• 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!

Recent content by StevieB

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    How much???

    Forget about it being tools for a moment, and compare it to say a fashion handbag - £1000's for £5 of leather and a zip because it has a designer name on it. This is a show item, not a use item. A carrier bag will hold far more stuff than a Hermes handbag, but then practicality is not the...
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    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Depends what they mean by 'woodwork' really - DIY, furniture, toys and heirloom boxes are all 'woodwork' to someone. I used to help out at a local Scout Troop, we went with a scroll saw and took some patterns stuck to suitable timber already, and making an egg rack - essentially a plank of wood...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I drilled a hole in the base of the spindle and epoxied in some M10 studding - this is secured with a nut under the triangular base which has a hole drilled into the centre. The thicker square base of the pillar is just a decorative surround as it didn't look very substantial with just the...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Music stand for SWMBO for xmas - finished 10pm xmas eve. Made in oak, but the central stem is a stair spindle - I don't have a lathe and couldn't turn this if I did, but the rest is my own so I am calling it hand made :)
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    Oak dining table build (complete, and inside)

    Well I think it looks awesome, so a massive thumbs up from me!
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    Toolbox

    Shadowfoam? - nope, seems to waste an awful lot of space to me. Looks good for those who like to display their tools, but I tend to know which tray or box something is in and leave it at that.
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    Toolbox

    How far down the rabbit hole would you like to go? ;) https://www.youtube.com/@whattoolbox
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    Broken metal throttle lever

    Ah - lifting bikes, always a problem but the best solution I have ever seen (and then copied) if you have space is to stand facing away from the bike with your heels against the machine and then to bend down and lift the bike behind your legs - it sounds counterintuitive but it really does work...
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    Hosepipe ban

    To be fair, two new reservoirs have just been approved*, one less than a mile from my house. Sounds good until you realise that it is only being put in to service lots of new 3 storey rabbit hutches around Cambridge for people with more money than sense to buy, and it will not be operational...
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    Regular readers will recall me saying no more renovations. Well.........

    Out of interest, why? I always prefer a ring to a radial - I can break and extend a ring, add a spur or fused spur; I cannot do either of these with a radial circuit anywhere near as easily. You also don't have to try and track backwards and work out the load in a ring..... genuinely interested...
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    Wood Repair / Wood Putty / Wood Filler

    Some pics: The above shows the base of the worst pillar - the piece at the base is loose filler / rotten repair. Pulled out it looks like this: I was hoping to remove the previous repair, clean up a little and use some form of filler, possibly with an internal timber piece to take up most...
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    Wood Repair / Wood Putty / Wood Filler

    Thanks chaps. I have come across this, which is much closer to what I had seen previously https://www.3c-sealants.co.uk/2-part-wood-repair-resin/ - never thought of using car body filler such as P38 to be honest, it feels a bit too big a job for something which is presumably spread very thinly...
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    Wood Repair / Wood Putty / Wood Filler

    I have been repainting wooden sash windows and doing general repairs with standard 2 part Ronseal wood filler - the usual stuff in a green tin we all use routinely. I have now got to a window cill and the base of two pillars by the front door that have some serious defects - a bit of rot...
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    Trypsin testing (Medical)

    As with many situations such as this, the devil will be in the detail. Define 'slightly higher risk' for example. Apologies if my use of the word 'harmless' was poorly phrased, but what that term means genetically is that you are not going to be on any form of screening programme or enhanced...
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    Trypsin testing (Medical)

    Disclaimer - I am a geneticist, not a clinician. I am not giving clinical advice here and anyone who has concerns should speak to a healthcare professional. Trypsin testing would not be routine, it is only undertaken if there is a clinical reason to do so. Usually that is poor lung function /...
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