• 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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    Dr.Al reacted to AJB Temple's post in the thread Field fire.... with Wow Wow.
    The guests who came for lunch today had a discussion about this, as the local fire was near to one of them. He said that according to...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    Thanks Mike They keep their setting very well and on the 3 & 5 mm ones at least the blades seem to stay sharp for ages so I haven't...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    You don't need them. It just means that you can plough the groove with the grain, regardless of the grain direction of the wood.
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread What I have fixed today.
    When I first fitted my bench vice after restoring it, I used some bits of plywood for the jaws. They didn't last very long, mainly...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Mark.
    I thought it was time to give two of them a home (the Zebrano one has moved upstairs to my other half's leather craft domain). A quick...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    All the planes together in a new to-be-wall-mounted 3D-printed holder. The two new ones (in the middle) look a lot shinier than the...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    I wonder if that's another thing (like sharpening) that starts religious wars :ROFLMAO: My gut feel is that for the way I chop...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    I don't think I've ever checked what shape my mortice chisels are, but I guess with the fact they "walk" along the slot as they go in...
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    Dr.Al reacted to MartinF's post in the thread Knee Deep In Sh-T is and understatement. with Haha Haha.
    Duke’s problem with a damaged cesspit cover reminded me of an event that took place many years ago. After leaving school, I worked for...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    Thanks Andy It's a fun little project (and much more fun when done with hand tools rather than table saw and electric router). It...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    After tidying up the bench up a bit this morning, our little 21 year-old (called Treacle) had a chance to check it out:
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    Groovy...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread A groovy little two-day project.
    While the glue was drying, I got on with the other blade. When I made the first set of grooving planes, I made the blades out of gauge...
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    I kept it simple when creating the tenon and used the lathe. There was enough thickness left in the leg. The tenon is round and not...
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    Dr.Al reacted to AJB Temple's post in the thread Easy fit buckle - now fixed with Like Like.
    Yes Andy. Expert work and a great contact made with a very local deer shooter. The butcher he used to use was about 400 yards away from...
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