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Happy New Year everyone. I hope Santa was kind to one and all and that the new year brings all that each of us hopes for. For myself, I've decided that Christmas day and New Years Day falling on a Monday is the ideal arrangement. It seems to maximise everyone's time off for those who are lucky...

Hello again. Due to my background in special effects work, and overexposure to polyurethanes, I'm drastically and dangerously allergic to them now. I can't be near them in liquid state, the fumes, cured castings or the dust. Last time I was hospitalized. So, I've been doing some research into...

So team.... What can you do to finish items that may need to be washed? Remember I am new and YouTube will be the death of me...the list of things I fancy trying is growing faster than I can have ago.. So was looking at making stems for wine glasses...I I wondered how they w0uld work when you...

Well the last year hasn't been that good to me in one way or another.. My health hasn't been that good and I am being pushed out of the door of employment after nearly 40 years. I can't complain as they have supported me over the last 3 years and there has to be an end.. My mum has had...

What's happened to all the pens guys and girls? Over 1700 members - about 100 of us on average logging in each day - roughly 3 or 4 times that number browsing the forum without logging on. Lots of great discussions about tools and techniques, but where are all the pens? Have we all given up...

I'm quite a fan of the figure found in olive wood, definitely one of my favourites to work with.

A couple more designs for the craft shop - a bit too fussy for me but the colours work well, I think. Quality of the kits is ok - for the intended market anyway. Necklace pen which is quite practical. A strong magnet holds it on the chain.

Just had a great weekend at The Woodfest show at Belmont House here in Kent. Great to see Mark AKA Flexi again had a good chat with him as well as other like minded people. There was some fantastic crafts all related to working with wood present from moving logs from woods using horses to...

Used up a bit more of my patience and did another slimline harlequin pen, this time in blue. It looks like hard work, but it's just therapy for the sole. George

I picked this desk up on freecycle thought it would be great to do some pyro work and piercing work on as well as painting if I make a false top so that it holds the bowl when tipped upwards. It can be angled at varying degrees up to about 60 to 75 degrees. It was wobbly when I got it and all it...

I bought some alloy rod for pen turning the other day then realised I'd chipped the last of my polished inserts some time back so I got these in the post today. These give a great finish on aluminium alloys and plastics if you haven't tried them. I use a Tangential tool for most of my turning...

Finally finished these up this weekend after a couple of past mishaps with them, a custom request from a colleague at work so couldn't give up and try something else. Lots of lessons learnt considering it's the first burr I've turned (except one test piece) and also the first few pens using...

I picked up a couple of fans from a decommissioned piece of equipment at work, when I got home I saw they were 24v not 12v.:vangry: Couple of weeks later I rescued this. The plan for the fans are to cut a hole in the back of both my mill and lathe where the circuit boards are and use the...

Hi all My name is Chris.i have not got a lathe yet but I will be getting one as soon as I have put up a shead I've got a lot of work to do before the shead will go up. I'm 54years old and I have turned before about 34 years ago every thing I made I sold to the alternative and technology in...

Hi all....another Mik Lawrence blank....he puts so much work into these

Ok guys don't laugh but I have had two days in the shed and managed to produce something at last well part of a set of roobars (Mark and Peter know what they are).And I still have three more to make and then cut the 4 uprights to complete it. It does not look much but it is a beginning to...

Hi all, Do'nt have much time for turning and posting something. Since the weather was very kind since 2 weeks, the last days where very busy with gardening and painting outside the house. Still a lot of work to achieve before i can go back to my workshop :rolling: Have a nice Eastern everybody !

Hi Recently I have been gifted a 10'x12' Only (6' tall) steel shed. My intention is to raise it to 7' and line the inside with 3"x2" batons. An electrician friend is going to put in plug sockets etc. Would plaster board be suitable to line the inside or would it just soak up moisture? I have...

Hi all! I tried to speed up kitless turning this week. Nothing better than making series I suppose, with some colour changes for variety. But they were not as quickly done as I wished :apologetic:, more work ahead... Thanks for your comments, critics and suggestions.

This was a first try at applying a decal to a pen. It was quite fiddly especially with hands that don't always want to work properly!