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I got asked to make a drinks bar for our local squash club. I initially thought of a cheap as chips pallet wood and offcuts job, But when they said they wanted a proper laminate worktop and a softwood narrow bar shelf I was a bit reluctant as I have never used one of those worktop router jigs...

I recently acquired a load of junk from my farther in law's mates garage and among all the rubbish were some wooden moulding planes. I like old hand tools, but have never used a wooden moulding plane.....until now. I was in the workshop looking at these moulding planes, just grabbed one and...

Hello! Almost finished my first router table and I thought I'd share it with you all. It's nothing unique or innovative, just unashamedly copied from other people's designs and too much watching YouTube. I built it around an old Elu mof177 which I've had for years and is an excellent router...

Just wanted to know if anybody had come up with an ingenious solution or some type of homemade jig for cutting celotex type insulation boards? anything up to 50mm is no problem it's just when you get the 70mm, 100mm its a real pain when you measure and mark out accurately and then you find you...

Hello all! I have had permission to turn my workshop/shed/man cave/junk room into an actual workshop. At the moment it is a cold, dark and damp place where my tools go rusty and I spend as much time moving stuff around and in general getting frustrated which leads to a lack of motivation to do...

Good hoard of yew from my (now) bestest friend :D :D :D :D :D :D I should of taken a picture of the enormous mound which are the remains of four big Yew's. I didn't take any more logs as I don't like taking advantage. Some of the logs had spilled out from the shed and are a bit wet from...

As promised, a friend of mine delivered a sack full of various wood that had been seasoned for 3 - 5 years. And to my delight in the sack were a few bits of yew that had been felled from the village church yard 4 - 5 years ago, most of the yew was pretty standard, but then I spotted this...

A friend of mine owns a pub in the next village (how convenient :D ) and asked me if I could copy a broken spindle from one of his barstools. No problem I said, thinking it'd be really easy but I actually found it quite difficult copying someone else's work!! :oops: especially following the...

Just before Christmas my beloved old Merc Vito gave up the ghost with almost 300k on the clock, so I needed a new van. I couldn't justify spending over the odds on a VW transporter and I was in a hurry, so I ended up getting a 57 plate vivaro (69k on the clock) out of necessity and budget. Well...

Filled with inspiration I fired up the lathe to turn something for this months challenge and then.... disaster struck! the V belt failed! (and very close to the challenge entry date!) Fortunately I have been practicing, and as a result I have a couple of items that I could submit. So I will...

My first and second attempt's at turning Yew. Yesterday I was given a few small offcuts of seasoned Yew from a friend ( approx. 4-5'' long and about 3-4'' diameter) I couldn't wait to see what it like to turn, so I just stuck them on the lathe (bark and all) and just went for it! I turned the...

I have just been given a small log of Cherry :) (approx. 200mm long and 150mm diameter), and I was wondering how long to let it season before turning. Also should I remove the bark, cut it into blanks and put it underneath my log burner or just leave it as is?? Tony

A little trinket box I turned from a cut off from a very old and very tough oak lintel. my first attempt went a bit wrong as I got a catch while nearly finished roughing down and it actually pulled an inch long by half inch deep chip out of it revealing a dangerous crack right up to where it was...

Hi guys, I'm halfway through sanding/nitro moors, more sanding and some more elbow grease with a bit more sanding my pitch pine stairs! and I would like some advice on finishing, I was thinking some kind of oil possibly but I don't want to darken the wood, or a clear satin varnish the mrs wants...

I was walking around an indoor market in my local town at the weekend (sheltering from the rain) and to my amazement I spotted two turning tools on top of a load of rusty old drill bits etc...that had been cleaned up and now are classed as ''vintage''. Anyway one was a Sorby hollowing tool RS200...

First of all hello to everyone, and thank you in advance as this is my first ever post on here! (although I have been reading peoples posts on here for a while) My better half bought me an unhandled 1 1/4'' square nosed scraper for Christmas, I turned a handle (my second serious piece of...