• 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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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    I know it’s far from real timber but I do like coloured MDF. When finished there’s often a bit of colour variation with is pleasing and almost has the appearance of stone.
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    Electrical mystery (DC). Can you help?

    Glad you fixed it, nothing more infuriating than an electrical fault!
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Wow quite a stash! Do you use it on client projects though, probably not so big if it’s stock for a business!
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    Scorp

    Went to Carlton Scroop and scooped a scorp. Nice.
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    Smart meter

    I believe first generation smart meters were the ones which couldn't move between suppliers. An outrageous but not surprising waste of money. New ones transfer fine as far as I am aware. You can use it as a dumb meter, we had an awful fitter and the screen never worked and it sits somewhere...
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    Subsidence

    They look bad Roger, bad luck after only just moving. We are watching cracks after this summer, deciding whether to discuss with the insurer. Not as bad as ours and limited to one internal block wall. I expected that things would be busy and tricky if we did go down that route.
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    Small cyclone system...WIP

    You been in my workshop?! That’s identical to my set up 😂 experienced the implosion with a previous much lighter weight drum. Those plastic ones are really tough and I find with a ply internal bracing there isn’t an implosion issue anymore.
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    Archtop Guitar

    Thanks for explaining. I had no idea that was how they were made, those thicknesses leave very little room for error when carving!
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    Lathe tools

    I have a bag of tools which came in a job lot purchase which I've put to one side to sharpen up and sell at some point. Seem to remember various levels of refurbishment needed. Not sure what you're after but I remember some Record tools in there. I'm not at home but happy to send some pics if...
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    Archtop Guitar

    More details, I'm interested in the construction. So are archtop guitar front and backs carved from solid? Tricky to tell are you carving a convex profile on that?
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    Seven Heirlooms - Rear view!

    Stunning Malc, back view is particularly fantastic. Agree the black and gold tuners look smart
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    Mike builds a teardrop (hatch detail)

    Agree with Andy, the build and WiP are incredible. The black corner trim is really looking good but what a challenge to make!
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    Where were you …

    I’m not one for remembering where I was when significant events happened but this one sticks in my mind even though it was so mundane. I’d been out somewhere with friends, it was just before I went off to uni. Mum was ironing and had the TV on, remember standing in the hallway door not quite...
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    Favourite / Least Favourite Native & Imported Woods

    I'm with you Al, favourite native is sweet chestnut not only as a wood but a tree. Gives us the wonderful chestnut and being from Sussex I love a coppice wood, nothing better. Not native, certainly on the amount I have in the shop would be iroko, but only as a teak substitute for mid century...
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    Marmite

    Also an excellent choice
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