• 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. Wood Pigeon

    A New Fir Kitchen Counter Top

    I have indeed been really busy this August constructing various furnishings for our kitchen. Of course, all 100% fir, and with my L-profile, carriage-bolted legs, and painted gloss white. My counter top from 12. August, 2026 Since this double induction cook field draws 3500 Watts, at full...
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    Skil Jig Saw Case Repair

    This Skil jig saw got pulled off the bench, by its cord, and suffered a nasty crack in its case, plus a hole in its side. So I took it apart and then sealed up the crack, from the inside, really good with two-part epoxy. I covered the hole with a piece of aluminium sheet-metal, carefully...
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    A Bakery Bench for a Mixer

    I have a KitchenAid K5 series mixer which has a lot of sideways torque, when mixing a kilogram of bread dough. It is a problem that various tables wanted to 'dance about' as the dough-hook spins around, slapping the dough against the side of the bowl with the sound of 'Irish tap-dancing ladies.'...
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    I Need Help — Tapering Model Ship Masts & Spars without a Lathe .

    I have a Dutch Hoogars shrimp boat kit from the days of sail. The kit is very nice but the mast and spar material was bad. Since I have to taper them myself anyway, I bought some good fir doweling, and a special little plane for this purpose. The main mast is about 45 cm high, and must...
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    A Better Rat Trap

    It was necessary to install rat traps on my ground-level balcony, as sometimes my wood pigeons fight up on top of my pergola, at the feed dish, and it 'rains' dried feed corn and sunflower seed. The little birds, and wood peckers, gleefully nibble away at the hanging cage of beef-suet, peanut...
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    New 'Foot' for Parkside PSS 310 Sander

    The original 'foot' on my sander, bought in 2004, rotted from age. No replacements are available for this 310 Watt machine. So I took an old Mouse Pad (...remember when computers had a mouse?), and some cork road bedding for my model railway, and made a new one using contact cement for shoe...
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    A Sink Table Out of Bed-Slats 🪚

    We started remodeling the kitchen in our flat two years ago. The particle board cabinets, which we had bought from the previous tenants, were from 1973. But by 2024 they were swollen, rotted, and crumbling. We then did a total demolition, leaving only a 'concrete shell' for a room. At this...
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    Workshop Annoyances: Life's Little Quirks

    Carriage bolts which were either made on a Friday, or on a Monday, and look like 'Musical Notes!' 50 x 6 mm Carriage Bolts Well, my Mum — bless her — would have said: 'Play with it the way it is, you are not getting a new one!' 🤣
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    Greetings from Northern Germany

    Hello everybody! My name is Charles, but I go here by 'Wood Pigeon', as I have several of them. They are twice as big as 'city' pigeons, and live mainly in the woods (so the name). And since I love making home furnishings out of wood, the name fits me well indeed. I am 67 years old, retired...
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