• 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!

G'day from NZ

W

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Hello all. I see some familiar names from the members list but for those who don't know me, here's a brief intro.
Originally from the North-East of England, I brought my family to NZ in the mid-80's. I'm a retired engineer and long time keen woodworker and live just north of Wellington. I have a small workshop with, apart from the necessary bench, a compound mitre saw a band saw, a lunch box thicknesser, a pillar drill and a router table with a Triton 001 plus a few other power tools such as hand-held router, ROS etc. I tend to use the power tools for stock preparation and finish off with hand tools.
Because of the limited space, my projects tend to be small such as boxes and small cabinetry and I recently ventured into the world of hand made walking canes which I enjoyed. I also enjoy restoring old tools to workable condition and am currently restoring a couple of Stanley No.5's.
Hope to learn and contribute where I can.
Pete
 
Welcome Pete,
just one more post and the spam trap will disappear and posts will not need approval.

We like photos around here so don't be shy to share current or past projects with us. Not sure we have any walking stick makers around here.

I guess down there you have a few exotic timbers to play with that would be very alien to us up here.
 
Yo, Pete! Strewth, that a bit of a way away! Welcome.

I like my Triton. I've got it semi-permanent in my router table. I've got the 1/2" collet, the 12mm collet and the 1/4" collet. That way I covered all my bets. I've got a couple of carbide 12mm bits which are much cheaper than those advertised for woodwork.
 
Hi Pete

Familiar names, from where, the previous incarnation of this forum or other woody fora?

Welcome aboard either way!

Cheers
Mark
 
woodhutt":z5114mjz said:
Thanks for the welcomes.
Some of the members are familiar from another forum but shall remain nameless :)
Pete
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We know who we are but shall remain anonymous :D I don't use the 'other' place any more either and welcome btw. We had a motor home tour of NZ for five weeks in 2018 and passed through Wellington on our way 'oop narth' to warmer parts - Rob
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q!":3ca1h8to said:
Welcome Pete, from a 'blow-in' now living in your former north-east. Lovely country here, almost as many sheep as NZ...

Sam
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Ah! But are they as pretty...?

KIWI OUT ON A DATE
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Thanks again for the warm welcomes.
Pete
 
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