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OK great idea - so did you tap the threads with a normal tap and die set? I like that idea and will try it out next week. Incidentally I think you will find it is your name which is Steve - not mine! Mine is MARK! Thanks again

Next project is a cheval mirror a bit similar to this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Length-Mirror-Cheval-White-Mahog/dp/B000RXZSG6 It has a brass screw bolt which sits in a brass threaded mount on each side so it swivels. Had a look in the usual places but cannot seem to find any on this side of the...

Yes I agree that's beautiful - it has a lovely rich colour. Love the veneering - I must try it sometime

Thanks for your kind words all or you... Actually I was astonished that the ebonizing process was so easy and so successful - it really does look like ebony - it matches the actual ebony on the outside of the table top very well and was so quick to do - I got the trick from searching on this...

Did this in evenings this week - sorry for the lack of WIP... The legs are walnut, shaped with a bearing-guided router cutter. The ash top is just 2 planks dominoed together. This was then cut into an oval, drawn using the string / nail technique, roughly bandsawn then finished with a...

a domino with 4mm cutter would do it - just about although you would only have 1.5mm on eiher side

Yes but surely it is only ornamental guns which get such treatment - or your best ones - you don't see jack Bauer with such a design on his arsenal.... and also you rarely see someone out in the forest with their LN or Clifton taking a few shavings for everyone to see!

Interesting debate.... but actually this particular walnut came from a tree which my father-in-law and I felled and had planked 3 or 4 years ago and has been used for a whole variety of jobs since - a couple of which have been WIPs on this website like the mother-in-laws sewing box. So it has...

That's awesome Rob - v impressed

I pre-ordered my Quangsheng #6 from Matthew when I heard the 2nd batch were on their way. I was not disappointed - it is a great plane and after really only a very little fettling was producing very thin perfect shavings. Having said that - I did not like the Chinese grasstree handles - so I...

Thanks very much Steve - the name's Mark by the way!

Steve what were the dimensions of your mirror as I need to make one similar-looking to this in a while. Maybe I could use the same template for the table and the mirror.... Also I like the 2-point idea - also thanks Bob a v good idea. Sounds like I should cut a template maybe a coupe of inches...

Having just gone through the 2 pages of items from searching on the word 'ellipse' on this forum I know this has been discussed a fair few times... but does anyone know how to cut a long thin ellipse with a router? The problem with the various jigs seems to be that you can only make fat ellipses...

Got to say I agree with Rob and Jimi - turning this would be such a waste of 90% of such beautiful wood.... I have made drawer fronts from walnut burr with 'normal' wood for drawer sides and backs inside a Pennsylvania spice box and it goes a long way when used like that

Finished it this weekend - lots of sanding down, then sanding selaer, then 2 coats of Fiddes Hardwaxoil, with wire wool 0000 grade between each coat, then Liberon Black Bison Fine paste wax to finish

yes I know I tried posting it twice and still couldn't see it

By the way, having read the thread about Japanese chisels in Hand Tool section https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/new-japanese-chisel-bargain-t40273-15.html, I can only apologise for my rather paltry collection of Japanese chisels - most are Oire Nome from Axi which my late father bought me and...

It has taken me an age and been very tricky mostly because of trying to work out the 3D composition of the upper part of the chair - and apologies for the lack of pictures thus far. So here is the base... construction was, like the writing table legs, done with an MDF curved template cut to...

Hi Doug Your website looks just the job Can you tell me if you have blades which would fit a Makita 2012 thicknesser - I think they are 304mm long... Thanks Gasman

Just in case anyone fancies selling their Proxxon long neck grinder??? I am in the market for one - ideally with the mini-Arbotech grinder discs too. One can only ask after all!