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So I've built a little table up in American white oak, and have got a tin of poly/alkyd gloss varnish that I'm trying to apply a decent finish with. I've applied four coats so far, the first coat was 50% thinned with white spirit, after than I've been applying it neat, as it's reasonably thin...

Mine just arrived today, and I am very glad that I held off buying the extremely expensive Camvac accessory kits. I have a Wickes brand wet'n'dry cleaner that I've been using as a shop vac for the last few months, which has the standard floor cleaning gubbins, and the hose fits the 2.5" camvac...

A little bit of eBaying has seen me with a Hellestadt No.7 and a Stanley No 5 for the grand sum of £45, which seems rather good as they're both in good condition. Now the tricky part, how do I go about getting them to plane nice and evenly? I've sharpened the blade in the 7, but I think that...

Hi guys I'm about to embark on building a router table, I've got a decent chunk of board for the top, some legs and a plan to mortice them all together to make a decent frame, so I've got the basics sorted. What I'd like to know is how people are installing adjustable fences, I was thinking of...

So at the tail end of the Lambourn Bash, miles foisted a tiny little tabletop bandsaw onto me and I carted the thing away. I spent around two weeks trying to tune it but it refused to make decent cuts no matter what I did. Disheartened, I went and had a look at some tablesaws, but then I read...

Pictures first Bought this lump of padouk from Toolpost in Didcot, I've just got a thing for the stuff, lovely colours. After making a hash of this shape in oak I was much more careful with this one, however as you can see there was a small mistake (waggled the gouge into the edge after...

So after the excitement of the new lathe thread, here's a few photos of the first three real pieces I've turned on it. First is this in sycamore Mostly an attempt to turn something sensible out of a small starting blank. As you can see I found out that I drilled the hole for the screw...

Evening all For some reason I have a terrible urge to buy myself a couple of planes, from what I've been able to fathom a No 4 and a No 7 should see me nicely. Now without delving into too much detail for a plane newbie, what am I looking for when buying such things? Previously I've been...

Snuck up on me a little this one, I'd planned on buying something sensible to replace my godawful Clarke lathe and had settled on an Axminster AWVSL1000 for it's revolving headstock and 1HP induction motor. However, it's not available from Axminster online for another four weeks, so I did a bit...

First in with the photos: Sycamore I believe, kindly supplied by/borrowed from Mark Sanger. This is my first ever piece of real turning, as in not just making shavings but also making an actual piece. I must say a few thanks are due to some other people though. In no particular order...

Having had the Clarke lathe for about four days it's already clear that it's a pile of rubbish, so I think I'll bite the bullet and buy a proper lathe. I'm liking the look of the Axminster AWVSL900, it's a cast iron bed, 2MT tapers on either end and a rotating headstock for bowls which hits all...

OK, so the Clarke lathe is in my shop in all it's blueness, so today I went down to Toolpost in Didcot to get myself a chuck so I can start turning with a vengance. I measured the thread before I went, and using my relatively accurate calipers it came out at 18mm, so I figured that 18mm is...

I've just had a gander at the leccy stuff in my shed, and one or two things have rather given me the collywobbles about it all. First off is the age of the MCBs, they are huge dark brown things (look like bakelite to me!) which as far as I can tell were put in in the 80s. Plus all the sockets...

I'm blaming you lot turning lovely things for all this, but I've been bitten by the turning bug and as such need to buy a lathe. Now the £140 one that Axminster do seems reasonable, but they also do that gubbins which is just the frame which uses a drill to provide the motive power. Has anyone...

How do Stumbled upon this forum trying to research Axminster kit, seems like a good bunch of folk round here so I thought I'd float a question out there. I'm in the business of making guitar amps, and as part of that business I need to make reasonably simple wooden boxes for the finished...