Recent content by fraggleexport

Yup...agree with one of the posters above....dont throw all your money at a lathe and leave peanuts for the tools or the grinder. Its all very well saying you'll get around to the sharpening system but from experience you do a few pieces with blunt or inferior tooling and your mojo disappears...

Good stuff....would never have thought of doing that

good looking contemporary pieces Monkey.....A couple of questions if I may... Do you buy the tops as a pack...like a bottle stopper kit or something? What do you seal the wood with so the coffee sits in there ok? Cheers Kevin

Im assuming its a hardwood?! I'll get me coat.

I need to big up the vice handle....Its been forgotten about under the weight of walnut complements :D Kevin

excellent stuff Chris well done...particularly like the penultimate one. Wow to that grain pattern! Good photo composition with the logs in the background too...works nicely Kevin

resurrecting and old but still relevant thread chaps..... I have installed my SIP dust extractor which come with 100mm pipe but seems unwilling to bend any which way Id like it to, so must assume this is for fixed installation.....looking through this post the Axminster bendi pipe seems just...

It shouldnt bug me as much as it does...but if theres a piece of log Ive been given Ive just gotta find out its name :D Anyway extractor fitted tonight...another expense off the ticklist....might even do a bit of turning at the weekend! Kevin

Aahhh excellent Chas...twas right in front of me....thanks a lot....I'll post some pictures of my meagre wares as I go along :D Ive an engineering background so very thicked skinned to a critique or two!

Hello All, another 'prospect' here....Have been lurking for a few months now and am enjoying the site immensely..The questions are building up so I thought Id join! Apart from making all the classic mistakes as I go along Ive now got a fair bit of green wood stacking up coated and drying...