• 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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    Look after yourselves chaps!!

    To anyone reading this, if you find yourself in the abyss, just know that you are not alone. You can tell from the responses above that you are not the first in this little community to be there, and you will not be the last. There is a lot of support and understanding out there, you just have...
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    Look after yourselves chaps!!

    That is so sad to hear, Mark. I've been in very dark places more than once, but I'm in a good place these days. Long may that continue.Things can, and do, get better. S
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    Church Notice Board

    Don't worry about the difference in colour, WW, it will darken uniformly in no time. Good start. S
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    Heath-Robinson Pencil Sharpener - Brilliant!

    There are a few wonder pencil-sharpeners around, mechanical marvels. and they are not even the ones I was trying to find. I agree they are very drool-worthy devices.
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    Chicken of the woods

    Not foraged, but I bought these this morning. I saw them last week, but they didn't look very fresh. A lady was handling them, so I asked her what they were. "Pleurots", she replied. I think that they are Oyster mushrooms in English. She said they were very tasty, but that particular box...
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    Festool Domino scare

    Just to update this - I had another cable fail on me last week, one of the newer-style ones. There are six, yes six clips (Edit - no, I can't count, a mere 4) holding the grey and green parts together. I bet if you could depress them all at the same time it would come apart. But it's bad enough...
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    Poor man’s shooting handle (or lazy)

    Ask Pete Maddex and Dr Al to show you theirs, they are both excellent. S
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    Church Notice Board

    Regarding the ventilation , and merely thinking out loud, is there any reason why you cannot make it with no bottom in it at all? And if you had vents in the top as well, I don't think you would get much in the way of condensation at all. You'd still have the potential of UV damage, of course. S
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    Elu MOF 96 Router repair

    Fantastic machine. Fix it up. I had three, alas no longer. :( S
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    What is wrong with my Festool C12?

    Well someone else posted on YT that it could be the trigger, so this morning I opened it up. I couldn't get it wide open, but I could get my little finger in. So there was enough of a gap to get my air line in and give it a good blast, followed by a squirt of contact cleaner. It's now working...
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    What is wrong with my Festool C12?

    Thank you, that is most very helpful! S
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    Church Notice Board

    You're not kidding. I once made a coffee table and mirror frame in iroko for a friend. It would not be my choice of timber but it was what she wanted. In fairness, after a while, it was the most beautiful chocolate colour. I got a splinter in the ball of my thumb. I got it out, or so I thought...
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    What is wrong with my Festool C12?

    I have this Fessie. It was a present from Festool when I started to make my films. It has a 2007 date on it. It's a heavy beggar, especially with the larger battery, but I'd like to keep it (not least because I recently spent a fortune on two new batteries for it, one of which I now cannot...
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    What I have fixed today

    We've lost our loppers. They are probably lying in the garden somewhere, overgrown. So I asked my neighbour, Jeff, I we could borrow his. No problem, but the left-hand arm does not lock into place, it just slides up and down, not engaging in the row of holes. So I asked him if I could take a...
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    Pizza Hut

    Sam Q and I have been having a behind-the-scenes chat about surnames. I'm reminded of this story about names I used to work for an IT company. I remember one time when we had a gathering of all our International distributors at Head Office, which was a big old rambling country manor called...
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