• 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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  1. Phil

    Wood strength

    This popped up on a wood-e-mail from USA. https://workshopcompanion.com/know-how/design/nature-of-wood/wood-strength.html
  2. Phil

    3 Round tabletops - cutting circles

    3 Round tabletops Son asked if I could make 3 new tabletops to replace the MDF which was starting to look shabby. They are used at their church. He did offer to pay for the materials, told him he just could not afford it! Pine was the suggested material. Table Stand MDF top The tops are...
  3. Phil

    Woodworking and AI

    Woodworking and AI I need to make 3 round 600mm wide table tops for Son’s church to replace MDF tops on a metal frame. First resource is this forum and also yonder forum. That gave me what I need to do, maybe not in detail. So I searched my wood folders and also did a Google search. First...
  4. Phil

    Do we learn from past mistakes?

    No. No, and No. Cannot blame the FUF's visits. I am making two small trays, frame from Pine scraps and will do a WIP. The scraps were thicknessed and a groove routed for the floor. The corners would be overlaps. All nicely marked and a template to set the saw height. Parked the project for...
  5. Phil

    Spring?

    A mild winter. Then a shift into summer. Back to winter 2c in the morning, 21c in the afternoon. Back to summer, 26c the other day. Back to winter today for a couple of days. In the mean time, the orchids are flowering. They survive year after year, maybe repotted, get some compost and...
  6. Phil

    Carving animals

    Can't recall seeing a post for animal carvings. This site popped up on an 'woody' e-mail. http://www.brycemuir.com And then the section with animals animated :cool: http://www.brycemuir.com/BackPages/Orchestra/SymphonyOrchestra.htm
  7. Phil

    Nice haul

    Nice haul A resident few houses away is moving. Phoned and asked if I would like to look at and fetch some timber. What a question! (I made some brackets for her when they repaired an old table.) Drove to them as I suspected I would take some. Pine shelf laminated 2400mm long 600mm wide 20mm...
  8. Phil

    Smart Phone - done!

    Ok, ‘ol Scrooge is back on this subject. (been very quiet, away and working on Fin YrEnd.) My small button Samsung E212 – the buttons started malfunctioning. So I replaced it with a small Nokia 5G button phone. In 4 months the battery had to be replaced and then it just died. Battery does not...
  9. Phil

    Bandits have arrived!

    Ok, not type of bandit. But the banded Mongoose have arrived, Mungos mungo. Banded mongoose - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org A large troop, gave up counting at 30 as they kept on dodging in and out of the flower beds. They are quite destructive around the pot plants, digging up or tipping over...
  10. Phil

    Pricing your work to sell

    This link popped up on a Popular Woodworking e-mail.
  11. Phil

    Easter

    GS was visiting for a morning in the workshop. School holidays. GrandPa looked in his folders for Easter plans. Something not too complicated, but more challenging. Xmas trees were all straight cuts, these will have a certain amount of round cuts which I will guide him, hands on his. The...
  12. Phil

    Scroll Saw Workshop

    The scrollers would have come across this site and the owner, Steve Good. There was an e-mail from the site sent by his wife. Steve Good passed away on Wednesday. He had been in hospital and suffered a second heart attack. RIP and sincere sympathy with the family.
  13. Phil

    Routers

    Our main Woodworking Store in Randburg has shows during the year and also demonstrations. (65km from home + traffic so I skip) Yesterday they had a session on routers which is streamed live on U-Toob, link below. Not sure how long it is available.
  14. Phil

    Thought Provoking Quotes

    A while back I visited my new Nephrologist (first time). Dr’s consulting rooms usually have a pile of magazines, well thumbed, garden/home/cars/food etc. This consulting room was a big surprise. A table with …………….. Coffee Table Books! Not having much time I picked up a small one called The...
  15. Phil

    Knife Fix

    Neighbour asked if I could repair his knife, blade is loose. German made knives (set) which he sharpens and prefers using. The blade is slightly loose, just pulls out the handle. Suggested new handle using American Ash. Cut a slot for the tang using the Hegner, and then some fiddling with a...
  16. Phil

    Multimeter / s

    Anyone own a multimeter? Make? Features? What to look out for? I have a very small el-cheepo one which I bought when building the burglar alarms at our old house more than 20 years ago. I have some Xmas-vouchers to spend for one of the multi-product-warehouse-tools- shops and a replacement...
  17. Phil

    Exercise

    Following on from the falls thread ...... https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/falls-not-water.11299/#post-190535 I needed to see what this meant, and a quick surf delivered...
  18. Phil

    Back to school - 5 Point star

    Probably the last tree for this year. It is the outside offcuts from the larger tree cut recently, joined back to back. Looks chunky, but not serious. To finish it off, a star would look good on the top, same thickness wood as the tree. First off draw on paper a 5 pointed star and then size it...
  19. Phil

    Falls (not water)

    We have Wednesday Tea at the clubhouse organised by the social committee. Once a month they arrange for a speaker/presenter on various topics. There were two talks this year on falls, specifically the elderly. They show you how to fall and then get up again. This is all good and well how to...
  20. Phil

    Trees

    Having actually done very little scroll work this year, helping GS edged me on to cut 2 trees. GS education: https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/aspiring-woodworker-visit-2.11234/ The left tree is similar to GS except I kept all the rounded corners. The lights are same as previous years...
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