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@Blister - Sadly the piece is missing, possibly sucked up by the dust extractor as I couldn't find it anywhere. @Bodrighy - It's not quite straight sided, the sides slope inwards about 5 degrees, but it doesn't really show in the picture. It looks much better in the flesh. Will try the sealer...

Right... second bowl. Made from the same lump of wood as the first, but a very different shape (which I'm quite happy with). Exterior finish isn't too bad (sanded with 80 grit and 340 grit paper - which is all I have to hand), but the interior finish is awful. Sadly part of the rim decided to...

Thankyou all. The angles of the photos were designed to show off the best bits and hide the worst. You really don't want to see the underside, and the bowl is between half an inch and three quarters thick. I've got a dust mask, and I'm expecting a vacuum extractor to be delivered today...

So I've finally managed to turn my first bowl that a) looks like a bowl, and b) didn't go horribly wrong. It's still rougher than a badgers buttocks, and I've got one **** of a long way to go before I'll be happy, but at least I know I'm on the right track. Made from an old log retrieved from the...

About 2 weeks :D

I know that oil drills can bend up to 90 degrees (which has led in the past to people sneakily siphoning off other peoples reservoirs). Shorter drills such as this can probably easily bend 45 degrees. I suspect they knew exactly where to aim due to 3d laser mapping (used in caving surveys). If...

A slightly different approach is to use a sacrificial block. If you connect your planes by a conductive material (i.e. metal wire) to a large lump of a slightly more reactive metal (such as zinc if I recall correctly), then this block will preferentially corrode. Then you just need to replace...

Cheers. The logs will hereby be consigned to the practice pile.

Morning all. I've finally got some logs to play with (cherry) but because they were originally destined to be firewood, they have some big cracks in them. I understand that the fix is to put CA in the cracks, but whats the best way? Should I lever open the cracks, put the glue in then clamp...

I made my eyes water at 6:00am as well, but that was due to an accident with a can of Deep Heat. However, listening to the news on the radio was rather uplifting.

Without wanting to go off at a major tangent, this is palpably false. There is no debate* as to whether or not humans are contributing to climate change. We are. The main debates are what the feedback mechanisms are and how the CO2 parts per million can be reduced to a (comparatively) safe...

The third player in the iPhone/Blackberry smartphone market is the Android family of phones. Available from HTC, Samsung, LG and several others (but not Nokia) they all share a similar operating system. If you use googlemail, they do pretty much everything you want from the moment you put in...

Hello! So I've been playing a little with the lathe to get used to the basic concepts. In an attempt to walk before I run, I had a crack at doing a few spindles. The one on the left was my first attempt, from a short piece of laurel (mmm... cyanide...) and the other two are from bits of pine...

Hello again. My current source of free logs for turning is Laurel from the back yard. As this is a touch on the toxic side (especially in an unventilated cellar) I need a new source of wood to practice with. So - what's the best course of action? Wander the local woodland with a rucksack and a...

The components used depend on the price paid for them. A cheap set of components will have tolerences of up to 5% from what they should be, whereas expensive components can have tolerences within 0.1% of what they should be. Even on the cheap components, the tolerences form a bell curve, so...

Useful stuff here straight from the horses mouth. http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/index.htm

I'm intrigued as to why you think the firepole one is true. If the poles in your old station were just allowed to wear out and not be replaced, that doesn't really imply to me that some beaurocrat one day said that they weren't allowed. Also, just because a new station doesn't have them...

Agreed.

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I've had a reply back from Axminster, and they're going to send me a new electronics box for the lathe. They've offered to replace the whole thing, but the idea of trying to get the lathe back out of the cellar fills me with horror. I've also got a sparky coming around at the weekend to quote...