• 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 tad of mirth

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    Help with Kingsway Group continuous hinge swing door system please

    Looking at images online your photos Andy don’t look like the Kingsway anti-ligature design a search bought up. I couldn’t get a close up but I’d have expected a brand name etched on those big plates, perhaps it’s a Chinese copy, in which case runaway ;)
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    Look after yourselves chaps!!

    My condolences Mark, of everything I’ve dealt with in my life coming to terms with friends who have taken their own lives has been one of the hardest things, the old adage that it’s the ones you least expect is so true.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    No most of this has always been intended for my personal use, almost all of timber I use for work is kiln dried from the timber merchant.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Shorter pieces tend to end up on the shelves in the workshop Ian, there are some chunky short pieces of Ash on the rack that need moving elsewhere, I used to turn sofa legs from them for a furniture maker who’s pieces got shipped to America but that work dried up when Trump took office.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I’m hoping not Scott, the Chestnut is for gates that I hope to make this winter along with making a start on a bedroom suite from a lot of the Ash that’s on the rack so by spring I’m hoping to have freed up a fair bit of space & then I’ll bring another load over.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I’ve been collecting a while, I used to write the date on timber as I got it Andy & the earliest date I found as I was clearing out was 2007 thought this was my second lorry body so the next lot will be older, my wife always says I have a problem, but to me it seems a nice problem to have :)
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    What spare time I’ve had recently has been dedicated to sorting out the long term storage of timber I’ve amassed over the years, I posted in the what have I fixed thread the welding up of a new storage rack well this is it fixed in place. All the air dried timber I have has been stored in two...
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    Woodworking shows & open day announcements

    Yeah I saw that on Harrogate shows insta feed Don’t really know anything about him but if it draws folk in then it can only be a good thing.
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    Woodworking shows & open day announcements

    I’ll be going to Harrogate as usual on the Saturday all being well, looking forward to seeing Richard Findley demonstrating this year, IMO one of the best demonstrators & a boon for the show. Also Bessey have a new tracksaw clamp out that fits the Bosch/Mafell track so I’ll hopefully be coming...
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    What to do with a bit of bog oak...

    As a kid I lived in Tamworth & the castle was one of my old mum’s favourite places so I have spent many an afternoon walking around the place & on the battlements. She loved history so we were taught all about the Anglo Saxons, how Tamworth was the capital of Mercia, Alfred the great &...
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    A tad of mirth

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    What I have fixed today

    Nothing so difficult to earn as brownie points or so easily lost. Recently stripped down the Mother in Law’s boiler after a phone call from the GLW, it hadn’t been serviced for 11 years & wouldn’t produce either hot water or heating, 5 hours later both piping hot radiators & hot water. Brownie...
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    Planer Thicknesser Knives advice please

    I sharpen every blade except my very largest saw blades these days & have done for years now, I’ve read about imbalance but I’ve never experienced it plus if you are methodical about your sharpening your aren’t going to remove unevenly enough material to cause problems
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    Planer Thicknesser Knives advice please

    I was cutting up a load of elm yesterday with my tracksaw, I was a good way into the cut when there was such a loud bang I thought I’d been shot, thankfully I can report my sphincter muscle is surprisingly still working very well :D Though I did have to finish the cut with a handsaw & a wedge.
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