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Good Morning, I have a four jaw chuck for my lathe with removable jaws but it doesn’t have any marking on it to indicate make/model. I‘d like to buy some different size jaws for it but wonder if these are standardised at all in terms of fitting. I imagine this is probably wishful thinking on...

Here, for your comments, is a Welsh Dragon intarsia that I recently finished. It was a private commission so I wanted the customer to have receipt of it before posting here. Regards Phill

Good Morning, Here's a Lily Intarsia for you to have a little look at. Fairly heavy dye usage but necessary for the subject I think. Regards Phill

Not been in the workshop for a bit but did manage to do this Clydesdale Horses head. It is a part of the bigger Clydesdale and Foal pattern by Kathy Wise. Hope you like it. Critique always welcome. Regards Phill

I'm sure we all struggle to a greater or lesser extent with dust collection on our scroll saws so I thought you might be interested in a system that I have just installed on my scroll saw. My saw is a Delta but the same system would work with any saw. I store my saw to one side when not in...

I'm pretty sure that I will have mentioned in the past that I have had the opportunity to take part in an exhibition of woodwork. In true Orkney style, this has taken ages to finally take place but it got there in the end. The exhibition opened to the public on Saturday the 3rd and runs to the...

Another one on a subject that is popular in Orkney. Probably my last piece now before my exhibition and before gutting my workshop. Phill

For your perusal and critique - The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney. Phill

Happy New Year everyone. Here's hoping we all have a grand year and much success and enjoyment form our hobby and in general. (hammer) :lol: =D> :lol: =D> (hammer) Regards Phill

Finished these two yesterday. Hope you like them. Phill

Just wondering... Has anyone else made it into the workshop today? Good a place as any on Christmas Eve. I’ve just finshed shaping, assembling and mounting onto backing board, an otter. I’ll maybe post a photo later. Phill Oh! Did I say Merry Christmas?

Haven't posted any of my work here for a bit so here is a quick segmentation project of a pair of geese that I finished yesterday.

It's the annual craft fair on the 4th November on Westray. That seems to have come around quickly and caught me a bit unprepared. I was working on another Clydesdale and Colt intarsia which some people may have been following on my blog, but I've had to abandon that for a little while and start...

Here is my first intarsia project since injuring my finger. Ha ha, I've just noticed the pun... It isn't quite finished yet but it's been so long since I've done an intarsia I couldn't wait. Phill

I'm still off serious intarsia for the moment till my finger is fully healed (I had a proper wake up when my bandage got caught up in the dremel!). But I can't stay out of the workshop! So, I've been churning out some box blanks for the Autumn Fair coming up in November as boxes seemed to go...

Here are my last two bits of butchery (say nothing Brian!!!) Version 2 of the Puffins as I had made the last ones for an upcoming exhibition and then went and sold them :) And then here is a Limousin Cow and Calf

I posted a little while ago about a trial table saw that I made. It worked out really well and quite useful (not enough to make me put my hand in my pockets and buy one though!). I also wanted to make a router table so I figured it might be time to revisit the table saw and make a combined...

Here is the Clydesdale and Pony that I said I was working on... Hope you like it. Regards Phill

The subject of blade breakage on scroll saws has come up in the past and I've never quite understood the angst... After all I break blades all the time. My blades never wear out, I know when to change them - they break! That was until I got my new Delta 40-694, which I've used daily for just...

Here is my latest Intarsia. Another piece making pretty heavy use of wood dyes. I know that to dye or not to dye is a much debated subject but it does seem that this is what the buying public prefer. In relation to another thread on here, I particularly struggle where a pattern/design...