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Thank you folks and AES, I bought in the well know knowledge of the adiabatic expansion of wood differentials and the plus/minus variables of the humidity and guessed ? i.e. if it's damp the gear wheels do tend to warp very slightly, though not enough to cause problems unless we have a flood...

Wooden clock 2012. Edited version as I hit the wrong button part way through posting :eek::eek: Silly boy! A year or so back I decided that I would like to make a wooden clock. Not one with brass rods, bearings or the like, but apart from the main weight and pendulum weight, completely out...

Why change it? It's part of the wood and totally natural. That's the beauty of working with wood. It's always got a surprise in it for you.

I really will have to get some new glasses, pint ones ? No, Reading ones. I read the OPs 1st post as drying? But reading it again, why would anyone want a dead beard :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Try a towel. That's wot I do. Mind you, I haven't had that much experience as I've only had it since 1973. Nowt wrong with coming from Wolverhampton. Probably the best thing anyone can do. Going back may not be the best though :confused::confused::oops: Wolverhampton Wanderers? I wonder if...

When I joined the R.A.F. as a Boy Entrant at the age of 16 the metal work instructor, a HUGE flight seageant, saw me holding a 2lb hammer 1/2 way up the handle. He wandered over and said "sonny, if Dog had wanted you to 'old that 'ammer there 'e would 'ave made the 'andle that long. HOLD THE...

Thank you Mr T. That looks very interesting :)

It may help to know just what you are making with the wood Mark? I have made a couple of standard type lamps and used the cut down the middle, route the 2 halves and glue back together. After the turning/sanding is done it is both stable and I have trouble finding the split. The up-stand had to...

Amberley? What is there? The only Amberley I know is on the edge of Minchinhampton Common and my 2 went to the junior school there.

I like the pot, but I am not a fan of finials and for me the lid without that would be better. Just a personal preference though. I like the idea of using old and possibly binable bits. It has always appealed to me. What ever, that is a lovely bit of work Adam. I have turned several bowls and a...

Ah, but if they weren't made of wood they would not be wooden would they :rolleyes: But then again, some wooden know the difference? Some folks just wooden like the challenge wood they?

I have been back to making some wine bottle coasters. These are in black walnut from some off cuts from a local cabinet maker. The pyrography looks really good and I had thought that the wood being dark would mute it too much. I don't think it does. Left is finished with hard wax oil and then...

Cedar balls may well be a bit too soft, but these would do better, if yer a whimp that is :eek::eek::eek::rolleyes: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Natural-Wooden-Craft-Wood-Balls-Sphere-10mm-to-75mm-Diameter-Craft-Supplies/191283638857?hash=item2c8964b249:g:dWsAAOSwT2BcGQyU&var=490401257850 Only...

Aidan, I love a challenge and the idea was to see if I could do it :rolleyes: I think that there will be very few around like it for quite a while??

I made a lazy Susan a while back. 18" diameter, totally made of wood apart from the glue and all turned by me too. That included the 36 X 5/8" ash balls for the bearing. Not particularly easy, but boy what satisfaction to see the result!. My lathe is a Record CL1 that I bought new about 20...

If/when you do take it up then my bible on pyrography is 'The Complete Pyrography' by Stephen Poole. https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Pyrography-Stephen-Poole-1996-06-30/dp/B01FJ1KNCE/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=%27The+Complete+Pyrography%27+by+Stephen+Poole&qid=1599139345&sr=8-3 It takes...

Bin there,done that mate! :oops: On the occasions that I do go through 2 things happen. 1. I say 'golly gosh' several times and 2. I carefully turn the hole to a chamfered edge and then turn a small chamfered disk in contrasting wood to fit in the hole so that the bottom face is flush with where...

They are lovely Adam and they make mine look quite plane. I would have loved to get hold of some olive wood, but never did :cry: These are in beech and pyrographed. I was commissioned for several sets for friends and neighbours when we lived in France.

I remember a mate of mine going into a wood yard and wanting some 10' pine planks. He was told they only sold the wood in metric. When he asked how much it was he was told 10d/foot! That's 10 proper pennies a foot to you youngsters ;) When I moved over to France in 2004 it was illegal to buy a...

I'm still turning but looking for somewhere to sell on what I'm doing. Either that or I'll sink below the rising turned wood o_Oo_O