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No point having a lathe without sharpening gear. I bought Screwfix's Titan grinder for about £30, a diamond dressing tool and a white wheel from Abtec. The Titan is 8" and has a more powerful motor than most. It's a better piece of kit than most of the <£50 budget grinders. I knocked up the...

I've got a new carving knife, because I'm not content with filling the shed with power tools and trailing sawdust in through the back door, I need to get wood shavings all over the lawn while it's so sunny. It's a mora frost 106, on the recommendation of Robin Wood if that makes a difference. It...

I don't have experience with a huge variety of woods, I've mostly oak so far, so I don't know off the top of my head if there are any woods available that would fit my requirements. I'm turning a segmented bowl and want to use pear for part of it. I'm looking for a wood that is as close to pear...

I have that exact same Neilsen set, it came thrown in free with my lathe. They're not too bad. They don't take as much of a beating as my Sorby tools, but they get just as much use.

Okay, hopefully my final question. Would the Type C jaws do for what I'm trying to turn? Axminster does a package with the SK100 chuck and those jaws included.

Axminster it is. Are the prices online any different to in store? They seem to differ on the website depending on what thread size you need. I'm sure when I was in there a few weeks ago they were more uniformly priced.

I've been contemplating which chuck to buy for weeks now, and I'm still no clearer as to which would be the best for me. I think that, in all honesty, any of the big name models like the patriot or the nova will do exactly what I want with no complaints, but I really want to get the most out of...

Hi, I bought a bandsaw on ebay last week just for roughing down some blanks for wood turning. I need a new TV stand and I have a ton of pine lying round so I thought I'd use that and make some kind of ikea rip off but after realising that the blade had come off in transit and re-mounting it, I...

Silverline one from amazon. Cost a couple of quid.

I bought the £35 titan grinder from Screwfix after a lot of research. There are a lot of good turners who sharpen on cheap grinders, and after fitting a white wheel from Abtec and knocking up a botched version of Keith Rowley's timber jig I really can't see how my tools could get much sharper...

Managed to whack my fingers on a still spinning belt I was too eager to change the position of today. Luckily it was on the slowest speed when I misjudged how long it would take to slow to a halt or I might have got more that a bruise on the end of my finger.

I'm another new starter, so my experience doesn't quite match up with most of the people on this forum, but I've already learned a few things that I wish I knew a month or two ago. First, I budgeted £200, then ended up spending double that on a better lathe than I was originally eyeing up. That...

I don't know. I have a degree in photography and one of the reasons I'm not doing it as a career is that modern cameras are so good and affordable now that just about anyone can take a decent picture with some very basic knowledge of composition. Modern cameras make things look so good that many...

I do have a chainsaw. I inherited it from someone who left it and never bothered to collect it so I don't know how well it works or if it has survived its time in the shed.

Was there a decent range of species and sizes in their sacks? They have some half sacks available still.

Hi, I live in Greater Manchester, which I understand is a desert when it comes to sourcing decent timber. I moved in to a new place a few weeks ago and luckily for me, the previous owners of the house had cut down a fairly sizable yew tree, and what I think was a birch, so I have a few pieces...

Frame it instead. It'll last longer.

I've secured a grinder. It's a cheap own-brand with two grey wheels so I'm replacing one of them with a pink wheel. I would have liked to get a set of filters from Axminster in the same order, but they only do the large sets. I just wanted one set for now, then if I decide I'm keeping with the...

Hi, Sorry I have been posting a lot of new threads recently but it's all in the interest of getting in to the workshop. Once I'm safe to go in there I'll stop. I have bought a 3M 7500 mask to tide me over until I can afford a powered respirator for wood turning. I hear the P3 filters for the...

Hi, I was planning on buying Screwfix's cheapest grinder for my tools and modifying it to run in the opposite direction, but since I have never sharpened on anything but an oilstone before (and not very well) I thought I should probably get something with a wider wheel that might be a bit more...