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I finally found a piece of steel box section to fit in the jig for my sharpening set (neded a longer bit for the angle attachment), and could i find anywhere that had it, fabricators, scrap yards, joiners etc, went to about 10 places, all no joy, then went back to B&Q and lo and behold, the...

Finished my first turned item that wasn't a hacking attempt at an xmas tree :) Got a better feel for the tiny movement of the tool needed for smoother cuts and sharpened my round scraper and found it gave nice results. Parting at the end went a bit off, tool might have just gone off proper...

Thanks for the advice. I redid the tenon before starting today and the chuck was much more closed and had much better grip :). the last pic in the above post was before I redid the demon cut :). By overhang from the chuck. do you mean the length of the piece on the lathe? I.e. just work on...

Got on a bit better today, i ground my 3/8" spindle to have a more fingernail profile, dont know angle off top of head but i think about 40 or 38'. 20190925_113855 by Richard Rose, on Flickr 20190925_113915 by Richard Rose, on Flickr hollowed out the small test piece and found that coming...

Sorry i didnt clarify, its the same tool in both pics, ill look into re profiling the spindle gouge, not sure if my jig allows for it.

Thanks for the very informative tips and advice. helps a lot :). that video on chucks was nice and clear.

Turned a small cylinder of beech, 20190924_155349 by Richard Rose, on Flickr just being very slow and methodical, probably too careful tbh as was hardly removing any material but rather safe than sorry. I cut a tenon for the cylinder to put it in the chuck jaws, worked fine until i was trying...

Hi, thanks for the tip. I didnt make clear my earlier attempts at it were with my small fingernail 3/8" spindle gouge, that caught on the tip of the tool as the wall curved in, the bowl gouge was to see if that was the more appropriate tool, however it seemed i was on the correct path to start...

Thanks for that tip, i had wondered if maybe the fence-post i had been using may be giving me issues, and i did wonder if that knot was giving me jip, i think its what grabbed the bowl gouge and took the piece off the faceplate! Ill see if i can source some Beach blocks and cylinders to...

And it was all going so well.... I finally got the lathe bolted down over the weekend, what with my wife bing 7 months pregnant now and being busy last few months with commissions and a rather unfortunate event where for an unknown reason my body decided that it didnt want to be upright and...

Yeah i had a look when i took the lathe apart for a clean\service as it had sat for over a year before being in a position to use it and apart from being quite heavy cast iron, the base just has right angle ends that sit on the thin profile (If you see what i mean), no flat sections to sit on...

I have thought about that too, a bit more involved as the lathe has no mounting points, so will need brackets made and holes drilled into the iron base of the bed. not massively difficult, just a bit more involved.

Hi Robbo, thanks for the tips :) I do have the Woodturning: A foundation course : one i got had a dvd which was very informative. I do try and follow the good practice in the book and so far most of the catches have been either from a mistake i knew i made straight after i did it, i.e. saw...

I can now post images, so a couple from the shed setup (grinder wasnt attached at this point, it is on the right at the front before the lathe now. The other imag is my 3 test pieces so far, left most is the first go with tools that were new but not sharpened on grinder yet, second one was...

Hi again folks, long time no posting. However I have moved forward with the turning setup. Over the last year i put £2 and £1 coins in a terramundi pot, and asked for any birthday\xmas gifts to just be any small donation to the pot towards getting my shed kitted out. In the end got together...