• 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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    What I have fixed today

    He did have two sons...
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    What I have fixed today

    Planeiron is not alone, I regret to say. My previous homeowner placed blinded over two, with fine quarry dust and sand, well tapped, then built a deck over them! When he extended the sewer under the house he then placed floor joists on top of the connection, fracturing the sewer and that led to...
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    Garden Bench

    Scott, your workshop is the size of my bungalow. 😳 Just sayin'; I wish I had your space. I know real estate in Canada is a very different ball-game to UK; I spent some months there a long time ago and the disparity was evident even then. Nice save, Brother. Good to see it back giving pleasure.
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    Reclaimed sapele

    Bob, I have indisputably teak here; will drop over soon and show you it. Very characteristic smell, silicaceous inserts that blunt blades, and yes, wee white flecks in the grain - the odd time, not as a given. Red sawdust? Yes, in artificial light, teak dust (and a freshly planed surrface) can...
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    Reclaimed sapele

    When the school I worked in went from "Heavy Craft" to "C.D.T." out went an Elliott metal shaper (to scrap!), power hacksaw (to me, and promptly sold on), one of those blade sharpeners [that look like old-fashioned 'tub' washing machines] an ML8 lathe (mine too,then sold to finance a new SIP...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    And, it is utterly horiginal. Not another one like it. 👍
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    Tack Hammers

    And breathe...Head back....in through the nose.....hold for a count of four....breathe out for 10. Repeat.
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    Yes another bathroom reno.

    Duke, yes, but what it is for I don't know. I'm sure Tim will be "liberating it into the skip" (dumpster). The wall isn't supporting the floor above..no, but it has a whopping 16Kg air unit to be hung on it..😕. Tim is an engineer and is extremely finicky about loads and displacement. He has...
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    Yes another bathroom reno.

    Ian, I suggested Tim 'bridged' the holes with supplementary studs, length at least 50cm either side of the hole, glued and bolted through all three thicknesses. He also told me of other horrors: a triple ply floor beam, underneath the eventual main kitchen 'island'....20mm off the load-bearing...
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    Yes another bathroom reno.

    Thought this might amuse (or terrify!) those you bathroom renovating. It's a brand new stud wall, plasterboard one side, in my son's house. The now sacked builder claimed he needed to run the soil pipe from upstairs inside the wall, parallel to the 'cold feed'. I estimate there is 3-5mm wood...
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    New member

    Hi Richard and welcome. Just so you don't get the idea we are a south-centric forum, a few of us are up here in Northumberland!
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Proper job.
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    Getting old and stupid

    Hearing aids....
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    Stanley 48

    Most of us just had Airfix models....A '55' is just....wow... What have you got on your walls, where we have three ducks, Al? 😎
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    Getting old and stupid

    Steve, we lose brain cells every day; ergo, we are stupider/less able to retain memory every day. We are also under a great deal more stimuli than our forefathers, all of them vying for that incrementally smaller mental space, so some at some point our brains just 'jettison' items as there is no...
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    Ornate Portuguese Bench Plane

    She's an keeper then, Al. 😎
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    Threading like Grandad

    Fascinating Andy. I have some of this pattern too, from my blacksmith grandfather. I think the oft-missed advice to "go gently" bears repetition. It is all too easy to get a very wonky thread indeed if "you give it some welly". Apparently, the heat generated by speedy hand threading softens the...
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    Like the ocean under the moon

    Taste is individual. If you like it, sorted.
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

    Bet you enjoyed that! 😁
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    Steve's Tip Of The Day- Don't run into a Police car...

    Otto Korrwreckht strikes again. Sorry Steve, the first two words are not wot I typed.....something along the lines of 'put it in perspective, Life is too short'. I must get Jeeves to edit my outgoing pabulum...
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