• 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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    Chisels

    I’m mostly using the Magnusson chisels from Screwfix (6 for £30). After doing a bit of work to get them in shape, they seem OK. 6000 stone, followed by 8000 paste on a leather strop gets them hair-shaving sharp. I have Narex (the basic model) and some old chisels and don’t use them because...
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    Exterior door threshold

    These threads are a real testament to my slowness. Started thinking about this area late September. Started ripping things up late October. Here we are in March getting closer, but still not done. We’ve got visitors in May so it’ll be done by then.
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    Exterior door threshold

    Current state of the front door. I had thicknessed the threshold using router skates so I removed the front door to chop the bottom off with the track saw. The track needed to go where the lower bolt was so I removed the lower bolt, filled the whole area (still using up that osmo ebony wood...
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    Removing cat flap

    I placed the vertical moulding first and scribed the horizontal moulding. Probably should have done it the other way round for best water protection. Used dec caulk to fill any gaps. Screwdriver removed the excess. For scribing I straight cut a 5 mm piece off the end of the moulding and...
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    Removing cat flap

    Needs a little more paint and the hole filler sanded & painted, but looks like a door now
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    Have a guess why I made this.

    It’s never too late. Retirement side hustle?
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    Have a guess why I made this.

    Putting change in when selling lemonade from the roadside?
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    Tooth Fairy Boxes - The finished article.

    V good. Love the magnets. I saw a sliding magnetic catch recently where you have two magnets in the moving part and one in the fixed part. In closed position, the fixed magnet aligns with a matching magnet in the moving part to attract the pieces. Moving the catch, slides the attracting...
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    Removing cat flap

    Talking of bloody chisels, I mentioned that I cut myself on it yesterday. Side of my finger against the side of the chisel. Not deep, just a bit annoying. As on previous occasions, I probably didn’t fully notice until minutes after it happened. Are you supposed to blunt the sides of a chisel or...
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    Removing cat flap

    Anyone remember this: arry went to ampstead arry lost his at arry’s mother says to arry arry, where’s your hat? It’s anging on the ook in the all I don’t know the origin, just something my parents used to say. A music hall number? TV comedy sketch?
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    Removing cat flap

    I attached the moulding with 20 mm pins and drilled pilot holes for them using a pin that I’d made headless as the bit. Since I use different pins in this way quite frequently, I recently bought a couple of cheap (£7 for 2) hex shank chucks to hold the pins for quick swaps: (Pictured with a...
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    Removing cat flap

    Spent way too long messing with the panel (tried to size it to use the grooves from the existing panel, but 6 mm ply is not that flexible). Cut the mouldings. Here’s the outside with just the vertical mouldings resting in place
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    Removing cat flap

    Dimension of replacement panel 175 mm x 217 mm x 6 mm (6 mm is the thickness of the panel I removed) First blood to the chisel
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    Removing cat flap

    Tools in use:
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    Removing cat flap

    T Not this year. It’s on the list for next year.
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    Removing cat flap

    It’s the back door. We’re country so, it’s the most used, but doesn’t need to be perfect. Looks like this with the cat flap removed and a bit of a scrape. Inside looks the same. I’m going to take off the bit of moulding and panel back to the horizontal then use plywood and the mouldings...
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    Removing cat flap

    I want to remove the cat flap from this door Any advice for adding a panel back to fill the hole without taking the door apart? I guess a panel flush to the sides held in by moulding (and/or fixings hidden by the moulding) should work?
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    artists studio easel winding gear with trapezoidal threaded rod and cranking handle or wheel

    Did you make any progress on your easel Steve?
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    Mike builds a teardrop (Gas)

    I’ve been re-watching Backshall in his Expedition TV series. My favourites are the jungle/river trips. Well worth a watch if you haven’t already seen. Think it’s on iPlayer or UKTV again. He’s not very comfortable in whitewater, but good on him for risking his life to give it a go for our...
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    What I have fixed today

    Not a one day job, but oak floor installed and oiled and re-oiled table top. The table base will have to wait for an abundance of free time to get the attention it needs. Perhaps 2027?
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