Recent content by swamp diver

unfortunately lining it is not practical

thank you for that i may well give this a try.

nice piece and fantastic finish. please dont jump on me for saying this but in my opinion and as an observation is the lid in pic 2 showing the glued crack ( left of centre running through both tiers and through to the other side)? if so i think had you used a dremmel to slightly recess the...

we used to get saw dust, small wood chippings, bark and such (in fact any thing that would burn)and use a press to turn these all in to a mixed block of solid fuel, burn time was great and so was the heat output,

i do like this idea and may even look at using either white oak or black irish bog oak to do a pedestal with, working out a shape to enhance the original piece is the next bit, thank you pete

well my next door neighbor saw i had a lathe so asked if i wanted a few bits of wood she had sat in her shed for ages, never one to turn down free stuff i took a look to find there was a few bits of mahogany (looks like they were cut from old bits of furniture) and some real nice pieces of oak...

well after taking on some of the advice given and looking at what is out there at the moment i decided to place a order with Axminster yesterday, spent a good 1/2 hr on the phone with them checking the ins and outs of things. finally decided on there deluxe adjustable pen mandrel...

are the Sierra pen kits also 7mm?

ah now finally that is some thing i do have lol i have 4 different size jacobs chucks on a MT 1 for my tail stock , looks like i am going to be on the hunt for another bloody chuck for my lathe then lol, unless there is some jaws that fits the nova chuck that does the same job?

can the parallel mandrel be bought in a kit like the morse taper ones can ? as for pillar drill or disc sander no hope as yet lol is there not another way of squaring the blanks up? by slim line pens i presume you mean the 7mm ones?

as above, due to the large amount of pen blanks i have (even though i do not use them for pens) i have some that are not right to use for my other purpose so rather than have them sat i am thinking of using them up making a few pens for family and friends. what i am looking for is a starter pen...

although i use pen blanks i dont use them to make pens with so i am free turning everything, not using mandrels.

with my new lathe came a nova chuck with a couple of jaws, one set is ok for holding pen blanks but does leave some marking on the end held, i have been told i can get a proper set of jaws for the nova chucks especially for pen blank, aparently it comes as only 2 jaws? does any one know where i...

one of the main reasons for me getting back to using a lathe is so i can make some 1 off mouth pieces for my e cig set ups, now there is plenty made in resin which would not really cause me any problems, however i am going to be using normal/ dyed wood, resin stabilized wood and resifill wood...

you can say that again, i think i walked around with a silly grin on my face for 2 days after getting this. certainly one of those rare one off moments.