• 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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  1. Mike G

    Found This Piece, (yes), At The Dump

    Chipboard.
  2. Mike G

    Found This Piece, (yes), At The Dump

    Do you have any idea what timber that's made from, Scott? And what's "pressboard"?
  3. Mike G

    Record temps

    Not your cat! So some strange cat wanders into your house and plonks itself down on your table! The cheek. The nerve.
  4. Mike G

    WIP - my version of Dr Al’s travel tool chest and workbench

    Well done Steve. This is a nice start to your project. Careful it doesn't get too heavy, though. Thin down components where you can. What's the shoulder plane for? I can't see any shoulders.
  5. Mike G

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Great. I'd forgotten those projects. I just didn't want you to end up with something you weren't expecting.
  6. Mike G

    A small project with a difficult joint

    You'll lose the blondeness of the wood. I used Rustins Plastic Coating on the stuff I made from spalted sycamore, but a water-based varnish, maybe with a whitener in it, would also work well. I mean, use the 1:1:1 if you want, but be prepared for it to go a bit yellowy/ orange.
  7. Mike G

    Reclaimed bookcase - finished

    Excellent, Andy. Nice project, nice write-up.
  8. Mike G

    A small project with a difficult joint

    You've not worked in spalted sycamore, then.
  9. Mike G

    Football

    No, I wasn't. I'm a rugby man.
  10. Mike G

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Great little project, Al, and a superb write-up as always. I put glue in the endgrain part of a joint, not with any great care, and not because it provides strength. I do it because it can act as a gap filler, and thus reduce any room for movement should the joint ever come under any strain.
  11. Mike G

    Football

    If we could get Starmer to ring Infantini, do you think we could have that red card rescinded? Wrong shaped ball for me......
  12. Mike G

    Drip irrigation.

    Great explanation, Peter. Thank you. That's cleared up my confusion. Clearly we need a soaker system. Rows of potatoes, sweetcorn, legumes, salad stuff....everything in rows...obviously lend themselves to a straight run of hose.
  13. Mike G

    Drip irrigation.

    We have very hard water too.
  14. Mike G

    Drip irrigation.

    I didn't know there was a difference. Clearly this subject requires a little research. I think we might go to a garden centre and pick their brains.
  15. Mike G

    A small project with a difficult joint

    Great result, Al.
  16. Mike G

    Drip irrigation.

    This would be for our veggie patch, so would be set out in the spring and taken up in the autumn....but necessarily be in a fixed location in between.
  17. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Unfortunately...... My wife exercised her veto over a boatbuilding project. The teardrop was very much a substitute.
  18. Mike G

    Drip irrigation.

    I'm not certain about the terminology, Scott. We may be talking about the same thing. Basically small hoses with lots of small holes which gently leak water onto the ground adjacent to the plants.
  19. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    With the frame dry, I could set out the top and cut the top edge. I thicknessed a couple of pieces of scrap, and cut a bit off the end of one to use as a marker. These pieces acted as spacers to raise a flat board a set distance, with the marking piece then taking the line down to the same...
  20. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    How to do a rebate around the curve: I couldn't come up with any practical way, so just knifed a line, and chiseled: Good enough! So, I used if to mark out the base of the box in the last piece of phenolic ply: I offered up the corner pieces: This mean I could then measure and...
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