• 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. Phil

    SpaceX

    Yes, yes, yes, yes. Hopping into the 'Donald' bed might backfire?
  2. Phil

    Bowl in ash or beech

    Nice work :cool: Looks good, getting to like Ash, just made some card holders for wife from some offcuts.
  3. Phil

    Food safe finish

    Bit of an eye opener for me.
  4. Phil

    Don’t forget your covid jabs folks.

    We had our jabs, 2 lots of boosters, and still ended up getting Covid and being quite ill :confused:
  5. Phil

    Dynamic pricing

    I used to visit a factory in Swaziland, fly down Monday morning and back Friday afternoon. Royal Swazi Air had an old Focker F28, nice plane. The one Friday I arrived at Matsapha airport, lots of police and army around, very unusual. Checked the hired car in and go to check in for the flight...
  6. Phil

    Blood (without the gore!)

    "A" Positive, fit in with the commoners :LOL:
  7. Phil

    What would you do? It’s not wood.

    Adrian if I wore a hat, I would take it off for you:) When we eat out at friends they are aware of my no salt, and if they are having red meat I would only eat a very small portion. Eating at restaurants requires lots of thought and menu searching. I have serious weakness for chips, but...
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    Blood (without the gore!)

    Fully support blood donation and at last count had donated 160 pints (500ml). I stopped for about 20 years due to lots of medication at that stage. Started again when we moved to Pretoria and got rejected a couple of times due to low iron. Being over 70 I could only donate every 3 months...
  9. Phil

    Treads for metal staircase

    Agree, the trains that were safe and running are no longer there. Overhead power lines stripped, stations stripped, even railway lines stolen. The past 30 years has just seen huge loss and damage to the infrastructure.
  10. Phil

    Books on chair design and construction

    Not to go too far off topic ................ Using dowels: To join the sides of the beehive boxes. My dowel jig is not made for edge joining but 90 degree joins. The dowel positions are marked and indicated which side of the edge. Use the 8mm hole and the drill bit is fitted with a depth...
  11. Phil

    board volume

    Our timber here is sold by cubic meter. The clear pine I bought last week was ZAR9,000.00 per cube and the American Ash was ZAR39,000 per cube. I don't buy per cube but planks as per my BOM, generally 3600mm long by 154mm wide and 25mm thick. I also select the planks with the warehouse chap. I...
  12. Phil

    Hello from Yorkshire

    Welcome from far down South.
  13. Phil

    Treads for metal staircase

    Living behind walls is to stop the normal break-inns and petty theft, African way of life. We live in a retirement village (sectional title) which is a gated estate and security is shared with the next-door estate (free hold). Number of units – 230 FH 300ST with another 250ST being built. Yes...
  14. Phil

    Treads for metal staircase

    Interesting. Which areas did he visit? There are unsavoury places which one would stay out of especially at night. My contract work took me away from home a lot. Flying – to the airport and back home all in the dark, 70Km. The one factory I drove to was 75Km from the small rural town where I...
  15. Phil

    Treads for metal staircase

    Duke, same thing. It is actually very pleasant living here, one adapts to the rules. It is very safe compared to our previous house, wife can go walking at night if she wants to. When I go and buy timber next week, then both cars will be outside for a day or two. My neighbour in front of us...
  16. Phil

    Application of Glue

    I have been using Gorilla Glue ex USA, about 90% waterproof, on all the beehives. Then local shed ran out of stock and I had to use some local stuff, also ‘waterproof’. Not been able to source hide locally. Generally use 3mm baboo skewers, gets the glue into the dowel holes and biscuit slots...
  17. Phil

    Treads for metal staircase

    I looked at the strairs in the main house which has oak treads all the same grain and shade, prefer this Ash, bit more character. And to digress again, my workshop area taken from the scullery. Bit untidy at the moment.
  18. Phil

    Dining table - revisited

    Derek lyk baie goed. Must be comfortable to sit at with a no legs table.
  19. Phil

    Dining room wall unit dresser thing

    Nice project.
  20. Phil

    Kitchen Table - Finished!

    Very smart table, and excellent work. (y) Quite like the legs, different.
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