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Also worth checking the lathe is level along and across the bedways, it doesn't take much to affect alignment. When they points are spinning do they stay in the aliment shown or do they rotate around eachother

Recieved 👍

Roll up, roll up, only 19 days left for the overseas draw. We really could do with some more participants 🤪🤪🎅🤶🎅🤶🎅🤶🎅🤶🎅🤶🎅🤶

Turns out I've not sold a thing at the shop this month so won't be getting paid 😢 please offer to the other interested party

Not one of you has the correct answer, Put the eggs in the kettle 🤷‍♂️

The recess is called a mortise and the "heel" as you call it is a tenon 😉 avoid using a mortise in end grain as theres every chance the wood will split apart and a tenon on side grain can separate, just need to be aware 👍 Without a bandsaw it's very hard to get a perfectly round blank that fits...

https://sawoodturners.org/saw/openday.html Been to this the last 3 years, Emma Cook the tiny turner was the guest last year and was brilliant this year Colwyn Way is the guest turner, there's always great bargains to be had and loads of wood available to buy, there's also a competition but only...

Welcome to the asylum 🙋‍♂️ 🤪 I haven't travelled but Japan is definitely one of those places I would love to visit. The woods you have available are some of the most beautiful I've seen. Don't let being a novice deter you from joining our secret santa 😉, we need more overseas participants and...

Welcome to the asylum 🙋‍♂️ 🤪 🙌

That's a piece of willow, it's so punky and dry you could carry the weight on your little finger.

Started making a Birch/Ash pot cover for a colleague who has fallen in love with mine and may want more later, the birch top was very unbalanced for most of the turning and despite being dry is very heavy, so much so that my live centre has ground its bearings to dust and started spiralling...

Shame you're so far away, I'm selling my scrollsaw, bought it from a friend just have it but it's getting in the way and I need the space more than the tool.

Welcome to the asylum 🙋‍♂️ 🤪 feel free to post some pics of your work and if you're feeling festive sign up to our secret santa event, its great fun, the thread is in the General chat (off topic) forum 😉

Welcome to the asylum 🙋‍♂️ 🤪 Once you've settled in feel free to post some pics of your work and if you're feeling festive sign up our secret santa event, the thread is in the General chat (off topic) forum 😉

Just a little over 3 weeks left for those of you that are overseas to join in, we currently only have 1 overseas member signed up(quite a few willing to post overseas), come on guys don't be shy 😉 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Welcome to the asylum 🙋‍♂️🤪🤪🤪

I won't change my mind but if you can't wait that's OK 👍

A phrase no teenager but everyone over 40 understands 🤪🤪🤪🤪

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” an old Greek proverb I heard on tv once and really liked it. "knowing is not enough we must apply, willing is not enough we must do" Leonardo da Vinci and echoed later by Bruce Lee

Perfect thanks, I'll PM you once I get paid, usually around the 15th