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A bookend for my granddaughter. The books are just off-cuts with scanned and printed covers.

As Stigmorgan is posting pictures of logs I thought I'd join in. I was given a few Yew logs some time ago and I thought they would have dried out enough to use for Christmas presents. However the logs were much wetter than I expected and turning them was like unwrapping hot spaghetti. I wanted...

With the boring kits what's the technique to stop the hole from wandering off centre? Are the augers much stiffer than long bits? I tried making slide whistles a while ago and had real difficulty achieving a straight barrel, they were only about 20cm long. I tried boring all the way from one end...

I'm a believer in digging down, as my daughter's homes in Germany have doubled the space they have by having a basement. But here the convention seems to build on a slab and so the skills for the tanking necessary aren't so common. We live in a Victorian house on top of a hill with a cellar...

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This is really nice but how is the blade set to stay at the same depth? Isn't there a risk of any pressure pushing the blade back? My old cutting gauge has a little brass wedge that is used to hold the blade.

I've made a few of these figures before, to decorate bookends and a clock for my grandchildren. However I'm posting these pictures as I managed to make them without needing to use screws or pins and the heads and limbs of the bear and monkey can move, as I've joined them with 3D printed trapped...

We get them from Lidl by the dozen tins, less than 50p a tin. I prefer in olive oil.

I agree but less of that dreadful presenter please and more shots of their hands doing stuff and not their faces. They have bits of equipment I'd never seen before, for example the electric chisel when they whittled and the digital angle marker version of a sliding bevel, they could have...

I'm no expert but I must agree with the comment from Orraloon. I use seasoned and green Oak along with anything else that comes my way and I don't find problems with tools blunting particularly quickly with Oak and I get a much nicer surface from the Oak than soft woods. I am rather reluctant...

When cutting perspex or other plastics often the pieces stick together after the cut because the waste melts and bonds the edges back together. Using masking tape solves this, the waxy tape seems to lubricate the cut. So the quoted suggestion may work. It is also easier to draw a visible line...

I have no experience of working on boats but the comment above about Ash being unsuitable rang a bell. A few years ago I visited a wooden boat, builder in Seaton, Devon and he was using Ash from a tree he had had felled and milled. He was really knowledgeable and doing everything in a...

If its so water resistant I wonder if anyone has thought of making a hull from a sheet of it? I'm experimenting with using the scroll saw bowl method to make a little model boat for a book end I'm making for my granddaughter. It would just be a much bigger version. Probably totally a crazy notion.

I had to buy a set like the ones in the first picture when I went to college over 50 years ago. I still find them the best I have and as mentioned sharpen well and even more important retain their edge. Keep them, cherish the, use them and pass them on to the next generation, when the time...

I'm in the process of making a decorative bookend for my 3 year old granddaughter. I have in mind little boat with a figure rowing. It occurs to me that to create the effect of clinkers it might be practical to make it like a scroll bowl but leaving the joins visible. Have any practitioners done...

Years ago we were told that if we wanted to make a reasonable living from our design and craft skills we had to receive enough of a return on our time, to make it worthwhile. That would mean charging a lot. We were then told that if you want to sell at a high price the only way to convince the...

I find the idea of working without plans difficult but I came across exam entries, when I was a GCSE moderator (a long time ago), where there were the sketchiest drawings in the folio but the final outcome obviously showed real style and flair. I remember teacher's really distressed that their...

I want to make some boxes from a bit of Yew "fire wood" and need to cut groves and rebates. I don't have a router or table saw and considered the saw Lidle has on offer this week. However I don't really have the space but I do have a load of scrapped timber including the frame of an oak dining...

I bet Misty is a much better designer than the architect, who I think is probably a bit envious of her design skills. I wonder what the architects woodworking skills are like? I couldn't see anything about the snail that warranted staying in the competition, though in previous shows she has...

I can't believe that the chap who made the bent wood chair didn't have a plan in mind. How else could the technicians have known to build him the drum former, which in itself I found the most interesting thing in the show. How did he fix the bends together? I didn't like the idea that the...