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I thought that the table of the Excalibur Ex 30 was covered with epoxy paint.

Since picking up a 3/4 x16 tap from a car boot for 50p I've made these wood chucks to hold lace bobbin blanks on my Record DML24. They are drilled out at various diameters to suit the blanks and just insert the blank and tap the ring along the chuck which has the outside tapered to tighten up...

Just watched this guy make one. http://www.woodworkingformeremortals.com

The first chuck looks like one I have, a Robot Vantage chuck that was made by Robert Sorby Ltd. I've copied the instruction leaflet that came with it if it helps.

I would also recommend Avira Antivir.

Cromwell Tools have them. http://www.cromwell.co.uk/browse?page=1

I have never used spiral blades but from what you are saying and what I've read on other scrolling forums the blade clamp needs to be tightened up some more, it seems to be a common problem with spirals without flat ends. Have you fitted the other blades the right way? it's easy to fit them...

Did any one see Flog It on Tuesday? My wife told me that there was a fretwork piece of the Lords Prayer must have been about 18inches by 2 foot that sold for £55. have a look on bbc iplayer, flog it from Bristol Tues. 19th. The wife said that she would have bought it at that price, I said that...

Well I nipped over to this show and it was the best £2 I'd spent in a long while. All day demo's with Mick Hanbury turning and Mark Raby finishing with Lisa doing her thing with the pyrography machine, also club members turning and a lathe for none turners to have a go. Also there were Peter...

Started turning in 1993 on a DML24 and still use it today, in fact I thought it was so good I bought another one last year.

I once worked in a workshop in the late 90's that had a Sedgwick p/t that would thickness without lifting the tables and could also do rebates.

Toolstation has them for £4.65 a pair, page 126 of their catalogue, (which dropped through my letterbox this morning.)

I don't know how far north of Nottingham you are but there are a few clubs in the area that you could visit and learn a lot from, The Erewash club at Greasley http://www.evwa.org.uk/ Dukeries woodturning society that meets at the Dukeries School Ollerton and Harworth woodturning club that meets...

We live in a bungalow and our combi boiler is in the loft, I think you can have it fitted almost anywhere but try to have it as close to the taps as you can, we can run off almost 2 gallons before hot water comes out.

I drill my pen blanks on the lathe with the drill bit in the headstock and holding it with a pair of water pump pliers push with the tail stock, works for me.

When I first started scrolling an old guy (sadly no longer with us) offered to teach me and started me practising on 3/4inch (19mm to you young 'uns) pine till I could follow a line drawn randomly on the wood. His reasoning was that the blade cut slower in thick wood so I wouldn't stray far off...

Olson blades are very good, I bought some from Woodworks Craftsupplies at Westonbirt but they do mail order http://www.woodworkscraftsupplies.co.uk ... ?cPath=103 and Hobbies also have them http://www.alwayshobbies.com/Tools-$4-M ... Blades.ice just two that I know of, there may be others.

I turn east midlands bobbins and finish them about 4 1/2 inches long, the neck where the thread is wound is 1 inch long and 1/8th in diameter. I generally cut my wood into 3/8ths inch squares, maybe even as small as 1/4 inch.

No it isn't, it's what you know about who you know that really counts.

You need a graphics program that will let you trace objects and then reposition them, like Corel Draw (expensive). I don't know if Inkscape or Gimp have the ability to trace objects but both these programs are free so give them a try.