• 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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  1. Dr.Al

    Very short WIP - a simple clock

    If you've come to this thread expecting something like a Clickspring Skeleton Clock, you'll be sorely disappointed :ROFLMAO: This is going to be a very short (two-part!) build write-up as there really wasn't much to it and I made my life a bit easier by using power tools for some jobs. In our...
  2. Dr.Al

    Bread Baking

    We used to do the same at Asda in Bristol Cribbs Causeway. I haven't made fresh bread in years so I don't know whether they still do.
  3. Dr.Al

    Ornamental lathe restoration

    Wow. I don't think I'd ever have the confidence to repair a gear like that - I think I would have felt the need to start from scratch.
  4. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    That's fantastic & I'd put that at a substantial step above anything I've done. You definitely shouldn't be shy about posting your metalwork efforts!
  5. Dr.Al

    A tad of mirth

  6. Dr.Al

    Christmas has come early!

    That's a lovely box Steve, even it there's a sad story to go with it :(
  7. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    That's really lovely @NickM. If you ever get tempted to make another one I'd love to read a WIP. I'd like to have a go at something like that one day.
  8. Dr.Al

    Spreadsheet help

    Typists doing the work for you? Bloody luxury! 😆 My PhD thesis was hand-written (by choice as it meant I could do the writing away from distractions) and then typed up by me (which is actually a really good way of reducing mistakes as you spot them when typing up - similar to what I do for...
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    Spreadsheet help

    When I was finishing off my PhD (and doing long days seven days a week) a colleague of mine who was in the same boat in terms of timescales lost his thesis due to Word crashing. He was pretty good (by most people's standards) at backing stuff up but it had been about 3 days since the last one...
  10. Dr.Al

    Spreadsheet help

    Another vote for LibreOffice Draw for drawing type stuff. In general the LibreOffice applications are fine but not quite as good as the Microsoft versions (I've never tried the Apple ones). However, in the specific case of the drawing package, LibreOffice Draw is miles better than anything...
  11. Dr.Al

    Diminished (gunstock) stile door

    It's always nice to read things like that: (paraphrasing) there are quicker ways of doing this but I thought I'd enjoy it this way more. That really clicks with me - it's nice to be able to do something the way that you'll find satisfying rather than whatever's most efficient. Top job; I'm...
  12. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    More details in another thread: https://thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/reaching-the-limit-of-diameter.11402/#post-193509
  13. Dr.Al

    Reaching the limit of diameter

    I've done a bit more turning this weekend and made yet more bowls. The end game was to make a new fruit bowl out of a big lump of Ash. However, I thought it would be interesting to see whether the masking-tape-and-superglue trick would work on a turned bowl so I started by turning this simple...
  14. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    That's really nice and a great use for off-cuts.
  15. Dr.Al

    Robert Sorby Pro Edge bits and pieces

    I've got a CBN wheel on a medium speed (about 1400 rpm) grinder with the Tormek BGM mount and it works really well. I've never used a Sorby Pro Edge so I can't say how it compares. I'd be surprised if you find many people who can really compare the two as most will buy one, find it works &...
  16. Dr.Al

    Retirement , what is the end game.

    That doesn't surprise me - my parents live in Seaford now (not far from Brighton) and it's definitely a lot less friendlier there than it is here.
  17. Dr.Al

    Retirement , what is the end game.

    I completely agree with this but another factor is the area you're moving to (which is hard to really know until you get there). My parents lived in the south east of England for most of their working lives. A few years after they retired they moved to Gloucestershire. They made loads of...
  18. Dr.Al

    Mike builds a teardrop (cedar detail)

    Ha, yes good point. That was the first one I found that looked promising when I did a web search for a reference image. Tearing out the grain depends on the grain direction and how hard you're pushing it I think. The one on the right has a high risk of taking a much heavier cut as a result...
  19. Dr.Al

    Mike builds a teardrop (cedar detail)

    My understanding of climb vs conventional cutting (as the terms are used in a milling machine context) is to do with whether the rotation of the cutter is trying to pull the router forward and make it cut further or whether you're fighting it and it's always trying to push back to where it has...
  20. Dr.Al

    French holiday house

    El Wood Maison Zwei
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