• 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

    Guaranteed Acorn!

    Well done Andy. I've got one of those, pushed to the back of the shelf waiting for an hour where I've got nothing at all to do.
  2. Mike G

    Sting

    I was standing in a hot border post somewhere in the Sahara, many years ago, when a big insect somewhere between the size of a crow and a helicopter flew into the room and buzzed slowly (and loudly) around. It's sting was an inch long, and dangled menacingly behind it. The locals didn't bat an...
  3. Mike G

    Todays find.

    Is yours the 4-1/2" version, or the 9" version?
  4. Mike G

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    Yes, I've been in there once or twice. It's fun, but stuff is seldom complete. The chances of finding a plough plane with depth stop, fence, and cutters is remote, I'd say. However, if you want a bench plane, a woodie or 3, or some spokeshaves, it's a gold mine.
  5. Mike G

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    I reckon I can drive about half an hour at the moment, so any sort of inter-country trip like that is too far for me at the moment. There's always next year. And yeah, the Record 50 seems favourite at the moment, if only because of the price.
  6. Mike G

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    The 405 is very much more money than the 50, though. The 405 can be £150+, and the 50 as little as £30.
  7. Mike G

    Needed a trammel quick.

    Well that's rather smarter than any temporary trammel I've ever made! Mine always started with a nail through a batten, and a rubber band holding a pencil in place.
  8. Mike G

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    Sudbury Suffolk is about 5 miles away. But there are 2 or 3 other Sudburys, including one in London.
  9. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    I've done that over the years, but found that now and then the sap finds a way of getting through or around the knotting.
  10. Mike G

    Biscuits

    Shrewsbury biscuits, Quaker Oat biscuits and Grantham Gingerbread biscuits, in that order. All home made. No other biscuits count. Rapiers at dawn. I'll have Carruthers make the arrangements with your man.
  11. Mike G

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    I have finally had enough of my lever-adjusted Stanley 50 Combination Plane. There is simply too much slop in the system, and I am constantly ripping out chunks and then cutting nothing at all with the merest touch on the lever. So, what should I buy, chaps? Obviously I am talking about a second...
  12. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Right, I might need some input here. For the entire time I've thought about this project, I've always had a bog-oak trim around the outside (junction between walls and roof) in my mind. However, I have always worried about bending bog oak around the 200mm radius curve of the roof, and with the...
  13. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    I bought some foam for the headboard, and cut it using a 1970s electric carving knife, which is just perfect for the job: Next, I took a pattern, and started work on the trim pieces under the roof which will cover some wiring, and locate a couple of switches. Initially, I was going to do...
  14. Mike G

    Woodworking shows & open day announcements

    I'd love to go, but I can't manage that drive. Have a great time.
  15. Mike G

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

    Well done Steve. That's not an easy joint the first few times. All I would offer in the way of advice is to stay away from your (socket) lines for as long as you can, and offer-and-adjust.
  16. Mike G

    What I have fixed today

    They're called an MVHR system over here (Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery). They're not common, but I've been installing them in every project I've been involved with over the last 30 years. We work on 1/2 an air change per hour, but even so, it's such a gentle air movement that no-one...
  17. Mike G

    NHS - truly amazing service

    I was going to say...."good to hear"......but no. It's not good to hear that you've got issues. I hope you are dealt with well and the operation goes to plan. Best wishes from us both.
  18. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Yes. Putting my foot down quickly in an emergency at the moment would likely put me back to square one, if not to the operating table. Also, I can't really put any power through my achilles, so any sort of hill or acceleration would be all but impossible. - In another first, I've just taken...
  19. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Well, I expect to be there. Hopefully I'll be able to manage a bit longer on my feet than I can now.
  20. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Twelve weeks to the day after my operation, I've just had my first drive. I did a couple of emergency stops as a test, found that was OK, and drove in to the shops to buy my wife some flowers. I wouldn't want to go much further than the 4 or 5 miles I did, but that's a huge step forward in the...
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