• 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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    Hello, good morning and welcome...

    The more complicated they make it, the easier it is to foul up. A wise man once wrote that.
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    Let me be the first here……..

    Trim's comments resonate strongly with me, coming from "Norn Iron" as I do. Amongst other absolute paradoxes, a certain sash-wearing Order, loyal to The Crown, is adamantly opposed to the trappings and practices of one (opposing??) religion....yet....the Dutch(!) King they venerate, and whose...
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Tendons are not your average tissue, regretably Mike. They grow (repair) at a sloth-like rate compared to others, hence the restrictions. I won't offer platitudes re the frustration you're feeling, but instead encourage you to stick with it. My friend Robin.is a water polo player, snapped his...
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    Like the ocean under the moon

    Seconded. You do have to be careful with some solvents, as they dissolve the constituent plastics.
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    Moving an outside mains stopcock. Or not.

    I did exactly this back in Belfast 35 years ago, when lead pipes and inaccessability combined to dictate a new blue, 25mm mains connection, run around the perimeter of the house, to enter just below the sink. The neighbours were dead jealous as their old silted-up lines gave dribbles and I had...
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    hacked debit card

    Seconded. O2 (allegedy) employ an Asian androgynous-sounding individual. Tried calling me four times so far, insisting: " We can cut your subscription" and similar keek. I simply say: " No, you can't" and hang up.
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Chuffin' hell man, that's rough. Commiserations. My colleague Robin had this particular affliction Mike, after a similar misadventure. Based on his experiences, I would advise extreme, as in paranoid extreme, caution in coming anywhere near load-bearing on that leg.
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    Dust extraction.

    Jeez, Mike, you just do not hang about. Respect.
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    Stone carving - brilliant set of project videos

    They were still at it 6 weeks ago...
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    Acetone

    Mike, try educational suppliers. They supplied me and my science colleagues with "Winchesters" (5L brown glass bottles). Your Missus may know a Science Tech? Job done? Though, the link posted just above is probably as good a price as you are likely to get. Above all else, use it in a well...
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    A tad of mirth

    😖!! Brilliant!! You've just got to wonder how the link/inspiration for tha came together....
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Seconded. I have one and its piddly wee brother, 100mm I think. The castings come with surprisingly sharp edges, you can kiss them with a file if you want, but their accuracy is just fine. Peter Millard put.me on to them; he used them widely in his videos.
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    Your mill got a "suds" pump Mark? It makes a shockin' difference. That, and slowing the traverse right down. You do have to take the published "standard" speeds as a guide and faff around either side of "recommended values" with feed and depth of cut.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Shafiq? Don't waste money. Peen the angle between the two arms of your square and get it back accurate again. (I'm assuming its a roofing square?). It took 8 'goes' to rectify mine after I dropped it - from a roof! That was 15 years ago and it's been spot on since.
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    He's back!

    For those of you with a creative streak, that man Claymore, a.k.a. Brian, the one with the hugely impressive intarsia, has just posted on UKWS, and my goodness, has he had it rough in the last five years...
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    Robert Thompson/Mouseman

    Thanks Robert and Ian.
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    Robert Thompson/Mouseman

    There is a place 'tween Yawksha and Cumbria: Lord's Antiques; the auction centre, not the warehouse. They presently have a large collection of R.T. tables, chests of drawers, etc, all with the motif. Costly, but gorgeous and fascinating. For me, the greatest design feature is that rippled table...
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    And so a new week begins...

    Steve, you have been an incredible magnet for Yobbo semi-erectus, sub sp. boyracer. You poor man! Glad to hear you are now in Chateau Nesepasserienici.
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    So it is Spring now, for me it's still Winter

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    Quick and easy round table

    Tung oil. Leaves a crackin' finish on teak, and leaves the grain beautifully visible. Will look out some pictures.
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