• 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

    Unusual winter weather.

    Regarding the topic of Mountain Lions; I have lived in PA since 1983, originally in Central PA (now NE PA). In Central PA, there was always much talk of Mountain Lions even back then. Some of the locals would claim they saw them, and report it to the local Game Commission, who always...
  2. BentonTool

    Unusual winter weather.

    Well... possibly, but I am not sure where that was filmed. I suspect it was much farther West in PA, or even possibly in West Virginia.
  3. BentonTool

    Unusual winter weather.

    Yes, Lancaster is down in the low country, out of the mountains... much better soil down there. Nothing but rocks up here. I have 14 acres and can't put a shovel in the ground anywhere on my property... :oops: Not a problem unless you want to plant some crops... P.S. I used to do a lot on...
  4. BentonTool

    Unusual winter weather.

    So, I did a little research on the topic of Black Bears in PA. As it turns out, we are no longer at the top in the lower 48. "Pennsylvania has been known to have the largest black bear population in the lower 48 states, particularly highlighted by a record harvest of 4,350 bears in 2011...
  5. BentonTool

    Unusual winter weather.

    Gentlemen, I hope you will indulge me this story from my youth on the topic of camping... My friend Kevin Schumacher (RIP) and I often "camped-out" together. We were perhaps the wilder and more reckless of our collection of friends. What we did was actually considered "backpacking", as...
  6. BentonTool

    Unusual winter weather.

    From a few days ago:
  7. BentonTool

    Unusual winter weather.

    More snow and much colder than typical here in NE PA, USA... A gift from up North. Thank you Canada! We had a "white Christmas". :oops:
  8. BentonTool

    Very Good French Folding Blade, Ôpinel.

    Yes... I did exactly the same... Great minds think alike! :)
  9. BentonTool

    What tools did you buy for yourself for xmas.

    Here's what I bought for myself, and a very good purchase, IMO. Very handy for repairs of metalworking calipers, dial & test indicators, etc.
  10. BentonTool

    Very Good French Folding Blade, Ôpinel.

    IMO, some of the best and most practical knives made for shop use & EDC. They take a super sharp edge and last a long time. I have several, and have carried one every day for forty years. The blade is, shall we say, now changing shape due to repeated sharpening, but still a favorite.
  11. BentonTool

    Grab Handle

    Simple but good:
  12. BentonTool

    Grab Handle

    Good morning Mr. Duke, If you have a propane torch (a Colonial torch, not a flashlight), or better yet some MAPP gas, and some basic tools and skills, you can solder it back together. Basically, you create a scarf joint and solder it. It usually creates a strong bond. In fact, a properly...
  13. BentonTool

    Grab Handle

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

    Making sheaths for knives

    That's about how I make them! Well done...
  15. 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...
  16. BentonTool

    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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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!
  19. 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"
  20. 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...
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