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Insurance isn't expensive, my years policy costs me less than £40 and that gives me £5m public liability and £10m personal indemnity cover, a friend of mine is also a turner and woodworker, he does a lot of stalls and has said that occasionally he loses money on the day, it's just the way it...

I have 2 fairs coming up, a 2 day event at Merrist Wood on 11th and 12th May, I'm going to share a spot with a friend that does resin art and then we are going to share a spot at another event in June at black bush (I think) should make a half decent bit of money at those, also starting to think...

Not great, thinking of pulling out of it, aside from December I'm barely breaking even, it's a lot of effort getting stuff over there (45minute walk) to keep the table looking good and rotating stuff so it's not always the same items out and all for minimal return.

The neighbours?

Don't worry there's plenty more birch and ash waiting for the lathe, she's taking a well earned rest after producing 2 bowls a day for the last week 😀 if the bandsaw box doesn't work out I have an idea to use the lathe instead.

@Jameshow Not too bad, the 2 week Easter break was peaceful and I got a lot of work done, so much so that for the first time in a long while im happy with how much i gotnsone, the new headteacher started today and she seems like she will be a positive fit, the weather is improving and the...

So I've decided to try doing a bandsaw box as its the only way I can see to have the stapler and the calculator in there, as its my first attempt and my bandsaw blade isn't ideal for the job I've kept the design simple with the curves fairly open, I've used some 12mm ply glued into a block, once...

As already mentioned you need to be very careful, bitumen adhesives are known for containing asbestos, I would strongly recomend getting it tested before disturbing any more of it.

When I turn something with sapwood and heartwood I sometimes saturate the softer sapwood with CA, this help prevent them separating but also makes the sapwood harder so it doesn't sand away twice as fast as the heartwood. Beautiful bowl, love the foot 👌👍

You could circle back to wisdom is knowing when to stop.

I think most people who care about their work tend to be their own biggest critic, I always aim for perfection but to my mind never quite reach it, there's always that one little thing that absolutely nobody else will ever notice.

Love am Estwing hammer, I have 3 different lengths and weights, biggest one gets the most use, it's like a oompah-loompahs sledge hammer 😁😁😁😁😁

Picked up a large birch blank today, it still had a little weight to it but didnt seem too much, had the idea to do a yarn bowl and might still cut the hook in later, the rim was warping as I hollowed out, hoping it won't move much more

Some nice bits of wood there 👌 😍

Just a little birch bowl today while I wait for SWMBO to get home from Spain

Pretty normal for toolstation and screw fix,

@pat from Marck beautiful, looks very similar to Ash. Today's turnings evolved whilst chasing out cracks in the Ash blanks and I love them, first finished with yandles abrasive paste, it's great stuff and doesn't need anything on top, the 2nd one has a coat of Danish oil, will probably put a...

Building sites are a good option, skips are expensive so if you can take stuff that would otherwise be thrown out most sites will be more than happy to let you have waht you want, back when I was a site manager I would often be passed a few £££ wood/scrap that would have gone in the skip.

https://www.surreytimbers.co.uk/ https://www.yandles.co.uk/timber-sawmill/c2-all

It's the CEO that has asked for the spreadsheets to be done not the Headteacher, my HT left and the new one started tomorrow, she is moving from one of our other schools so is aware of the politics within the academy but will still have a learning curve to get through for this site before she...