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I bought a lathe picture below, it has a copy attachment and I'm struggling to work out what or where to buy a replacement tool for it. Its just a pointed round steel bar but i'd like to find maybe the carbon tool version.. anybody help please ? In all honesty I may just sell the attachment if...

Hi its been a while since I posted but I've spent months trying to get things working right here are some carvings using my CNC so far, they are all my own designs, hope you like them. I put them on a freebee gallery to help with web space http://www.freckart.com

Sorry yeah Fence, Routers have gates :)

Quilt covers, badly programmed traffic lights, people who blatantly drive down the outside when I’m cueing nicely at a lane closure, people parking in a disabled spot when they are not disabled ( I’m not but it annoys me anyway), getting home with a take out to find they have forgot to put in...

Check your blades are aligned on the block, sometimes if the one of them drops a corner below the other it causes the wood to be dragged sideways, you don’t always see it on the plane because it drags into the gate. Which way is it side stepping – away from or toward the back gate ?

Got it to day Jay but wont get around to using it until next week, if the weight has anything to go by its a solid bit of kit ! Like you I’m limited for space and there won’t be a dedicated person using it 8 hours a day, in fact it’s probably more than I need. I bid on a dewalt on ebay and it...

oh god no, I love it when this type of thing happens I'm learning things.. thats important to me :)

So I will need a bottle of Chloroform, a rag, some gloves and a mask? I’m thinking I’ll have less than 8 minutes after I ask the chemist to fill my shopping list before the police turn up ? Give traffic and time of day :)

Hi Eric , you have raised some good points, the amp I’m starting with is a low power, with TV tubes and small http://www.pmillett.com/midget.htm. The idea is to glue the veneer to a 5 to 6mm Perspex sheet, I want to combine the wood and plastic as a medium both good looking and rigid to make...

Great reply , but no I ‘m toying with the idea of laminating clear Perspex with some extreme wood veneers for a project making audio valve amplifier cases and even small desktop monkey coffins (speaker cases)

Well we both have silly questions because that answers the next one I was going to ask lol !

The report I saw on the TV on Sunday, said that actually the forestry commission had in fact imported ( cheap)infected saplings from abroad, although there is no test for it, it begs the question why they didn’t grow the saplings from UK stock? Another case of false economy in my opinion, it...

I spent several years on a planer and thicknesses as an apprentice and we used a white wax block, I am in fact trying to find out what it was , its 27 years ago and on Monday I will be going back to being a wood machinist, after spending 27 years staring at a computer screen. How things go...

Just bought one , should be here in the morning, it had a good review ( cant find it now !) although it was a little underpowered if you are cutting the full depth, which I dont think I will be, but it also said with a better blade it had no problems with hard wood. I paid £173 no postage cost...

Hi my first post, I want to bond / laminate some clear acrylic to a hardwood, any recommendations? I’d like it to be clear of course so the wood can been seen through the acrylic. This is for small pieces 6’ x 9’ maximum.