• 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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    Pork scratchings theory

    I love a pork scratching. For anyone who hasn't watched the excellent Detectorists, written by Mackenzie Crook, why not?! Pork scratchings now always make me think of this scene :LOL: Pork scratchings
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    Drip irrigation.

    Can't comment on drip system but can sympathise with the watering. Spending a lot of my evenings at the allotment this year!
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    The Bas…..s got me 11 times

    Feel for you, my daughter inadvertently stumbled on a nest, when she was 11 or so. We had to run, my wife was right next to her and so also got stung. Between them they had well over 50 stings it was awful and took a good few years for her to be comfortable with anything that flew!
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    Church Noticeboard

    I'm always one for preferring natural materials so cork would work for the board. However I have used this successfully on a project, even works externally: https://www.greenbarnes.co.uk/shop/pinboard/rubber-pinboard-self-healing-light-grey/ It's 6mm thick and when I've used cork and tried to...
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    What is my best way of protecting oak skirting board and architrave?

    I've just finished a kitchen project with oak-faced ply and used Osmo as a finish. This includes end panels and plinths down to floor level, and it's holding up well and should be relatively easy to refinish in the future. If you've not used it before be aware it requires thin coats of application
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    David Hockney RIP

    Yes sad loss. Also yesterday Nigel Cabourn died, another Northerner who left his mark, this time in the fashion world.
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    A 'Past Project' from 33~34 ish years ago...

    Those dolls houses look excellent, I will have to show my daughter. She has one which has been an on going project for 2 years or so. She's making the furniture herself, I set her up with a little toolbox of basic tools, and she goes out and works in the 'shop. Wants to do it all herself...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    Whatever you do will be better than some of what manufacturers put out and sold in caravans over the years! Our Eriba has a thin moulded plastic wheel arch liner, with a small return to allow screwing onto the underside of the ply floor. Within the van there is a very thin structure of...
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    Probably Bye for now...

    Don't forget as well that it's not just the value of trade from smaller businesses on the High Street which is missing but the tax revenue associated with it. Not sure I'd applaud his values and desire for "free speech" either. Interesting how often those demanding free speech are also...
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    Right angle drill attachment

    I decided it fell into the category or once in a blue moon use so not worth spending lots on. Mine's an unbranded Chinese version, and have only used a few times but has worked fine.
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    Osmo UV-Protection oil - still sticky and tacky

    What a pain! I'm using Osmo on my ongoing kitchen project and last weekend was rushing to finish a little shelving unit before the weekend ended and was suprised that the line between the right amount and too much is very easy to cross! Rushed application meant some sticky areas but only a few...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    What's the saying, get back on the horse (or scaffold)? ;) Wouldn't expect any less than for you to be back at it as soon as possible! That cedar cladding is going to get some attention on the road, looking brilliant.
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    UK makers of hand tools

    Green wood working has quite a lot of UK makers, but pretty much all one man bands. There is Wood tools though, started by the very appropriately named Robin Wood, now a lot of their tools are partly made abroad. For example their economical axes are drop forged abroad but finished in...
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    UK makers of hand tools

    Benchdogs Here's a slightly different one, Benchdogs started making tools for modern joinery, benchdogs, and tools related to MFT usage. They've expanded their range greatly in recent years and do some lovely looking measuring tools. Link is their about page, I think I am right in saying it's...
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    UK makers of hand tools

    I did not know Thor hammers were made in the UK! Very interesting, hoep there's some more that pop up which I didn't know about.
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