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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...

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...

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...

i have some resifills blanks and also some resin stabilized wood pen blanks on there way over from Australia for me to try out, now it is a long time since i used a lathe and to be honest i have never used the CA method of finishing, but i have been told that using CA would be the best way of...

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i am looking at a few different chucks at the moment RECORD RP3000X Record 4 jaw woodturning scroll chuck Multistar duplex lathe chuck Fox FX3500 these are the 4 i have found that are within my buget, only the FX3500 is brand new the rest are 2nd hand. for now i am wanting a chuck that will...

well after a lot of years i have finally decided to get my self a lathe and start wood turning again, well not so much wood at the moment but i intend to turn resin stabilized wood and resin blanks. i managed to pick up a cheap clarke lathe through ebay (£15 cheap so certainly cannot complain)...

i am looking at making some carbide wood turning chisels to my own specification and was wondering if any one on here has made any and can give me some pointers on the process and pitfals of doing so/

i am looking at making some carbide wood turning chisels to my own specification and was wondering if any one on here has made any and can give me some pointers on the process and pitfals of doing so/

as above i am looking for info on uk suppliers of resin stabilized wood blanks, i have a guy in Australia who i can get them off and have got some on order from him, but postage is costing more than the blanks at times, especially if i only want one or two at a time, so some info on uk suppliers...