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I thought it was only the berries and leaves that were so toxic. I turned a tea caddy from a seasoned piece last year as a gift. Sounds as though I need to give a warning and suggest a alternative application!

A brilliant arrangement for your students. They really respect someone who can do what they are being taught. When I started teaching we were all encouraged by the inspectors to have a piece of good quality work on the go in our workshops. When I retired there was no time to do our own pieces...

This is what I've always done but often the screws pull sideways following the softest route. This makes the handle stiff and leads to pulling at it and loosening the screws again. As the wood is so very thin on our doors, above the lock, there is very little for the match to expand against. I'm...

Our house is slightly younger but still has the same issues, however my problem isn't the springs, its fitting the door handle screws into 130 years of redecorations. Any repair to the damaged wood I make causes the handle in miss-align. I'm sure someone reading this thread will have the perfect...

And now for the good news!! Cheers Martin

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. It answers my question. There is crude and crude, I'd say yours was most accomplished compared to my crude!! In the third picture on the top row you have the long jaws which fit inside the hole you have bored. I do a lot of turning between centres...

Chaz, like many others on this thread I am in awe of your skill and range. I have looked on your website and seen even more brilliant pieces. I have a question how do you turn the bottoms of your pieces? They don't seem to have an undercut for the chuck to grip. I thought I had worked it out...

A very long time ago I was approached by a friend of a friend who was setting up as a butcher to paint his signs. I had never done any painting for money and had no idea what I should ask. I decided that the friendliest way to proceed was to charge them in meat. I can't remember what the rate...

You didn't mention inside and outside of gaffer tape. (sorry to muddle topics)

Thanks for showing this, I followed your direction to look on google but its much better to see as work in progress. Cheers Martin

When I went there several years ago the main exhibition was called Wooden Walls and was about building the wooden ships for the Royal Navy. I was really impressed that so much could be done by hand. (I understand that at same in the Netherlands they were ahead of the game using windmills to...

I really like this chest. I have wanted to make one like it for some time. I am curious why you have a plinth and about he plugs or dowels on the lid. Are they just a feature or are they holding tenons in? I had to have a turkey oak cut down, as it was too close to the house and had it converted...

In 1965, when I was in technical school, we switched to metric, this made science tricky going from BTUs to Watts etc, just before GCEs. But in design and making the switchover was much easier. In 1975 I re-trained as a D&T teacher and in my first lesson observation the teacher in charge asked...

Has anyone done this? I watched a youtube about replacing nicad with Lion but there was such a lot of connecting to a complicated circuit board and spot welding that put it out of my league.

Conic sections. Did you make the block like we used to make chess boards in school to get the sections at right angles? What is baffling me is that the dark curves are deeper than the light ones and that the curves are so even at your joins. I'm going to have to do some serious sketching or even...

These are really impressive!! I'm going to have to have a think to work out how you put the curves in the bowl in the first picture. Do you put them on a lathe to finish? I am getting quite a pile of off cuts, of wood I can't bare to throw out but are too small to construct something from. I...

I presume they are 4 concentric cuts stacked, is my sketch the sort of thing?. That is really very accurate cutting. Do you center the piece on a pin? Martin

Hi George This is a really interesting idea. A picture of the saw set up while you are cutting a bowl would also be illuminating. What are you cutting your bowls out of? Martin

I had Hegners installed in several school workshops and after the drill press they were the most useful machine. The quality of the cut, the longevity of the blades, the range and thickness of materials they cut made them well worth the full price in school. I used them in main stream schools...