• 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. Pete Maddex

    A groovy little two-day project

    I have a wooden tongue plane I bought at a car boot sale, so I made a grieving plane to match it. Pete
  2. Pete Maddex

    Arts & Crafts house

    Wightwick manor near Wolverhampton is another nice one as well...
  3. Pete Maddex

    Speakers

    I have Shahinian Arcs which are semi omnidirectional speakers so they are not to fussy about placement. Pete
  4. Pete Maddex

    Speakers

    I have good results from reducing refraction from sharp edges on cabinets and grills, I have felt diffusers round the recessed mid and tweeters which sharpens the image as does chamfering the grill edges. Pete
  5. Pete Maddex

    Speakers

    I am doing a 365 where I post a photo a day for a year and have chosen a Lensbaby sweet 35mm lens which gives you a sweet spot of focus which you can move around the frame and control the size. Pete
  6. Pete Maddex

    Speakers

    It’s usually used in cars as sound proofing it’s made from a tar like substance and aluminium foil. Pete
  7. Pete Maddex

    Speakers

    Hi Tony They are 250x200x180mm the front is 250x200mm. I was advised by the seller to tune the port to 50Hz so I entered the cabinet sizes and port diameter in to an on line port calculator which gave me the port length. Pete
  8. Pete Maddex

    It was a Plane day here

    Ron Hock is a nice bloke as well I met him when I went to America, His wife is also nice She was managing a book shop in Fort Bragg so we went in to say hi and look around, we had a nice chat and bumped into them at Cressing Temple a few years after and she recognised me. I have a Hock blade to...
  9. Pete Maddex

    Speakers

    Hi Chaps Knocked these up just for a laugh, I bought the drivers and crossovers secondhand and made the cabinets from 12mm ply. Speaker by Pete Maddex, on Flickr Internals, note the brace and deadsheet, I wanted the cabinet to be as stiff as possible and they are. Glue up by Pete Maddex, on...
  10. Pete Maddex

    Well, that day didn't go to plan.

    Outstanding work mate glad you’re recovery is progressing nicely. Pete
  11. Pete Maddex

    Making another stool WIP - Finished!

    BS table? band saw? or drill press table? Pete
  12. Pete Maddex

    DSLR issue

    I have a canon Eos-1 d mk3, I had to look that up I don’t get the canon numbering system. Nikon the least decimal places the more pro the camera is, one thing I like is all Nikons have the switch in the same place near the shutter button, canon its somewhere on the camera and you will need two...
  13. Pete Maddex

    Japanese kebiki marking gauge I made from kit.

    I get mine from woodwork shows or eBay etc. To adjust you set it slightly smaller than you need and push the wedge up to grip slightly, then tap the bottom of the shaft until it set right, A tap on the bottom of the wedge locks it place, a tap on the top loosens it. Broken yard sticks, wooden...
  14. Pete Maddex

    Japanese kebiki marking gauge I made from kit.

    These are the ones I make. Marking gauges by Pete Maddex, on Flickr I make the wedges out of two different woods Box and Rosewood which makes identification easer.
  15. Pete Maddex

    Threading a lighting cable through a old-style cavity wall

    I have used a tape measure in the past. You feed in a loop of tape by pushing the tape in at a sharp angle so it spreads out in the cavity and drop a weighted string down past the tape and pull the tape out. It works very well even if it’s misaligned. Pete
  16. Pete Maddex

    DSLR issue

    Definitely the sensor, probably not worth fixing unfortunately. MBP are good for second hand cameras Pete
  17. Pete Maddex

    Reclaimed parquet

    You can get a glue that works with the tar so no scraping or cutting. Pete
  18. Pete Maddex

    Are there forum issues?

    Very laggy for me on an iPhone. Pete
  19. Pete Maddex

    Sting

    I got stung on the neck at 30mph on my motorbike god knows how as I had my jacket zipped up and a full face helmet on. Pete
  20. Pete Maddex

    Screw-adjusted plough plane

    What parts missing? 😉 Pete
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