• 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. BentonTool

    Grab Handle

    Were you able to save the blade? Cut out the bad tooth/teeth & solder?
  2. BentonTool

    Making sheaths for knives

    That's about how I make them! Well done...
  3. BentonTool

    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND?

    Thank you, Ian. I contacted TERSA and they sent diagrams for two available cutterheads for my FS35. At first glance, they look nothing like my FS35 cutterhead, but I will need to look closer, and get out my calipers for measurements. Lookin forward to upgrading... P.S. The drawings are labeled...
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    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND?

    Since my MiniMax FS35 has no springs under the knives, I use one of these magnetic blocks to set the jointer knives. If you find and mark the top-dead-center accurately, it does an admirable and repeatable job in setting the knives. That being said, I am still leaning towards purchasing a...
  5. BentonTool

    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND?

    Very true and well-considered reply. I have had the same experience. My planer (thicknesser) blades, sent to various companies for "sharpening", oft were returned with coarse-ragged edges or outright burned edges. I always had to hone them upon receipt. Sometimes it was a laborious task to...
  6. BentonTool

    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND?

    Albeit early in the process, I am leaning towards the TERSA® system. It looks like changing all those little carbide inserts is a real time-consuming PIA!
  7. BentonTool

    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND?

    Thank you, I never heard of this brand. Will investigate... Addendum: It appears that they only make cutterheads for their own products at the moment: "Silent-Power® cutterblock exclusively for Planer-Thicknessers of our brands FELDER, FORMAT4 and Hammer"
  8. BentonTool

    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND?

    Helical vs. Spiral Cutterhead for my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER? BRAND? Brothers, I am just starting to investigate the purchase of an upgrade to my MiniMax FS35 JOINTER-PLANER. Any recommendations on Helical vs. Spiral cutterhead? Any brand...
  9. BentonTool

    Greetings from the Colonies...

    Perhaps even more so on "UKW"... 😄
  10. BentonTool

    Greetings from the Colonies...

    Yes, I like to think that sharpening is my "thing", as we say here in the Colonies... I have many alternatives for sharpening, that take up less room. But, it is a novel machine... a one-stop station.
  11. BentonTool

    Greetings from the Colonies...

    No, I have never used them. :( I purchased them for restoration. They need to be cleaned, painted, and converted to V-belt drive. I have an SCMI/MiniMax FS35 J-P that is 14.1" wide and relatively compact. If is sell these, I can then purchase a helical cutterhead for it and come into the...
  12. BentonTool

    Greetings from the Colonies...

    Selling these... to make needed room... breaks my heart... Vintage F. H. Clement Rochester, NY. 20 inch Jointer Vintage F. H. Clement Rochester, NY. 20 inch Planer Vintage MUMMERT-DIXON CO. # 475 oilstone grinder HANOVER, PA.
  13. BentonTool

    A new take on the PAUL SELLERS HAND CUT MORTISE JIG.

    Yes, I have been practicing... getting better...
  14. BentonTool

    Tools to solve a common problem

    My apologies to you! In the prior list of the best of Scotland, I entirely left out the brews (beers and ales)! Here again, Scotland has the BEST... I hope there will be no arguments on this! 😄 P.S. I admire those who can brew their own!
  15. BentonTool

    Tools to solve a common problem

    Yes... gentlemen... a few things to consider... Perhaps you Scots do not realize the incredibly good fortune that you have living in Scotland... (and near Ireland as well 🙂 as Irish Whiskey is a very close second IMHO)... You live in the home of the finest tools ever made... in the home of...
  16. BentonTool

    Best value"Stanley" knife blades

    Here is a selection of some marking knives, pseudo-marking knives, and marking knives to-be: (Yes, I raided the kitchen utensil drawer! :) ) Contained herein are some certain to offend at least a few in the audience... These Dexter-Russell utility knives make very good marking knives on the...
  17. BentonTool

    Tools to solve a common problem

    Thank you for the post. Glad to see it arrived safely. To date, my tracking link still does not work! :LOL: All that remains now, is perhaps the application of some stain, to get the antler to match the color of your Peterson... Perhaps a bit of light sanding and/or solvent first, as I may...
  18. BentonTool

    A new take on the PAUL SELLERS HAND CUT MORTISE JIG.

    My homage to Derek Cohen (I am a fan!). In lieu of an entirely new jig, I have managed to bring my humble Paul-Sellers-ish mortising jig into non-vise-destroying compliance with the simple addition of yet more phenolic. I did not even have to obtain new hardware... This time, I added a sheet...
  19. BentonTool

    A new take on the PAUL SELLERS HAND CUT MORTISE JIG.

    I totally agree... that is why I gave up on drilling mortices. Additionally, I found that the holes introduced inaccuracy. The chisel seemed to want to follow the path of least resistance, rather than where you want to steer it.
  20. BentonTool

    A new take on the PAUL SELLERS HAND CUT MORTISE JIG.

    Some are trapezoidal, some are square/rectangular (such as those that Rob Cosman uses and sells). The jig can still be used, with either style. All one has to do is make sure the chisel edge is perpendicular to the jig face. :)
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