Recent content by Neil Collier

cheers lads :D slow and steady it is :)

hi all, i want to have a go at turning a small sink for my bathroom but the blank won't clear the bed on my draper lathe, the question is when swiveling the head is it best to have it just clear the bed or turn it through 90 degrees? thanks in advance

Thanks Simon!! im lucky to live near a sawmill with a well-stocked offcut shed where all the wood goes that people don't want in their nicely cut planks :) its always got some interesting bits in it

after last weeks shenanigans i thought id try something a little smaller that would hopefully not try and kill me, first ever lidded box in oak, amd im pleased to announce that i emerged unscathed :o

lol i was joking mate i have the perfect face for radio :)

lol it was a project far beyond my experience, in fact, i remember thinking that morning "well that looks bloody dangerous" but got to the lathe and immediately had a bash :) no one to blame but myself really but he who dares and all that but luckily its healing nicely and hasn't ruined my...

lol i saw a video on youtube :) chap called Dipa Das he made a winged hollow form but he used scrapers rather than gouges so i thought id have a bash, didn't go quite as well as id hoped :D

it hasn't put me off mate just taught me a valuable lesson, plus the expense of a new tool rest and scraper i had no idea of the force of a proper catch, it snapped a 3/4 inch cast rest like a twig, i can only shudder at what might have happened had it not broken

hi all, and hello from a new member and Turner having only been turning for a few weeks id just like to share a couple of pictures for those that occasionally forget to wear there masks this happened to me on Friday when a 200 x 200mm cube of douglas fir decided it didn't want to be a bowl :) i...