• 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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      GaryR replied to the thread A roof in Sweden.
      Are the timbers spruce? I'm mostly uninformed about wood in Scandinavia.
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      GaryR replied to the thread A Japanese style garden shed.
      I did, yes, along with the ceremony scattering salt and rice at and pouring a little sake at the base of each post. Have to keep the...
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      GaryR replied to the thread A Japanese style garden shed.
      Five and half hours, crew of 8, perfect weather, frame is up. Still much fiddling to go with the foundation stones to get them set...
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      GaryR replied to the thread A Japanese style garden shed.
      I did not know the terms koya and okigoya, so thanks. There is also structure called a kura, 土蔵造 which is a storehouse but with thick...
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      GaryR replied to the thread A Japanese style garden shed.
      In this view, it s the right most one. And yes, downhill is much better.
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      GaryR replied to the thread A Japanese style garden shed.
      Catching up here. I got the holes for piers augered out a couple of weeks ago and poured footers. Then it rained a bunch and all the...
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      I taught a beginning woodworking class once and started with stock prep with hand tools just like this. I thought maybe the students...
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      GaryR posted the thread Coyote in The Woodmangler's Retreat.
      Showed up this morning for a breakfast of persimmons.
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      GaryR replied to the thread Wellington & Manawatu Railway..
      I'm looking forward to this very much.
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      GaryR replied to the thread Persimmon.
      OK, I found some persimmon soap. And had a good chuckle. Rob, are you trying to tell me something...?
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      GaryR replied to the thread Persimmon.
      You may have a different species? Or a variety selected for smaller size or larger fruit? I've never heard of persimmon soap! I'll...
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      GaryR posted the thread Persimmon in General Woodworking.
      We are fortunate to have a large native persimmon tree in our back yard. Diospyros virginiana. It is the double trunked tree on the...
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      GaryR replied to the thread Joint Practice.
      I often recommend Chris Hall's TAJCD monographs, especially Vol III for a compendium of joints, and vol II and the box mitre joint...
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      GaryR reacted to Dr.Al's post in the thread Joint Practice with Like Like.
      Enough puzzle joints for now. I thought I'd try something different: this one's called a Koshikake Kama Tsugi or Lapped Gooseneck Joint...
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