• 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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    Upgrading my wearing out shed - in stages on a budget

    If it's a 'dead end' path, to me, it brings up the question "does anyone else other than you use it?"... If ONLY YOU/YOURS then... *squatters rights* comes to mind. If you've 'proof' - written confirmation the council don't own it then you could claim as yours (having *maintained it*)...
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    Do NOT buy NoMorePly

    Thanks for the *review* of this stuff Rog... if I should come across it I'll avoid it
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    Lost! Now found.

    I forgot the 100ft measure... 🤔... 6 *at least*... haven't counted the *rulers*... I can confirm that @HappyHacker is correct; hence my 6 (possibly more 🤔) tape measures and why i did end up with 4 off 4" bolster chisels at one stage... As to pencils... I've at least 3 containers - and came...
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    Hello all,

    Welcome back... although I wasn't here when you were previous member. Hopefully your health has improved 🙏. Look forward to those photos someone mentioned are liked here 😉
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    Hanging a door. Some finer points

    Recently had to hang a replacement door (my WIP thread...) and ended up using these hinges as I couldn't use the existing old brass ones due to the wear on them - lighter weight door than the one replacing it. (Not sure if this link will work? May prompt to use their app?)...
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    Lost! Now found.

    Order multiple of... Just for future instances 😎 (says he with 6 tape measures - possibly more than 🤷🤣)
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    Lost! Now found.

    Feb 1st you put up a photo of the WIP on the chairs... I've looked at that but can't see the rule... thought it may have been in one of your photos and give a clue as to last known/seen/recorded place... sadly not. I'd be thinking/looking under the benches - even if already looked there. If...
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    Recovering from an op- ideas of what to do?

    Find some good books to read? Either woodworking themed or entirely different... something you had an interest in but never got round to taking further. Gets you away from behind a computer screen if nothing else.
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    Breast Drill Renovation

    No problem. I wasn't sure how far you went with these things 😉.
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    Breast Drill Renovation

    Would you try to replicate the original paint colour to the body Al or go with what you've used at present? Just wondering if I could put up a close up photo to show the colour to help.
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    Breast Drill Renovation

    I did wonder if the name badge would be of interest for you - with not seeing one on yours. May be of help near the end of the project if able to make one or get one made 🙏
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    Breast Drill Renovation

    Following with interest - as I came across mine a few weeks back 👍. In need of some attention... bit of rust removal... repaint job... etc. Seem to recall buying it way back when I was 18+... 1979~80...
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    How to get the most out of these...?

    Thanks Malcolm... I'll keep you in mind 🙏. You're about 2hrs away - give or take... Instrument builds hadn't crossed my mind... In fact, as I'd got them initially all those years ago to use for Falconry blocks, because of the thickness, I'd no idea what the faces were like. Having now planed...
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    How to get the most out of these...?

    The thought had gone through my mind Malcolm... If I'd a bandsaw with enough throat I'd attempt to cut as veneers but mine limits me to 5"... bit heavy to handle by one person. I feel I'd loose too much if I did cut them through the tablesaw by turning (⅛"/3mm) and finishing with a handsaw...
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    How to get the most out of these...?

    Thanks Steve 👍
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    How to get the most out of these...?

    As mentioned in a couple of other threads, I've been cleaning up some yew boards I've had for many years. Decided to remove the waney edges and plane the faces. There's three boards in particular that surprised me with the figure of the grain. They're planed, both faces, ex 2½" thickness...
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    Reclaimed sapele

    Even if you have a 'small' space and when you make some (mobile - or otherwise! ) unit to put stuff in *out of the way* to make more room (and a tidier space at that) something else takes it...
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    Reclaimed sapele

    I used to sell loads of the stuff - sawn and planed - when I worked at Charlton's Timber Merchant in Radstock until made redundant in 1992. I saw/handled a few colour variations from a gold to mid brown but don't recall any as dark as #3. Got a few splinters from it as well... There were a few...
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    WIP - Old door made usable 🤞

    Didn't realise it had been so long since I did anything regarding this thread... 5th February! And we're now 19th May! Finally got round to putting treatments on the door last week - didn't take any photos of that as I'd mucked up on the colour I was 'hoping' to match up with... done over 25~30...
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    Reclaimed sapele

    Iroko and board #3 teak... OR a very dark piece of Iroko 😉
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