fixtures, be it mobility wise, infeed & outfeed, well advised being so close to the blade, or any other such jig, which for something cast iron...
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    I did screenshot the hitting of the switch, and mentioned this, but my text disappeared. The blade was coasting to a stop when this incident happened. Makes a good case for seeing how fast my cheapo VFD can stop a 12" blade!. Tom
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    Good spot Andy, I missed that as I presumed nobody would be using such a machine without the riving knife. Truth be told, I was zoned in on the guard, as I've never seen one, (well, not one of those types anyway) "perform" as it were, before. I was under the impression they had no such...
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    Seen this video yesterday, it seems fair warning to those who wish to crosscut with a circular saw. Here's the youtube link I took a sequence of screenshots for those who don't click on youtube's. What way would you make this cut, if you had to do a lot of them, and didn't have a compound...
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    A belt sander revamp?

    Not quite sure where it's going Chris, perhaps in-between the saws, or possibly an in-feed, but it should hopefully be able to wheel out easily when I need it most. Hopefully things will work out, though very much unsure yet as it's a bit of experimentalisim, and I'd rather get the legs welded...
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    A belt sander revamp?

    Hello again, been a while since I posted anything on this, but thankfully progressing a wee bit on things. Stripped a previous machine base which I was keeping for this job, and some nice bits for another project. After some procrastination, I figured this size seemed about right... Still...
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    Big bandsaw needed

    Something for 500 quid might be an old Italian saw, needing new tires/tyres, or addressing of the vulcanized rubber variety, what's hopefully not missing a fence... due to the tire profile making the saw unusable, and put away in a corner to let the paint bubble off. Hopefully the bores are...
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