• 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!

First Workshop project!

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Morning all. Despite the workshop not being fully ready, time dictates the need for the first project to get underway.

I’m not in any way religious but my kids go to a CoE school and the church are very active in the community. Despite my lack of religious beliefs I very much believe in community and as such am very involved in the community events the church puts on.

The current one being, of course, Christmas Fair!

As well as volunteering on the day to dress as an Elf to escort Santa to the Fair and help with Santa’s Grotto, my general handyman skills put me in line for all kinds of other jobs.

This year my mate the sparky and I decided to jazz up the farmer’s trailer that we borrow for Santa to arrive on and see if we couldn’t make it a little more sleigh like.

I was left with 13 sheets of 12mm OSB that I mistakenly bought for roofing until I realised they weren’t within regs. I kept them to use for
building workshop storage and decided we could utilise a couple...

So, in 30 mins we’ve just knocked these out...

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We’ve painted up another full board which will go along the back of the trailer with these sides along, the erm...sides! I’ll screw some battens along the inside bottom edge to rest on the edge of the trailer to screw it on, then drill a few holes in to cable tie it on so I can be re-used each year.

Another coat of red later on then white across the tops and some further embellishments and I reckon it will rock!

I’ll get some pics when we put it up on Saturday.
 
Who here hasn't built a sleigh on a Workmate? ;) :lol:
 
This is fantastic !!![emoji41] nice use of the osb.

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Just to show I'm not averse to occasionally dressing up, and to empathise......

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...but I can still pull the birds!! :lol:
 
I remember what you look like so stop kidding us, Malc. You're the one with the shopping trolley :lol:
 
Couple of coats of paint takes it from this...

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To this!

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Much more Christmassy!

Let that go off for a bit now then paint on the snow topped edges, some embellishments (snowflakes, holly maybe) and paint a carved swirl in that front roll section and we’re ready to go!

A fine couple of hours work.
 
RogerS":1ow95g93 said:
I remember what you look like so stop kidding us, Malc. You're the one with the shopping trolley :lol:


That's you off my Xmas card list! :D
 
Oh yeah, my mate, the spark, is also a budding DeeJay so will be packing it with speakers that rock passing cars, and bedecking it with some tinsel this morning.
 
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