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Hi folks, Recently had to make this cut on the bandsaw: Now, I was stupid and careless and cut it using a mitre gauge and a sacrificial fence which didn't have clamping, and pulled the workpiece through the cut with my right hand behind the blade while steading everything (but not pushing)...

So, I bought cheap chucks. Specifically, I bought ex-demo stock from rutlands, so I don't think I could have bought cheaper except as scrap :D They work well enough - they're the 3" Xact chuck, or the Precision 75 as it's now called - but occasionally they jam when tightening/loosening the jaws...

So, I'm academically curious about this, to be clear. I'm not planning on buying a new lathe anytime soon, but I was hoping this year would see a new shed, so naturally you play the "I've won the lottery, now how will I make my dream shed" game. And I realised, I got the minilathe with very...

Hi folks, My old lidl parkside bench grinder, which was being used for sharpening turning gouges along with everything else decided that immediately after fitting it with a shiny new Tormek jig setup was the perfect time to start letting the wheels come lose and vibrate like a potentially lethal...

Hi folks, Quick question - I'm making a right dogs breakfast out of my turning tools because I got a cheap copy of a wolverine jig and not having white wheels on a standard grinder didn't help. I've swapped out the carborundum wheels for aluminium oxide, and at some point I'll swap a slow speed...

Does anyone have any recommendations for pattern books for woodturning? I'm thinking of something like the "shop drawings" books for craftsman furniture or shaker furniture, but for turning. Kinda like a basic glossary of the language, only for physical objects, if that makes any sense outside...

So, okay, lathe bought. Lathe stand being made. Turning course started and I even survived my first evening messing about on a DML36SH. See? I couldn't have just stolen that image off shutterstock, their photos are waaay higher quality, and I'm typing it rather than this being someone else...

Well now. Right. Hmmmm. Ah, jaysus. Hah, yeah, right, that's sturdy. Eh. Well, that's kindof faked because the tailstock locks to the bed with a bolt, not a cam and there's room to wiggle it into alignment (and way out of alignment). Well, might as well lose a finger...

Hi folks, quick request for directions to an appropriate shop - I'd like to source a soft-close hinge or stay for a box, preferably in brass as the box will be in american black walnut. The lid will be a 3/4" thick 12x16" piece of walnut and I'd rather not give it as a gift only to get a phone...

Took a somewhat protracted break from the desk unit I'm building for Calum to build a carved oak box for baby blankets (not for a new addition to my family, but for a friend). Raw material was in storage for long enough to get buried: Extracted after much effort: Cheated wholesale by...

Right. So, first off, you can blame Custard for this, I'm reasonably aware of how cack-handed my stuff can be, but he's been trying to get my head to inflate to where my ego won't let me out the door, so here we are, a project thread without the lovely warm fuzzies of the Dunning-Kruger effect...

...because nobody else out there understands how much work this took to make :D I even gave it a coat of BLO and turps because who knows when I'll ever see it all clean like that again. Have to get a grip on myself in fact, I caught myself thinking about reflattening the top and that way...

So I have a birthday coming up in a few weeks and I was thinking "what do I not have in the shed". You probably know what happened next, so anyway, after discovering Bridge City Toolworks and seeing the price list, I rapidly started thinking instead "what do I not have in the shed that I...

Remember Mark, type "l" and not "r" by mistake... So I have this project in mind (shelves) but I can already see this awkward bit in the construction and I'm looking for ideas to get round it. Picture if you will, a normal bookshelf with housing joints and two to three shelves. Easy to clamp...

Quick question (like "how do you sharpen?" is quick I suspect) - what's considered a traditional finish for beech? Apart from staining it, that is - I'm happy for it to look like beech, it's kindof nice.

If you’re on the lookout for a nice chisel mallet which can also be used for knocking joints together: Colours designate hardness from blue (soft) up to white (hardest). Comes in a stupid case, but the handle’s hickory, the weight isn’t bad, and it’s cheap (€14) enough compared to the “real...

So, my scrub plane is the cheapest AmTech #4 I could find, with the mouth filed wider and the blade ground with a massive camber and it works pretty well except that the casting digs into my hand until it bleeds, which is less than optimal. So I bought another Record #04 figuring it'd fit...

Hi guys, quick (I hope) query - where do you buy veneer for stringing? I've been looking for 0.8mm stuff all day on the intertubes and can't seem to find any (or I'm being dense and staring right at it without realising it). Holly/boxwood/dyed white scyamore, not terribly fussy because I'll mess...

Interesting... and if published in Nature, seems legit: https://techxplore.com/news/2018-02-woo ... ghter.html

Something that was bothering me while grooving some rails this evening was that I got the distinct impression the piece in the vice wasn't exactly vertical, so I checked... Hmmm. I mean, it hasn't stopped me so far but that does explain a few things that had been going slightly cock-eyed. So...