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    New Non-chinese Lathe Recommendation Please

    Hello everyone. Quite a while since I posted here. Due to one thing and another, but especially the fact that I have been working away from home for quite a while now, I haven't had the time for woodworking or turning and so it all sort of fell by the wayside. Anyway, some of you may recall my...
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    Sorby Patriot Chuck

    I sent a couple of e-mails after I posted my previous post about Teknatool offshoring. I was actually feeling quite strongly about this and so I sent one to Teknatool lamenting their decision and to Sorby asking if the Patriot chuck is completely British made (not just assembled). I actually...
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    Teknatool Offshore Production

    Not sure if this is a warning or not, but this pagefrom Teknatool's website indicates that they are offshoring production to China. With my experiences of Chinese manufactured goods I don't think this bodes well for their products. I did have the Nova on my list of possible lathe upgrades, it...
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    Axminster M950 and Supernova Chuck Problems

    Hi all, First time back here for a while and now I pop up again with a problem. :roll: Haven't been doing a lot of turning lately but recently I've been looking at the lathe and realising that I need to get back on it. Anyway, I was always a bit dubious about the accuracy of my Axminster...
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    Renovating a Drawknife

    As I've posted elsewhere, I've been bringing some old mortice chisels back to life. As part of this process I'm going to have to make some new handles for them so I decided as a break from back-flattening, I thought I'd get the old drawknife that had been stuck in a draw for a year or so since I...
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    FTP Clients

    Can anyone recommend a decent ftp client. Decided to sort out some of the rubbish posted to my website but I seem to have lost my ftp client. It's been so long since I did it last that I can't even remember the name of the one I used to use. :oops: I do know that it used to display progress...
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    Back Flattening

    Right, whilst Mr G.'s at the beach, I feel safe enough to post on this subject. :wink: :wink: I have a load of pig-sticker mortice chisels that I got from ebay and by heck the backs are bad! A couple appear to have been taken to a grinder and most are approximating a banana shape. Before...
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    Building a nice quiet air filter

    I tend to not turn on my Microclene 400 very often as I can't stand the noise, so I've been wondering about building a replacement. What are peoples thoughts on using a fan such as this mountred in a frame drawing air through a couple of microclene filters such as this for the MC1200? Using...
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    About Time We Had a Mystery Tool

    So here's one I picked up in a car boot sale for 50p some time last year. It's been sitting on my bench for a few months and every time I look at it I wonder what it might be for. The only thing I can think of is it's some sort of smoothing tool. I did think that it might be a plane float but...
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    Spiral Blades - What are they for?

    I expect that most newbie scrollers (puts his hand up) go and buy some spiral blades because that look like a really sensible idea. But then you read a lot of advice that says that you shouldn't bother with them. So I was thinking, are there any specific uses for them? Are there any...
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    180 Degree Turns

    Hi all, Glad to see the forum is up and running. :) In another thread, BobD was explaining about 180 degree turns and then coming back out of your original cut as a good training technique. I was doing some of these as part of exercise one from Nelson's Scrollsaw Workbook and as I did them...
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    Planing Long Lengths of Timber

    Hi all, I'd be interested in people's opinions on this. I'm planning to build my son a tall loft bed. This will be at least six feet tall and will have uprights that are at least six feet tall, maybe longer. I have some 3"x2" oak lengths that I plan to use but I need to plane them straight...
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    Superglue and Pens

    Well, cyanoacrylate to give it its posh name. Over in the Finishing forum I posted on using CA as a finish on pens. It didn't seem to generate much interest which I was surprised at but I promised to post a couple of photos so here they are. First up is an African Olivewood pen that has been...
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    CA Finish for pens

    Actually not just for pens, I experimented a bit on a lightpull so that I wouldn't be messing up a nicely turned pen. I had always been wondering how professional pen turners could complete a pen in only 20-30 minutes. I have been using a few coats of melamine laquer, burnished and then a coat...
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    Suitable Timber

    I was wondering if elm would be suitable timber for a high cabin bed? I plan to make one for my eldest and was thinking of a visit to HJ Pugh to see if I could get any bargains. I've never used elm and wondered if I could use it or leave it for the chair and coffin makers and go aim for some...
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    Crumbly Edges

    Not long before I finished working in Aylesbury, I paid a visit to the toolman on the market to find hime rummaging through a wooden box of carving tools. He'd just bought them off a lady and I thought I'd struck it lucky when I had a look and found three spoon bents. Whoever had owned them...
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    Copydex Joint Master

    Browsing through a boot sale near Usk on Friday was struck by the fact that South Wales boot fairs never have any rust worth buying when I came across a stall with a couple of boxes with something called the Copydex Joint Master. Chap says that I could have the pair for a quid so, I bought them...
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    Sorby Fingernail Jig

    I bought the Sorby Delux sharpening jig at Woodex and am mighty pleased with it. :D Once I'd got it set up (which took me three goes, don't ask :oops: ) I re-ground a gouge and was really impressed with how easy it is to use. I was also surprised to find that there seems to be much less heat...
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    6000 Waterstone.

    Bought myself a nice big 6000 waterstone at Woodex to get something a bit finer than the 4000 I already have. Tried it out on the blade of my new bevel-up jointer. With the 4000, I usually just spray some water onto the surface and then rub a nagura over it to work up a slurry. However, with the...
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    Part P - Spitting Feathers (and it isn't what you think)

    I used to think that Part P was just another bureaucratic waste of time, but not anymore. Just had the kitchen fit from hell and after they've gone, I noticed that one of the socket covers was loose and decided to sort it. Having a look I notice that the earth wire is floating loose. Also can't...
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