• 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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    New Forum bugs/feature requests/dislikes etc

    Not that it is my place to say – your forum, do what you like – but I think I am rather with Trevanion on this. Why shouldn’t we be able to edit our submissions infinitely? If you are worried about ‘slash and burn’ withdrawals, well, maybe, the posts weren’t worth it in the first place. UKW did...
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    A trip down Memory Lane

    Commodore VIC20 was my first one. 6502 chip IIRC. I learnt to machine code on it, and wrote a programme to double the character count per line by remapping the keyboard to a character set of my own design. Don't ask me why. And used the RS232 port for an electric saxophone I made. Ludicrously...
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    Workshop helper

    Many years ago, whilst growing up in Africa, our nanny taught us to tap our shoes/boots upside down before putting them on, to ensure scorpions hadn’t got in them. I still do it to this day (to the vast amusement of my partner) although I suspect the risk in Scotland is rather lower…
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    Show us your Box Shutter latches.

    I don't know whether this would suit your requirement, but I have used these before on Georgian shutters in recessed boxes. Slidy bolt goes into brass plate on the base of the shutter box. You can also use them to link top and bottom shutters, but you have to be very careful that they run...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Oh well, if we’re going to have a pie-off, may I respectfully submit: Pork shoulder and smoked pork belly. It was going to have a partridge in, but it hadn’t taken kindly to the freezer. Seasoned with sage, thyme, mace, cayenne, black and white pepper, bay leaf. Shoulder cut, not minced...
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    Turkey, goose or something else.

    Ahh. Leftovers. Roast rib of beef with fresh horse radish on rye sour dough, chicken lever parfait ditto, and one of my infamous raised pies. Wasnae bad.
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    A Cautionary Tale

    This may seem to be very specific advice, but I’m sure it is universal (please tell me it is…) Don’t drive down to your Borders bolt hole, looking forward to two weeks isolation and relaxation. Unload all the goodies. And realise you have left all (yes, all) your partner’s presents back...
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    Keyhole Plate

    Hum. One of these beggars I assume. I can tell you what I did (which may not help you much). Old set of shelf brackets that I ripped out as ghastly. Saved the bits and cut them down. But, next time I wanted some: big box store, selling pine brackets with these fittings for under £3...
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    Bark to bark? Can’t decide.

    For what it is worth these are the legs of my work bench – one bark to bark, one pith to pith and two aligned. I could say it was an experimental ploy, but actually, just getting the best faces outwards might be nearer the mark. After 6 years it has made not a jot of difference. No...
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    Holiday Toolchest

    Well, this has not been approved by the Black Stone gang, but, if none of the Faroese carvings appealed to you -what is wrong with Olav the mighty btw – why not I seem to have acquired quite a collection of these. This one was bought In Hong Kong in the early 2000s, Probably mainland...
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    Holiday Toolchest

    This is what I meant. Reverse it, put the ripples in the bowl, as it were, a small turned knob will cover the meeting point of the gouge tracks. Good dark wood mini knob, possibly with an ivory dot at its centre. Could look quite neat. And would involve an additional amount of amusing faff.
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    A Plane

    You're just doing this to annoy me, aren't you? And since it is a roughing plane, I have since opened the mouth, and put a much bigger camber on the iron. Just wanted to see how good I could get it before I started adapting it.
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    A Plane

    When I was in the Faroes, in the Tjóðsavnið there were a few tools relating to boat building (faroese fishing boats - 4 to 12 oars, one or two mini masts, double prowed). And I came across this (rubbish photo'. Through glass, and I can see the reason, but sometimes they take the low lighting...
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    Faroese Carvings

    Some may be interested in these. 1400's from a church, Ólavskirkjan in Kirkjubøur. Number of other photo', including some of a seyðurslaktir (sp.? Faroese is incomprehensible), which I might need to run by the mods. Not suitable for veggies, or sensitive souls.
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    Trim: re Topley

    Don’t want to mess up Mike’s thread. Tiresias wrote:Oh, yes, Don Topley mentioned you the other day on the radio. Your fame spreads far and wide. First time I’d ever heard this name was in this thread, then I just pick up my phone to see this notification… Quick Google suggests Reece is...
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    Faroes

    Ok, this was a bit of a googly. My partner is taking me to the Faroes for my birthday. Two reasons: Ancestral connection (you can’t make a Scottish/Irish drinking and fighting machine without a dash of Scandi – I have couple of leads to follow. Probably boring church scouring). And I...
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    Tool storage

    For what it is worth, this is my tool box. Old photo', and the interior has metamorphosed a bit, but none of the interior fittings are fixed - all removable, and rearrangeable, held in place by the notched joints. Irregular shaped items are in boxes in the lower space. Comme ca...
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    Holiday Toolchest

    Just a suggestion, but you could make one of these. I did that a few years ago. It now has a fancy brass knob, but these are the photo’ I can access at the moment. It would run nicely in the channel design you are proposing. Body is a single piece of sycamore. Inset of plum wood...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Well, it isn’t precisely the last thing I have done, but it has taken me up to now to sort out the hardware. I did post a WIP on the other place, but deleted it as far as I was able. Not sure what the etiquette is on these things. I could repost here if anyone is interested. So, anyway...
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    Getting offally difficult .....

    Hmm, I’ve been meaning to comment on this. Your best chance for decent offal is a Chinese super market with a butchery section. There is one down Leith Walk that I use. I think that it is run separately to the main shop, but conversing about licence/lease/ownership is a bit beyond my Chinese...
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