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Hello folks I had my first visit to the Axminster store in Cardiff last week. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Nice to meet such friendly and knowledgable staff and I have also bagged myself a two hour bowl turning lesson so I am very pleased with that indeed. I suspect I will soon...

Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you...

Hi all I thought I would have a go at making some acrylic pen blanks. I have not tried decorating tubes before and all went well until sanding. I think some water mades its way in at the end of the tube causing some discolouration. I have another blank but this time I have poured some thin CA...

Well while I can't do any standing and lathe work all of my bits have arrived that I ordered so I can at least have a play with my Airbrush system so I loaded it up with some proper airbrush black paint and set to two pieces of paper the other one only has lines on both side so binned it this...

As a newbie to these forums I thought I would share some of my pre-pen projects. They are in reverse order so the first picture is the newest which I made to order for a friend. The middle one was after a. Owl turning lesson and the lady one is the first one I ever turned. Let me know what...

I have seen ,heard over a long time now the dangers of using drilling machines as sanders etc pushing against the shaft. The morse taper can let go under these circumstances. I have read so many times of people using drilling machines as a form of lathe etc. This week my Mill Drill was...