• 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!

Recent content by Doug71

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    B17 flyover

    My workshop is on an old airfield which was a second world war bomber base, as well as a few industrial units it's a home to a vintage aircraft collection and a flying club. This weekend was their annual 1940's event and yesterdays highlight was a duo spitfire display. It's not ever day you...
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    Cordless tool battery management for optimal usage over time... ?

    I have quite a few Makita 18v batteries that get used daily, I have had 2 or 3 die on me but they must have been 15+ years old. I have a 3ah one that still works fine which is from the days before they put a fuel gauge on them so I'm guessing must be at least 12+ years old. I have a 1.5ah and a...
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    Football

    I'm no football fan but do tend to watch England games, the late start meant I didn't bother with this one though. Last week I got an email from my sons secondary school saying that because of the late England match the pupils didn't have to be in school until 11:30am on Monday morning, school...
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    Nice bit of joinery

    A house just down the road from me has a quirky porch which I have always admired so whilst working there today I asked the owner if he minded me taking a photo of it to share with some like minded woodworkers. He was quite happy for me to do this and said there were some matching "anchor"...
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    What is my best way of protecting oak skirting board and architrave?

    A customer of mine has just treated some Oak bits and pieces with Osmo, they didn't do any test pieces and it has turned out darker than they expected, I felt bad for not mentioning the Osmo raw to them. The raw has a small amount of white pigment in and leaves light coloured wood looking a bit...
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    What to do with Off Cuts?

    I put all mine on the log burner. My workshop is so much tidier in the colder weather as most days I take home a flexi tub full of off cuts to burn. In the warmer weather when I don't have a fire the off cuts soon build up, I do try and bag them up every week ready for the cold weather but...
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    Right angle drill attachment

    I always think that the drill attachments that aren't actually fixed to the drill look like you would need 3 hands to use them. I have the Festool versions, quick tip, you can use them with a normal hex socket screwdriver if needed, maybe obvious to some people but I only realised it a while...
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    UK makers of hand tools

    A couple of modern ones here, you know these days it's important to have all your tools colour coordinated when on site........ https://www.kinetic-customs.com/ They did used to make a lot of different styles of hammers but seem to have gone down a different route these days, here is one of...
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    Festool TS55 lock washer problem

    Just looked and my TS 55 has those fastenings that Festool often use that are like a torx with a slot through so you can use torx or flat head/straight slotted screwdriver with them.
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    Some options here. Not sure if you would get away with the 102 x 67 as the knuckle will be smaller so the leaves might be similar size? https://www.morehandles.co.uk/m-marcus-heritage-brass-solid-brass-double-phosphor-washered-hinge.html
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    You do get some really annoying hinges where the manufactures name is stamped on horizontally which always leaves me in turmoil as to if I should go for most to the post or the lettering the right way up 🤯
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    Most to the post, least to the piece....... I'm not a fan of bearing type hinges and only use them when I have to, some people like the modern look of them but I much prefer a more subtle traditional butt hinge. I think my issues with them stem from the ones people get in the cheap handle...
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    What I have fixed today

    The kids told me the toilet in their bathroom wouldn't flush, it's a high level cistern and a quick investigation told me the little hook that connects the arm to the syphon had broken. I went for a proper old school fix and used a wire coat hanger to make a new hook, don't know how long it will...
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    Letter Tidy

    Many of the letter tidies are curved so designed to miss the bolts (although your bolts do look bigger than normal)...
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    Getting old and stupid

    A couple of weeks ago I spent 2 hours looking for my van keys, I was really starting to panic as I'd been through everything including all my pockets, bins etc (I had checked the fridge). My mother popped round and asked why I wasn't at work and why I looked so stressed, I told her I'd lost my...
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