• 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!

Mike builds a teardrop (cedar detail)

Thanks Dave, well done. What doesn't come across is how nerve-wracking the process was. It had to be right or else........
 
Just watched this in a clients house while having a break when Google, who, unbeknownst to me was sitting behind me, answered Dave by telling me it didn't understand the context but "dust off" is a military term for cleaning up nuclear fallout...... :unsure: :)
Great work.
Cheers, Andy
 
I have some progress to report. Possibly the most trivial amount of progress possible, but.......IMG_0210.jpg

I've filled in the hearbeat symbols from Dark Side of the Moon with a 2 part filler. I haven't worked out how I can sand that lot clean yet.

The process involved kneeling on this horse with my injured leg, which is the only way to free up my hands:

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I could manage 15 or 20 minutes at a time before I had to go in to elevate my foot to get the swelling to go down. Progress is progress....
 
PAC1 said:
Good but you probably should not be doing this.
That said what you need is an old comfy arm chair that you can sit in place a board across the arms and then you can sand (with leg fully elevated)
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I’m sure you’re right but also sure that Mike is and will be Mike, so sitting still is an anathema lol.
 
Now that I am in a boot I can stand. At first, it wasn't for very long, and only with the aid of crutches. In the last day or two I've been standing without crutches, and walking using only one. This has allowed me to use my hands, and I've been able to make some gentle progress on the teardrop.

Firstly, I sanded, re-filled, sanded, re-filled, and sanded, the Dark Side of the Moon logos:

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The today, I was able to clean up one side of the teardrop, shape the pieces, and glue and pin them in place:

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That all looks a bit weird, because the newly sanded cedar is a whole lot lighter than the stuff which has been on the side of the teardrop for months now. That will be sanded, and the UV will get to the whole lot and equalise the tone, so I'm not particularly worried. At the pace I'll be working in the next few months, the light will have plenty of time to sort everything out.
 
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