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Very nice video by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks on making one of their plane models: Interesting to see the mix of old and new techniques (lots of manual labour vs CNC).

I've been wanting to make a tailstock DRO for my metal lathe for some time, and when I saw Mark Presling's design (video) I decided to have a crack at it. I put some 12mm thick 6082T6 aluminium plate on a rotary table on the mill and worked my way around the outside shape: Next I milled a...

MT4 (female) to Brown & Sharpe #9 (male) taper adapter. I'm not 100% certain it's a BS #9 taper, but it's not MT3, and doesn't match the measurements of a Jacobs #3 or #4, or a Jarno #8 or #9. Looks to be in decent condition and takes MT4 tooling without issue. £15 ONO + £5 P&P (or collection...

I have a number of MT4 reamers surplus to requirements. Postage isn't cheap because they're all pretty heavy, but collection (north of Leeds, LS17) would be welcome. I'm open to sensible offers (especially if you wanted more than one, and I could combine postage). 50mm H7 straight flute reamer...

I'd like to run some (audio - so low voltage) cables from one side of a room to another, but, barring tearing walls apart, the only decent solution appears to be trying to run cables behind plasterboard that's been fixed using dot and dab. I assume it might be possible; maybe using a magnetic...

I've recently acquired one of the many Sieg SX2.7L clones. Unlike my mini mill, the left side of the table has no handwheel but instead has a slot on the end of the leadscrew for an optional power feed. The official power feed is over £300, but I have various "bits" I've collected over the years...

I previously posted a few photos of nickel plating some old Stanley #71 plane parts in Anyone tried DIY copper electroplating?, but this is the rest of the job... Two #71 planes; both heavily rusted and in pretty bad shape. Both were dismantled, left in rust remover for a while, then cleaned up...

My garage workshop has the advantage of being well insulated (and having no windows), but that's a problem in the winter when I want to do some soldering, or use the mill or the lathe (smoke/fumes from cutting). I knocked up a pair of battery powered units that provide a fan to blow smoke away...

Little used cross slide vice, free to whoever wants to take it. North of Leeds (LS17) for collection, though I'd be happy to drop it off at some point if you're on the north side of Leeds or up towards Harrogate.

I've just seen on David Charlesworth's website that he's passed away: https://www.davidcharlesworth.co.uk/ Very sad indeed, and a loss to the woodworking community. RIP

I've got an old #4 1/2 hand plane that has some sentimental value and I'm trying to restore it to an at least reasonable aesthetic condition. Some of the side is snapped off and long gone (see pic): I've seen many brazed plane repairs over the years, but always using (what I assume is) brass...

I occasionally heat harden small bits of tool steel/silver steel/drill rod; usually nothing more than 1/2" diameter, but it still takes ages to get it to cherry red with one of those small cans of butane propane mix (the kind where you screw a torch head on the top). I don't do it often enough...

For reasons too longwinded to detail, I found myself needing to rebuild a pair of old floorstanding loudspeakers in what would be more of a bookshelf format. As this was during the depths of one of the Covid lockdowns, construction materials were in limited supply, so I decided to go "full...

I've got an old Dremel-like rotary tool from the long defunct Focus DIY group, but the collet nut has vanished into the ether. Dremel's appear to have either 9/32" x 40TPI (older) or M8 x 0.75mm (newer) threads; but the spindle on this thing is M8 x 1.00mm. Anyone come across a brand/supplier...

I've got a Colchester Chipmaster (D1-3 spindle nose) and I'm slowly getting myself set up with accessories for work holding, as well as checking the (new to me) lathe over. The external taper of the spindle nose clocks in at about 5 ten-thou (0.014mm) total indicated runout; as least based on...

Not a selling post as such; but I've come across an eBay seller with a few interesting machinery parts (and bought a chuck from him - though I haven't collected it yet). He bought a garage and found the parts left there, and was pretty honest that he doesn't know much about them. One item looks...

Wondering if anyone could shed some light on this rather unusual toolpost? It has two Dickson type tool holders, but the wheel on the top controls a screw that slides the body along dovetails slots. If it's for a lathe that would surely be a bit pointless (given that metalworking lathes have...

My old man's after a wood moisture meter. I have one somewhere but I don't recall feeling it was ever particularly reliable/consistent. Any recommendations (available in the UK) that aren't crazy expensive?

I've recently picked up a metalworking lathe that's fitted with a 3 phase, 2 pole (2800 rpm at 50Hz) induction motor, and I'd like to achieve something around a 9:1 speed ratio with a VFD; with the highest motor speed translating to the spindle running at 3000rpm with an appropriate pulley...

I'm considering moving to a "bigger" lathe (from my mini lathe), but given that'll be a higher cost I thought I should try to understand how I'd check that a lathe was in decent condition before purchasing. I have a cheap Dial Test Indicator (0.01mm) so I put it against the outer registration...