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I have a lot of Acacia, or as it should more properly be called False Acacia or Black Locust through my local council taking down some 150 year old trees, I thought I ought to be a responsible citizen and offer to remove it for free! The wife is about as fed up as a woodturning wife can be of...

Help me out, google's failed! Fuming Oak in Ammonia, needs a certain "grade" or concentration, anybody tell me what that is and where to get it. I thought it was something like 80 grade and the chemist stocked it but I have not managed to obtain any, Any ideas what it's likely to cost? Anyone...

Had a lot of fun making this, Its five and a half inches high, the finial is two inches tall and the box at its widest point is four inches. The Walnut is English, Juglans regia, and the box itself and the finial is False Acacia, or Black Locust aka Robinia. All comments, good, bad, indifferent...

Your comments will always be appreciated, however caustic!!! Here's a bowl, it was ash under the paint, the spray mechanism bunged up again on my ebonising spray lacquer so resorted to the henry ford equivalent, Halfords matt black and despite what the pictures might have you believe, when...

Thought you might like to see a couple of pens, the Atrax Roller Ball and a Lucida (Aero or Elegant Beauty) made from one of George's red resin and mini pine cone blanks. Comment freely about my workmanship and the pens, the blanks are quite beautiful.

Bought myself a christmas present, the Art of Turned Bowls by Richard Raffan. I have now consigned my previous attempts to the "B for Buckets" in the filing cabinet! Brilliant book, if like me, you are a complete design numpty. It helps you understand balance, symmetry (or not!) and opens the...

I'm sure that there are several, if not more, out there in e space that would baulk at the idea of using an electronic design medium but for some such as myself establishing scale and balance is not that easy, I am not a natural artist. Although I can read architectural plans, visualise them in...

Morning, please can anyone help me out. Normally post on the woodturning pages but my day job requires me to design, on this occasion, wood vennered mdf ceiling panels. These panels are long and require to be hinged down from one side of a corridor. I need to source a fixing that will secure a...

Seem to have a lot of strong minded individuals when it comes to timber ID prowess so lets try this one for a challenge! I know what it is having seen the tree from which it came. Lets have your ideas and I'll post the result in a couple of days or own up if someone gets it right first.

There was a thread on here a couple of weeks back about a bloke who had asked someone whether he could use his chainsaw on a lathe......... (but I can't find it!). Worth a watch, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knc0IT4PdFo Now that's what I call a lathe!!!!