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yeah this is a good point. Glue in a strip of mdf below the shelf at the front (perpendicular), it will add a huge amount of support and also make the shelves look at little sturdier.

it looks like something that would be used away from the body, hacking/chopping at something. Long handle allowing for two hands/lever. Definitely can't see somebody wielding something like that for use on slate tiles, it would be horribly imprecise and therefore deadly. Looking at flensing...

Excellent charger, can you tell me where you purchased or the product name please?

I find that ear bud headphones work with most ear defenders. I have Air Pods Pro which also have noise cancelling and I find to be sufficient alone for most hearing protection, but I put ear defenders on top of them when using my lunchbox planer as that thing makes a horrible din. The combined...

Pencil is the actual answer. It gets used on everything. I'm tempted to shout out my clip on toolbelt, it's the first thing I do when I walk in the workshop and has resulted in the same pencil in use for 2 years and considerably less time hunting for tools I put down. I'd also give a shout...

I made a batch of Panga Panga plane screwdrivers, featuring a magnetic makers mark for easy storage.

Bold of you to assume I'm going to die 😎

I made three carbide tools with handles from Etsy (3 for £10, good deal, albeit a little undersized, but you can make your own once you have the tools), stainless steel bar and carbide tips from Amazon for well under £50. You'd struggle to buy a single carbide tool for less than that, and good...

That's basically my plan. I'm going to cater to the makers, but also makers spouses. I was just thinking that maybe I don't want to overdo it with the number of different things I'm planning to sell, but your point about having a variety of interest on the stall to get people to stop is a...

I don't want to be responsible for those splinters 😳 Thanks for the ideas everyone, I've filled out my list nicely so I feel like I've got plenty to be working with now, thanks a lot 🙏🏼

or just light sabres, they're stick shaped :D. If I can establish a process that's quicker than making a walking stick then it could be reasonably priced. Quite whether people will be prepared to buy a big dense wooden stick for their kid to play with, I don't know. Somebody's definitely gonna...

I had this problem with both pencils and tape measures and initially tried to solve it by buying more of them, but that's not sustainable. I eventually found that even when not losing pencils I'd still get annoyed with "micro losses" where I had to hunt on 3 benches for where I last left it 2...

Can't (won't) do that for real due to uk laws about blades, but I have had in mind to make a prop version. I'll add it to my list of things that might entice people to my stand.

certainly, and probably half my conversations last year was telling people how to make their own, and that's fine, it was great fun chatting to fellow makers. At the same time though, there is plenty of demand for things to buy, people attend an event and they want to go away with something...

Morning all, I exhibited at Makers Central last year and had trouble shifting product due to my high price point. I'd like to attend again this year, but I need to have a realistic expectation of making it pay for itself (at least). My plan is to introduce some lower priced products that...

Hah, I love the poor man's cross slide, very ingenious. I was planning on just using my chuck, am I missing the point re. drive spur?

thanks for that reassurance Yes, probably somewhat thimble shaped, I want to incorporate a replaceable rubber foot, so whilst not traditionally thimble shaped, maybe tapered tube shaped with a divider in the middle (with a hole in it for screwing through) and the bottom half is threaded for the...

Interesting, how do you mean, where might it get and what problems could that cause?

I want to be able to make custom ferrules for my walking sticks. Logically I should just buy an engineering lathe, but I have a serious space problem and frankly, can't make room for more machines. My ferrules will all be non ferrous metals (brass, aluminium, copper). I have an AC370WL and I...

Thanks for the suggestion Adam. That's definitely a medium that I'll consider in the future, but it doesn't come close enough to being salt for this project. I gave it a go and on the second attempt (the first scattered itself across my workshop) I've got something rudimentary that'll do...