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The school I work at is pen-pal to a school in Nairobi. Our pupils are putting together a gift box of goodies for the school in Nairobi - educational resources - anyone any experience of sending goods to Kenya? I imagine a gift of education equipment is zero-rated but I have never sent...

For weeks, my laptop has had a sponsored pop-up telling me there are 5 viruses that need to be removed . This pop-up notification occurs first time I switch on each day. I’ve assumed it’s a marketing ploy from a cyber security company and not clicked on the pop-up . Any thoughts? If it is an...

Isca is one I have used a lot in the past but is best for smaller jobs. Whitney should be worth looking up. Nothing much else that I know of in the Cardiff region. Cracking saw mill on the Hereford road out of Hay on Wye if you fancy a run out

Sloyd knife with 2” blade and wooden handle

My kids excel at demolition

Depends on your world view. I work with staff who barely recognise a saw, never mind realise there are types of saw. I will be training them in safe and correct use . Our pupils need to learn to live independently not to do fine joinery. Cutting straight and safe practice is where we are now...

Small stuff reacts well to being boiled. Realise the job is done, just thought I’d mention it for reference purposes. Ever play with a coffee stirrer in a take away coffee??

Already made bench hooks, was indeed an ecellent first project, now moving on to a shelf to hook over a side-screen (pupil's idea) and then a heavy storage box - all materials very kindly donated by a local joinery. Am undecided about pull-saws because, yes, they are easier to use, but as we...

A black poplar fell in the woods behind my house, thought I’d salvage some with my 14” bar chainsaw. Half hour later, the chain was a lot less sharp than it was when I started, and it felt like the tree was barely scratched. Some jobs really are just too big

The supervising adult is mostly me, and I do know what I am doing. The other adults have a range of skills, some have next to none, some are very competent. Different adults will lead different sessions as they are competent and confident to do so. Work is 1:1 and the risk assessments are...

Things break and become lost, that is part of a busy school environment. In this instance, the reasoning behind a set in a box is because an attractive "grown-up" set helps put the young people in a productive mindset, and they can be encouraged to look after the equipment, use it safely and put...

I need a beginners carpentry kit in a box or tool-box. I need decent quaity basic tools, not nonsesne or gimics - for group work or solo work in a small special needs class on a shared/public site. It needs to be able to be packed away. The boss has asked for a set rather than me assembling a...

I know of a bowyer who punched a hole in each side of an old microwave so he could microwave-dry bow staves

I think they hypothesised the bacteria struggled to move between grain lines and so couldn’t develop large colonies

Been really enjoying the series, found it quite thought provoking as someone relatively skilled but clueless about marketing

Owch! Glad your ok, could have been so much worse.

Christmas commission, hand carved flowerbed sign in recycled African mahogany (sapele???)

Re-reading the OP, rotary carving done well looks a lot like edge-tool work and if done badly can be cleaned up to look like edge-tool work and is often described as hand carving and/or hand finished carving, though whether it qualifies as such is a long running debate . There is an enormous...

Always palm gouges and knives for carving for me. I just don’t like noisy dust makers, unlike many in the carving community. Search Pinterest for “carve banjo neck” , lots of fabulous examples in there

Wood-carving teacher. Nnnno, not a turner, no it’s not the same thing, no I don’t use those spinny things…. Once got booked for a demo in a college open day where I was the carving and love-spoon carving instructor for a love-making demo……