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

    Not exactly fine woodworking :) The centre's about 80cm deep, the sink is a bog filter (the basket's in there til we decide what to do with it, it'll have moneywort in due course). Once the water is ready, we're hoping to get some stickleback to keep in the pond. The pump's 24v, and the cable...
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    Battle of the adjustables...

    Fiddling with them this morning, the Bahco has least backlash, the Elora most - tho I have no idea how much use they've had over the years, so it tells us nothing about how they were when new. I'd really like to be able to date them but they don't seem to have marking to help with that. I found...
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    Battle of the adjustables...

    Well, not really. We've been helping a friend's dad clear his garage of old tools, buying some for ourselves. I just cleaned these up this morning, after some electrolysis yesterday - left to right, Crescent (USA), Bahco (Sweden) and Elora (Germany). They look beautiful and clearly decent...
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    Heads up on this sad sale.

    I think it's worth remembering it's not the youngsters who decided to be brought up in a society and economy that accepted and encouraged smart phones (etc). And blaming parents for the same is probably unfair - those youngsters who are now entering the work force are the first generation to...
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    Varifocal glasses

    A few days in and I'm getting more used to them. Reading your posts, I can see that mine have a very narrow field of focus for reading - so much so that they're ok for out and about, reading prices in shops etc, but pretty hopeless for reading a book/ looking at a screen. I have either to move...
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    Varifocal glasses

    Thanks for the replies all. I can see I need to persist! I went for a drive earlier, slightly unnerving but ok, and there was the added bonus that I could read things on the dash. Something else that's quite striking is that I can now read the blurb on films on streaming channels on the tv -...
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    Varifocal glasses

    I picked up a new pair of glasses yesterday, the first time I've had any for distance (I've had reading glasses for years). Varifocals - I find them really odd. Do you get used to them in time? I just took the dog for a walk and felt like I was a bit inebriated at times, and generally find them...
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    What were the car designer's smoking ?

    I find this equally disturbing - not so bad in Lotus's photos but painfully ordinary (given the badge and its history) seen in the car park: https://www.lotuscars.com/en-GB/eletre I suppose it raises money to keep developing decent cars.
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    That's a good idea, I'd not thought of Elements - it'd have all I need. That said, it'd be Elements 15 to work with my OS which, wait for it, is no longer available! Is it possible to get a used copy/ would I be able to activate it?
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    Do you not get the hardware/ software escalator with PCs?
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    Not sure about that, I'd say I'm failing to make the financial investment to keep up, and failing to do the learning that might allow a workaround; thus, I become alienated from the technology.
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    I just tried to Grab the details of this iMac, but it does so in Tiff, and I can no longer convert it in PS to jpeg to post to the site! But here's the hardware (Grab taken last year), and the OS is now updated to OS X 10.11.6. Clearly, it's all creaking but not worth the investment to replace...
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    Thanks for the replies all. Once again, I seem to be up against my old OS, not capable of running these applications. For some reason, Photoshop's still running properly on my lad's laptop so it looks like I'm stuck with that for now - a smaller screen but maybe better quality (I'll know when...
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    Thanks all, really helpful - I'll look through them tomorrow and see if anything looks like it'll work for me. I thought of Mac's 'Photos' app after I posted but it is more limited than I was hoping for. I guess I'll be limited by my OS, but we'll see :-)
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    Best alternative to Photoshop?

    I restarted my imac recently and can no longer get Photoshop CC to work, apparently my free trial has finished (I've subscribed since they brought in the CC version so no idea what's happened). As I no longer need it for work, it's probably a good time to stop paying them each month and get a...
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    That horrible feeling when you suddenly realise you have been royally RIPPED .....

    It's a brand name, it used to be made in the same village that our school playing fields were in.
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    Always wondered what was going on here.

    I've no idea what's going on, but apparently (I just Googled it) the design is based loosely on a Claude Lorrain pastoral landscape painting of 1638. And the border derives from an Imari Oriental border. They combine interest in the Grand Tour a couple of hundred years ago with interest in the...
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    Heat Treatment Oven

    I don't know the answer, but is it a bad thing to leave the kiln to cool with the door open? I did raku firing many years ago and sometimes used electric kilns, and remember closing the door asap to avoid too much thermal shock on the elements. Or, I could be wrong and we closed the door to...
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    Heat Treatment Oven

    Fantastic job, Al.
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    Mental Health benefit of woodwork

    I find making something allows me to be fully present, just me, the thing and the tools - and a clearly delineated space which the world generally can't impinge upon. All the nonsense out there tends to disappear for a while. When I'm having treatment, I sometimes picture myself in the workshop...
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