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That's because no one reads it :D :roll: Rob

Thanks guys - I always prefer to get confirmation from the 'professionals' DM - your Oscar Wilde quote has a typo in it. It might be that if you can resist everything you could expect temptation - but it should be "except temptation", which of course is true for all of us. Rob

This was culled from a thread on UK.DIY usenet. The query had been about cleaning a 1950's clock case. Any comments would be interesting "to clean it make up a mix in equal quantities of: Meths Vinegar Boiled linseed oil Turps Apply with a very fine wire wool and wipe off the dirt with a...

One of my spare hive roofs died last year (maybe as much as 80 years old) and I got some larch to make a replacement. The originals are all box jointed and pinned - I decided to go with dovetails. I haven't done dovetails for maybe as much as 30 years, so turned to various books I have for...

Can you look at the attached picture please. This is a Sketch Up picture of what my daughter has asked me to do for her staircase. Originally there was a partition wall dividing the stair off from the hall - this was removed some time back leaving amongst other problems a nasty hole (80mm...

I'm of the round world with a little bit of flat stuff thrown in. Carving I know nothing of. What started this query off was a box of odd tools coming from a neighbour of a neighbour - the guy it seems had been in the shipyards which might explain some of the more obscure tools that were there...

Thanks Richard and Andy. On the basis of attempting to turn this handle then elm sounds as if would be worth a go. I've seen off centre turning done for oval shafts so I'm all for trying something new - I suspect that there may have to be some sacrificial tries to begin with ! Hey-ho - more...

Many thanks guys - appreciate your comments and concur with them, with the caveat that whoever did the 'refit' did a very professional job as the nice little bead at the top of the shaft is neatly placed just below the head, and the wedge is a proper fit. Right, onto the second question which...

Could someone give me an opinion on this little hammer please. I've never seen a hammer with a bulb like this on the shaft. It came in a box of tools a neighbour dropped off from a friend who had died - there is a curious mixture of tools from wood carving to tools for scraping lathe beds...

The trouble is that there is a perception that if a product is declared Child Safe - that is safe for a 6 month baby trying to stick it in his/her mouth - then there is an implication that it is Food Safe. It is an easy and logical step to take. A misapprehension may be, but logical one many...

Hi Chas - this could get philosophical ! We know now that Aluminium from saucepans and jelly pans - you should have seen our marmalade pan before we finally came to our senses and dumped it - is not good for our health, but then how do the testing authorities know that there isn't some obscure...

Hi Chas - trust you to throw a googly into the googly into the middle of this. :lol: The bowl was done may be as much as 6 months ago so well cured. The remaining grated cheese had been covered in cling film over night so any potentially damaging gases would have been concentrated. Rob

Thanks for the link, Jeff. Quick flick through and it looks interesting and useful. This wasn't a case of setting out to make this bowl food safe - I'd seen someone using Melamine at the club and was impressed by the very quick and good finish so it was the first try at using it. I did the...

I've resurrected this thread from 3 years back after doing a Google search on "Melamine lacquer food safe", and found this thread and that I did contribute to it then too. What prompted the matter was that I did a nice little cherry bowl finished with Chestnut Melamine Lacquer a wee while back...

To back up CHJ on that one, some time back I looked up the bearings that my 6" Wadkins Bursgreen uses and found to my amusement that they were also specified for the front bearing of a Ford car - can't now remember which one. Rob

I got a piece of burr elm recently from the local timber mill some 14 in. in dia. for £3. I've turned what I think is a passable feature bowl out of it and followed instructions I got off the web for using Danish Oil on it. The stages go through soaking it thoroughly and wiping off at the...

Many thanks Argus - my apologies, I should have stated that the child's rocker has single springs and that I had found these adult chair ones with two springs previously. Having said that it is possible they have the smaller ones but not advertised. Rob

I saw this chair at a friend's (Manchester and I'm near Edinburgh so only some photos) and fancied making one for a grandchild - turning isn't a problem. Two questions - I can certainly draw the chair up from the photos I took and get my friend to measure up the important dimensions for me...

Obviously a wood-workers workshop only ! Mine has to be general purpose and such a floor would be a dead loss when a 'ping-fuckit' is being dismantled. Rob

Hi Mark The solution of who you are stared me in the face today !!! #-o Sadly I won't be able to make your demo at the Broxburn Woodcraft Club this evening. Rob