Stormsinger
Member
Hello!
I just started learning to turn and was recommended to this site by Mark.
About me, well I'm female and in my, well, let's leave the age bit alone , but I've left school well behind me I live in gloucestershire but have a worcestershire postcode (I live on a wiggly county border basically ), and I work as a sales admin for a mushroom farm/packer (exciting work!) (I wasn't being entirely unsarcastic there ). I've always made stuff, it used to be the classic girly stuff like sewing, knitting, cooking, etc, but over the recent years I've picked up things like building my pcs (with help from knowledgeable friends) and now, with the advent of my letting my hair get long and wanting to use sticks to hold it up in hairstyles, I've found it hard to find turned wooden hairsticks in the UK, and that was closely followed by the 'well it can't be impossible for me to learn how to do that' and a quick google to find an evening class I think it took me about the first lesson to realise that I was probably going to be enjoying the creation aspect. Oh dear, now comes the expensive part, so I'm starting off slow....
I've now got a mini lathe and a few tools, but what I really need now is the wherewithal to sharpen the few tools . I've been looking for a bench grinder, and other than Mark telling me I need the white wheel for the HSS tools, I'm having trouble working out what is a reasonably priced good bench grinder.
I was thinking that a budget of around £25-£35 (not including delivery if bought online) should be able to get something, but like I say, I don't know what is a good make/bad make, good deal/bad deal. I would dearly appreciate any help/recommendations anyone could make.
I realise that as a bare newbie I only have this single post so far, but I nearly always lurk rather than post on the forums where I am a registered member, especially where I know a lot less than everyone else (I like to read and learn though ), and I look forward to much more lurking and reading in the future
I just started learning to turn and was recommended to this site by Mark.
About me, well I'm female and in my, well, let's leave the age bit alone , but I've left school well behind me I live in gloucestershire but have a worcestershire postcode (I live on a wiggly county border basically ), and I work as a sales admin for a mushroom farm/packer (exciting work!) (I wasn't being entirely unsarcastic there ). I've always made stuff, it used to be the classic girly stuff like sewing, knitting, cooking, etc, but over the recent years I've picked up things like building my pcs (with help from knowledgeable friends) and now, with the advent of my letting my hair get long and wanting to use sticks to hold it up in hairstyles, I've found it hard to find turned wooden hairsticks in the UK, and that was closely followed by the 'well it can't be impossible for me to learn how to do that' and a quick google to find an evening class I think it took me about the first lesson to realise that I was probably going to be enjoying the creation aspect. Oh dear, now comes the expensive part, so I'm starting off slow....
I've now got a mini lathe and a few tools, but what I really need now is the wherewithal to sharpen the few tools . I've been looking for a bench grinder, and other than Mark telling me I need the white wheel for the HSS tools, I'm having trouble working out what is a reasonably priced good bench grinder.
I was thinking that a budget of around £25-£35 (not including delivery if bought online) should be able to get something, but like I say, I don't know what is a good make/bad make, good deal/bad deal. I would dearly appreciate any help/recommendations anyone could make.
I realise that as a bare newbie I only have this single post so far, but I nearly always lurk rather than post on the forums where I am a registered member, especially where I know a lot less than everyone else (I like to read and learn though ), and I look forward to much more lurking and reading in the future