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I hadn't used the grinder for 3 to 4 months and it was definitely struggling to turn when I switched it on the other day. Quick analysis was that there was some sort of stiffness in the shaft bearings and they got a squirt of silicon lubricant, which gave an immediate freedom. However when I...

Thanks Ross - excellent point. Currently two small grand-daughters and a third on the way in that household, so your judgement is a good one. Interestingly the design package from the US recommended a homemade beeswax finish. A bit of googling on botulism in honey shows that the wax is the...

I've scroll sawed these pieces shown in the 1st photo as part of a Noah's Ark (ship-yard shown in picture 2 !) but feel my question is a general one rather than specific to scrolling. The design I'm working to has the arms glued on which seems a bit unfortunate for my grand-children and wonder...

As a novice I'm up for reading this sort of advise !!! http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.co.uk ... jects.html Rob

Hi Mark - valid comment and I'm sure that there may well be other badged Chinese machines over and above the one I have. I'm going to duck the hassle of up-loading a photo and do a direct to another current thread on the Scroll Saw board #p813550 The machine I have is badged to the extent...

Hi guys - thanks for your replies. I'm seeing the pattern OK and can adequately follow the black pattern line without a problem - I changed the supplied bulb on the saw (6w car tail light bulb) for a LED one that is considerably brighter. I'm cutting out a large number of pieces for...

As a happy user of one of the badged Chinese 'Record type' saws, I hope that the extra £100+ for a second hand one is justifiable for a tool that you don't know how much use you are going to put it to. Remember that it's the operator that does the work, not the tool. I'm a complete novice and...

I'm new to scroll sawing and have to admit that I've started with one of the badged far-east clones. So far for what I have wanted to do it has worked well and I have no real complaints about it. I'm sure that a more expensive tool could work better,but it's 'horses for courses' and I didn't...

Thanks to all for your advise. Kym - the pyrography approach is an interesting idea and I might pursue it with the concern that it is yet another bit of equipment to be bought and stored !! Rob

My apologies for asking something that has more than likely been asked before, but a search on 'breadboards' produced 10 pages i hits ! I've a commission for two turned breadboards, and I'm not too sure what our own wooden board is made of. So what is suggested - beech would be my guess ? The...

I do have to say that Lee's story is a sorry one, and as I am a complete novice user of the scroll saw I'm not able to offer advise. Rather I'm in danger of rubbing salt into his wounds in that I bought the same machine about a year ago (same = same source, not the same badge), used it a...

Thanks guys - CHJ's post confirmed what I did wonder. I did go along to the local pharmacy some two years ago to get some medical paraffin as I was making rattles and was following the regime of sealing the wood with this before a child proof finish to combat the 6 month's old slobbers...

I've been looking at ToyMakingPlans.com. There's a video on making a child friendly finish which I'd like some confidence is now a recommended recipe - it's beeswax melted in 'mineral oil'. http://www.toymakingplans.com/website/h ... inish.html I'm not particularly up on finishes, but I'm...

Thanks for that, WFM. Logic does say my memory is faulty. In the end for these new shelves in the bathroom (corner ones for plants) I fell back on satin PU alone - and wished I hadn't ! But SWMBO is happy :D The window sill timber may have either been finished with what I'm taking about, or...

Thanks for replying, Ian. This was actually a mixture of PU and SSS that I have the memory of using having seen it recommended somewhere. I do clearly remember wiping on PU thinned with white spirit and it's quite possible the memories have got muddled ! :roll: Time and age do tend to muddle...

Re. problems with spalted beech, I would go with Leif on this one in that spores only come from fruiting bodies. The pro-spores school here could argue that it is not known if fruiting bodies have existed and therefore there could be spores around - accepted, but the concentration will be very...

I'm working off an around 20 year memory which may well be totally inaccurate ! I wanted then to put a finish on the new window cill shelf and have this memory that I did a wipe finish using a poly varnish + shellac (sanding sealer) finish. It has remained as good as the day I did it. Now...

I have a cherry dining table - round with a central leaf. The leaf, despite being out rarely has had a couple of accidents - the finish is OK but I know it is not !! (if that makes sense). The finish is waxed and at one place there's a ring of slightly raised grain from some time ago, and...

A friend and I spent a happy afternoon yesterday relieving a farmer's huge pile of hawthorn brushwood of some of its accessible larger pieces. We got some 30 to 40 linear feet of 4" to 10" diameter wood. Part of the fun of this is the fact that we live in a rural environment and can do such...