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Well that settles it, im going to make one! think i will buy cutters in but i may well have a pop at some old allen keys too, just to see how that goes! thats a great WIP sawdust, and the shape you went for reminded me of an odd piece of metal i have in my box of collected metal things, which...

thanks for the thoughts as i suspected, sounds like an OWT is the robin reliant to the router planes jaguar? they do the same job... but with differing levels of finesse... guess the clue is kind of in the name! i have had a memory of trying the chisel thing once and being dissatisfied...

I dont have any of the above, but there have been an increasing number of occasions where I would have liked something that performs that task. I cant decide whether spending 30 quid on some new cutters and making my own is worth it... there are some good tutorials about but im not totally...

perhaps a long shot, but i tend to enjoy teaching people wood things (i mean teaching friends to carve spoons and do simple woodwork, i'm by no means a qualified sensei!) and it always seems like theres plenty of generous souls on here so i thought id ask. i recently acquired my first lathe and...

oops sorry, didnt realise i was third in line. how heavy is extremely? i can borrow forks at my end... but i might be biting off more than i can chew.

second dibs please if it doesnt work out!

Mr Chikadee, on YouTube... not British but great relaxing viewing. No talk, just bird song and long shots of him and his partner doing things like felling and hewing whole trees by hand to build a timber frame house in the Appalachia’s, very cool... as my old boss used to say: “I love hard work...

Aha! So my problem is that flange isnt fixed! its just a washer. But I suppose it could be fixed. If I tap in a grub screw, then ill be able to get it on after the block too. Great. Thanks again.

so this is basically spot on as far as I can see, only thing I cant tell is whats stopping the threaded rod getting pulled forwards out of the end supporting block at the back?

Already got a good side vice, i was thinking more along tail vice lines sorry I should have said. But its definitely most of the way there, whichever type of squasher it used to be! Compared to your photos chris, all thats missing is the second bracket. Cheers novocaine, Ill research some wagon...

Cheers! I think simplest would be to fix the threaded plate and have the end push something that grabs. Other downside is that the thread stops half way along the bar so the handle will always be sitting miles off the bench, unless I fit the threaded plate far into the bench but that also...

I got a useful looking bit of metal at a car boot in France, which I assume was part of a vice or maybe press. I was wondering if anyone immediately sees a clever way to engineer it into a sort of tail vice for the workbench I’m building... it’s just the threaded part with the handle, a solid...

I think they are on their way to me, sorry chaps!

Will be making a set of these for my new workshop for sure! Would you consider relinquishing the sketchup for that design Helvetica? It sure would be appreciated...

Ive had a cursory wipe of arbour and flange, and done some dial indicating, so im faaaairly certain :S . I recently found a few tutorials with dial indicator and marking high spots and judicious filing, sounds like the way for me. Videos of youtube of people grinding the running arbor not so...

pulled a buster scruggs im afraid!

Im just moving from sussex to somerset and moving workshops. Now that im on the ground floor(!), was going to treat myself to a table saw upgrade, I currently have a Kity 0619 but without any extensions. Its fine, has enough power and reach, but not a huge bed. The two issues are slight arbor...

Just got my first lathe, this would be great! Sending PM now...

I bought the same saw a couple of years ago and it too had some issues, the rise and fall lead screw was totally clogged with dust which is apparently pretty common, to be expected every 10 years or so. I’d find you a link to thread but I’m on my phone and it would be fiddly! But maybe try a...

Yeah, so shiny. Its got all the clever braking wizardry and the company fabricating it added an extra feature which is quite neat, the a-frame can be unbolted. So if its going to live somewhere for a while I can take it off, for security, and so itll look dead tidy. just need to build the thing...