• 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. Mike G

    Bird table

    That's rather smarter than the old one, Bob! How did you fix the table onto the post?
  2. Mike G

    Cutting a foam mattress.

    I kept an inherited electric carving knife for just this job. It works brilliantly on foam.
  3. Mike G

    Cutting a foam mattress.

    Foam broke a blade in my bandsaw!
  4. Mike G

    Painting soffits

    Ideally, Bedec Multi Surface Paint, rather than Barn Paint. But only if you're applying it to an existing microporous water-based paint. NOT on top of an oil based paint.
  5. Mike G

    Reclaimed bookcase - finished

    Andy, Andy, Andy.......forsooth, you've passed over the chance of doing sliding dovetails!
  6. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    A golden retriever.
  7. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    As promised. She's a 10 week old golden doodle.
  8. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Bloody hell, Pete........
  9. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Ouch! The achilles, calf, and the rest of my leg....100% No problem at all. My foot, though.....sheesh. Every single thing about it hurt. It hasn't been used for 11 weeks, and clearly resents being asked to resume activity. Guilty as charged. I'll get the camera in from the workshop and post...
  10. Mike G

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Medical things are a bit boring, but I thought I would share some good news. I have just taken my first steps without my fancy protective boot. I was at my first physio appointment, and she got me to put my shoe on, with a foam wedge under my heel, and just try walking. It was fine, although I...
  11. Mike G

    Reclaimed bookcase - finished

    :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: I'd need the matching headband. Most of it was dripping off my forehead.
  12. Mike G

    Reclaimed bookcase - finished

    Great stuff, Andy. Everyone loves an AndyT build thread. I had to retreat from my workshop yesterday as the sweat kept dripping onto the sapele as I was planing. Resuming at 8.00pm-ish was much better.
  13. Mike G

    Hot Heat 2026

    Nah, that's not a knife. THIS is a knife..... Many years ago I was camping in the Kimberleys in NW Western Australia. There was a big bushfire burning over the horizon, and some rangers were burning off ahead of it to create a fire break. (Yeah, they know what they're doing...). We got chatting...
  14. Mike G

    New shed build

    That's a nice looking plinth. It's a variation on my workshop, with the extra thickness due to the addition of the blocks. You have got most of the detail right, except the mesh, and the bottom edge of the cladding. You haven't said what is going on the outside. If it's feather edge boards then...
  15. Mike G

    Was Sam Maloof finish - now added Mike's Magic Mix

    My oil this time was Finishing Oil. For a while now I've been using up some old Osmo PolyX. Last time I used linseed in this mix was a few years ago, and the first coat or two took longer than 24 hours to dry, which can be a pain. I have no idea, of course, but my suspicion is that the varnish...
  16. Mike G

    The things you see at auction......

    I hope they sell it quickly, Andy, because it's going to kill that grass otherwise. :)
  17. Mike G

    Was Sam Maloof finish - now added Mike's Magic Mix

    It took a while to find this old thread. I thought I knew everything about the 1:1:1 varnish: white spirit: oil technique, having used it for years and years now. However, these last few hot days I have learnt something new about it. I have been applying a coat first thing in the morning, and...
  18. Mike G

    Mumbles

    That is an incredible photo, Al. I think of all the eagle owls, the African Eagle Owl is the most spectacular. I was driving in Zambia a few years ago when the sky was blocked out by an African Eagle Owl flying over my vehicle before landing in a nearby tree. It was just a little smaller than a...
  19. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (Gas)

    I took some pinch sticks across to the teardrop, and measured the gap. This enabled me to cut the shelf to length: I settled on an elliptical shape for the shelf openings, and cut a template from cardboard: Marking it was easy. Cutting it wasn't. I had to do it with a jigsaw, and I had to...
  20. Mike G

    Mike builds a teardrop (Gas)

    Having finished the cedar strips on the main body of the teardrop, I thought I would play about a bit in the workshop for a while. On my list are an overhead shelf, and the planted-on door surrounds for the 2 side doors. I cut up some sapele: The overhead shelf has two functions. Firstly...
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