• 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

    Bandits have arrived!

    Ok, not type of bandit. But the banded Mongoose have arrived, Mungos mungo. Banded mongoose - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org A large troop, gave up counting at 30 as they kept on dodging in and out of the flower beds. They are quite destructive around the pot plants, digging up or tipping over...
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    Pricing your work to sell

    This link popped up on a Popular Woodworking e-mail.
  3. Phil

    Easter

    GS was visiting for a morning in the workshop. School holidays. GrandPa looked in his folders for Easter plans. Something not too complicated, but more challenging. Xmas trees were all straight cuts, these will have a certain amount of round cuts which I will guide him, hands on his. The...
  4. Phil

    Scroll Saw Workshop

    The scrollers would have come across this site and the owner, Steve Good. There was an e-mail from the site sent by his wife. Steve Good passed away on Wednesday. He had been in hospital and suffered a second heart attack. RIP and sincere sympathy with the family.
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    Routers

    Our main Woodworking Store in Randburg has shows during the year and also demonstrations. (65km from home + traffic so I skip) Yesterday they had a session on routers which is streamed live on U-Toob, link below. Not sure how long it is available.
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    Thought Provoking Quotes

    A while back I visited my new Nephrologist (first time). Dr’s consulting rooms usually have a pile of magazines, well thumbed, garden/home/cars/food etc. This consulting room was a big surprise. A table with …………….. Coffee Table Books! Not having much time I picked up a small one called The...
  7. Phil

    Knife Fix

    Neighbour asked if I could repair his knife, blade is loose. German made knives (set) which he sharpens and prefers using. The blade is slightly loose, just pulls out the handle. Suggested new handle using American Ash. Cut a slot for the tang using the Hegner, and then some fiddling with a...
  8. Phil

    Multimeter / s

    Anyone own a multimeter? Make? Features? What to look out for? I have a very small el-cheepo one which I bought when building the burglar alarms at our old house more than 20 years ago. I have some Xmas-vouchers to spend for one of the multi-product-warehouse-tools- shops and a replacement...
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    Exercise

    Following on from the falls thread ...... https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/falls-not-water.11299/#post-190535 I needed to see what this meant, and a quick surf delivered...
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    Back to school - 5 Point star

    Probably the last tree for this year. It is the outside offcuts from the larger tree cut recently, joined back to back. Looks chunky, but not serious. To finish it off, a star would look good on the top, same thickness wood as the tree. First off draw on paper a 5 pointed star and then size it...
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    Falls (not water)

    We have Wednesday Tea at the clubhouse organised by the social committee. Once a month they arrange for a speaker/presenter on various topics. There were two talks this year on falls, specifically the elderly. They show you how to fall and then get up again. This is all good and well how to...
  12. Phil

    Trees

    Having actually done very little scroll work this year, helping GS edged me on to cut 2 trees. GS education: https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/aspiring-woodworker-visit-2.11234/ The left tree is similar to GS except I kept all the rounded corners. The lights are same as previous years...
  13. Phil

    Xmas

    Kindly note that Rog is excluded from this thread! :ROFLMAO: Well all you good people, only another 8 sleeps to the big day. :cool: What have you got planned? Ours will be at our house, son & family will be over for lunch. Wife and son planning the meal. It will be a cold lunch this year due...
  14. Phil

    Pestle

    I found these the other day in a box (looking for cutting pattens). They were turned about 15 years ago on the 1930's Walker Turner. The bed was about 1000mm long, all cast-iron and weighed in at about 100kg++. Turning on it was a pleasure. One speed, raw power. I had trimmed our wild Olive and...
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    Aspiring woodworker - visit #2

    Grandson, 8 yrs, expressed in interest in learning something about woodworking. I took pics of a lot of the tools, pasted into Powerpoint and printed for him to take with. Instruction - bring own hearing protection and wear shoes. I planned a small box and some cut outs on the scroll saw. The...
  16. Phil

    Picture Frame

    Picture Frame This has taken me a lot longer than what it should, fortunately they have been away from home for a couple of months. (São Tomé, Mexico, USA and Eswatini) Last Xmas family lunch was at our house, including extended. I asked my DIL dad what he would like, “a sheet of hardboard to...
  17. Phil

    Lock Mitre

    Has anyone used a "Lock Mitre" router bit for joining boxes? Looks like a neat idea. If I go ahead with this box build https://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/threads/saw-blades-cabinet.11100 then it would be ideal.
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    Saw blades cabinet? Completed

    Has anyone made a "cabinet" or "something" to store their saw blades? If so, are there plans or pictures? I need to keep mine (cross+rip * 2) a lot better and safer than currently. It is for 9" blades (TS) 10" blades (RAS) and then the smaller circular saw. It needs to be sized for 10" Thanks
  19. Phil

    Spokeshave?

    What is it?
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    Spring

    Spring is sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is. They say the birdies on the wing, but that’s absurd. I always thought the wing was on the bird. Ah, yes, spring day :cool: But with a forecast high of 30c it is more like summer! Where did spring go to? :unsure:
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