• 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!

Recent content by Sheffield Tony

  1. Sheffield Tony

    Look after yourselves chaps!!

    Sad to hear this. But I think we, as blokes with a hobby, are lucky. There is this thing I think of as "male pattern socialising". We don't easily get together to talk about the deep issues in life, but a hobby gives an overt reason to connect - cover if you like, which has a wider social...
  2. Sheffield Tony

    Stool design.

    Splayed legs improves stability, if the top is heavy it is particularly useful so you don't keep knocking it over. This one I made is a bit top-heavy could do with more splay on the legs; the top (elm) is quite thick in part because I didn't go for through tenons as I didn't want to detract...
  3. Sheffield Tony

    Quince

    A little quince gives a nice fruity lift to a range of apple desserts, eg. apple tart or crumble. It also can be added to pork or even venison casseroles. Quince jam makes a great glaze for the top of an apple tart, as you might use apricot jam. Or as a glaze for a ham. Quince and habanero...
  4. Sheffield Tony

    2 lessons learned today.

    Be careful with those. One of my son's course-mates at Uni caused a bomb scare by leaving an unattended pomello on a desk at the front of the lecture theatre !
  5. Sheffield Tony

    Record lever cap screw

    I am feeling pleased for my part in triggering such fun ! Lovely job, I wish I had room for some more metalworking tools. My father has a fair collection of metal working stuff (files, old taps and dies, arc welder etc etc) looking for a new home, but it just won't fit. That lathe is a very...
  6. Sheffield Tony

    Smart meter

    There was an era when, in the rush to install them, barely trained fitters forgot little steps like tightening the terminals.
  7. Sheffield Tony

    What size screw is this?

    If it is for salt, you might want to look for a stainless one ?
  8. Sheffield Tony

    Knife handle help

    Google says this: "The engraving on the knife reads 関住唯知郎作 (Sekijū Ichirō saku), which translates to "Made by Ichiro, resident of Seki." [1, 2] Maker Details Blacksmith: Ichiro Hattori (服部唯知郎), the founder of Hattori Hamono (Hattori Cutlery Co.) based in Seki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan...
  9. Sheffield Tony

    Knife handle help

    So there are two approaches, drill the scales to match the pegs somehow, or grind them off possibly drilling for new rivets/Corby bolts. I personally doubt my ability to drill wooden scales to match the spacing of those pegs with an accuracy I would be content with, so my leaning is to grind...
  10. Sheffield Tony

    Knife handle help

    EBay. Corby bolts. They create a good mechanical fixing, without relying on glue or the risk of peening rivets in wood. Sometimes when you get the handle off you may find the holes in the tang are a fair bit smaller than the original rivet head, which suits Corby bolts well without needing to...
  11. Sheffield Tony

    Record SS...DUN (fully)

    Watch out that for the SS cap iron and a thick cutting iron, the lever cap screw can be close to full stretch with not that many turns of thread engaged. Would not want to strip the thread out of the frog.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Sheffield Tony

    Record SS...DUN (fully)

    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.
  15. 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.
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