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Turned and carved these two guys up last week. Both in Amboyna. Made a welcome change from Body jewellery day-in-day-out http://southshoreadornments.com/collect ... burl-short

Greetings, long time, no post. I have a Jet 1014I lathe (In fact i have had two...) The first was delivered from axminster with a loose motor fan and an electrical fault, this was fixed under warranty, returned to me on some 4x4 and 1x2 soft wood, and was well.... in poor shape on its return...

Hello all, been a while since i last posted. my old 3 wheel powerline bandsaw is dieing a slow death, and i really do need an upgrade, needs to be bench top due to space, ive been eyeing up the RP bs10 and the bs250. however i notice a number of other mechines that look, and have much the same...

1st of all, i'll post some plugs ive been working on, 35mm ebony with burr elm "button" style inlays. the burr was from one of meny offcuts john (jpt) sent me. and onto the identification. this wood came from an old window frame that i picked out of a skip (dont worry, it was my grandads...

here are a couple bits of jewellery ive made in the week/started last week was quite happy with the colours in the walnut, before i started it look as if it would have been a dark gray, but by the time i cut into it, it was a nice light toffee colour, and look nice with the "normalness" of the...

just to break a cycle of over a year. bar a couple bowls, all i have made with my lathe is jewellery, at somepoint last year i got two letter opener kits, and two bottle stop kits, put them away and forgot about them. over the weekend i had to catch up with orders of PTFE and delrin jewellery...

Hi yall. ive been on the "hunt" for a bandsaw for a year or so, when i started to really get into turning *cough* plug making*cough* but alas, money has always been an issue having now been unemployed for 3 years (and no longer on the dole) money is even more of an issue. that being said, i do...

i doubt anyone here remembers me? i make the plugs for stretched earlobes, i have a look around from time to time and after seeing somone who had made some lip plugs (and every well made too) i thought id pop my head back in asking for a favor. in my never ending search to keep costs down, i am...

bit of a long shot, i have just purchased (i say just about 3 weeks ago) this chuck http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-Axmi ... (Body-Only)-800738.htm its a wonderful (well ok i think its a wonderful) bit of kit, and does the job well with the stped jaws i ordered at the same time, but i was...

im in need for some inlays to be cut, i have yet to make them (30mm dia x 5mm-ish thick) that ill do on my lathe, but not having a scroll saw means i cant to what i have in mind. its not quite evan, but it gives you the idea, and yes it is a Swastika, and just incase you think im nazi...

for a customer, 1st time i tried out my new hollowing tool too, seams to work well 30mm pink ivory :)

well im sure its cherry, anyway, about a month ago was given a log of what the person thought was cherry, cut around 15 years ago, yesterday i just a black off and turned the outside of a bowl, this morning, nice huge split down one side, i would have thought it would have dried out by now? so i...

seeing as there is a new hollowing tool thread, i didnt want to steal that thread and ask my question :P hehe im after a Straight neck Hollowing Tool but fairly small and something that wont cost the world, im tempted to by a cheepish swan neck one and bend it straight, by common sense tells...

hello, i have a number of holly blanks ( ordered a huge carving blank and had a freind cut it up) now, while its very close to white by the time i have finneshed with it, its much darker off cream colour, ive tried with oil, with out, with wax and it all seams to end up off colouer any ideas?

eveing. i am after a bench top disc sander, or a disc and belt sander? i have my eye on one from axminster, down side is i have yet to make the room for it :P http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp? ... e=1&jump=0 that is what i have my eyes on, anyone know if its any good?? many thanks andy x

hi, im andy, i make organic jewellery for streatched earlobes as well as some PTFE im new-ish to wood turning having done it at school a few years back, i doubt i will be much help to others, but i hope you can be of some help from time to time anyway here is some of my work 24mm walnut/olive...