• 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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Hi

I’m a long term lurker on this forum.
Retired now, putting my time in with small projects.

I have a small bandsaw to help with resaw but work mainly with hand tools.

I started using hand tools when I was working and couldn’t use noisy power tools in the evening.
Cutting grooves and rebates with a plane and then sweeping up the shavings is so much more satisfying than getting on full on PPE to use a router and ending up with a layer of fine dust everywhere.

I pretend I’m not a collector but I have more plough planes than strictly necessary.
I used to own a Record 044 and a Stanley 50, sold off when I found a Record 405.

I’ve since acquired a Stanley 13-050, Stanley 55, Record 043, and Stanley 46. Latest purchase was a Mitor 88.

I know, how many ways do you need to cut a rebate :D (and I have a Stanley 78 as well but I use that as a scrub)

Regards

Jim
 
Welcome aboard.

If you've been here a while you'll know the moderating thing goes away soon so keep going :)
 
Welcome Jim.

You'll find yourself in good company here with your bias towards hand-tools. Make one more quick post and then then you'll be free to post at will. The moderation here keeps the spam away nicely, as well as the trolls.
 
Welcome Jim,

I inherited a 405 from my grandfather. Usually takes me longer to set up than to do the job but when working sweetly it is a delight to use, and quiet, and it takes a lot longer to screw up a project than a tailed router.
 
Welcome along. I share your preference for the quieter methods - and as for the "how many" question I think it's just a matter of personal preference and storage space. Nobody would ask an art collector why they need more than one painting!
 
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