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Mark Frank's ASTRO-SKELETON CLOCK ???? Lots of videos on You tube

Don't have one myself, but maybe make a thin ply disc, with a small centre hole and made to the same width as the inside diameter of the ring. Use something pointed to locate this at the centre of the stock, Slip the ring around this and screw in position. Or something along these lines..........

Not so much a plane to use - as a plane to buy and sell. Which reflects the punchline of the old joke-'These aren't eating potatoes,- these are buying and selling potatoes' It's only worth what someone will actually pay. Until you've hooked your Mug, its all 'Pie in the sky' . Which leads to the...

Hi there, The Leylandii was fun to turn - big ribbon shavings and very wet. At times it felt like turning in a rain -shower. Will only be able to fully appreciate the look, when it's finished. My son rates the wood quite highly. He and his boss planked a large Leylandii, several years ago, and...

Not finished, but part turned wet wood, bowls - freshly turned and full of promise. Have now placed them in a couple of paper sacks to season until around this time next year. The larger ones are Leylandii, the smaller ones Yew. The Leylandii came down in the recent winter storms, the Yew was...

I envy you your citrus and olive trees. I've been trying to grow a lemon tree, with little success.for several years. It only has one leaf left on it, so I think it's finally died.☹

That's as colouful as a flowering cherry, Barring an inopportune frost, or a drought - the crop should be amazing this year

Ah,very interesting.......... I might try this on my Quince tree, in the hedge - over 15 years and still no blossom.

The apple tree, by the workshop is covered in blossom this year. The most covered it's ever been. No one would have thought that after storm Arwen, when it blew over and had to be propped up and re-staked, that it would have recovered so well. It reminds me of one of those frothy blossom laden...

You should be able to take the panel out and reseal it without any problem. Your arrow seems to indicate that the leak is coming in at the base of the inner side moulding. In which case, this would indicate that the inner beads have also been applied, rather than worked on the stiles...

Frame- fixings with a squirt of 5 minute PU glue in the hole, before inserting the fixing, and wait a while before screwing fixing home. Also works on lime-plastered, rough-stone walls.

My goodness that's a large wodge of wood up there. Can't see a reason for it unless it's part of the overall design to accommodate any large soil pipes at he back of a building.

Sapele? It's the go to timber for joinery in our part of the country

Looks pretty good to me. Reminds me of a granary at a farm in Eynsford, where I once worked . It was lifted up on saddle-stones, all.very 'Country Living'. It was available for rent as a workshop, but was too small for me at that time. Fast forward to now and it would suit me just fine. I note...

Hi there Try Googling " push-fit silicone rubber feet" Quite a few come up.

Looks to be pretty robust joiners bench. The vices alone are worth more that that, The clamp on the left might need some attention ,though the whole thing should clean up nicely. Might be worth sorting out an apron piece for the whole front of the bench ( not have it just behind the vice, as at...

A whistle in D, made with pear wood and brass. Looks the part, but the sound needs improving. Very much a Mark 1. Have enough wood for a further five whistles. Here's hoping that by the Mk 6. the sound will be better!

I noticed from your photos, that the benches have been heightened with a couple of softwood blocks to their base. Lots of school stuff seems to be less than standard height- remember those improbably small chairs from junior school. My own bench - modelled on one from a college I worked at...

I love the wood-pile, it's very sculptural - a monochrome version of Monet's Haystacks,

A thing-ummy-bob to aid drilling long holes on a lathe, along with a mandrel to help turn the outside diameter, afterwards,