• 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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    Axminster update

    I was in the Axminster shop back in September for a 1 day bowl turning course (long story), as it had been a long time since I was last in a physical Axminster store (Sittingbourne) I took a good look around. Very dissapointed that I can no longer get replacement blades for my 2012 CT330...
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    More spoked cart wheels

    Iron tyres, dished wheels and replaceable hub bearings were in use during the roman period, but do not get reinvented until the 16-17th C. My interest is primarily 6th to 11th C when iron for wheels seems to go out of use, but by the 14th C I have seen images of a wheel wright using the tenoned...
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    More spoked cart wheels

    Often called strakes which was an alternate to fully tyred rims. Heat shrunk tyres are earlier than you mention, early 17th C, by this time dished wheels were common with one of the most common fines in the city of london from the worshipful company of wheelwrights being for incorrectly dished...
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    Any members live in Dorchester…

    Can you confirm, Dorchester on Thames or Dorchester?
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    YouTube algorithms

    The sine bar video has just appeared right at the top of my Utube feed.
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    Pickaroon - very useful.

    It was a new tool to me as well until I watched this:
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    Mike's ext'n & renovation (solar panels)

    Thanks Mike, yes that will be it. Sorry I thought that was the temporary storage shed that you built rather than the chicken coop!
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    Mike's ext'n & renovation (solar panels)

    Mike, Sorry but I have to ask, what is the strange structure over the small shed that you built behind the garage? Looks like a temporary gazebo rather than one of your usual builds!
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    Mouseman

    We visited a couple of years ago, unfortunately the visitor centre is currently closed but the shop and museum were still open when we visited. Now we have a refectory table complete with mouse around which to arrange all my windsor chairs.
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    New Forum bugs/feature requests/dislikes etc

    Sticky /pinned threads seem to have lost their stickiness. Eg Mikes build thread is slowly dropping down the projects page. Also Bob's motors post at the top of the motors/electricery forum.
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    Some actual.....you know........woodwork.

    Finally got some time to convert a pile of sawn ash pieces into legs and stretchers for two side chairs. Two different windsor chair designs, one will be a bow back and the other a comb back.
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    Just wondered ...

    Two kits of parts for windsor chairs.....some work required to complete!
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    Building wooden cart wheels

    I am hoping somebody if going to take some pictures.....I will be unable to as I will be demonstrating to the public. Here is are two pictures: The first is the reconstructed Oseberg cart second is a partial wheel dug up in Denmark (I think) showing the pegs between the felloes, the fact...
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    Building wooden cart wheels

    Hi Kirk, I have also been researching wheel making for anglo-saxon and viking carts. So some comments and questions: Yes it is correct that the romans has very advanced wheel technology, with roller bearings inside the hubs and iron rims, they also used modern (for me this is anything after...
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    Snow

    Since daughter is wanting study classics....the snowman is a ancient greek snow goddess a snow Athena Parthenos
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