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My old B&D Workmate was looking a bit shabby around the edges, not to mention wearing a liberal coating of paint, plaster, cement dust and all the other detritus that derives from getting on for 30 years of DIY so I decided to give it a bit of a clean up and replace the jaws. The new ones are...

I have owned up to this piece of stupidity on a couple of other forums so you might as well all have a laugh: Not so long ago I replaced the bearings on the top wheel of my bandsaw. Since then I had noticed that I seemed to have less range of adjustment when tensioning the blade and setting...

I have been testing some new German pen Kits for Phil Irons. He is planning to market them in the UK. They are a little different from the normal pen kits and the method of making then differs from the usual mandrel and bushings method. I think they would be of interest to anyone who has made a...

Does anyone know of a supplier of inserts for Axminster K10 chucks to fit the 1 1/4" x 8 tpi Nova thread. Axminster do not seem to do this size. Please note I do not mean an adaptor to convert from one thread size to the other, I already have one of those, what I am looking for is the actual...

This old lathe, probably late 19C early 20thC was originally treadle or belt driven. It was my first lathe which I used to drive with a washing machine motor hung off the back of the headstock. It has been lost in the depths of my workshop for the last ten years at least. It has plain tapered...

Just a tip for anyone contemplating buying a Tormek bench grinder mounting kit at about £50. The kit consists of a horizontal base and a universal support arm and a few bits of hardware that you probably already have lying about. Why not do what I did and just buy a horizontal base for £13.25...

Since we seem to be having a natural edge day today, here's one I prepared earlier.

Hi, I have been lurking here for a while and thought it was about time I posted something. I am primarily a pen maker, but I do turn other things when the mood takes me. Here is a "Havana" fountain pen in Yew:-