• 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. shafiq

    What I have fixed today

    Not quite got a picture of it. But, work in progress of my 70ish year old neighbours gate. She had a stroke about 4 years ago and slowly been recovering. Gate is knackered and for some reason council haven't ever been out to repair it. Anyway, the socket that holds the top hinge is/was out of...
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    I had forgotten just how good this workholding masterclass is.

    Thanks for this @Cabinetman and I shall give it a watch later. I'm still working on my 3rd (proper) bench though my current 2 are doing me ok.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I will pop a moisture meter on the 'to buy' list. If it doesn't survive on the window ledge, doesn't matter as to me its modern art. It'll be getting filled in due course if need be, but for now the epoxy appears to have done ok.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    When you say 'standing' Mike. Do you mean about the tree having been dead a while (there appears to be insect holes in it, but I sprayed some wood rot treatment) or the fact that I may have stored it without sitting it horizontally. The wood store is horizontal wood with decent air gaps in...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Pictures of it and its family over the couree of the year. First pic of it in the yard where I met the lumberjack is from April 2025 and it felt (IMO) dry then. The 'smack it against itself' test yielded 'no boggyness) but I'm not expert. Just a learning curve.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    About a year now Mike. But the lumberjack had told me at the time that its dry wood (tree been dead for years apparently). So I had sealed the end grain and let it in the airing cupboard under the porch at the front of the house (well, its just a cupboard outside front door really, under cover...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Window ledge, jointed (I onow you're thinking 'where's the joint', well its slightly to the left 😆). Hopefully it passes the 'wife test' tomorrow and I can get on with shaping it later tomorrow. If not, I'll probably get some mdf sill board and make an ugly one out of that... then tell her its...
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    Using Araldite blue (standard epixy glue) for sealing Sycamore!

    Thanks v much for this Mike. I've certainly spent far too long processing this wood (originally got the tree from some lumberjacks a year ago) to allow it cupping. I'll sand all the Araldite off. Square some more into the cracks then give it a nice coat of varnish on the back before...
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    Using Araldite blue (standard epixy glue) for sealing Sycamore!

    @Mike G I was really only using it to fill the holes to make all uniform (couldn't afford to start resawing and planing any more sycamore). But after applying the araldite in the hole I thought I'd be clever and cover the whole thing. I never knew that was a commandment of sealing the back with...
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    Using Araldite blue (standard epixy glue) for sealing Sycamore!

    Thanks @Malc2098 and yes certainly. Finishing/sealing/filling mainly (well, you know) is what I want. I'll take a look.
  11. shafiq

    Using Araldite blue (standard epixy glue) for sealing Sycamore!

    After convincing the wife that I should be allowed to make the wash room (toilet room, sorry) window ledge out of my beautiful sycamore. I finally got it kinda flat (other side doesn't matter as much) but that ugly rip down the middle. Hmmm... So I decided first that I'll use standard epoxy to...
  12. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Oh, and the latest jointing (for drawer number 4) with/from the pine skirting me and my little one had rescued from a local dumpsite (well, ok, someone garden but when we managed to find the owner we asked and he said it was ok). After I'd completed one of the sides (back or front, I forget...
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    Drawer number 4 in the making. Now, before I started attempting these drawers (of which I've always been slightly afraid) I'd read Pekovich in his brilliant book, say that 'only introduce one new technique to your woodworking, per project'. Well, drawers one and two had grooves for the ply...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Well, you obviously have a good track record of being right 😀
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I used to work for a (very intelligent, but generally unable to control his temper) client who owned a mug with the same statement. Persevered with his tantrums (well, the staff could never get anything right even if they did the job the way he'd wanted it, the last time) for almost a year. Then...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Oh well... Ealier today, entered the rabbit hole of trying to get perfectly parallel. Though I never succeeded at thar, I did however manage to get away from the dreaded loo roll as door-stop-support (or more accurately, support to the door stop). I don't claim to have the best of finishes, but...
  17. shafiq

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Good point. I did orientate it with the appropriate angle. But in the rush, I just managed to make it 'roughly' parallel to the door when it touches. Will go get my pencil, mark parallel around, and try to flatten it a bit more... Thanks for that. Indeed, yes I do have a same/similar problem...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    New doorstop for the freshly decorated/plastered bedroom. Wife had been using a toilet roll leftover, so I thought I'd surprise her by chopping down a piece of sycamore thats been sat unloved in the garden (lots more sycamore too but that's drying, appropriately). Anyway, after seeing it she...
  19. shafiq

    Tool thefts in England

    This is no joke. A guy that used to live in (I suppose, council property or something sort of high-turnover flat) the opposite property overlooking ours. One night he was jumping through the various gardens at my house and the neighbours. Yielding what looked to be a massive forearm length...
  20. shafiq

    Is there such a thing as 'cheap' paring chisels!

    Got yourself a right dwal there. I know you're going power tools, but give that number 05 a nice sharpen and you'll love it. Very nice chisels indeed.
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