• 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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    Bois de Steve

    If the bricks are hard to get out and you are planning to do that yourself, then I highly recommend getting a pick axe. Doing that job with a spade or shovel will wear you out. I tried to when I had to remove a stretch of compacted debris from our land, but gave up quite quickly and got me a...
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    Bois de Steve

    Yeah, a hedge would we a very good idea. It offers shelter to all kinds of birds and small animals and it will break the wind (no, not that one), shielding your new trees. On the other hand: our hedge is always full of great and blue tits that are just waiting for the fruit to be ripe enough...
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    Bois de Steve

    I have done what you are thinking about. It is great to see the saplings grow into trees! But, apart from the recommendations to protect them from deer and other animals (a good portion of our saplings got damaged by deer trying to get the skin off their antlers) and use root starters, you also...
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    How would you make this?

    What about a router with a large diameter bowl & tray bit with a bearing and a template of the desired diameter? You'd have a flat bottom, but if that's not a problem, then it would be by far the fastest approach, I think.
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    Daughters Kitchen final stages Handles and floor now done.

    Impressive! Judging from the photos that kitchen has a very nice feel about it.
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    Book Review - Dovetails, the Hand Tool Approach by Mitch Peacock

    I own the DF 500 and think it is a great machine. I sure do use it a lot. However, I like the idea of being able to do things the traditional way whenever the need or desire pops up. I am not a pro, so for me woodworking is just as much about having fun and developing skills as it is about...
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    Book Review - Dovetails, the Hand Tool Approach by Mitch Peacock

    I can do dovetails, but wouldn't even remotely dare to say I am proficient. This might be an interesting read for me. Thanks for the review!
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    Of Mice …

    In our case they didn't bring in food stuff. They did damage the car somewhat, but not too much. The really bad thing was what they left behind. It isn't that hard to clean up (a good UV light helps), but the smell is persistent and pungent. 😨We are glad the mice don't seem to be able to get...
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    Of Mice …

    Luckily we don't have them in the workshop. But my wife used to have mice in her Mazda 323. They entered the car through the wheel arches. That was the only car we had that happen to. You'd think with all the buzzards around they wouldn't stand a chance (we have a lot of those), but apparently...
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    Merry Christmas

    God Jul! / Fijne feestdagen!
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    Ha! No "sorting out" needed. As far as I know nobody on this forum has done anything to offend me. Mark just helped me out when my initial request for an account raised some brows due to the very generic e-mail address I use. I fully understand why that may have caused some spam-related doubts...
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    Yeah, no worries. I fully understand.
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    Airclamps are quite common on sliders, but very expensive. I have never seen them other than for the sliding table. That is, on the left side of the blade, where they can move together with the workpiece. On the right side of the blade they would be too bulky and in the way. That's why an...
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    @Phil : yeah, that is very far down South indeed. Can't get much farther than that. ;)
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    Hej du @sweols , great to see some Swedish influence here. I've started learning the language, but it will take some time before I am good enough to converse in Swedish. I should put in more time. Reading is OK, but understanding spoken Swedish is still quite hard for me.
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    Not all saws have a proper brake. Waiting for the blade to stop spinning seems to be too much of a bother for many people.
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    If you've been flicking off yer offcuts on a slider....

    That's what Aigner designed their "Abweiser" for. Of course, it is not too much of a bother to make something like that yourself. You'll need a magnetic table though. I often cringe when looking at Youtube videos. It seems like safety is mostly a thing for the lawyers, because in practise unsafe...
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    @Malc2098 : Nah, sadly not. I have, or should I say had, almost absolute hearing. But tinitus has reduced my ability to hear when something's off. The thing is, I can't hold a rhythm for longer than 10 seconds. I tried playing the guitar, but my teacher told me after a few lessons I would never...
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    Zirben is pine, but not "normal" pine. Other pinus species do not contain pinosylvin and (most) do not thrive at the heights where the Zirbelkiefer grows. It really is a distinct species of pine. Maybe some of you have been to the Alps and have slept in a room with a smell most of us typically...
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    Finally decided to dive in after lurking for far too long

    @Cabinetman : the Latin name is Pinus cembra. I think the English call it stone pine? Not sure about that. @Blackswanwood : yeah, Maremmas are from Italy. There are reasons to presume they were introduced there from Persia, but that must have been a very long time ago. We adopted them through...
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