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Well, i had a tidy up and set up the 2nd hand M950 lathe i got during the week. I took some time to scrape some of the gunk off of the body and i unscrewed the black endcap to the motor fan and the metal around the pullys to give it a spray with air and hoover up any dust i could. I also...

Hi all Had an email from the timber merchants i use informing of some show offers they had on selected Record Power machinery. Having had a brief look there seems to be some reasonable offers available, £100 off a Record planer/thicknesser! http://www.wlwest.co.uk/news/offers.asp Thought i'd...

Hi guys I'm having a problem with it and i'm afraid it's the second time it has happened. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I can't adjust the blade enough to protrude through the sole. It appears the thread is thicker over an 8mm area preventing any further progress. Any ideas what could have...

Hi all, First off, apologies for the length of this post. Secondly, I've got a few questions regarding a dining table and chair 'set'. The client wants me to produce a table top and two chairs to match the existing set. The idea is to replace the top with solid wood (rather than the current...

Hi there My parents would like me to make this sideboard for them out of oak, it's a big bu**er! http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/b ... eboard.jpg It will have doors by the way :) I have a couple of questions The shelf lengths are 720mm using 20mm stock. As you can see in the image my...

http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp? ... e=1&jump=0 I got myself 4 k body 1 metre clamps and 4 bessey duo clamps (quick clamps) this morning over t'internet for £104. The same comes to £181 on D & M Tools. Seem's like a bloody good deal to me, whats the catch? Hope there isn'y one. Just...

Hi all I've been thinking of buying a Woodrat for the last month or so and was planning on doing so at the IWE at ally pally next month. However, after some general perusing of the Lee Valley site i've found they sell the woodrat and it's important add ons at what works at to be a much better...

Hi all Some friends of my parents are in the market for a sideboard and have asked my brother and myself to come up with a design. This is my design, i have two configurations to put forward one with more drawers than the other; http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/b ... eboard.jpg...

Hi all My brother and myself have decided to make a blanket chest as a joint portfolio piece. We have alot of cherry in the workshop so we decided to make use of this. This is the design we have come up with http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/b ... etchUP.jpg The initial dimensions would...

I finally finished making these Adirondack chairs with my brother. They are actually a folding design but because they weigh quite a bit we'll probably only fold them away when we need to (winter) if at all. Unfortunately i have no WIP pics to show for the construction of them i am afraid. I...

Well, the academic year has finished and both my brother and myself both completed our City & Guilds Level 2 Machine Made Furniture qaulification for which we both attained a distinction. Unfortunately most of this is for jumping through hoops on the paper work side and not many marks are...

Whilst having a look for a tarmac texture i came across this weblink with a few usefull textures. there's quite alot of other stuff but i thought some of it might be usefull. http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/text ... ectory.php

Hi all I've been asked to make two adirondack chair's to go with my parents new deck for the summer. I've got some plans for a folding design from brimarc to use, i also bought some carriage type bolts for the folding mechanism. The question is which wood do i use, I was thinking of using oak...

Hi all I pretty much finished my table today. I thought i'dpost the pics in a new thread as there were so many in my other one. All i had to do today was rout around the table top panel and insert a 3mm ilay all around, sand the table and the rounded edges in particular and apply a finish. I...

I have finally made some tangible progress on my table to warrant an update on my last post, https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8192 I finished off cutting the top double mitres and proceeded to a test fit of all the pieces, it wasn't perfect but i could live with. The...

After taking apart my grans set of lounge chairs in a house clearence after she sadly passed away all the pieces having been lying on the rafters of the workshop whilst i think of something to make with it all. This morning i gave it a sand to try and find out what type of wood it is My...

Hi all This is the latest project i have completed at college, it is a veneered magazine rack. The 'solid looking' (that's the idea) half is an MDF half box using biscuits, the other half is mdf pre-veneered and finished and stuck together alternating the open slats. I then veneered all the...

This is my first major piece i have begun to make which will utilise the machinery i now have. Upto now i have mainly been working on smaller projects like boxes and the like. I thought it was about time i upscaled my work. The project is a hall table made from american black walnut with a...

Anyone else get the new edition through, seem's they are following the Rutlands route with a simple clean white catalogue front. It says on the front that the prices are valid until 31st August 2006, i presume this might mean another catalogue? Some interesting bits and bobs,most of it not new...

Hi all I have bought a 10mm mortice chisel and bit because the ones i have got free with my morticer aren't much cop. The machine is a Delta 14-651, http://www.deltamachinery.com/index.asp?e=136&p=997 . I've gone to fit the new chisel and have found that it does not fit the bushing which...