• 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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    Legards Furniture - English woodworker with a YouTube Channel

    Early days on this channel, but looks like some interesting work. There’s some evidence of carving, turning, finishing, box making, chair making, axe making on the channel. Who knows what else he gets up to. Looks like it’s Shorts (vertical videos) only. Just 443 subs on YouTube. Probably...
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    Bobby Workshop & Shed (advice needed)

    If he did get it done, he’ll surely be resting after a very strenuous week!
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    Letter Tidy

    Thanks Lons. We like the external letter box, so hope to keep it. Definitely want a flap for the internal, but brushes behind the flap might be OK. The alternative to buying something would be to make a very, very short wooden box with a nail-hinged lid and without a bottom and attach it to the...
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    Letter Tidy

    Could be a good idea. I’ve watched a couple of videos and am starting to get it: If they come as a pair for both sides of the door, mention a sleeve, or provide aperture dimensions, it seems that the sleeve is probably integral and you do need to match aperture size. If it’s only one side...
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    Letter Tidy

    Thanks Andy. Sinking the bolts seems sensible. The challenge I’m having when looking at commercial offerings is that it’s not very obvious to me which are or can be surface-mount only and which require a piece that extends into the opening. If I’d installed one of these before maybe it’s...
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    Letter Tidy

    Apparently the flaps on the inside of letterboxes are called letter tidies in the UK. I did not know this until about 5 minutes ago. Anyway, the letter box for our house is in the back door and does not have a letter tidy. The interior of the external flap is visible and shows some wear which is...
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    Ash trees...Good News!

    From the press release: The technique involves carefully extracting the embryo from the seed coat using a knife and tweezers and placing it on an agar nutrient jelly to give this slow starter a helping hand. Dr Elizabeth Orton, a John Innes Centre researcher and first author of the study...
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    What I have fixed today

    First time for me. Took me about 7 years to work out it was the easiest option. 😜
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    Of the moment …..

    Do the people running the drug trial require a period in which you have no trials before you can start the next one? Or is it just a matter of letting them know which trials you were on?
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    What I have fixed today

    Finally added a light switch cover (Hue control holder) to the last major light switch that didn’t have one. The original light switch was installed very close to the door frame, so there wasn’t enough room to the left of the switch for the covers that I bought. I considered creating a custom...
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    I had forgotten just how good this workholding masterclass is.

    Workshop Heaven have holdfasts: https://workshopheaven.com/shop/?search_query=holdfast Narex at £46 pair Simon James at £56 pair with free 19mm star-m bit
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    What I have fixed today

    Made an accessible coat rack. 2x2 cut in 3 pieces: 2 vertical and 1 horizontal. Laps at 1/3 depth (screwed from the back) so that the horizontal sits in the verticals. Top of the verticals screwed in to to a ceiling joist in the back entrance way. Coat hooks attached to the horizontal. Now my...
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    Secondary glazing

    Sounds like a fun & exhausting project @Accipiter. How long did it take you? Did you have to learn what to do from books? I like text, but I also get a lot of value from woodworking and DIY videos. It’s definitely a good time in history to learn things like this.
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    Secondary glazing

    It’s almost the season for window making as I continue the secondary glazing project, so this thread is getting revived. Next up is a pair almost identical to the ones I put in the shower room. First a few notes to remind myself of things I questioned during the last build. 1. The mullion...
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    What I have fixed today

    Added a gutter to a shed along one side which then turns the corner to a downspout at the back.
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    AI for Technophobes

    It’s going to be interesting to see where it goes. The software will get better and more useful (even if there’s no further breakthroughs), particularly if the developers actually acknowledge the limitations and turn to logical correctness rather than regurgitation, but it’s important to...
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    Bedside Table

    These are very nice. Classic. The best bedside table I’ve used had the top, the drawer, and a shelf. A shelf is good for storing tissues which is helpful for allergy sufferers like me. You don’t want to display the tissues on the top, or make them hard to get to in a drawer, so an open shelf in...
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    AI for Technophobes

    I love a good rant. I think “My bad” was popularised in the ‘90s though.
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    What I have fixed today

    The bolt on the bathroom door hasn’t lined up with its keep since we bought the place. So today I unscrewed the spacer block attached to the door frame to which the keep had been attached, turned it upside down, and reattached it using the same screws & screw holes. Everything is now aligned...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    So how did you make the double dish @HOJ?
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