• 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. Sheffield Tony

    Nervous about Surgeon

    It may look drastic, but one of my neighbours had a minimally invasive treatment for similar, and just what you say happened, he did not make it. I like that. I think I should like to do something of this sort if I ever get to retire, and reach the end of my jobs list.
  2. Sheffield Tony

    Hardest part of hand planing for me is planing edge square to face. Tips?

    IIRC ... School 'O'-level woodwork class said the #4 smoother was for smoothing glued up joints, with a light cut, and a straight iron with slightly rounded corners to reduce tram lines. A #5 Jack should have a cambered iron. I don't remember what they said about larger sizes.
  3. Sheffield Tony

    Record SS...DUN

    Or the original rosewood handle broke at some point as they often do? But I think you are right that the transition was a gradual one.
  4. Sheffield Tony

    Hardest part of hand planing for me is planing edge square to face. Tips?

    A cambered iron is the only way. A perfectly straight edge can only deliver a flat surface with perfect control, more likely a convex one. Cambered iron makes a flat surface possible, even in the presence of slight deviation of plane angle / pressure.
  5. Sheffield Tony

    Blast From The past

    Our green woodworking gatherings used to sometimes involve lunch cooked over a fire. At one gathering the nominated cook asked if anyone had a spatula. We all looked like they'd gone mad. Only "Does anyone have a wooden spoon ?" could have been a more stupid question.
  6. Sheffield Tony

    The scratch awl

    When marking with a pencil, or scribing onto metal, my Dad taught me to always make 2 lines in a V as a single mark is poorly defined.
  7. Sheffield Tony

    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Indeed. From what I can see of the planes in question, I would do as I did with my Dad's #5 recently - polish it up with a fairly fine wet or dry, wetted with oil, not looking for a totally clean, bare metal but a usable plane with a smooth surface and perhaps a bit of patina left. I used...
  8. Sheffield Tony

    What should I cut this brass sheet with?

    Scoring and snapping is probably critically dependent on the grade of brass. Most sheet brass is a fairly malleable type that will bend; bar stock is often a more brittle grade that is more suited to machining or hot work. I too would use the hacksaw. With a fairly fresh blade if available.
  9. Sheffield Tony

    Help and guidance sort: hand planes renovation 🙏

    Flax seed oil can be had for culinary purposes, even organic variants, and some of the green woodworkers liked it for finishing bowls. It tends to make some woods go very yellow. Raw linseed oil can be bought from equestrian supplies, I have a gallon with a picture of a horse on the label, I...
  10. Sheffield Tony

    I Do Like Facebook Marketplace

    I'm not convinced it is a bloom from the leather as it looks to match the grime on the rails under the weaving. It looks rather like many an old chair, fallen from favour, demoted to rough jobs e.g, to stand on for decorating, workshop use etc, covered in grime. Cleaning up that leather in situ...
  11. Sheffield Tony

    Retrieved from Dad's

    Tidying up at my old Dad's last weekend. He is still with us, but no longer able to live independently. Some things worth retrieving His Stanley no5 - not that I really need another - a vernier, and some stuff for drawing circular things. His work involved making all sorts of 3D objects...
  12. Sheffield Tony

    What size chisels do you use the most?

    To state the obvious, it rather depends on what you plan to make. I think the first chisel I bought was a 1/4" mortice chisel, but I wanted to make a stool with M&T joints. Rather than spend on expensive chisels, I would buy a means of grinding them first - then buy old chisels for small...
  13. Sheffield Tony

    Locating studs in the wall

    Ahh useful. I need to find the joists in the living room ceiling, I have a combined metal/cable/stud detector but it is not reliable. I imagine the plasterboard is fixed with galvanised steel clouts, so was wondering if a magnet might do the trick. I'll give it a try.
  14. Sheffield Tony

    Barn doors shrunk. Now fixed.

    Don't overdo it so they won't close come winter ! Lots of wood in our house is quite shrunken at the moment. Gaps around doors a shade wider. Tongue and groove showing a bit more tongue, edged of raised panels showing more. Evidence if it were needed that wood never stops moving, no matter...
  15. Sheffield Tony

    Box junction stupidity

    "Rule 174 Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road (see ‘Road markings’). You MUST NOT enter the box until your exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic...
  16. Sheffield Tony

    OOPs and some.

    I got caught by cameras once on the M1 in Derbyshire. I was driving home late at night, the motorway was almost empty. Speed taken down to 40 mph for "reports of object in the road". I saw the offending item clearly, an electrician's yellow stepladder safely on the hard shoulder (yes, they had...
  17. Sheffield Tony

    OOPs and some.

    With cruise control you too can become the person driving at a constant speed in the range 60-69mph in the middle lane of the motorway oblivious to the frustration you are causing. I'm sure the combination of speed cameras and cruise control as a means of avoiding their attention has greatly...
  18. Sheffield Tony

    OOPs and some.

    I think that was probably it; the blower "speed control" is usually a group of resistors switched into various series/parallel configurations - I would guess one burned out, so no all the blower speeds worked, at least at the speed it should, but I never noticed. How hard is PWM really ? A 555...
  19. Sheffield Tony

    OOPs and some.

    I once (long ago) had a Vauxhall Astra (a mistake). I found quite suddenly that the ignition lights were staying on when the ignition switch was turned fully off, and even with the key removed. Being a bit strapped for cash at the time, I investigated it myself. Pulling the connector off the...
  20. Sheffield Tony

    A groovy little two-day project

    How well do the tonguing planes work ? I don't have any woodie versions of those. I do have a couple of tonguing cutters for the #050C, and they do not work well enough to bother with. I used a mortice gauge and a woodie rebate plane instead. I expect the poor performance of the 050C cutters is...
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