• 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. Steve Maskery

    What I have fixed today

    That looks very good Ian. Just for scale, how far apart are the uprights, please? S
  2. Steve Maskery

    Wedged M&Ts

    For something like a window, I would cut my mortices on my hollow-chisel mortice and use a wedge underneath the workpiece to cut the angled ends of the mortices. In that way I can cut all my wedges with a single setup. S
  3. Steve Maskery

    How to get the most out of these...?

    They are spectacular and I'm not surprised that you want to get the best out of them. I think going the veneer route is a good idea, but it would definitely be more feasible to get them resawn into veneers of 2-3mm, rather than knife-cut to 0.7mm. I don't know who cuts veneers, presumably there...
  4. Steve Maskery

    Holdfast holes - is there really much science behind palcement?

    I suggest that you try it on a piece of scrap first. A 19mm top seems very thin to me. Holdfastds work by racking between the top of the hole and the bottom, and if these two points are very close together, there is nothing to rack against. I'm not saying they won't work, they may work fine, but...
  5. Steve Maskery

    The quest for T-slot brackets

    Welcome to Andy's Emporium of Troves. (y) S
  6. Steve Maskery

    France's Freddie Mercury...

    Yes, that's the one. But it should be High Dudgeon, rather than A Dudgeon. Otherwise, yes. S
  7. Steve Maskery

    France's Freddie Mercury...

    No, that's a new one on me. "I'll tell you an old-fashioned story, that my grandfather used to relate, about a joiner and building contactor, his name were Sam Ogglethwaithe..." S
  8. Steve Maskery

    AI for Technophobes

    Are we still talking about AI or UK politics in general? S
  9. Steve Maskery

    France's Freddie Mercury...

    That reminds me that I can do Noah and his Ark. Not done it for ages, I'll have to practise. S
  10. Steve Maskery

    I had forgotten just how good this workholding masterclass is.

    I have the Lie-Nielsen ones and wouldn't be without them. S
  11. Steve Maskery

    AI for Technophobes

    I have to say, this has taken a rather dark turn that I wasn't expecting...!
  12. Steve Maskery

    France's Freddie Mercury...

    When we lived in the UK, we went to a folk club every week. "Folk" was interpreted very loosely indeed. I've never really been into music of any kind, one of the things I love about living here is the silence and calm, but Sheila really misses the music scene. She found an open mic night only...
  13. Steve Maskery

    It's curtains for me - what on earth do I do with this?

    By "dot and dab glue" do you mean the powdered MAP stuff that you mix with water (which I have) or do you mean a cartridge product that you inject (I have the nozzle but only PU foam, which I'm pretty sure would not be sufficiently weight-bearing)? S
  14. Steve Maskery

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

    I have three nascent peaches on the tree I planted in spring last year. But the tree also has a red fungus growing on the leaves. I've bought the right fungicide to treat the problem, but it is the wrong time of the year to apply it. So I'm having to remove the affected leaves and spray the...
  15. Steve Maskery

    It's curtains for me - what on earth do I do with this?

    Thank you all, gentlemen. I think I shall investigate the geometry of hanging it from that ceiling joist. S
  16. Steve Maskery

    It's curtains for me - what on earth do I do with this?

    Today someone (not me but there are only two of us in this house...) decided to pull back the curtain and was just a tad heavy-handed about it. As you can see, I am not the first person to be here. The structure is: Granite wall Dob-and-dab plasterboard with 25 polystyene behind it. Thats it...
  17. Steve Maskery

    AI for Technophobes

    Cheeky! But unfortunately factually accurate... S
  18. Steve Maskery

    AI for Technophobes

    My partner is the least tech-literate person I have ever met. It drives me mad. She does know: How to write and send an email, but don't even think about CC or BCC How to spend hours doom-scrolling Facebook How to talk to her sister on Messenger How to use Google to search for Useless Stuff. I...
  19. Steve Maskery

    Getting old and stupid

    Not only can you not change your PIN here in France, but you can't pay in cheques with your phone app like you can in the UK. I asked the front desk laddie where the option to pay in was (cheques are still used a great deaal here) and he just laughed. I told him my NatWest app would do it. I got...
  20. Steve Maskery

    Getting old and stupid

    When I lived near Mansfield, I used to go to the Folk Club. One Monday I set off, but something didn't feel right. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was definitely a little problem. Only when I started to get out of the car did I realise I still had my slippers on. Great hilarity ensued. S
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