• 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

    Single bevel blades

    Thank you all. I've realised, after seeing the Lee Valley link, that I have a 311(?) plane that can be set up as a bullnose plane. It might do the job, I'll have to try. S
  2. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    I'm doing a lot of edgebanding at the moment and I have a trimmer. It looked great in the advert... It's OK but it works better on melamine than it does on oak veneer and the edge is still a tad proud, it still needs a stroke or two with a blade. There is no adjustment on the trimmer. It is very...
  3. Steve Maskery

    Chairs - Done!

    Fantastic, Nick, really wonderful. When I made mine, I was going blind*, so I would have had difficulty doing the upholstery, even if I had had the skills. But I have a friend who is a retired uphosterer and he did it for me. Unfortunately I didn't explain well enough what I wanted, so the...
  4. Steve Maskery

    So..is anyone feeling, justifiably, just that little bit smug ….

    I've just had a newsletter from the Bank saying that supermarkets are about to cut the price of petrol by 30c /l. S
  5. Steve Maskery

    So..is anyone feeling, justifiably, just that little bit smug ….

    I went to Limoges today. It was over €2 /l for diesel and over 1.80 for 95. S
  6. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Ah, that is a shame. Apparently, when I was very small, I was asked if I wanted to play the piano, and I said No. I have no recollection of this. But it is my second biggest regret in life (don't go there). I did try as an adult, but I really think you have to start embryonically. S
  7. Steve Maskery

    Uses 'electrickery' so... Cross line laser unit

    So what did you find so disappointing about them? S
  8. Steve Maskery

    A tad of mirth

    That took me a moment... S
  9. Steve Maskery

    Uses 'electrickery' so... Cross line laser unit

    I have a laser level. I don't need it very often, but when I do, it is just the best. When I was working doing cabling, we did consider buying one for setting out sockets, but in those days they started at £500. No. I can't remember why I bought the previous model to this in Feb '23, but I'm...
  10. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    I remember Barry Bucknell. S
  11. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Yes done that. Lots to choose from, but many do not produce the same output as I see on the screen. Some of the promised formats, suc as .odt, bear no resemblance to the real thing. I've finally done it by saving in a Google format, then outputting that as a PDF. What a palaver. But then, I...
  12. Steve Maskery

    Outside door frame - finished

    I once made a set of French doors with surrounding windows from Ipé. t was very successful (eventually) but VERY brittle. And it needed a special primer. I think a good softwood that has been pressure treated, such as tanalised, should last a good few years, especially if regularly maintained. S
  13. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Ah yes. Words with letters, they are little beggars aren't they? :) For me, it's words with letters I can't actually see, I think we understand each other. S
  14. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    (y) No, it was just the stock that came to hand. I rarely use my western bench hook, I prefer my Japanese version, which works in the same way and sits between a pair of bench dogs. I'll try to take a pic tomorrow. I can confirm that Pete is one of the cleverest, most skilful people I know...
  15. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Muir said she was going to display hers on a shelf. Bloody Tool Collectors. I used to have a template for a Certificate (I last used it to congratulate SWMBO on getting to (and back from) a charity shop about an hour away without getting (very) lost - she doesn't have SatNav), but I can't find...
  16. Steve Maskery

    The Accidental Woodworking Club

    Well they have both been here today. It was good. But my goodness, I had forgotten how hard some people find it to do very basic stuff, like holding a marking knife and a try square at the same time. Knowing which way to turn the vice handle. Setting and using a pencil gauge. Fitting a drill...
  17. Steve Maskery

    Bread Baking

    FWIW, I use fresh yeast, floured and frozen into loaf-sized portions. https://www.instructables.com/How-to-freeze-fresh-yeast S
  18. Steve Maskery

    After 53 years I have to take my test again!

    What's a dock system? S
  19. Steve Maskery

    After 53 years I have to take my test again!

    Is General Electric still there? My oppo was a bloke called Claire. (As opposed to a boy named Sue...) No I didn't, but I do remember that they have Trent Severn water whereas we have Severn Trent... I've seen film of the lift lock, I didn't realise it was there. S
  20. Steve Maskery

    Sharp-eyed digger driver

    That reminds me of a little incident when I were a lad. I liked science and I loved magic. I ended up on the telly in 1975 and was semi-pro for nearly 30 years. In the theatrical world, we have something called Flash Paper. It is tissue paper impreganted with a highly flammable substance. I...
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