• 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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    Mystery trademark

    Could it be Harrison Fisher from Sheffield?
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    So sorry to hear that Mike, take things easy and rest. Reminded me of a chap I was at college with, him and his mate would come from the same firm for their two week block release. One week Joe didn't appear, he had broke his arm. Fast forward a few weeks and we are back in college Joe and his...
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    Bog oak and ash

    Many thanks to Pete for the jam and Mike for the bog oak 600 mile round trip and 11 hours of driving today was worth it to put a couple of faces and names together, get a catch up and have cake.
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    Bog oak and ash

    Although i am home on Friday night so its only 5 hours from there...
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    Bog oak and ash

    If theres a chance of some bog oak I am now thinking of the drive from aberdeenshire
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    Mike builds a teardrop (coopered shelf unit, door surrounds)

    This is a fantastic build thread, all i can think of is the heart beep blip on the inside of the gatefold with contrasting wood colours as the refracted light running through it
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    It has been a really good project satisfying and interesting work.
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    Thanks Mike, it's certainly be a great project to lead and be part of. I think if I took that bowling alley to the conservators they would chase me 🤣
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    Not left yet I've still got about 6 weeks here
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    Unfortunately most of the maple that was removed was too rotten to even turn a pen let alone make flooring out of it
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    Pretty close indeed
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    It was built in 1903 by Lord Leith as a gift for his young American wife in the style of the American playhouses, the building hosts a Racquets Court, Gym area and an early Brunswicks 10 pin Bowling Alley
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    Final post we brought the bowling lane back from the conservators in Cumbria and fitted it back into the building (these slabs of maple weigh approx 450Kg) If you look at the window there are bars set into the stone, each of the 1100mm wide 6m long maple slabs came in through the bars...
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    We relaid the original white oak floor (this was supplied by Mr Jewson of Jewson timber and coal merchants in East Anglia apparently they have grown a bit since 1903) Floor was sanded and finished with honey Osmo Oil and a clear coat
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    A little distraction from woodworking

    we also removed internal scaffold which allowed us to fit the refurbished original lights, the shades were all refurbished by a local classic car restorer two of these lights had been creased and flattened by the impact of the tree that fell on the building.
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