• 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 present for an old friend (finished).....bog oak scraps available.

    Nice one Mike. I believe a unique item like yours has a cachet that mass produced items can never attain. Far more importantly, the personal aspect of this one is where the value lies.
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    Push sticks

    ebiker, I get your point re M.D.F. and the lack of splinters. With respect, I beg to differ. MDF is mildly hygroscopic, getting worse with age. It then softens, and I found that it lost its load bearing qualities, leading to bends, and in one case, unexpected delamination while my 2.5h.p. router...
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    Cements and concrete recipes

    Ben, cement bags are freely available in any good builders' merchant. Ditto sand and 5L containers of plasticer.
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    Cements and concrete recipes

    Going off what Bob said about sand quality, DO check your existing mortar carefully. My old place, built 1903, had sea shells between the bricks - unwashed sand. This can leave salt still in place and affect the new mortar going in. I compensated by raking deeply, then re-pointing, so that there...
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    A bit overdue

    Seconded, with feeling! I tried working off a ladder on my gutters, 26' above the ground (1903 detached villa) and it was seriously unwise. Paradoxically, putting weight (slates) onto the scaff made it steadier. That 2'-3' walkway, depending on make, is a boon when refixing guttering as...
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    Dreadnought SS Guitar (Carving the necks)

    Malc, I've dropped in betimes on this beautifully detailed thread; I salute your patience and p'raps more importantly, your planning. Nice one Kid.
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    Brio blast from the past...

    Thirded. I had two boys, 13 months apart (don't ask!) and I have to say, those E.L.C. toys were built to take punishment! I'm surprised that a chipmunk of your prowess Rob, you didn't stick a router on a trammel for the curved bits?!😎 We moved 6 years ago and a the stuff was still presentable...
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    Flattening an oilstone

    Yes Dan and Tom, I've managed quite a bit of finesse over the years with a 4" angle grinder, knocking down welds for example, with an abrasive-impregnated 'sponge' to 'flush' a panel for painting. And, I take the point, "gently does it" or "very little and often". In responding to the original...
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    Flattening an oilstone

    😳...seriously? As Mike J. is talking about 2.5mm ( per face).over 60 years, might your reply not be better in the limestone paving thread? An Irish bicycle is not known for its finesse.
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    Even more boxes ….

    Your "outside of the box" designs (in both senses) are brilliantly different. Nice one...or two...or...
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    Blue handled Stanley bevel edged chisels.

    Fair enough Dan. I had a couple of poor non-woodworking tools from them and there was no way they added up to the quality of my 40-year-old "footprints" plumbers' pipe grips. I was out of order to extrapolate that to other genres of tools and I accept your correction. I'll see if Alasdair's...
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    Blue handled Stanley bevel edged chisels.

    Yes, I have two blue ones, ditto thoughts. Some time ago AndyT (I think) recommended the yellow and black Footprint ones. Now, this is mature, 20 or 30-years-ago Footprint,not the modern *** Footprint. I found a set for a fair price and I'm (on limited use so far) reasonably happy they hold an...
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    Blue handled Stanley bevel edged chisels.

    Just for reference Mike? The black 5001's are thought by many to be superior steel, holding an edge better. I only have one, the dreadful "ergonomic" handle version; they're a one-word oxymoron.
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    De-magnetising

    Dr. B. and spb said what I would have Mike, but my basic level understanding has been massively superceded by that man EtV! We are not worthy! I've only used my tape demagnetiser for screwdrivers and hex bits, which is why I have got away with such low power. Something like chunky pliers or...
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    De-magnetising

    Thanks Al. Mine is mains powered and I found it more effective than the wee 'plaskit blok' one you mentioned in #4. I have one like that too, but found the hi-fi 'pen' to give a more lasting demagnetisation.
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    De-magnetising

    Hi-fi geeks. Ask one of them to borrow their tape head demagnetiser. Mine is maybe 45 years old and going strong. Plug in, run along tool shaft or blade, repeat as necessary, job done. Electrical engineers please correct me, but I believe it produces a "hysteresis loop" that 'scrambles' all the...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Yebbut, the planning and 3D printing to augment are pure lateral thinking! Respect.
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    Cuckoo

    I'm same latitude as Roger, on the east coast; ditto, cuckoo yesterday. No swallows
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    Backlash the reduction off

    Damn sight cheaper than a replacement yoke.
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    Portable Vice/Vise

    Those look like the wee green Stanley vise my father used in a tiny shed in the 60's, maybe just a bit broader. The originals still show upon what NoLegs used to call The bay of Plenty".
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