• 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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    Wagatabon

    Lovely work, I instantly thought of Jack Wheeler’s wagatabon. Zed’s videos with greenwood workers are well worth a watch for anyone who hasn’t seen them before. They’ll make great presents.
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    Custom Window Film

    Can't help with a supplier but a bit more detail on what you need. The way to achieve this is to print onto clear vinyl, with a gradient of a dark colour, say grey. The gradient is between two colours, the top section has the dark grey colour with 0% opacity, but even the bottom section the...
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    AI for Technophobes

    Can't stand AI - I know it can do stuff quicker etc etc. but on an individual level there's starting to be research on the negative impact on creativity, critical thinking and memory as a result of heavy use. - On a corporate level, anyone extolling the virtues of how much easier it makes...
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    Sausages

    No idea as to why Hindus don't eat pork. But the pigs are dirty statement isn't really true. The fact pigs roll in mud means they're muddy but I wouldn't call them dirty animals. They're intelligent and much cleaner in terms of mixing eating, sleeping and s**tting spaces than most farmyard...
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    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Ouch! Wishing you a speedy recovery
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    Stephen and Adrian thanks for taking the time to answer. I’ve no experience in commercial cooking so find it really interesting how it would be managed in a professional kitchen. In terms of at home we are all fit and healthy but I’ve probably been lax cooking bought burgers not knowing there...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    I read this the other day and thought it made perfect sense, I hadn't really thought about it before. However, surely the meat you buy and chop could also have bacteria on the outside which you mince into the middle?
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    Click-to-fit floor tiles

    We’re also deliberating flooring. Considering the click system Marmoleum Lino but my concern is the waterproofness and joints opening from movement. Going over a bit of a cobbled together suspended floor and a lot of these click systems seem to need very minimal deviation in surface over a large...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box, trim, and fairing)

    I hadn’t expected the pattern on the side, very cool.
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    A question for the electricians

    We are currently making a lot of people rich with the oil industry ( very rich at the moment!) I also have solar panels and so I’m aware they don’t last forever but then neither does a power station. I much prefer the idea of harnessing renewable energy and reducing the ability for a few to get...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box, trim, and fairing)

    Looking great, that bog oak gutter is lovely. Can't believe that the A1 can't tow anything at all, that's surprising, but the fact they told you it could is shocking!
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    Bathroom ceiling paint with slight texture? Recommendation?

    I used Little Green on our office. Not home office but the whole of a large converted barn! Really good paint to work with applied and covered well 4 or so years later it’s lasting well.
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    Glasses - what's your view?

    Wonder who else has prescription safety glasses? Just got a new pair from Specsavers, £90 I think they were. Sadly millimetres are pretty much impossible without them now.
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    Glasses - what's your view?

    My wife has used online a couple of times with success. I have just got a new prescription and my Alexander McQueen frames are still perfect and I like them so I’ve sent off to Lensology for new lenses. Total cost with coating around £45. There is pupil distance for my single lenses which was...
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    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box, trim, and fairing)

    Ooh that big oak trim is looking very nice! Seeing it out like that makes we wonder are the swoopy wheel arches from the initial sketch going to be a masterpiece in bent lamination or metal?
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    Retirement , what is the end game.

    I can also confirm this to be true. My wife walks the dog more often than me and whenever I walk him people cheerily say hello to him and not me.
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    Robert Sorby Pro Edge bits and pieces

    Thanks Bob, it came with a lot of belts, aluminium oxide and ceramic and I assumed I'd be changing them relatively frequently depending on the task, and going through the grits. Just about to go away for a week so no experimenting until I get back. I've got a big bag of chisels and gouges...
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    Robert Sorby Pro Edge bits and pieces

    Thanks Andy I saw that manual. It doesn’t show “what’s in the box” from a video on their YouTube I worked out the steel bars are for tracking adjustment. Which has a section in the manual that doesn’t really tell you how to do it.
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    Startrite table saw - table alignment help

    Thanks so much for all the comments guys! For my uses I think a 3” cut would be ok but noted on the motor size and power. Not sure if you can compare directly but that’s a lot less than my Bosch. If I decide to buy I’ll take a chunk of wood over to cut first. The extra info on weight and...
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    Startrite table saw - table alignment help

    As per my other post I just picked up a Robert Sorby Pro Edge second hand, part of the workshop clearance was a Startrite table saw. I’d seen photos and assumed it would be bigger, but it’s pretty compact not that different to my job site Bosch. It’s a beautiful thing, single phase so could...
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