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I've been asked by a friend to make a full dinner service for her narrow boat, and I'm not sure what wood to use. Criteria, it has to be a native british species, preferably one that grows in the park that she is a ranger at (that way we can keep the cost down) and I'll probably have to turn...

If this is the wrong place please feel free to flame but... My kitchen is in need of a spruce up, but times are hard and budgets are tight (extremely so). One of the things that would really help would be new door handles (several are missing or broken) - but the cheapest I've seen are about...

Without getting into the merits of individual parties has anyone yet seen a manifesto from any of them? I could be wrong but I think I remember a time when manifesto's were published at least a month before an election - maybe longer - which gave you time to read, digest, and question the...

Hi all, I've got the chance to buy the Sorby modular tool rest system :D , I just need to know the Stem Size of my Banjo :? . obviously I could measure it - but I'm about a hundred miles away from my lathe at the moment :( and I'd rather get this sorted out today. The Lathe is an SIP 01360 -...

SWMBO has decided that she'd like to take up Pen Turning... I don't want to discourage her, but she does have a habit of starting these things (we have candle making kits, painting kits and a keyboard lying around waiting for interest to blossom) so I don't want to spend a lot of money. Can...

A question about democracy in the UK. Looking at this chart Voting in General elections in the UK has been dropping dramatically since 1950. I discussed this with SWMBO a while ago and discovered that she had never voted in a general election (she has voted in Locals). I've always...

At an antiques fair today I found three "narrow" wooden planes on one stall that was otherwise selling plates and pots. They were 3/4", 1", and 1 1/2" respectively, and very battered. They were labelled £6, £7, and £8. I decided not to buy them, but now I'm at home and thinking about it I'm...

...When I go to the supermarket is relatively easy now - especially for fruit and veg But buying anything else seems to be a minefield. For example, recently I bought a new lathe, from SIP, a company I thought was British, and when I met the rep at show where I bought the tool I was given the...

In another thread and it got me thinking, will it? really? and by a factor of 10? surely much of the ability of a tool is down to the way it's being set up or used? I'm sure I could do as bad a job with a LN plane with a blunt, badly set, plane as I could with a B&Q special in the same state...

I'm trying to find a distributor for these in the UK? I've looked on the site and apparently I can get them to grate as many onions and spuds as I like but not for wood working in the UK. Any Clues (or alternative products) would be grate (non pun intended) fully received Thanks Dave

*Edit* I forgot to say what wood I used, sorry. Goblets Darker one is Iroko, the Lighter one is Yew Bowl This is Beech, the blamk promised it was spalted, but I couldn't see any, nice figure though. Bowl as Art? This was Burr Elm (I think) and there was a huge burr (I think that's...

something that happened on another thread made me think, whats a stereo typical woodworker? I guess if you'd asked me I'd have described, bearded guy, glasses (dusty), wearing a check shirt, neat, tidy, and interested, lets call him Norm :D But thinking about it a bit more, I'd want to...

I'm curious. I've just read a new member mention that he sells his work to the public, and has items in Private Collections (So do I, or at least that's what SWMBO calls the cupboard under the stairs thats slowly filling up with Bowls). I thought that most Turners who made their living from...

Ok folks really opening myself up for this one. Its my first attempt at a little different turning, this was a square block labeled as "Tulipwood" which I was told was Magnolia? I've since looked up Tulipwood and it was described as Poplar, this is not poplar! anyway back to the turning, I...

Is anyone else sitting indoors at the moment wishing there was a way of cooling the workshop. I can't go in mine at the moment, it would be just too hot, and I'm sure sweat ruins the finish!

SWMBO wants to make a mosaic table top using a piece of waney edge elm I have in the Workshop that I haven't used yet (Yes I know, a lesson well learned!) The elm is about 2.5" thick (635mm for those on the metric system). I was planning to rebate the top about 1/4" (6.35mm) for her to put...

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In the interest of Balance (given that I had some pretty negative comments regarding last months) I thought I would give a quick, little review of this months woodworker. First thing that's worth noticing is that I read it all much more slowly than last month, which I believe is because it...

Can anyone help. SWMBO has a piece of furniture in the lounge that has fake brackets (i'll get a photo soon) in black metal. each one is held on with a little glue and two black pins. Except for one that is. One has fallen off, and we have lost one of the pins. I've tried superglue, but that...

Some large lumps of Walnut have recently come into my posession (Thanks Nick) and I'm going to need to cut them up a bit.# I don't have room or finances to get the power tools (chainsaws, Large Capacity band saw) etc to cut this up, I was thinking of using a bow saw - does any one strongly...