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You can have a go on my spoon mule when you come over too - amazing bit of kit and dead simple.

Search ring centres - axmister sell them and a dead centre / live centre combo is excellent.

Does anyone have experience/ point me to top tips in using the vicmarc eccentric ‘escalon’ chuck? Acquired one a while ago and have some time to play over December coming up so would welcome top tips / any resources.

Careful- the dog screw is at the front on purpose else the quill will not advance very far!

Failing that, Barn the Spon book is ace.

Hi Rob - welcome to the slippery slope that is spoon carving. I mainly carve eating / cooking spoons rather than Welsh style love spoons but if you fancy a run out to stroud area would be happy to spend an hour or two to go through some knife grips and tips.

We travelled up from glocs - me + couple of mates. We really enjoyed it, bought some supurb green woodworking tools from the amazing Nic Westermann, lovely new 5 1/2 plane from Luban folks, sharpening kit, lighting, abrasives, veneers, finishes and a bucket of mixed price smaller hand tools...

Went yesterday (Friday) with a couple of mates. Had a full day (10-4) going round, chatting to stall holders. Quite a bit of shopping between us (green wood carving tools, plane from Peter, clamps, finishes, sharpening kit etc etc. very successful and some great advice / ideas. Well worth...

Nice to meet you Friday. (I was guy with 2 mates talking about doing a course to make your pencil box / drawer sometime). Hope you had a good show and it was worthwhile. We all really enjoyed it.

I use a crusen 6” wide wheel slow speed grinder with 180g and 80g cbn wheels. Realise cbn can be run faster but I find this gives me so much control - as tormek slogan, sharpen not shorten!

You can buy m33 x 3.5 dies for not much (or if you’re near Glos you can borrow mine!).

Eeeek, can’t post a picture of this one / for our very own secret Santa!

Come on - if anyone is half thinking about joining I’d 100% recommend it. I’ve been involved for at least a decade and it’s totally my Christmas highlight to see reaction of my recipient together with range of wonderful and thoughtful gifts across the board from all skill levels. Go on, give...

Tried multiple methods has have recently made a few Rob cosman style ‘hidden hinge’ boxes so need dowel from same material as box. I used the carbide cutter ones from Temu that were fine for 10mm dowel, esp as a surface roughness is planed off in this project. 6mm dowel is more problematic as...

I’m going this year. 1st time at a show for a while (and other end of country!). Used to love the Axminster show when they did it, then the Yandles show, stoneligh park, Ally Pally in Jan. Is Harrogate only big show left?

Very excited now. Manufacture started!

Out if interest, what is the driver for speed? I often spend much longer turning the outside of a piece to get the curves & proportion right than I ever do hollowing. Anyway, for shifting material, I love the woodcut proform. However, my favourite hollowing tool remains the Rolly Munro for...

The other thing to think about is which brand Chuck to go for. A long while ago I committed to the axmister range as fantastic range of jaws. This means that all the jaws you buy will be compatible with any future Axminster chucks even if I change Chuck body with a change in spindle thread. Once...

Note heard of CP oak before - sounds much better than ‘a bit knotty’ or character grade! Placement was more luck that judgement really, just centralised the knotty figure by eye and cut clean grain off to make rest of box.

In terms of the hole concentric up the middle - yes, that was with the aid of the jig.