• 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. Steve Maskery

    Bois de Steve

    Close call! :) S
  2. Steve Maskery

    What I have fixed today

    Well, what I have begun to fix today... A couple of evening ago I was having a wee nightcap. I'd already taken out my contact lenses and so when I poured I missed the glass and poured whisky all over my keyboard. Thereafter it would only type...
  3. Steve Maskery

    Bois de Steve

    Update. Last year we had 6 months with no rain and the oaks are a long way from the nearest tap. I'm afraid that none of them have survived. But the fruit trees are faring better. Two of them didn't take at all and two have been breakfast for a deer. One is dead (the tree, not the deer, as far...
  4. Steve Maskery

    Not sure I introduced myself before

    Welcome Shafiq. I use Everbuild D4 and am very happy (apart from the fact that it is twice the price in France as it is in the UK). S
  5. Steve Maskery

    Festool Track Saw Dust Port Improvement

    I've never found the swivelling dust port to be a problem, TBH, but I do like the idea of the saw being no wider than the track. When I'm using my MFT, the body of the TS55 fouls the tall pegs. I went round the Festool factory in Germany once. It was very impressive the way they worked and the...
  6. Steve Maskery

    And so a new week begins...

    I'm really sorry for you Frank. I had my car done over several times in the UK, it's heartbreaking. I had a very nice Mazda. One Friday night I was at a fund-raising barn dance thingy in Ilkeston, came out to find my car gone. I was eventually found in a canal in Rotherham. I lent my car to a...
  7. Steve Maskery

    Horrible job to do, any tips very welcome.

    Bon courage, Ian, I don't envy you. We live in an old house, too, and are currently redoing the kitchen. Someone before us (the two previous owners were Brits) has lined the stone walls with polystyrene-backed plasterboard, just dab-and-dobbed, with no reference to anything vertical or straight...
  8. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    You mean I had such a tool? I have no recollection! Anyway, I've had a go today with the nice chunky blade from my LN and it worked a treat. Definitely more than 15 years. Closer to 20 at least. S
  9. Steve Maskery

    Glasses - what's your view?

    Thank you Adrian. I have less and less reason to visit the UK. I have no family of my own, my best friends are dead and now I have been discharged from NUH there really isn't anything to go back for. But if I do, we have a deal. In fact, it might well be worth going back just for a bacon...
  10. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    No, should I? S
  11. Steve Maskery

    Glasses - what's your view?

    It was keratoconus which led me to have my grafts in the first place. S
  12. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    I've done a bit today,on melamine edging, using the blade from my Lie-Neilsen low angle block plane. Nice blade. The best result i've had so far. I shall definitely make a block handle a la Lurker. Excellent result. Not tried it on a wood veneer yet, but so far I ama happy bunny. S
  13. Steve Maskery

    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    Before I was born, my dad worked for a company that did a lot of bar refurbishment work. One day, he was installing a newly re-uphstolstered bench seat, screwing up from below, using a pump-action Yankee screwdriver. It slipped and hit him in the eye. They did discuss having to remove his...
  14. Steve Maskery

    Clamp of Theseus

    I once had a boxful of these, wooden bar so nice and light. They went into store for a couple of years and came out riddled with woodworm! I could do with having a session making another batch. Next time I shall definitely use roll pins for the wear points. Excellent job. S PS, for anyone...
  15. Steve Maskery

    Glasses - what's your view?

    Well I don't know if they are conventional, but they are certainly not scleral. They are about 8mm in diameter. Rigid (you don't want any flexible ones following the contours of MY corneas!), gas-permeable. I'm assuming that the ones they are about to prescribe will also be GP. One of the...
  16. Steve Maskery

    Glasses - what's your view?

    I wish I could wear spectacles. I used to have some as a backup for when I couldn't wear my contact lenses, but these days they make little to no difference. The problem is that my corneas are so damaged and deformed, after three grafts, that anything that a spectacle lens does on the end of my...
  17. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    I'll try that. The problem I have at the moment is that I can't move in my workshop, I have a kitchen in pieces. I can barely get to my RT, let alone use it.
  18. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    That's what I'm doing at the mo, Sam, I was rather hoping to find an easier method. S
  19. Steve Maskery

    If there was one hand tool which you would like to see made again.

    I had a lovely double-pinion drill, I think it was made by Record. Green livery, Jacobs chuck .Excellent build quality. I won it for a letter I wrote to Woodworker magazine, I think when Zachary Taylor was editor. It was great for tiny holes and well-controlled countersinking. Alas it was among...
  20. Steve Maskery

    Kity 619 table saw rise and fall repair

    Eric the Viking is your friend. S
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