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Yea they certainly help with skew skills

To give you all a laugh Most g dads get socks or woolly jumper for Christmas.... my g kids are buying me round blanks to wood turn

Thanks mate, two small ones are road kill (picked up from side of road) spelled oak Not quite finished but some road kill silver birch

N nick how on earth did you do that. It’s brill Stig, be careful of the shear action of turning breaking the bond between the different types of wood. The cork could suffer tear out and part company

Inspired by Stig, not as good though

Interested, how do you want to be paid?

Yes it’s a risk, The other week I was turning a piece of old junk wood and there was a nail or iron pin deep in the wood... ouch

Have fun, let’s see the projects as and when

I don’t know yet, I have only just started with “ sea kill” I thought it would be hard from the salt

My latest wood It’s recovered from the sea, now drying on the herth don’t know what it is Edit Since getting that wood I obtained some silver Burch, a chunk about 2ft long and 8 inch die

Made from pallets

Pallets... if they are coloured, or are composite then DONT BURN THEM I had a load (25) delivered. Most I used and burnt the off cuts the coloured and composite and was very ill There is so many poisons in the wood. I was getting bright green and blue flames..... the arsenic

Hi welcome, I like to use old school methods of doing a job. I do use hand tools alongside my more modern “gadgets”. I can cut a half lap joint with a mallet, chisel, gauge and tenon saw. Other days I use the router, tenon saw pencil and digital calliper . I look for old tools that I can restore...

Hi welcome. I invested in Titan bench saw over 10 years ago, wood thicknesser I bought in 2021 again Titan brand I will have to change the blades soon, cos I was working with old pallets and did not see the stone embedded in the wood The thicknesser you will need a good vac to take the waste...

Wow what a collection.

Are you still looking?

Dust uggggr I know that problem, I have just invested in a dust collector from Charnwood I have been using a converted leaf vag.. but that collected the big stuff but just pumped the find dust round and round

I am ok for them thanks, I put 2 bar heaters on in the winter to protect the battery (s) on my solar panels set up(s) Edit. I did not hit the post button So Stig I am ok for heaters thanks. As for drying, the blanks can sit by the fire for a few weeks One day I should invest in a moisture metre...

Wow the chair is .... I want to climb in it with a fleece and rock to sleep

Ahh a youngster then Stig thanks for the ideas on drying the wood. Trouble is I don’t know what it is or what it may have absorbed whilst in the sea. I don’t want to put it in/on something that I use for our food.... got me thinking about building a closed box with a heater 20w bar heater ...