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    I bet mine is bigger than yours

    Not, of course, that I would ever admit to reading a comic like the Mail, but I saw this over my wife's shoulder (ahem) and thanked what ever Lord I believe in today that I didn't have to do this for a living. These guys certainly earned their crust.
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    Help...

    .. Hi chaps, Where do you all get your metal candlestick inserts from?? I found some out here which are quite cheap and then I needed to increase the mortgage for them to post them to me. We have never used them and have yet to set fire to the house. However, as my stuff is now being sold by a...
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    Its a turnin' - honest

    Like the previous effort, it has turned spinners which is why its here. Not a scale model but I think it captures the 'essence' of the Mozzie OK. I was a bit worried about doing three bladed props when my brother in law pointed out that some Mosquitos had four. Handy!! Two two bladed props...
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    Totally embarrassed

    Lets see..... I've been turning now for around two years. When I started it all seemed pretty easy. You bung the wood on this metal thingy, poke it with some other metal thingies and then flog it to anyone who gets lucky. I have just found a box of turnings from my early period, some of them...
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    Waxing lyrical

    I like living out here in rural France. Every Sunday morning I tootle into the next village to get my croissants for my breakfast treat. The bakers sells other things too such as locally produced honey. There is a rather nice by product that some of you may know about. This 'ere lump of pure...
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    Cheap copying

    This method that Phil Streeting showed us a while ago is brilliant. I normally duplicate by eye and calipers but using a split paper pattern makes the basic job so easy its ridiculous. You still have to refine the details but all the basics are done in a jiffy. As soon as the paper drops, its...
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    Blurry foreigners

    The Flanders and Swann song entitled "the English are best" comes to mind here. Particularly the line "its knowing your're foreign that's driving you mad". As one does, when given a cup of coffee by the wife last evening, I promptly reached for something THROUGH said cup and the coffee managed...
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    Goblet hell

    AS I am a grasshopper type, the idea of knocking out more than one of anything fills me with deep joy - not. With no insults aimed at those who do this sort of thing for a living (Richard) it just doesn't suit the way my grey cell works - when it does. So yesterday I got an order for twelve of...
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    Worth checking out??

    If anyone wants a new small lathe, this is going on eBay. 2 Days left and seller has only one feedback but its collection and if it doesn't work...
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    You want rustic?

    As part of the continuing story of the fig.......... I rough turned this yesterday just to see how much it might move. Quite why I persevere with this stuff I'm not sure but I suppose there might be something in there. Yesterday it was round. Today it aint!! So if you want to do oval turning...
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    The firewood pile shrinks again. (critique??)

    After the bowl and the wall hanging both sold to the first people that saw them, I thought maybe this old rubbish bit of wood wasn't so rubbish after all. The bandsaw offcut from the bowl had been sitting on top of the woodpile for a few weeks but spoke to me when I saw the cash beckoning. So...
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    My wife is revolting

    We have an equitable arrangement about chores. I do stuff to the house and do the cooking - my wife cleans up after me. She does the garden, she is, after all, a professional. My bit out there is mowing the grass. There are four hectares or so. It takes me quite a long time. Admittedly the sit...
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    Whilst you lot....

    ... have no doubt been enjoying yourselves, sipping the odd glass of sangria, relaxing by the pool etc etc, some of us have been slaving over hot denim. Since I started turning all those months ago, my standard finish has been AC Lacquer. That is because its what I'm used to from guitar making...
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    Gear Box

    There I was , drilling a hole in a lump of yew to take a screw chuck and a funny sort of smell met my nose. Then a funny sort of smoke met my eyes and then a not so funny sort of heat hit my hand. The cordless hit the floor and cracked in two. What with the motor being on fire and the handle...
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    Letting go....

    ..I wonder if any of you lot have the same problem that I have. But, apart from that............. When I am making anything, if it be a guitar, a toy or a turning, I am trying to make it the best I know how. At least in appearance (I do live in France after all, sod the bits you can't see...
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    September challenge - 3 weed pots

    I know its a bit early but I imagine that not all of this year's entrants do weed pots on a regular basis. I do them all the time as they fit in with my wife's garden business. No doubt Allen will confirm but I assume the pots will have to be working models and therefore will need an insert. I...
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    Another one for Jonzjob

    This is getting habit forming. I posted a plane on the turning forum as it did have a spinner made on the lathe!! This one is definitely a prototype and in progress. Hopefully you can guess what it is although they probably go better on two engines. Obviously not meant as scale models but...
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    Now you may wonder.....

    .... what this is doing in the turning section! Well, there are two reasons: 1) I know that Jonzjob visits here and planes are his thang and 2) I had to turn the spinner on the propeller so thats relevant. This is a present for a wife to give her husband for their 10th wedding anniversary. In...
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    A bit of inspiration

    .. A long long time ago it seems, when Chas first started doing his 'joined' work, I tried a bit to see if I could. I could - sort of. However, every time I tried to sell something with this top on, the customer preferred it without it. So its been sitting around the workshop, waiting for the...
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    Last play...

    ...before getting back to the serious stuff. Out with the compressor and the airtools tomorrow and start making holes in round things again. This vase is 250mm high and 120mm diameter ish. A bit of yew picked at random from the vast heap. "Yew is like a box of chawcklates, you never know what...
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