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About a week ago I cleaned out part of one of my many sheds and sent 400 miles away 50 kg of cut timber blanks to a good mate. Included in the two huge boxes were these two pen blanks. On facebook I picked up on a plea for back loading from this company and spent a day packing the...
Two days aqgo I found buried as all good *One day* important things a high silver content Aluminium Plate left over from a Nuclear Reactor build at the local university,was intended as a BBQ Plate. Surplus to me I fitted this one to the Vee in the trailer. The construction used aircraft ally...
Picked this up today. It might be an old un but it ain't half well made. It's an Atlas 10f.
It's still in the back of my motor at the minute need to get some strength around to get it up the shed. I don't think our Aud can even manage this :winking:
The nice ladies at the Koman Foundation asked me if I would make some pens they could give to some of their contributors as a thanks. Koman Foundation offers assistance to those dealing with breast cancer. They picked out the "Thank You" Sierra style. I am providing stabilized pink...
Call me patriotic but I have been after one of these lathes for years, they were build about approx 45 mins or so from my home town
Before I picked her up.
Well here is an updated photo of her new surroundings
, I haven't got room in my shed.
Was going to cut this piece up to give away for Marquetry. Gave it a hurry up on the Big Boy metre Sander for a minute. The log it came from was about four hundred yrs old. White ants had eaten out a pipe all through.
During the week I picked up four more logs of this beautiful rare timber...