• 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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    A Japanese style garden shed

    Looks great! Now, when you re-raise a frame do you have another topping out branch attached?
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    The sash so far. At this stage the glass could be ordered. If I get the other sash to this stage I hope to have glass this week.
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Some notes on glazing bars. These are for the lower sash, the left most one a horizontal and left complete for strength), the other 2 verticals and will each be cut in 2 eventually. All get a glazing rebate gauged into them. The horizontal has its mortices cut already. It's much easy to get the...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    The stiles cannot be rebated in the same way before adding in extra steps as the plane doesn't have a clear run. So this bit takes a bit extra time. The front and rear portions need removed so that the plough can take out the middle section. The rear part needing removed must be at least the...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Rebates and grooves in the main pieces of the sashes. The meeting rail is easy. The glass is 3 to 4 mm thick so a slightly more than 6 mm (1/4") width groove (working in imperial and metric) lines up on the exterior side of the mortises and ends up between the tenon and slot tenons. The piece...
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    A Japanese style garden shed

    That looks like a beautiful setting for the frame
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    My cyclone set up

    Thanks, that's a really helpful explanation
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    My cyclone set up

    I'd be interested in seeing that thread please
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    My cyclone set up

    This is very inventive and the topic completely new to me. I had never heard of these cyclone units before but now feel I need to have one (though still not entirely sure why!). I have a camvac attached directly to my bandsaw and that's it. Does the cyclone protect the vacuum unit?
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Upper sash basic joinery done on rails and stiles. Just a quick post as the process is quite similar BUT with one important change for the upper sash when laying out. Reference face is from the exterior: doesn't have to be but I find it easier. As the meeting rail protrusion is now towards the...
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    Wellington & Manawatu Railway.

    Just seeing these posts for the first time today. Fascinating project and some beautiful restoration work.
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Lower rail piece. Haunched tenon. This may deviate from some designs where the haunch is on the stile. The latter allows the rebate to be run to the end of the stile whereas I will stop mine. The latter design would suit running mouldings with a plane or machines whereas I intend using stopped...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Having cut out the mortices on the stiles the tenons are cut on lower and meeting rails. The meeting rail first (picture heavy so the bottom rail in an additional post). 3 scored lines aren't enough for me not to make a mistake so I draw all over the piece to mark out the waste. Visible line...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    That image is from "Historic England Traditional Windows, Their Care, Repair and Upgrading" which is a great resource as are many of their free pdfs. Found at link https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/traditional-windows-care-repair-upgrading/
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Quick post to show some actual woodwork. An exploded diagram helps in visualising where everything goes. As good as the old texts are I couldn't seem to find a picture as useful as this one. While there are details that will be different on my sashes, I still find this helpful. I find a...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Transfering the window size to dimensions on the sliding sashes takes a little care. Apologies if any of this is blindingly obvious and a little dull as it's all layout and marking. For the total height that the sashes cover, I start from the top of the sill (non-bevelled portion) to the...
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    Record SS...DUN

    That's a great result on filing the mouth. I was in a similar position when I needed a new blade for a no.6. I must've purchased the same brand (also from WSH) along with a new cap iron. There was no way this was going to fit as it's a hefty piece of metal. I chickened out and bought a Hock...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Outer sash lining. So "b" and "c" in the picture. Vertical outer casings made first on both sides Place the casing on the tongue loosely And at the head put a little knife mark That knife mark is between the pencil lines. Transfer that over to the edge of the groove and strike a 45 with...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    I'm no expert on windows and most of this is from 2 or 3 out of print books but hopefully someone will find it useful and avoid some pitfalls. The biggest issue I had with the texts is that a lot is expected from the reader. I suppose otherwise the books would be absolutely enormous. For example...
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    Cased frame sliding sashes with hand tools

    Here's what the stile looks like for sinking into the sill and the housing. A deliberately tight fit so the wood is marred Now to fit the stiles into the head piece. These can have the entire width fitted in or a proportion. I've gone for half the width which is about 5/8" The head piece...
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