• 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. AndyP

    You need a rag and look who’s taken up residence, Video.

    Photo taken with trail cam attached to pole fixed in vice. Sorry not in focus.
  2. AndyP

    Coaster holder #2

    A slight faux pas:( Not wanting to risk damaging the beautiful coasters in the workshop and in order to get the dimensions right I sized the holder based on the two trial coasters that were given to me. These though didn't have felt on their undersides. There is enough depth in the base for me...
  3. AndyP

    Using UK credit cards in France

    Anyone here intending to use their UK credit card while visiting France, and possibly other countries with the EU should be aware that business have the right to refuse to accept them. From a french news in english website. “Since the UK left the EU, the previous caps on cross-border exchange...
  4. AndyP

    Issues posting on IOS safari - SOLVED

    What’s going on here? Ipad IOS 26.4.2. I’m using Firefox at the moment but if I use Safari all of the usual icons are greyed out? Likely a local device setting of course but I am not in the habit of changing anything.
  5. AndyP

    Coaster holder

    I have some coasters that require a holder. Beech . And the coasters Now that I have had a practice I can start on another one
  6. AndyP

    Quaich

    After the failure of this attempt https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/oops.11453/ I thought it was about time to try again. The original plan was to use a lignum vitae lawn green bowl but the dimensions of the quaich would not allow. This is yew. I just need to find someone to engrave...
  7. AndyP

    Help please with RJ45 - RJ11 cable problem

    MIL’s residential home has some sort of weird (to me anyway) telelphony system. The Telephone has an RJ11 connection . T’other end of cable is RJ45. We need a longer cable, at least 10m so she does not need to get out of bed to answer the phone. An off the shelf RJ45 to RJ11, male to male cable...
  8. AndyP

    Audio Books, how to use for ageing technophobes

    I've been tasked with seeing if I can sort out a "simple" audio book player. It seems that Amazon/Audible seem to have the market sewn up (last time i bought an audio book it was on a cassette tape). App on smartphone is not an option. I dedicated MP3 player that has the Audible app my well be...
  9. AndyP

    Oops

    I thought this was held securely in the button jaws while I tidied up the base. The rim broke as it hit the floor, even if I could find the bits I couldn’t possibly glue it; it was to part of a wedding gift. I have until late May to try again although the grain on this piece of yew was...
  10. AndyP

    MAC users, mail connection activity logs

    Earlier today Mac Mail wouldn’t open. EM pop up stated not enough space in the home folder. Checked Mac storage to find over 300gb of system data:eek:. Quick google an various Mac support forums suggested look in Mail > Window > Connection Doctor > Show logs. I deleted all the logs ( I had done...
  11. AndyP

    Hinged pot, beech

    Another unmarked lump of wood from the pile, most likely beech. Was a delight to turn although I did not make such a good job of the inside. Hollowing has become by least enjoyable part of turning. Hinges from Prokraft .
  12. AndyP

    Solar Kiln, promising progress.

    For reasons I still can’t get my head around we were 8 months late with our order for logs this year. Normally get them delivered in April, stacked outside for a year then bought under cover for 6 months before burning. In order to speed up the drying process so that these can be burned next...
  13. AndyP

    Which drive centre?

    I’ve come to the conclusion I need a better drive centre. I currently only have the 4 prong which came with the Record 305 lathe. For bowl turning the screw chuck works fine but when spindle turning (pots at the moment) I do not want to waste timber turning away the screw hole. The 4 prong does...
  14. AndyP

    oak screw top pot

    I ordered some round pot hinges a while back but the supplier sent me screw threads instead. They didn't want them back so I thought I would use them. It required a lot of thought for my wee brain in how to hold the two halves while making all the necessary cuts and recessses. Getting the grain...
  15. AndyP

    Walnut pot blank

    I’ve had some walnut, I think, logs kicking around for a while and today I thought I’d make one of them round enough to make a pot. The plan was to remove all the bark but having got this far and seeing the patterns as the bark and cambium layer are being removed I rather hope I can leave some...
  16. AndyP

    How much would train travel cost

    If money didn’t have to be set aside for refunds? Daughter’s £40 fare from Exeter to Winchester fully refunded due to 1hr 15 min delay. Back in October same thing happened. Travelling for free for just an hour and bit delay. Following days train to Portsmouth was on time so had to pay full fare:(
  17. AndyP

    What does a Request Timeout mean on Ping test, Now Starlink,

    Battling with my ISP at the moment. Interweb connection up and down faster than a whore's drawers. I'm running ping tests on known websites that are up and running as checked on 3G data on phone. What does a Request Timeout mean on the ping test? All the ISP want to tell me is there is no fault...
  18. AndyP

    MS Office Home & Student, 365??

    Just spent all morning sorting out a problem where to save an MS file in word or excel I was being told to activate MS Office 365. I've been using home and student single use since Nov 2024 no discernable reason I could see why I should suddenly be asked to activate 365. My MS account confirmed...
  19. AndyP

    Why I don’t do car engine maintenance any more

    This is the Ford engine that will likely be powering the next car I buy. I can’t even find the spark plugs. There are 3 of them in there somewhere somewher
  20. AndyP

    What size and type of screwdriver/spanner do I need

    to fit this? On a VW Caddy the top arm/guide of a sliding door has come loose. TIA
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