• 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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Martin
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Hello
After 45 years of bodgery ( no interest in woodcraft whatsoever after a shoolteacher with bad attitude) Im trying to make more of an effort
Recently got rid of the old tablesaw ( a very cheap red one) and bought evolution( astronomically better quality given the price)
and learned to calibrate the remaining tools Im getting much better results
I did an engineering apprenticeship as a pup but now the sole member of the tribe with even an ounce of diy skill its often making storage facilities for the ever expanding family but mostly its equipment for the main occupation which is bee farming.
May even move forward from screwed and glued butt-joints one day!
Appreciate your advice and due patience.......
 
Welcome from far down South.
I built lots of bee hive boxes for a friend, there is a thread under projects

www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk

Beehive Construction - Done!!

Beehive Construction Part 1 of another exciting wood project, something very different this time, and no rocket science (says he full of confidence). A very old friend of mine lives on a farm close by and has a couple of hives. We visited recently and he asked if I could make a hive. He will...
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Thanks for the welcomes

Some interesting work going on there
We mostly use National hives in the uk and from a cost perspective rather than enjoyment its just assembling pre machined flat packs for the brood and super boxes as the manufactures sell the kits a lot cheaper than we can buy just the raw timber.
Its the other components and accessories that are worth the diy aproach as you can modify existing ideas or invent custom kit to suit your own operation.
Some useful kit that I have made isnt in any suppliers catalogues.
 
Wotcher from Mid-Devon. Ever though of making musical instruments? :)
 
I have a friend who is a commercial bee keeper. It's amazing how much woodwork is involved.

Welcome to the forum.
 
Hello and welcome, an interesting subject making beehives,
and heard of terms like "National beehives" before, though I've never really looked into it.
It would surely be a good way to use up thin short stuff, as I'd bet there's a lot more wood than you'd think in them!

All the best
Tom
 
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