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Yes, I'd spotted that George; I was just winding Dibs up a bit !! :twisted: I do have to admire his tenacity ... and generosity of spirit - I would have muttered some sweery words long since and thrown in the towel. Here's one in the eye for you Dibs - many thanks Rob

Pasted from the very first post Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:38 am Post subject: Router table insert. There's been a whole generation of wood workers gone through since Dibs started this, and those that are left are all on their zimmers. :D :D Rob

I'll echo that - nothing as grand in terms of fruit volume, nor attempting cider, but my apple trees (all 3 of them) are well covered with fruit this year and having attempted to convert the harvest to juice a few years back - tediously - something a bit more mechanical would be welcome. Rob

"The main croppers are Bramleys which just don't store - they start rotting as soon as you look at them" I find that an astonishing statement as the the most remarkable feature about Bramleys is their keeping capability. There are three bramleys in different households in my family and all of...

Bob - we must be much of an age; don't remember having the opportunity to do naughty things like that ! :twisted: Rob

Mark Yes, it works so well when amongst the shrubbery. Interestingly my wife and I were invited recently to a big estate garden recently for an exhibition of this type of work - in this case bird shapes seem to dominate (all on black bases !!!!). It seems that not much sold (actually the...

That's an interesting tip, Bob, which I think I have been doing subconsciously but I hadn't thought about the 1/64's. I did see something (can't remember what now !) advertised on a US website recently that had a key dimension that was something like 39/64". Seems a total anachronism in this...

Wizer - Chrome and yes I do edit out what is not needed. I just delete the non-relevent between the

Cherry - don't I know it; but as a novice wood turner who is gathering wood like there's no tomorrow, I'm recycling a significant percentage back to the woodstove log shed. This can be a two way process as some of the burning logs I bought in last year have gone to the turning wood store. Many...

George I'm judging from the fact that you are currently building a router table and asking questions about doing so, that you don't currently have one and don't have extended experience in using one. The comments that are being made about the screw size, et al., are coming, as is typical of...

Hi Mark Many thanks for the reasoned reply. The dislike of the black base started from the base that a wood sculpture that we bought recently was mounted on - and it looked such a cop out; "can't think of any way of mounting this - oh, yes a big block of cheap wood and we'll just paint it...

Originally laziness - I wanted to see how the table worked when I built it, and never got round to drilling the plate and putting in screws as it worked perfectly well without them - and has continued to do so. The reason for the plate was to give me a surface to mount the router to so that it...

I like these Paul, and they give me something to aim for as I have both cherry and yew in big enough pieces to be able to do something similar. I'm not skilled enough yet to tackle anything of this ilk (nor have the tools), but these are clearly end grained turned. In my ignorance of trying...

It feels all wrong to criticise someone who is a professional (and is therefore earning his bread at it) in an activity that most of us are amateurs at. Anything I produce is agricultural in comparison. But this piece suffers from the same problem that Mark's lovely garden sculpture suffers...

No, no, no -- it doesn't; all it does it to take your eye away from the 'piece'. You should never make such a major contrast between the main piece and its support - your eye fights the two contrasting colours. Sorry Mark, but I loved the piece when I saw the first photo - wonderful simplicity...

George - with all due respect that is quite unneccessary; I did start off being somewhat more 'positive' in my statement than that :twisted:. I've a 1500W router on an 8inch MS plate that is 3mm thick - it isn't bolted or screwed down at all, and is held in place by the fence when I'm...

Tony I'm buying for a friend in mid-Fife; he used to live in Aberdeen and goes up there fairly frequently - it's a bit of a long string but it might work. It will depend obviously on when delivery starts, but I'm seeing Bob on Friday and will ask if he's any plans for Aberdeen towards the end...

Hi Dibs - you must have missed the posting (hardly surprising with the amount of to and froing!) - showing up at 11.36am today. Rob

My apologies for chasing you Dibs, but I queried my price too (£6 too low !!) and had a technical query. Rob

Hi Dibs Done a proper check on the sums for my order and it's not coming out right ! Taking the price per item and totting it up for my order gives £18.36 - you've got £18.63 in the Totals column, which should be £21.58 if it includes VAT. In fact I've now double checked everything and see...