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Can I bump this one up to the top again - I was about to ask this question and did a search just in case and found this was last week's discussion :D . I've made my bandsaw blade all mucky sawing several almond logs which aren't dry. There seems to be several materials recommended in the...

Two more pictures - one is the inside and gives an idea of what I started with on the outside and a better outside picture. Eilidh Bowl_01.jpg Eilidh Bowl_02.jpg I'm not familiar with turning either walnut or laburnum - I do have some laburnum in stock, but this would have had to be some...

I've been given some almond wood and because it was in short lengths - cut for wood burning :( :( - I've split the lengths I reckoned were worth having and rough shaped them to bowl blanks. I turned one today to a wall thickness of about 15mm and wondered quite where I went from there...

This a bowl that was bought by my daughter at least 10 years ago for my wife. It's background is unknown as it was bought as an Xmas present and the daughter thinks it may well have had soaps or something in it. It has kicked around the house a bit as it was just a rough turned bowl - quite...

I've just worked out that it was over 20 years ago now that we had an extension to the house built - the older teenage daughter was to get the bedroom in the extension and she asked if it was possible to get a built in terrarium for her snakes. The magic wand was waved and the snake tank was...

Thanks, John, about the advise on finishing - the finish was going to be the next question after wondering what the bleaching would do ? What's the reference to Damascus steel ? At least my daughter is learning something and is quite happy cleaning up the metalwork on the steel brush on the...

I'm working on a piece of pitch pine plywood for a low table top. I was surprised to find that unlike modern plys which use inexpensive core material, this is pitch pine right through, so the edges show the interesting grain patterns too. Any one any idea how old this material might be ? The...

Sorry Dave that you felt you had to delete your comment - I cannot remember now quite what you recommendation was, but I'm afraid the initial reactions here on this subject were pretty aggressive and almost unpleasant so I was perhaps being unduly sensitive to any comment. I suspect that the...

Thanks Alan - the query over the matching pitch pine is a bit academic as the bit concerned is under the frame but is exposed as an edge, so virtually anything would do that has an approximate colour match. Patina is a thing in this context I know nothing about and am not that sure it applies -...

After all you lots slagging, you don't deserve any pictures. Thanks for the confirmation - I don't think I've any pitch pine but I do have some nicely coloured, close grain pine, and actually having said that, larch would possibly do it well. The nice things about this exercise is that I get...

Apologies accepted, and with all respect to you all and particularly the lassie concerned, she did for some reason spot that the top panel is old ply and is 3mm pitch pine faced, and will sand up well, even if it is going to look distressed. I too was a bit concerned until it appeared. By the...

Hmm - so much for advice from the General Woodworking forum - I think I'll just stick to the 'going round boys'. You may not have children who perhaps make the wrong call, but at least she thinks this has potential and I've got to work with that. If you're not prepared to give assistance...

This needs pictures and as I've not done a picture load before I hope it's going to work! Daughter has bought a small industrial pallet to turn into a coffee table - hopefully picture 1. Of course Dad then gets suckered into helping ! The attraction of this pallet is that it is 19mm pitch...

Hi RH - that's a good input. Two questions - the 'stretch film' ; is that what we would call 'cling film' in the UK - comes in a roll to be mounted in a dispenser for wrapping food or sealing over the top of a jar ? I've seen articles about the detergent use - do I take it that you turn the...

The guy who introduced me to wood turning tells an amusing story about his first efforts with padauk. He had just had a brand new shower installed and went to use it after his turning session - it wasn't noticed at the time but the next morning much of the grout had turned reddish. He didn't...

Hi Janos You should go into advertising boxes of chocolates - this sounds almost as appetising ! =D> Many thanks - looking forward even more to seeing what I'm going to get. Rob

My elderly mother, bless her soul, is still switch on enough that when she heard that her neighbour had taken down an almond tree today, she asked him to drop all the usable wood off with her if he didn't want it so she could have it for her fire (that was the sympathy bit she said). She then...

Many thanks guys. That means I can leave it as it is thank goodness. Bob, this was an 'Ikea' kit of parts without the diagrams for assembly. It came off the wood working club's Sheppach bandsaw, went to a motor repair shop who advised BER, so the club bought a new one and I collected the...

I recently won a 2kw electric motor that came as a box of bits ! The bearings were away but that was easy to address as was the general assembly. However as is always the way of things, having put the casing back together with the new bearings I found in the bottom of the box 2 bearing...

Sorry to bump this post back up again, but I'm interested in the necessity of an NVR/MC/DOL upstream of an inverter when the box itself can be set up to cut out if there is a mains glitch. I've now reset my own one to do this (didn't think this through properly when I set it up :shock: ) and...