• 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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    Rosewood spokeshave with a Hock blade. Pete
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Slightly off topic - Abrafiles.
    I remember using them (in a junior hacksaw frame if memory serves) to cut some acrylic up (in school) many year ago. I'd wondered what...
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    Two would be fine. I put the third one there to get one in a better place for supporting the shooting board, but with some scraps of...
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    Lovely! It feels slightly surreal seeing it come together as I'm sitting a couple of metres away from my version.
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    Dr.Al reacted to derekcohen's post in the thread The scratch awl with Like Like.
    If you ask most woodworkers what a scratch awl is used for, they will likely say, "scribing lines along wood grain and creating starter...
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    Dr.Al reacted to AndyT's post in the thread The Shetack Saw with Like Like.
    Way back over a century ago in 1924, one Edward Oakley had a bright idea. Corrugated iron sheeting was a popular material for all sorts...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Goodies from Lee Valley Tools.
    Have you used Old Brown Glue before? It's one I've been reading about a bit as it's a more traditional mix (glue, water & urea) than the...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Old Glue - an experiment.
    I suspect there might also be some subtleties in the process that they haven't explained on their site. I'll write up what I did when I...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Old Glue - an experiment.
    That was one of the recipes I found on-line and experimented with (it didn't work for me).
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    Dr.Al reacted to GaryR's post in the thread A Japanese style garden shed with Like Like.
    I mixed up some borate salts (Borax and boric acid) in ethylene glycol, heated and stirred until dissolved. A recipe from the internet...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Old Glue - an experiment.
    If it were as easy to make as hide glue I definitely would. Unfortunately it seems to be a much more involved process.
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Old Glue - an experiment.
    It's not as grim as it perhaps sounds. I made it from (cow) hide glue granules. No horses involved :) I didn't see that, no. It's...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Old Glue - an experiment.
    I've done a few more tests on one more glue type. The results are thus: Test TypeGlue DescriptionFailure Type ShearHM-LHG 23°C...
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    Dr.Al reacted to AndyT's post in the thread What I have fixed today with Like Like.
    The door hinges on our fridge have been squeaking for a while, despite me squirting a variety of lubricants in their general direction...
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    Dr.Al replied to the thread Squares for track saws.
    That's how I do it usually. I've got a 3D-printed track saw square but I find it more faff to add it to the track than just to mark the...
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