• 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. DaveL

    Something useful from the 3D printer.

    When I was working, some years ago now there was a company supported scheme to get us all to walk about more and get fitter! I bought a FitBit as the supplied pedometer was some what pants, this synced via my mobile phone. The FitBit worked well but the physical side it left a lot to be desired...
  2. DaveL

    What happens when you don't pay attention

    I have been busy with my still quite new 3D printer. This afternoon I started a print and walked away as it should take about 2 hours to complete. I went back a while later and found a mess, the item on the left. My mistake was not checking that I had laid the thing down flat on the bed when I...
  3. DaveL

    A few turnings

    You may remember that sometime ago Mike had some bog oak for sale, I went along but being an awkward sort of chap I came away with a slab of yew. I found a Dutch wood turner on youtube demonstrating turn some platters so I had a go with some of the yew. This was the widest part of the board...
  4. DaveL

    I have a new toy er I mean tool

    I blame Dr Al and Novocaine for this [emoji849]
  5. DaveL

    Pendant for my CNC

    I have an Ooznest WorkBee CNC with a Duet controller, which is a stand alone board, mounted on the CNC and its controlled using a web based interface from a laptop in my case. This works well for the machining of parts but is a bit cumbersome when setting the position of the cutter ready to...
  6. DaveL

    Lathe add-on's

    I have a very nice Jet lathe and have made a few things to improve the usefulness of it. Here is the lathe and one of the extras I have made. No prizes but what's it for?
  7. DaveL

    Last minute present

    Our daughter was very vague about what she would like for Christmas, one suggestion was moon on a stick So Christmas morning before picking her up I popped out to the workshop. And yes I do like Pink Floyd.[emoji6]
  8. DaveL

    I am back

    Some of you may of noticed that I had not been around for a bit, I have been well but the LOML has has quite a bad time of it. She has had some problems with her knees, one of which last year was Xrayed at the local health centre, the expert there said she had arthritis and was prescribed a tube...
  9. DaveL

    Sql error

    I have just tried to reply to a pm and got this message
  10. DaveL

    Marvelous, cost reduction bites back

    I had a jumbo roll clean up roll from Aldi. I finished it up after probably a year of it hanging on a quick holder I put together. Bought a two pack as they them in store a little while ago, guess what? They have reduced the size of the cardboard tube, it no longer fits the holder!
  11. DaveL

    Just what the Dogs wanted!

    Get up this morning and the Dogs think it's great!
  12. DaveL

    Bass build

    Well Malc has nothing to worry about, this will not be anything like as skill full as his Martin build! I many years ago played a bass, a Shaftesbury P bass copy, I have bought the plans for a P bass and I do intend to build one from scratch, but this is not a build from scratch. I have been...
  13. DaveL

    Tapatalk?

    I have been using tapatalk pro on my phone and tablet for years, but today it has lost The Woodhaven! If I try to add it into my groups, when I do a search for the forum it throws an error, no number, it just says Oops! We couldn't find 'thewoodhaven2', try something else! I have tried a...
  14. DaveL

    BAS315 Blade guides

    I have a quite old, bought second hand BAS315, which has done some serious work at times, however the last time I was using it the blade broke. On replacing the blade I found that the top guide bearing were no longer parallel with the blade! The guides on these saws are a set of die cast metal...
  15. DaveL

    New Tools (loads of pictures)

    I have made a tool handle for some carbide insert tools I bought online. Here are the tools: They sell a handle for them, which I bought: However I was not impressed with it, its made from an aluminium tube and uses 2 grub screws to hold the shaft of the tool. It is so light that I find it a...
  16. DaveL

    Home made CNC

    Some of you may remember this thread about cutting brass, where I was thinking of buying a small CNC machine. Well I looked at a number of them and thought why not have a go at making one, lots of bits are listed on the dreaded ebay so I bought a collection of things which I have cobbled...
  17. DaveL

    Feeling a bit sad....

    We have just come back from the vets, we had made a hard decision before we went that Iona our grand old Samoyed had suffered enough with back legs that had become difficult to use. Here she is yesterday enjoying the nice weather, along with Skye. Iona didn't quite make 14, missed it by a few...
  18. DaveL

    A Little Somethimg for Christmas

    I have a subscription to Woodturning magazine and this is based on a two part project that Colwin Way did. All of the timber came from things I have been given as fire wood, but it was much too good for that. I used my old Wadkin, Multico and Perform, saw, planer and thicknesser to get down to...
  19. DaveL

    Patio Table

    I bought a new parasol, the base for it was not very stable so a patio table with a hole for the parasol to stand in. I looked at lots of different ones online, the one I found on the B and Q site: I did look at buying one but the details just said it was made of wood, not any sort of wood...
  20. DaveL

    A quick turn for LOML

    Here is a little something I turned for Naomi. IMG_20170718_182057 by Dave, on Flickr and the bottom IMG_20170718_182050 by Dave, on Flickr No prizes for guessing what its use is.
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