• 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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    Stainless rack for Ninja Crispi 4-in-1?

    I'm looking to get one of these for my daughter https://ninjakitchen.co.uk/product/ninja-crispi-4-in-1-portable-glass-air-fryer-cyber-space-fn101ukgy-zidFN101UKGY but reading around the net it looks like the rack has an undisclosed coating, which makes its claim to be 'non-toxic' questionable...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (doors, cedar strips, ironmongery)

    Fabulous thread - I keep checking in to see the final look once the varnish/ whatever is on the cedar strip!
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    Destructive critter?

    We're in South Wales, but according to Robert's beaver map, there aren't any beavers near us, and I've not heard of any - plenty of otters now tho, apparently. At the other side of the garden, we planted a couple of apple trees at the same time as the fig. They're doing well so far, fingers crossed!
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    Destructive critter?

    Whatever the critter, I'll be keeping an eye out from now on! We have an active lurcher in the household, who generally patrols and keeps little nuisances at bay, but the past weeks it's been so wet and chilly that the back doors have been mostly closed. I shall have words with him.
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    Destructive critter?

    I missed the chance to check, Chas - I was cutting back raspberry bushes and piling the offcuts into the same part of the garden, before I realised there was supposed to be a small three there. :-(
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    Destructive critter?

    It belonged to the ex, and lived in a large plastic pot for about a decade after she moved on. It was resilient, as I kept forgetting to water it. So a couple of years ago I put it in the ground and it seemed to be thriving, tricky to get the fruit ripe but we had some. And yes, it's a real...
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    Destructive critter?

    There's a river about 100 yards away, but I've never seen anything coming to the garden from there (a couple of roads in the way). That's a shame, I was hoping it'd be something at least nice to look out for. I know there are rats about, too.
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    Destructive critter?

    Our small (6') fig tree has been in the ground a couple of years. But today, I noticed it wasn't there - it had been there a few days ago. It's been gnawed away at the bottom, a bit like a cartoon beaver's work but on a smaller scale. It really is quite neat and precise. My first thought was...
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    A tad of mirth

    Popped up on my FB Marketplace this morning...
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    Christmas has come early!

    I used mine a few years back in a small sculpture in memory of an old friend. This bit still sits on my desk, awaiting inspiration. Thanks Mike.
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    Knife making

    Continuing my avoidance of actually making a knife, the lad put this together the last couple of days. The photo is of a small fire to dry the refractory mortar, and we need still to put an air-in and ash removal shoot on next. We'll be doing a small amount of hammering but hopefully not enough...
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    Retirement , what is the end game.

    I retired at 55. The plan (pre-Brexit) was to retire to the south-east of France, between the Bay of Biscay (surf in summer) and the Pyrenees (snow in winter). Post-Brexit that turned into a plan to live on the west coast of Wales. Rain in winter, rain in summer. At 60 (three years ago) I was...
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    Thicknessing jig for hand planes

    I remember you mentioned you had a plan for such an infinitely variable thicknesser several years ago when I was making a relatively crude one (using layers of thin card to determine thickness). Nice.
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    Mill shaft

    What do you think is in the jug? It seems to be an important part of the process.
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    Knife making

    We find creating a consistent grind from spine to edge tricky, so we just made this to help. It's a sprung hinge, the rest is pretty obvious - design from this Instructables post: https://www.instructables.com/Knife-Grinding-Jig-1/ In the end, we turned a couple of pulleys for the motor and...
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