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My second of these posts, some confusion has arose due to having a mixture of shop bought blanks (oak, sycamore, olive, beech) and my own collection of elm blanks. I turned quite a number of them a few weeks back and am now a bit hesitant withe these three, i thought one was oak and two were elm...

Hi, like the title suggests, found a tin of the liberon wood turners polish, shellac based, and wondered how foodsafe it was. Heresthe link http://www.liberon.co.uk/woodturning/wo ... kmfA%3D%3D Icouldntget anything from the data sheets but im useless when itcomes to knowing what the chemical...

Hello, just got a load of green birch and chestnut from two storm fallen trees in my local area, have never turned green wood before and was wondering what the different approaches to prepping and turning a green blank. Eg, do you cut out the blank then let that dry or can you cut out a blank...

Just bought my first lathe, its a Record CLO 24 x12 (not been able to find anything on it but think its quite similar to the old dml24). Was giving it the once over today and wanted to look into a suspicion i had about the head, specifically, that it may swivel. I was thinking this as the base...

Been drying out some logs for over a year that i got when they chopped down near enough half of my local park, only cut one log into blanks so far as chainsaw is on the blink, initially though elm but im not greatly knowledgeable, after oiling i am now thinking oak of some variety? Any help is...

Hi, first post here. Im a student that uses my uni's lathes during term-time and now looking at a starter machine for a couple of months, to help me with a deadline ive got, until i can afford a nice axminster or jet jml. Ive seen this "Record Power CLO 24 x 12" on the net but i cant see...