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Peter We can always organise some suitable chastising if that's what !! Wasn't meant to be such :roll: But you were right, the thread did deserve some light relief ! OW

Thanks Steve - done. And now back to topic, despite the now current diversion onto molecular weights thanks to Peter!! What is interesting is that there has been no input on DIY fences nor what I would perhaps classify as economical options. This would rather suggest that most equipment comes...

OK I'm going OT, but I just noticed that I had missed out a slightly critical 'not' in a recent post. What's curious is that the system says that my edit was done at 13.15, whereas all my clocks here say 12.15 - except the one that is running fast and has just chimed 12.30! Why ? OW

To get slightly back on topic ! I bought a fence from Axminster some half a dozen years back; memory was that it was sold as a bandsaw fence. I see they don't do it now which is just as well as I was about to give it a slagging for the failure to design the clamp such that it could *not* be...

I've been offered this an Xmas present - an easy for an old mum. Has anyone noticed the shambles that exists in their pricing. The magazine says £37.80 for 12 copies, but £29.40 if you Direct Debit. Go the website and the subscription is £37.25 for 12 copies and "Save 25% off the subscription...

Ahh - foam !! I went to a wedding reception in an old barn near Canterbury that had been turned into reception facilities. All the wooden walls of that had been coated in an expanding foam - it looked slightly yellowish and had obviously been sprayed on from a large gun of some sort. There is...

I used Onduline (corrugated bitumen saturated fibre material) for my workshop roof. In terms of it's insulation it will be better than steel but in contrast to any insulation material, the difference is not significant -ie Mikes figure of 16 for steel doesn't sound unreasonable to me, and on...

I've found in the guddle of miscellaneous that came from my Dad when he past away that I have a small 3/8" Jacobs Chuck without an arbor on it. I've been using the 1/4" chuck from the ML7 lathe for drilling on the wood turning lathe ( and on occasions vice versa) but it would be sensible to...

Hurray - there's someone more accurately pedantic than me !! Thanks Digit. OW

OK, ok ..... I'll fall for it ! What's BW15? OW

Surely if we go into pedant mode, a grub screw is one without a head and a set screw has head, albeit maybe a small one. At that point I will go into nostalgia mode of student days holiday working in a plant that made plastic sheeting. The machine maintenance man was short sighted and was...

Dibs Do not be put off by the turners who say that you only need 6 tools - OK you can go to the other extreme, and the professionals may well only use 6, fewer to carry when demonstrating and fewer to mess around with when you're turning out hundreds of widgets. Again there will be the...

Dibs I'm only a few months ahead of you on the learning curve and this is my pennyworth. There are an awful lot of people who buy turning gear as, say, a retirement project, and give up shortly afterwards because they just don't know how to do it and how to sharpen tools. Tools off Ebay are...

Well I've finished one ..... BUT There's much more to this than meets the eye and some tricks of the trade need to be shared on making the wings. My instinct now is to cut the 35mm holes after I've prepared the wing profile - the tips have chipped in the turning, the edges of the holes have...

Time to resurrect this post and get back onto topic ! I fall into the category of a newbie and started making the angels. These are quite a bit more difficult than I first expected as holding the pieces has to be thought through. One thing I have run into bother with is that the moment I...

Is the taper of the Jacobs drill actually bedding fully in the tailstock. I ask this as I have an Wadkins BZL lathe (and it will apply no doubt to the more common BXL's), that the taper in both the headstock and the tailstock are actually too short and a full morse taper including a tang on...

The linseed oil is only applied at the end. It is the building up, cutting back, building up cycle that generates the depth. The final stage is linseed oil and meths to create a final hard skin and the shine.

Umm, well this is where I put my ignorant foot in it, but, guys, sanding sealer is just french polish in my understanding. Certainly, the shellac based material I am using as sanding sealer I also use as French Polish and now I just apply it to my turned pieces. The point about FP is that you...

One of the characteristics of birch is that it will take stain very well, to the extent that it was regularly used at one time to represent other hardwoods. Sadly we had to dispose of a very fine dining sideboard from my wife's family made solely of birch by a gt gd father, and it looked as if...

Workshop has membrane and OSB!! OW