• 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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    Don't read if you are veganitarian

    Here you go, photos rather than scanned. From the original River Cottage Cookbook. Essentially the same info is repeated in the Meat book. This is more concise. Let me know if you can't read it, and I'll scan it properly. And I have a better haggis recipe than HFW. SO there.
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    Stopped chamfers

    I’m trying to do some stopped chamfers on an oxford frame. It is oak. Half lap joints, so far so good., all done. But the detailing… I have been practicing on some fairly woeful pine. I want a c. 6mm chamfer with 45 degree ends. My first go. Not satisfactory. Ok when you are with the...
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    Moral/ethical/practical question

    Hmmm. This is a tricky one. The young hound has just been found to have a significant tumour in her bladder. I say young, the bitch is about 12 and a bit. If it is confirmed (Dick Vet visit to come, ultrasound or MRI) the prognosis isn’t good. Six months if you leave it and 12 to 18...
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    Holiday Toolchest

    This won’t solve your problem. Just exacerbate it. I work in two locations. For a while I packed up tools every time, carried them out to the car, and brought them back. Even so there would always be a moment when one realised that the job one had in hand could be done more easily with a...
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    Ooni

    To an extent surely it depends on what sort of pizza you want. I like them crisp on the underneath, a mildly discernible crumb and the top starting to brown, in spots on the crust. The main point for what I want achieve is to remove most moisture from the topping– I only use a very thin...
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    Ever wonder how they did computing before computers?

    Curta – popular with the cyberpunks and so. Mentioned in Gibson’s Pattern Recognition if you want a novelistic reference. Thought everyone knew that. (Ironic font). If you don’t mind wading through a load of, hmmm, badly edited plotting Neal Stephenson's Crytonomicon has a lot of stuff...
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    Spring - did I mention I hate gardening?

    Here you go. Looking a bit shaggy at the moment. It'll get its first clip in June, and then another in September I think. Provided conditions are right: you know Jupiter in conjunction with Mars, full moon and all the other things the gardener insists on.
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    Spring - did I mention I hate gardening?

    You're right. Ages to establish. It's box. Planted in the 1930s. Suffering a bit from the dread lurgi these days. But we seem to have it controlled. Not a maze really, a knot garden with floral infills in season. Cut twice a year at enormous expense. You can't really see the box...
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    Spring - did I mention I hate gardening?

    I paid the gardener. Does that count? Jimmy, you're doing well to be getting your stuff in the ground. We're about 40 or more miles south of you and still getting hard frosts. I think this year we are doing anya, ratte and pink fir apple (which was disappointing last year, but...
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    Let Wine Breathe?

    No necessarily. I have some of these - looks a bit medical, but gets the air in. And a decanter looks nicer on the table. To my mind any way. To be absolutely honest I've not really noticed all that much difference. Certainly not for the whites I generally drink. For red, mmm, yes...
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    Mitred Through Dovetail

    This is what I did for a similar problem (it was to support a drop in top rather than a tray, but same principle). Ply sides inside the box proper. Thin strips of oak to top. Insert, mark, cut. And voila. Essentially the same as some one above (Rob?) suggested – only the...
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    You wait all day for a marking gauge thread...

    Well, if people are going to do marking gauge threads… This is so as not to derail Dr Al’s or Mike G’s threads. And to be honest I can’t remember whether I have posted this before. But I use this: It’s made from an old sycamore fire wood log, some fruit wood for the blade wedge, and...
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    Ancestors' names

    This is purely because it amuses me. My father has been going back through the family bibles for our ancestry. Patrilineal side fine: Richard, John, Henry, Henry, Caleb (outlier), Norman and then my father. But on the matrilineal side I have a Marmeduke and a Theophilus. In the late...
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    Secondary glazing

    Small labelled zip-lock bags that sit in a container on top of the frame for storing the glazing panels. I have thought of putting brass inserts in the window frames, and maybe some form of captive turn screw, something along the lines of the fasteners for sash beads. However: i) The...
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    Secondary glazing

    Not that I recommend this, but just to add grist to the mill. We have a very exposed property on a Scottish hillside. Current windows single glazed 1930s WRC (no really) sashes. Secondary glazing by previous occupants. It is as simple as you get. 35mm x 17mm redwood, stained, plain glass...
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    Storm Malik

    Sometime between 9 and 11 this morning. The beech avenue up to our place. Hmm.. No deliveries today then...
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    oh deer!

    That photo’ was taken at our place in Sweden, Tyresö, south of Stockholm. No natural predators left, although there would originally have been bears (the name of the immediate area is Björndalen) who sometimes take deer, and wolves, who certainly would. Largest thing there these days is...
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    oh deer!

    There used to be a plant in that pot. About 2 or 3 metres from our back door. And around 11am. They are protected on the penninsula, and so are pretty fearless. Also a damme nuisance if you are trying to grow vegetables. Or flowers. Or trees. Or anything really...
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    British craftsmanship at its best

    Well, here’s a thing. Dishwasher lunched itself on Christmas Eve. Not a big difficulty, only the two of us (and the wonderhound). We’re using all the silver and crystal, so it is predominantly hand wash any way. So. I took the dishwasher out today in preparation for a new one. I find...
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    Clutch Pencil/Lead Holder Opinions

    Ah, that wonderful time of year again. My father has asked for a mechanical pencil for Christmas. He was vague (a lifetime of being an academic and then managing a substantial proportion of the Civil Service has left him unable to say anything without qualification and tergiversation –...
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