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boring old slimline
dont like it, its crap..i made the middle bit myself and turned the whole thing together and yet nothing lines up..:sob:..i think its time to look at a new mandrel..
for those who may be interested, its silver birch burl with a ca finish..
i think ill nail it to a wall to...
The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
A rubber band pistol was...
Decided to make a spice rack today but not for spices :thinks:
Its NOT done yet as the banding is only fitted until the acrylic sheet arrives.
But its fitted to the wall now and I don't have to rummage through the cupboard for colours anymore :banana::banana::banana::banana:
Hi All,
thank you for all the comments recently. I have tried to incorporate your advise including tapered section and insert threads into this pen.
I wanted to add a red band around the section but ran out of red blanks, trying and failing to cut very thin thread against a thin wall so had...
I keep moving a pile of woodturning tools around the workshop these are my least used ones so thought it about time I built an extra rack to put them up on the wall, now I have no more wall space left. I also have another cupboard where the door is holding yet more tools which idealy I would...
I am looking to buy a small extractor about 50lt mainly for sawdust shavings extraction, my main concern is noise the garage wall is not very soundproof, I would be grateful for any recommendations.
Robin
I want to purchase some gouges. I have adapted my metal lathe for pen turning I can machine straight wall pen blanks using my existing carbide cutters. Some of the pen kits actually quite a lot are not straight wall but curved blanks. Im looking to buy a 1/8" parting tool,
a 1/2" Skew and a...
After making so many fruit bowls recently, I fancied a change. This Horse Chestnut bowl is 10" x 3 1/4" and weighs just under 5 Ounces (141g). Wall thickness is about 1/8" (3mm) and it flexes when you pick it up! Finish is Danish Oil.
Has anyone turned perspective rod? I would like to mock up a kitless in coloured translucent perspex (which I believe is basically acrylic) so I can clearly see how much wall thickness and space I have internally. Will this turn / thread well?
I was turning a piece of Rowan that has a fair amount of rot in it, it also has some small cracks as well. I 'treated' the rot and cracks to three sessions of CA and left it to go off.
While it was mounted on the chuck screw and only the outside finished, it ran true. I swapped it round and held...
Too late to worry now. And the penalty for “Treason” is..?.
from Larry Pickering.
When our feminists ignore the genital mutilation, oppression of women, rape of little children of both sexes, we have a problem.
When our Politicians condemn an elected member of the Dutch Parliament for...