• 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!

Greetings from the Colonies...

BentonTool

BentonTool

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Alex Acle
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Benton, PA, USA.
Hello to all my Brothers in the UK,
I must say, prior to my introduction, that the UK has (arguably) made the finest woodworking tools the world has ever seen!
To that end, I have had a friend in the UK scour the tag sales and flea markets on your side of the pond for decades.
I have an extensive collection of tools from the UK!
I retired four years ago, and am just getting back into my wood shop.
My wife and I moved to a rural farmstead, and I had to refurbish many of the buildings, including a barn that I now use as my shop.
This was my shop prior to restoration:
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And, during restoration:
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Now, after the restoration, and the addition of a few more structures to fuel my wood and metal working addiction:
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So, with all the construction that I had to do, along with working multiple jobs, I have not been able to actually work in my shop for decades! I just recently de-cluttered, and ran my table saw for the first time in 22 years!

Prior to that, I believe I that was a reasonably accomplished woodworker. I hope to post a few projects in the future. I will attach a few pics of my past projects. Most of the shop cabinets were made of recycled lumber obtained from dumpsters.
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Excellent! …..and a belated welcome.
Much of my timber comes from skips (translation: lumber from dumpsters) 😀
 
Welcome, BT. You have a fabulous looking arrangement of workshops there, and a separate woodstore. Most of us here would dream of having that collection of buildings. I'd love to have a dedicated metalworking workshop, to keep the mess away from woodwork. (I compensate by doing as little metalwork as I possibly can).
 
duke said:
Welcome, that pic of yourself with the sports socks and shorts looks to be from the 70's.
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Yes indeed... but that is my youngest brother. He is much more handsome than I! :D
The post office desk (Carlyle Lynch design) was for his wedding 36 or so years ago.
 
That does look very well organised and very well filled. Welcome from me too, I'm sure there will be plenty of old tool related topics we can explore.
 
Dr.Al said:
So much space...
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Yes, as it turns out, the shop building is larger than the house!
A fact that I am often reminded by the wife...
But, I have managed to fill every corner of it...
I have too much junk mixed-in...
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Resources! Which you.have not yet had to call upon....
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Selling these... to make needed room... breaks my heart...

Vintage F. H. Clement Rochester, NY. 20 inch Jointer 03 215282583_o.jpg

Vintage F. H. Clement Rochester, NY. 20 inch Planer
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Vintage MUMMERT-DIXON CO. # 475 oilstone grinder HANOVER, PA.
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With all those lovely hand tool (plane blades) around that oilstone grinder is probably the last thing I'd pass on, unless you have an alternative method of grinding the long bevel? - Rob
 
duke said:
Are you using the machines regularly? Always hard to let go of things that you enjoy having around.
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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 21st century! 😄
I really do not have room for these huge machines.
 
Woodbloke said:
With all those lovely hand tool (plane blades) around that oilstone grinder is probably the last thing I'd pass on, unless you have an alternative method of grinding the long bevel? - Rob
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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.
 
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