• 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

    Planer thicknesser?

    Yes, that is only a planer in the US. Here it is a thicknesser. It's confusing. If you want someting decent but affordable*, I can recommend the Kity 636/637. I don't think they are made any more, but they do crop up second-hand from time to time. I've had 2 over 35 years. I haven't used mine...
  2. Steve Maskery

    Painting MDF panels

    On the tin it says apply between 10 and 25C. It also says Do Not Thin, but on the listing it says it can be thinned 5% in hot weather. I've been using it neat, but in sensible temperatures. BTW, I have given the panel two coats of Johnstone's MDF Primer, bought on my last trip to the UK, before...
  3. Steve Maskery

    How not to do Customer Service

    Sorry to hear that,, Martin. Glad you got your phone back though. I was in my local supermarket just yesterday. Trolley full of shopping through the checkout. When I opened my wallet, I couldn't find my bank card and so couldn't pay. I did, however, remember that I had last used it to put my...
  4. Steve Maskery

    Painting MDF panels

    This Dulux is the consistency of cream. Indeed it is called Crème de Couleur. I have considered, but not tried, mixing it with the water-based varnish as a top coat. S
  5. Steve Maskery

    Painting MDF panels

    Thank you Windows. No I haven't, because, as I say, it specifically says Do Not Thin. It's definitely the paint, not the substrate. Spectric, you sound as if you have been here. I can get that Floetrol in France. How much would I need to add to 5l and would it change the colour? HOJ thank you...
  6. Steve Maskery

    Painting MDF panels

    Ooh the Finishing forum. 'Ere be Dragons. I'm building kitchen cabinets. Nothing fancy, slab doors made from MRMDF*. Much of the paint in France is a bit meh. It's also expensive. I have found an outlet place, a shed on a farm, that sells loads of cheap and nasty end-of-line stuff, but they do...
  7. Steve Maskery

    Getting old and stupid

    I'm making this ^^&*(*&^ kitchen and getting right (*&^%^&* off about it. There hasn't been much progress this last couple of weeks as life has got in the way, but I distinctly remember, a couple of weeks ago, feeling slightly relieved that I didn't have to cut up any more MFC or MDF for a...
  8. Steve Maskery

    New member

    I once worked at a company where there was a Steve J Maskery and a Steve J Mullins. It caused no end of confusion. I ended up as SJM and he became SJMu. Not very satisfactory, really. At the same company, a customer turned up one day in a car with the reg SJM1. Jealous, Moi? Or even Nous? S
  9. Steve Maskery

    New member

    Welcome. This is going to get confusin.g.. S
  10. Steve Maskery

    John’s workshop

    I hope that your BCO is as helpful and constructive as mine was when I built SCW* He solved more than one unfrrced errorsfor me. Great bloke. Famous quote: "I go to see houses that are not being as well-built as this is". I'll take that. S *Steve's Cathedral of Woodwork, (Copyright Pete Maddex).
  11. Steve Maskery

    Now that's how to do Customer Service!

    Here it is complicated by the fact that all our income is in GBP, but all our taxation is in EUR. There are two ways of calulating the exchange rate. We can check the rate on every day we receive our pensions and do it separately for each transaction, or we can use the "average" exchange rate...
  12. Steve Maskery

    Now that's how to do Customer Service!

    Ooh, I shall have to investigate that, thank you. I use OpenOffice. I'm not a whizz at spreadsheets, just basic number-crunching, really. Currently doing our tax return... S
  13. Steve Maskery

    Like the ocean under the moon

    Waaaayyy beyond me. but I enjoyed every moment of the ride. Thank you for sharing. S
  14. Steve Maskery

    Now that's how to do Customer Service!

    We used to have a bank in our local town. Well, population decline has meant that it is now classified as a village (<2000 residents). The bank closed in January and our account was tranferred to a branch half an hour away. We had got to know the staff and they knew us and our circumstances...
  15. Steve Maskery

    Festool ts55 blades

    Ain't life complicated :( S
  16. Steve Maskery

    Festool ts55 blades

    Festool are definitely the best I have tried. I have got through several blades on this kitchen project, Festool, Trend, Saxton. The Saxton one was very fine indeed and I thought it would zip through. But when I tried to install it the machine made a dreadful noise. I discovered that the plate...
  17. Steve Maskery

    Steve's Tip Of The Day- Don't run into a Police car...

    It wouldn't have been so bad but I'd just come out of the optician's...
  18. Steve Maskery

    Steve's Tip Of The Day- Don't run into a Police car...

    ... but if you do, get the hell out of there rather than actually following the said police car to the roundabout, off at the same exit, left at the same junction, to somewhere nice and quiet where he can pull you over. I was coming out of a supermarket carpark. I looked left, of course I did...
  19. Steve Maskery

    Using UK credit cards in France

    And for anyone getting cash out of an ATM, in any country, when it asks you if you want to use the Bank Rate or the Local Rate, ALWAYS choose the Bank Rate (and it may not be the default option). The local rate can be anything they want it to be. S
  20. Steve Maskery

    I will never buy another Magnet kitchen

    I'm doing our kitchen now. Started in October. Nowhere near finished yet. I'm making my own carcase because: a) All the ones I've seen here, even in showrooms, have 3mm hardboard backs b) Some of them need to be non-standard sizes c) I'd forgotten how domestically disruptive it is and d) I'd...
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