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First experiments with a Diamond drag on gold Anodized Aluminum, letters a 4mm high.

One of the things I get asked to make are MFT bench tops in both MR MDF and Plywood, and I often get asked what is the best way of protecting them, to help keep the damp out while kept in a shed and keep them clean while in use I guess. Personally I wouldn't bother but then I'm lucky in that I...

Do you use ER11 collets would you like a 1/8" one, I have one here that was sent to me incorrectly they don't seem to want it back so if any one can use it your welcome to it FOC.

I have two face plates both have had a hard life, I believe they probably came out of a school workshop, they were in with a Graduate Lathe that I bought but definitely don't belong to it. As best as I can measure they seem to have a thread of 14 tpi and about 21mm dia , oddly they do screw on...

I recon it must have been about 45 years ago, just before I went off to college that I was given this plane, it looked a bit iffy then and it still does now, but it has a Norris type adjuster that intrigued me so I took it along to see if I could try and make it work, well I surface ground the...

Just found this offered on a local site, anyone know if they are any good 😉

I have a few sets of wax filler sticks that I can't see me needing so offering for sale here. Item one is the two sets from Hafele one set is complete the other there is two and a half sticks missing. list price for these two is now £78 +vat I'm asking £35 posted...

Evening gents, can anyone help me ID this cabinet knob? I need to get some more to match 38mm dia, satin Nickle but not having much luck finding anything like it.

If your spindle moulder has a 30mm shaft with M16 female thread at top then you need this;) I used it in a LUNA spindle and a dovetailing set up. A 3/8" collet for a 30mm spindle with M16 thread. £25 posted (in UK)

Fun project on the go at moment, what can you make from an off cut of birch ply, three bearings a bit of waste pipe and some leftover dowel.

Looking for a smallish power feed for a machine that I'm working on, prefer 240v but three phase would be ok.

A quick Christmas quiz for you. What's the wood? And before you answer are you sure? It's not the obvious one. :D

This week a job I made well over 25 years ago came back, can you store this for me for a few weeks? Well this is a plug of a large clock face, 1.3m accross, there was a wind direction face that you could swap over for the clock originally but that seems to have been lost. It is my first and...

In a weak moment I have just bought a union graduate lathe, I believe it is a short bed as it seems go me quite short! Any way I will need a few face plates both left and right hand if anyone has any not being used or knows where I might find same. Goes without saying beer tokens in exchange.

I wonder if anyone here knows of the maker of this table that I have been asked to alter, it seems to have had the top cut down in the past anyway. My customer has inherited the table so wants to keep it but it is just to big and doesn't really like the wavy edges to much.. So before and after...