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I've not really done much in my workshop for a while as I've been a bit poorly. I'm now starting my fourth month of a really bad cough. My GP has re-re-confirmed the diagnosis of broken ribs, except that it's two, not one, that are broken, caused by coughing so much and so hard. I've already...

Sort of 'made'. More like 'caused to happen': http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/injured-veteran-gives-christmas-present-11757724#ICID=sharebar_facebook

Great idea! Will it work on my forearm...? :lol: :oops:

My latest turning! The Ash lower bowl blank was being binned by a pal as it had a massive crack in it. Nothing some imagination and an offcut of Spalted Beech couldn't fix! The upper bowl (which I blew through the bottom of, and needed to find a way to use it, which started this project!) and...

What did I do in my workshop today? I'll tell you what I did. There I was, just about to attempt an ambitious oval, off-centre platter. All mounted on a faceplate nice and snug, with the headstock at 45 degrees as it wouldn't fit over the lathe bed. Got it spinning at low speed when... My...

Just spent a lovely 3+ hours at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, walking around the exhibition of furniture designed and built by the graduating students of The Chippendale School (where pupils are taught the art of making beautiful furniture from wood) and talking to the graduating students. Some...

I needed some work done in my garden (remove and dispose of a dangerous decking area, level the ground, build a low retaining wall, set up and lay patio slabs), so called four tradesmen. One didn't bother to show up. One measured up by pacing the area (even when I offered him a tape measure)...

I doubt I would buy anything from Machine Mart again. I have had a lathe, bandsaw, oil filled radiator and disc sander from them, all Clarke branded. The lathe rarely ran true. The bandsaw couldn't cut a straight line no matter what you did. The radiator was broken on arrival, on contacting...

A rustic and tough coat hanger for workshop or home; made from spanners that I heated and reshaped, then mounted on a piece of live edge walnut. A lot tougher to create than you might imagine. Five drill bits snapped and four others blunted drilling the screw holes! Spanners are made of hard metal!

Not sure exactly where to post this, so I thought here would do. Today I received in the post eight Olive Wood pen blanks, and nicely taped up in a 2x4 block. I put them on the coffee table ready to take out to my workshop when I next go out there (the fact that I forgot and they're still...

Simple. Outright ban on political discussion within these walls. Most of us are here to talk about woodwork, not the government/election/presidency/etc. If you want to talk about politics then sign up to a political forum.

Here you go. Mostly made with random bits of wood from the club 'scrap' bin. Far more labour than financial outlay, but quite fun to do!

Not so much in the workshop, but from the workshop. I made £140 profit at a craft sale from selling some pens, a couple of clocks and a few bowls. I also picked up a few commissions for clocks and yarn bowls. I made more than any of the other tables. Which was nice!

The two black lines. I cut a groove for the Milliput, let it harden fully, then went back to turn the top to get the sharp lines. It is finished with a glass tealight holder from Ikea.

My first experiment with Milliput:

I have the Aldi Router and Table. Chuffin' useless. The plunge is so stiff that you have to turn the table over and wrestle with it to get the right height.

So are all these other formulas of lacquer different in any meaningful way from Halfords' car lacquer? For the relatively rare occasions I use it, is the car lacquer the wrong thing? It certainly brought the items up in a clear, shell like gloss. Even the endgrain took it well, even if it...

I've recently made a couple of items that required a real gloss, and one that needed a tough finish to withstand a few knocks (not heavy duty, but in use daily). The only lacquer I could find was from Halfords, a heavy duty car lacquer. I used it and everything seems fine, but am I using the...

I bought one of these: https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/record-power-cx3000-heavy-duty-dust-and-chip-e/ All I need to do now it do a duct run to my Mitre Saw, a slit intake for my workbench, a run to my bandsaw, table saw and lathe. Maybe a floor intake to sweep into a well. But that'll have...

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