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Ben just looking through the post and the photos are there in a quote 2 posts above. I can still take some photos if you want though. Bill

Quite likely as this is a very old post. If you tell me what you want to see i will see if I can take the photos for you. I have the bandsaw now.

Get a life its a bench top! Apart from that if you have something to make, you won't see the top anyway!

Holly is wonderful to carve green, one of my favorites for spoons. But it can crack and split easily

I was given an Oak Table but as it had been left outside the top had gone so i used the frame with some stiffners and laminated 4 layers of 3/4 ply for the top. Rock solid, stable and used for everything every day. Being very sad on the day i put it in the workshop I levelled the top in both...

I have in the past made lengths of dowel by drilling out a suitably sized nut to the diameter required. Then cutting six slots with a triangular file into the face of the nut. I prepare the dowel in much the same way as with a dowel plate, but I put one end into a drill and drive the length of...

I have made a few of these boxes, and I use a bit of thickened superglue. Just like philly I make the box and fit the lid to it once finished. then drill the holes and open the holes in the lid up just a fraction maybe 0.1mm. I then push some wax into the holes in the lid. Being a sad git I like...

Why as you have already said the iron in the plane will see off the ally anyway. Even a stanley iron will cut ally!!! You are forgetting the kiss principle and making something very simple into something complex.

Sadly its the price you pay for non-standard threads. Do you have to use a left hand tread?

Do you intend the insurance for selling or are you looking company liability insurance. If the latter then 350 might not be too bad, but if it is simply public liability in case someone trips over on your stall then 50 quid is resonable. Try direct line my wife pays under 50 for stall selling...

Lurker you have to slow the drying down, the first one of these split like crazy, this one has distorted a little. But I kept this one in a zip lock plastic bag when I was not working on it. I allowed it to dry slowly and gently over a few weeks. Holly can be a pain for splitting

Ironballs I drink anything from it, Kasa's are traditional drinking cups from the northern parts of sweden. They are usually made from birch burrs, but I did not have one to hand :( I spend alot of time hiking and camping with my scout group and its a bit more personal than the obligitory...

Hi all. I've been away for a while but I have not been idle, I have been playing with green wood and a few knives. I made this from a piece of holly given to me by a friend, it was fresh cut that morning when I recieved it. Very wet to carve but quite satisfying. Anyway the pictures Its...

Or you could make some

Yes thats it the grips should be on top of the doors to match the drawers, still love it though