• 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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    Stone carving - brilliant set of project videos

    Yeah stuff like that can be annoying to some and if the content is not compelling enough it’s a reason to move on. Apparently that’s changing though. She’s said she’s switching to landscape on YouTube and 5 of the 6 non-Shorts videos came in the last 3 weeks. I use YT by subscribing and then...
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    Stone carving - brilliant set of project videos

    If you want more stonemasonry on YT, there’s also https://youtube.com/@gingermason who is a mason at Lincoln cathedral
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    Like the ocean under the moon

    Thanks again. I don’t know anything about metalwork - as you can tell - but I was watching a Marius Hornberger video recently and he kept talking about distortion that could be brought on by welding which wasn’t something I’d thought about before. I should have thought about it in this context...
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    Like the ocean under the moon

    Yes, it makes sense. Thanks. I have supplementaries though: What state is the tool steel delivered to you? You said it’s oil quenched, so does that mean it’s hard? Are you doing the heating because the steel as delivered isn’t the right hardness/brittleness or because your tooling operations...
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    Like the ocean under the moon

    Sorry for asking the bone-headed questions, but what’s the purpose of each heating?
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    Stain sample pots?

    Are tea and coffee worth experimenting with for oak?
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    Stain sample pots?

    Thanks! The wood colours one is perfect.
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    Stain sample pots?

    I’d like to try out some wood staining (mainly on oak), but wondered if there’s a good place to get small quantities of stain from so I can compare colours. How do you get into this?
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    Quick and easy round table

    I can adapt to a low ceiling, but turns out I can’t adapt to a low doorway as the dents in my forehead and scrapes on the top of my head will attest. I dream of the day I’ll take a recip saw to my workshed, slice it horizontally all the way around, and jack up the upper half another foot so that...
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    Imgur Blocking UK Users

    Can you host the forum locally using a backup of the DB and let the plugin do its job with access to a VPN? If the plugin works quickly, could consider taking the forum offline for a day, do the update on the VPN’d local machine using latest data, then transfer the DB back to the server?
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    Columns between skirting and shower

    Part of the fix up on the shower room is replacing a block of wood that someone had previously used to patch the skirting. One long piece of skirting is massively bowed and the patch piece is next to it but with a straight edge leaving a rather large gap. I cut a replacement patch from an offcut...
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    Festool Track Saw Dust Port Improvement

    Festool have a single-battery tracksaw coming out soon, the TSC 55 KS. There are a couple of improvements on that model that may be applicable to other models if they make spare parts available. The notable one for me is the locking dust port. If you have a Festool saw, you know that the elbow...
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    Not sure I introduced myself before

    Welcome Shafiq
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    Columns between skirting and shower

    That’s an interesting idea.
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    Columns between skirting and shower

    Yes, scoping the work to be as small as possible & reduce uncertainty. Have a huge list of fixes to do on the house and this was a recent addition to the list. Whole room going to be redone in the next couple of years.
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    Columns between skirting and shower

    Continuing the skirting is a good suggestion and probably easier than what I’m doing if I just made a small piece. I probably should have done this, but I was thinking would be easier to correct scribing mistakes on a cover piece (cut larger & fill with caulk) than on a matching piece. Nothing...
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    Exterior door threshold

    Yeah the door catch not aligning could have been a result of hinge-side changes over time. Not just the hinges are old, but the wood frame is not the strongest. Had to increase hinge screw size & length at the bottom. Hope to get another few years out of this door & frame before addressing them...
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    Exterior door threshold

    My wife is surprisingly tolerant of partially completed projects, but she has recently decided on a new system for renovations: I’ll decide how and she’ll decide when. Seems like a good plan to me.
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    Columns between skirting and shower

    Please ignore the filth! Pic below shows how the baseboard meets the shower tray but leaves a gap next to the frame of the enclosure. The block I’m creating for this internal corner will be scribed to the baseboard on one side and the shower enclosure on the adjacent side.
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    Columns between skirting and shower

    There’s a gap between the skirting and shower enclosure that I have been tasked with beautifying (or at least covering). I’m creating mini columns from 2x2 about 8 inches tall. This means that they are wider than the gap and taller than the skirting and will still have enough meat left on once...
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