• 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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    Turning plywood - a vase

    Our competition this month at my woodturning club was to make something out of plywood. I've never done this before, but we had a very informative demo from one of our senior turners and it intrigued me enough to have a go. One thing I have going for me is that, if they teach you one thing at...
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    Rice Bowl

    Like much of Japanese turning, I love the shape of the traditional Japanese rice bowl. I picked up a lump of sapale at a timber merchants recently, measuring approx 6"x6"x4". Perfect for a rice bowl, and here it is. I notice from the pics that there are still a few little grains of wax to buff...
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    Wild Garlic

    The wild garlic in the wild patch I've left for the insects at the bottom of my garden has gone bonkers this year. They produce pretty little pink flowers and tiny little bulbs that are a bit of a faff, but worth the effort, with a mild and nutty flavour. We had some in a spaghetti sauce I made...
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    Winter boarder

    I usually have a couple of queen wasps crawl out from hibernation under my benches this time of year and one year I had the most magnificent male stag beetle. I was turning this morning when out of the corner of my eye I spied this sleepy creature emerging from the wood stash. Never seen a...
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    Oops!

    My last piece of yew. :eusa-doh:
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    Spalted Beech Vases

    For my sister's birthday. Turned from the same piece of spalted beech. The larger one is about 8" tall:
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    Vul-cantastic

    It's an overused word, but this video is awesome. I lived on two RAF bases in the late 50s and early 60s, RAF Scampton and RAF Waddington, where squadrons of Vulcans were stationed. They were a big part of my childhood. The Avro Vulcan was the spearhead of the UKs nuclear deterrent in those...
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    In praise of the NHS

    mods: I hope this isn't seen as political. If you think it is then please delete it. Did you know that private hospitals in the UK don't have A&E departments? If you have a problem after a procedure at a private hospital they leave it to the NHS to pick up the pieces. Yesterday my daughter...
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    Sticky putty

    I was doing some turning on Monday, went over to the back of the workshop where the grinder is, glanced out of the window and thought "Crikey, that window looks remarkably clean!" - until I realised the glass had fallen out. :lol: The "workshop" is an old sectional concrete garage - not the...
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    Baby Rattle

    I made this for my granddaughter - it's a traditional style baby's rattle with three captive rings made from a piece of walnut. It's finished with (safe for toys) Liberon Black Bison paste wax : and here's my granddaughter unwrapping her present. The joy of giving! OVo3WFKFfBM
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    Distraction destruction

    Finishing up a 9" bowl on the lathe with polishing mops this morning. Looking nice with an application of carnauba wax. I had got to the final buffing stage with the finishing mop when it started hammering down with rain outside. Momentarily distracted as I looked out the window at this strange...
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    Look what the Cat dragged in:

    The logs were too big for my bandsaw, so a friend came round with his chainsaw yesterday and we sawed each log down the middle and liberally sealed the ends with PVA. It was a Workzone electric chainsaw from Aldi and I was a bit sceptical about how effective it would be but I was amazed - it...
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    Look what the Cat dragged in:

    My daughter (Cat... see what I did there?) was looking out of her office window today and saw some council guys felling some beech trees in the road opposite. They cut them into manageable lumps and started to run them through a chipper. So she wandered out and chatted them up, told them her Dad...
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    Dear Axminster...

    ... I love your stuff - my workshop's full of it, including the crowning glory, one of your great big woodturning lathes. The racks above it are full of Axminster chucks, chisels, faceplates and all that other good stuff you turn out so beautifully. You must know I love you, I KEEP buying that...
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    B bl**dy T

    God, I HATE BT. I HATE and DESPISE BT. Everything I ever have had to do with them has been a complete nightmare. I've had a BT email address since the year dot. Having worked from home since the mid 80s I also had BT internet before there even was an internet, when you dialled your company up...
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