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I have had my Startrite 301S for about 25 years now and I have never used anything but a ¼" 6 skip blade. Ian's Tufsaw M42 blades when I learned of them years ago. I haven't had any problems and with thicked hardwoods I let the blade cut at the speed it wants. As long as it's set up corrrectly...

Pyrography pen and my initials. It takes more time to get the pen out than it does to do the initials Then again I really enjoy doing pyrography

He could be a gonna ear :oops:

It would Paul. For the segmented bowl all I needed was a 9" bit of 4" square ash. Your local joiner will almost certainly let you have off cuts a fair bit bigger than that. When we first moved here 4 years back I went in to our local joined and got some bits. One of the finished articles was...

I have been playing with the bowl from a plank idea. That's whhere you start off with a plank of whatever, about 1" thick Square it and, it to a rough round on the bandsaw, chuck it up on the lathe and cut 2 or 3 rings at 45º using a small thin parting gouge Glue them one on top of the...

Well, after all of the mucking about and phoning I found out this morning that the metal I saw and thought was several holes through the rubber tyre was particles of ali from when I cut some a while back. There's plenty of meat left in the wheels yet. But yes I contacted Bandsaw Parts, ALT Saws...

Well, I had a bit of a surprise this morning. I can get the wheels from your link Steve. They are only £140 each + VAT! £168 each! But, I can get the rubber tyres and put them on here (I was going to say 'myself' but I could imagine all you 'comedians' out there and the replies :oops: ) for...

Thank you Steve. I was looking at their site a bit earlier and will see about giving them a ring tomorrow. After I had set it up I had to cut a bit of ash. It was a 4" square off cut from a newel post to do a bowl from a blank thing. I didn't quite have the cut dead central and finished up...

I have had my 301S for more years than I care to think of, about 25 of them! I was doing some routine checking the other day and found that the blade wheels are getting very worn! The surface is bonded on to the wheels, they are both the same part. Does anyone know of anywhere wheree I can...

You would have to look very carefully to see the join Phil, so even when appearance does matter the routed channel is ideal and always straight down the middle.

Ihave made a couple of standard type angle poise and as my CL1 only has a 34" capability the uprights were done in 2 parts. The method I used to put the hole down the middle was to cut the uprights in half on my band say and route the hole our, ½ on each side and then glue the halves back...

Any photos of the tool you have to show just how/where it's blackening?

You could include a wooden traffic cone? Hollow of course or it would be too heavy :rolleyes:

I wondered what 2 contrasting woods would look like as 2 bowls from 2 planks of the same width? I had some more of the oak I used before and I had a length of black walnut that was just 3 ½" wide. So the walnut was cut to 10 ½" long and the bits glued so the grain was reversed for the centre bit...

When the chuck is reluctant to move on my Record CL1 I put te tool rest by the drice shaft, put the Record shaft spanner on the shaft flats, the chuck key in one of the chuck adjust holes and using a soft faced hammer just give the chuck key a gentle BASH and unscrew it. Being a lazy awd git I...

Very poetique, but it would help if we knew what we are dealing with? What lathe is it? Is what's stuck on the headstock threaded drive or the morse taper? Does the lathe have a hollow drive shaft, flats on the drive shaft or a spindle lock? What exactly is stuck? They would at least give a...

Yorkieguy, that is quite impressive. I have done several ball in cube and it sounds quite similar. The spalted beech was the first and I did the walnut one to make sure it wasn't a flook. Since then I hade turned several more and the ball always comes out spherical :oops: I have also had a...

My method It looks nice with a flower in it too Simple to do, the glass inserts aren't expensive, gives a bit of practice at inside out turning, easy to take the insert out to clean it and it looks good, to me anyway. Ooo I nearly forgot to say the the inserts are 1" diameter and a 25mm...

I have been looking into turning planlks in to bowls and I have to admit that I like theresults. In fact I seem to have a small set of them now A 4, a 3 and a 2 Just from a couple of off cuts from a local joiner/cabinet maker. The 2 was cut on my bandsaw using a method from an American bloke...