• 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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What a pleasure to see you all again. Having been pretty active on the other forum for many years (same username), I wandered away from woodworking for a while. Retirement, closely followed by a global pandemic, eventually spurred me back to the workshop last year.

Looking up some old favourite online haunts, I was disappointed to see few names I recognised. Eventually I found my way here and there was a shock of recognition - so many people who taught me so much about our hobby 10-15 years ago... AndyT, DaveL, Woodbloke Rob, Philly, Pete Maddex (whose 365 photo project inspired me to do one of my own), Gill, Vann, Heimlaga. And what a joy to see Alf around again - the much-missed Cornish Workshop can take much of the credit/blame for the large number of old handtools littering my own place of worship.

In the last few days I've spent many happy hours looking back here, and I'm looking forward to sharing our trials and triumphs :obscene-drinkingcheers:
 
Lurker":2g3sjwpk said:
Welcome Pete,

We were not hiding from you .. Honest :eusa-shifty:
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not hiding from Pete, oh no, definitely not. others on the other hand........ :lol:

Welcome Pete, glad to see you come back.
 
Welcome Pete, what's in progress/in planning for you at the moment?
 
Welcome aboard Pete. You certainly wouldn’t have learnt anything from me over there and I changed my name to keep my anonymity :D
 
Cheers fellas!

AndyT: what's in progress/in planning for you at the moment?
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First up is a damned good tidy up of the workshop :lol:. As a major part of that, I need to box up a mass of old handtools and get them to one of those overseas aid charities. Usually acquired as part of mult-buys from the well-known auction site - you know the kind of thing... buy 4 chisels to get the one you want - they've been cluttering up the workshop for years.

Then I have two sizeable projects, which are urgent because I have the wood for both and it's taking up a lot of space. First is a pile of red cedar destined to become an Adirondack chair.

Second, a money-pit of sapele, bought last year to repair a garden bench. Inevitably, it turned out that to repair the bench would mean destroying it. It's nearly 30 years old and the legs, arms and seat slats are badly rotted but whoever made it apparently didn't consider that one day it might need to be disassembled. I decided to bite the bullet and make a replacement bench... and then got overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

I got into this lark to make beautiful little boxes; in 20-odd years I've managed to make two. I need to work on my self-discipline :oops:
 
Excellent!

I'm sure you'll get plenty of sensible advice / appreciation for all of those.
 
Welcome Pete. I've only recently moved here from the other place myself. Like you, it's a joy to see so many familiar names.
John
 
Hi Pete and welcome.
I recognize your name, it's good to hear you're back in the workshop and have discovered the civilized forum. :)
 
Lons":1fnrrg75 said:
Hi Pete and welcome.
I recognize your name
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And I yours :D. Ditto Mike G, the wonderful wizard of workshop builds. And a tip o' the hat to James and John.
 
Pete Maddex":905ijk6d said:
Got a link to your 365?
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Afraid not... never posted the pictures online, and they're archived on an external hard drive somewhere (we had an extension built a couple of years ago and a lot of stuff was boxed up, much of which has not yet returned to normal service).

But you were, in fact, the inspiration and I enjoyed it a lot, as well as the discipline in taking the camera out. Might do it again next year. I know there's no real reason to wait until January 1 to start, but it seems like the right thing to do :)
 
Welcome aboard 'The Life Raft' Pete. I remember reading your musings 'over there' round about the same time I joined Charley's little soirée in blue; good to see you.
 
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