shortbusruss
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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!
American here in Oundle (Peterborough) - Brand new to woodworking
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duke
Old Oak
Well done, you must be pleased.
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Certainly not going anywhere lol
shortbusruss
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duke
Old Oak
Will you paint the unit dewalt yellow with black accents?
shortbusruss
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My god, no. It was just a battery ecosystem choice starting from zero good tools, ever. I am going with black and tan for all the furniture. Black French cleat backer board, birch tool hangers. Black frames, birch tops. Drawers, hardwood plywood, black stained mahogany false fronts.
shortbusruss
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- Russ
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shortbusruss
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Grrrrrrr! I guess it is one of the challenges of being new to a hobby, and "not knowing what you don't know".
1. Stripped the T15 Torx driver bit that I was using on my 4.5 x 30mm screws.
2. Also ran out of 4.5 x 30mm screws I am using for the overal tool holder assemblies.
3. I have no 4.5 x 16mm screws for hanging the chargers on the flat panel sitting right above the tool hangers.
Every little project is bringing a little bit more knowledge about how to be a little bit more efficient and build up processes for "getting it right the first time". But for now.. Everything seems to take 3x longer than it should, due to unexpected delays.
1. Stripped the T15 Torx driver bit that I was using on my 4.5 x 30mm screws.
2. Also ran out of 4.5 x 30mm screws I am using for the overal tool holder assemblies.
3. I have no 4.5 x 16mm screws for hanging the chargers on the flat panel sitting right above the tool hangers.
Every little project is bringing a little bit more knowledge about how to be a little bit more efficient and build up processes for "getting it right the first time". But for now.. Everything seems to take 3x longer than it should, due to unexpected delays.
duke
Old Oak
Always good to have ample supply of screws, nails etc. too many is never a problem.
It does happen to me which entails a 1 1/2 hr return trip for hardware.
It does happen to me which entails a 1 1/2 hr return trip for hardware.
shortbusruss
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Always good to have ample supply of screws, nails etc. too many is never a problem.
It does happen to me which entails a 1 1/2 hr return trip for hardware.
Welll.. On a positive note.. This tool hanger/charging/bit storage station is probably the most complicated buld that will reside on the french cleat wall.. So once it gets built... Everything else goes up "really" fast.
And once I can get all the tools, screws, bits, clamps up and out of the way.. I have space to work on drawer box for the assembly table, and to build a proper combo table saw/router workbench.