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<Grin> and yes, the VB36 looks like just what I need... (Four grand plus accessories just fractionally outside my range unfort!)

Hi - Yes, I should have mentioned: less than £300, definitely. Ideally less than £200 if possible. If it turns out (ha) that I use it a lot, I'll look at spending more, but not at first.

Hi - I only want to make circular table-tops, maybe shallow bowls, so I don't need a long bed - in fact, hardly any bed at all. But I would like to go up to say 18" diameter. Lathes that allow large-diameter workpieces also seem to have proportionately long beds which must add to the price...

Quick responses, and good! A dowel bit, a brad point bit, and a lip-and-spur bit are all the same thing...? To avoid confusion, I suppose... Anyway, I'm happy now. Thank-you all.

Hi folks - is there a standard technique for making clean-edged holes (no splintering)? I would like to make perfect professional-looking holes (say 3mm - 5mm ish dia, 10mm-ish deep) with no splintering at all. I'm thinking of maybe a kind of hollow tube with sharpened rim - hit it with...

Hi - The smoothing went better than expected. First I tried putting the whole thing in a slowly rotating drum (tin can) half full of sharp sand, thinking it would do the initial wearing down for me, but alas! after two days there was no difference, except the piece had gone yellow! So don't...

Yes, thanks, I did more or less that, but not so easily! I used a router to cut the four "shoulders" off of the 3x3 cm wood. Not ideal, but I've no table saw (not much of a table, either, actually!) The scroll saw was used to cut each of the 4 "flanges" into a series of wavy semicircles, and...

Hi - As promised... here's this project so far: http://www.grahamrounce.co.uk/stuff/WoodenChain02.jpg (The next thing will be better, I swear! (Hope, anyway)) I've been getting a lot of help from the General Woodworking forum too (hello again, if you're the same people!). I'm thinking that...

Thanks very much for the tips. The wood is zebrano (I happened to have a piece). It seems a bit like oak - would the same apply? Best to be safe I think. I'll do a search and find out what "finishing" is! (My ignorance knows no bounds, of course). Thanks again,

Hi - making a little progress... I can't use a lathe, because the rings aren't quite circular, and also they are linked together - I'm trying to make a chain out of one piece of wood! I suppose it would be easier to break the links, finish them, and then glue them back together, but that...

Thanks to all who answered, but I'm getting less & less confident about this! I think the (fairly thin) wooden ring might fly to pieces as soon as the bit touches it... I'm now wondering about making a wheel, maybe 3/8" dia with a semicircular groove around the edge in which I could...

Yes - sigh! I'll try using 2 hands & strength first, then ingenuity.... sonmehow...

Thanks Nick. Looks like Proxxon has the very thing (#29036) ( http://www.tool-shop.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh00 ... 3a750#a750 ) Great. Thanks a lot.

Hi - Apologies for posting in a bit of a hurry after having woken up with the idea of using a mini router bit and not saying what I want to use it for. I 've made roughly circular rings of hardwood about an inch in diameter, 1/4" thick, with a square cross-section. I want to get a circular...

Hi - Does anyone know of router bits to fit a Dremel? I could use a 2mm round over. Or any technique to do small-radius rounding? Thanks,

Just to say thanks for all the advice. It's going a little slower than I thought (what else is new?) but I'll put a pic up if it turns out to be anything at all! Ty again

Ok, yes, that sounds a little more undoable if necessary. Plywood it is!

Thanks. Just one job, yes <grin> but you never know... I think I'm going to evo-stik a sheet of thin ali onto it. Stop me if there's some reason why that's a terrible idea! (Luckily I have a scroll saw to cut it out with!)

Good point! I'd forgotten the advert said aluminium. A bit of trade descriptions there - I've just tested it with a magnet and it's definitely iron. Good for the vibration, but hate the rust. I had a Homebase drill stand the base plate of which got pretty rusty. Does wax stop rust but not...

Ok, I went for the Titan and, speaking as someone who knows nothing about it, it seems v reasonable value for money. It does vibrate a little, but not as much as I thought the instructions implied when they said it had to be bolted down (I didn't - it comes with alternative rubber feet), and...