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You could try using a pair of gilbow snips, one handle held firmly in a vice, the other doing the cutting Or you could use a cutting wheel (the thin type not a grinding wheel) on a mini angle grinder Or if you know someone with a metal guillotine (fabrication shop?) they could do it very fast...

one good thing about farrow ball paint, I have had some in tins aslong as 4 or 5 years that get opened sporadically, they have never crusted over once, just a thorough mix and its ready to go, no bits of dry skin in among it.

http://youtu.be/s-VnbU7SdL8 He mentions the "P" words (pied et douze pouces) at 3.28

no one as mentioned pinch rods, story sticks or joiners rods. I've built quite a few things where I never used any centralised measurement system (which imperial and metric both are) whatsoever. I set out the proportions with laths and scrap offcut's on a white board, drew out the rod, using...

I'd get chromium oxide or rouge-I have a bunch of jap stone pieces and bits, its either get some use out of them or bin them.... :lol: What I have tried so far makes an unbelivable stropping compound (and I've used quite a few different sorts). It isnt tacky or draggy, is drier holds up well...

As I have mentioned earlier, I ground up an worn out jap waterstone to make what has turned out to be an excellent stropping compound (on leather). I was wondering, if there any chemistry type people who understnad these things, is there a way to dissolve old waterstones rather than grind them...

A bit like "dont come running home to me if you fall off your bike and break your legs".... :lol:

I carve quite a bit, nearly every day, although not particularly in the european tradition (fixed work piece, mallet and driven chiskels) I use elbow adzes, axes, bent knives, scorps etc in green wood, more recently rasps-after the pieces have dried. But the basic things I find are Keep the...

Thank you for all your responces and advice =D> . I watched the aurio factory demo, after seeing how they are made, and that it was French, I am amazed those rasps arent £250 or more a piece...There appears to be far more time and effort in creating them than in hand hammered cymbals! the reason...

HAs any one advice on this? They seem simple tools but how do you get the best out of them? Cheers Jonathan

whats the blade like does it keep a decent edge?

LOL thats what I thought. Its the same with those pillkke machines from Finland or whatever, evry time you see one of their plush promo video's its always perfect rounds of clear straight birch they use, not some gnarly hawthorn or beech crotch the rest of us get. It is a useful gadget though..

You could use a wax resist to prevent the electrolyte from touching the brass of the handle. I used that technique frequently when I worked in a plating factory doing hard chrome finishes on the inside of cylinders but leaving the outside unplated. Simply coat the handle and finger guard (ie...

That is so typical of the patronising attitude of the average bbc luvvie-their ingrained assumption that if you resent the bbc and fail to appreciate its alleged "value", then you must by default be an avid tory xenophobic fan of sky or whatever, and that without the bbc the western world will...

Thats about it. The bbc is for mummys boys-Mummy knows best :roll: The bbc seem to have very fixed and determined views on all the "issues" of the day, that-in the public interest-we the people should unquestioningly adopt. They no longer do reasonable robust debate (as happened when I was...