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After a few failed bids on the big auction site for a better dust extractor I was sat outside of my local pub chatting away when I happened to mention ducting and dust extraction to an old pal, He quickly piped up that he had one sat in the back of his barn that was in fairly good condition he...

Hi all, When we were at the Malvern meet up I purchased a round nosed scraper with replacable bit, the name on the handle is Enduro of Sweden but googling this in any form simply gets me a list of motorbikes (not surprisingly), I wonder if anyone can tell me if any of the other multi tip tools...

Hi all, Hope everyone is well. After a heavy workload and some cold weather, I have finally found some time to get back in the shed. Thought I would warm up by finishing a small ash bowl I roughed out last year and also try my hand at power sanding. Glad the sanding revealed the following as...

I am going to take a trip across town to poke my head in to The Max Carey Woodturning Trust (http://goo.gl/NYn7q) tomorrow and say hello (and ask a lot of newbie questions no doubt if they let me in :D ), if anyone here will be there I will see you tomorrow probably. I have left it a bit short...

I was just perusing this months (October) edition of woodturning and much to my delight Micheal O'Donnel's section on drinking vessels came up, I have been toying with the idea of attempting a tankard that can hold a good English pint of ale for a while now and this has inspired me to actually...

Now, I appreciate I am a noobie when it comes to spinning wood but I feel I am not an silly person, however, 4 months in to my new lathe with a swivel head and I have only just realised that you don't have to use the fixed points, you can lock it down at any point and turn wood. this is a...

I did digress Blisters "I found it" post with a question which I really should have simply asked here. I am looking at putting in a greenheart style burner (http://goo.gl/gou3Y) to my shed/workshop, has anyone got one? are they as good as the bumph says they are? at £167 for the stove and...

After some frustration and googling for a while I found that collet extensions for home made router tables are sometimes a little more than hobbiests would like to pay but suddenly this popped up on the radar, I thought I would share it and have ordered one myself, when it arrives I will report...

Hi, I have recently acquired a Record DMB65 band-saw and there are 2 speed settings, 440m/min and 960m/min, considering I am mainly using it with a 3tpi 1/2" blade for cutting turning blanks from logs which speed is better? A quick note on when to use the 2 speeds and for what would be really...

I finished it on Saturday but due to being a noobie I was a tad confused on the entry cutoffs. Still I am quite pleased with it. What I first thought was spalting turned out to be good old fashioned decay I think, tried a few things to stabilise it for final cutting and sanding but I think...

Hi all, I kind of gave up tonight after seeing the midnight deadline after thinking I had until Sunday to finish... I am wondering if there is still time now to finish or not? Yours Confused PsyMan

Hi All, Can anyone point me in the right direction to the best type of screws to use for attaching a 6" faceplate to bowl blanks. I have tried a few different types and have had normal wood screws shear off in the blank meaning abandoning the job or in one case I turned it out around the...