• 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. Woodbloke

    Ideas for replacing hinges.

    I've used Rawlplugs (red'ns) on ordinary household doors (ours are pine) where the original hole is no longer holding the screw quite as firmly as it ought to; works a treat but as others have said, bamboo is also pretty good. A useful source are those used on a bar b queue - Rob
  2. Woodbloke

    Sausages

    According to the blurb on the back, they're 1.4g of salt per 100g of bangers, which doesn't seem too bad especially as I don't cook with or add table salt to a meal - Rob
  3. Woodbloke

    Fish recipes

    Here's a little fishy dish I had for my lunch last week: A spiny lobster, still alive and wriggling, held by one of Japan's renowned Ama lady free divers at Toba. It was unceremoniously lobbed onto the coals to cook, along with all the other offerings: The Ama diver (about 70 years old)...
  4. Woodbloke

    Sausages

    This is the card outer from the Heck bangers recently purchased: Says nowt about mechanically recovered meat or any reference to 'oop narth' in Yorkshire, so I assume they're the premium article. Skins are beef collagen - Rob
  5. Woodbloke

    Sausages

    Thee and me. I've just changed to the Heck 97% meat (pork shoulder) bangers which suit me fine and they taste pretty good too - Rob
  6. Woodbloke

    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    That's pretty standard for most bandsaws, even top endy ones - Rob
  7. Woodbloke

    American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking

    Welcome from Salisbury. Having just got back last night from a long trip abroad, I'm still 'firing on three' but much good sense discussed thus far. As complete newbie to this wood mangling lark I'd advise to keep it simple 'cos simple always works (at least for me) Make a straightforward...
  8. Woodbloke

    Dimensions of D4/D4R clamp bars

    Welcome to WH2. Looking forward to seeing what you've made and are currently making and before anyone else adds their two Euros's worth:ROFLMAO:, we like pictures - Rob
  9. Woodbloke

    Quick and easy round table

    Agreed Andy, if it is Teak, that's a real find! One of my fave timbers and if you like sharpening plane irons, it'll be one of yours too :ROFLMAO: As you know it can be troublesome to glue but a wipe over gluing surfaces with meths or acetone usually does the trick and your normal PVA glue of...
  10. Woodbloke

    Quick and easy round table

    Nice start Andy. I just resurrected my older version of a compass plane to the 'Tool Wall' in the 'shop outside. If the timber comes from that part of the world as you suggest, there's a good chance it's teak; certainly the right colour when the icky varnish has been removed - Rob
  11. Woodbloke

    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    Paul Chapman who some may remember was a big devotee of the Spiral Ratchet screwdriver and had a sizeable collection. My dad told me years ago that they were banned in the Fleet Air Arm as they had a nasty tendency to slip under pressure and so there was a very good chance of the bit puncturing...
  12. Woodbloke

    Possible New Project - Trophy

    I've got a few tubes of that on my Amazon 'Wish List' as in the finer weather I've got reseal a section of the 'shop exterior due to a leak somewhere. Seems to be good stuff that works on wet or dry surfaces - Rob
  13. Woodbloke

    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    I had one years ago but I've forgotten what it did....dovetails? :ROFLMAO: - Rob
  14. Woodbloke

    Chairs - Done!

    Excellent job - Rob
  15. Woodbloke

    Possible New Project - Trophy

    Pinterest - Rob
  16. Woodbloke

    Chairs - Done!

    Spotty coloured dots are even better! - Rob
  17. Woodbloke

    Uses 'electrickery' so... Cross line laser unit

    I'd alter that slightly and change the 'some' for 'all' as @Steve recently experienced :ROFLMAO: - Rob
  18. Woodbloke

    Well that’s another f&£king awful day!

    Some years ago we lot two cats, British Blues, mum and daughter. The mum went first of all and the smaller daughter pined for her so much she lost pretty much all her body weight, so the vet had to the merciful thing. My daughter was then at home and asked to come to the vets each time to say...
  19. Woodbloke

    What I have fixed today

    Parsimonious Pete!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: - Rob
  20. Woodbloke

    Uses 'electrickery' so... Cross line laser unit

    I've no experience with a laser level and have never used one, but I generally wouldn't buy 'el cheapo' kit from anywhere, let alone the 'middle of Lidl' which is a no go zone for me. Although the Huepar stuff is Chinese, it appears not to be cCc, which is encouraging. When you consider the...
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