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Many thanks, guys - this just goes to show that magazine designs need to be taken with a slight pinch of salt ! Or at least, are built for their looks rather than their application. I've a nice design for a bottle coaster and fancy doing a pair, one in a dark wood for the red wines and one in...

The first hesitation was whether I wrote this to the Finishes forum, or here - on the basis that bottle coasters and trays are turned was reason enough to be here and other turners must have faced this problem. I'm very much a newbie, and managed to make an acceptable small platter out of a...

I've seen a reference to a "Startrite RS1" bandsaw, but can find nothing about it on the internet. Anybody help please. Thanks OW

I started playing with some bits off an apple tree bough (it's not a 'bow' is it!) today. Hey - what fun - these great long streamers that go right across the workshop. And its not until you turn something like that do you appreciate just how wet fresh wood is and how dry turning wood is...

It was just a bit too much of a gift, wasn't it !! My apologies for going OT !! It's interesting to look at the word Scotch as it was the word that described the Scottish people at one stage in the English language, and still is in the US - and correspondingly their word for whisky from...

Damned sassenach - you might at least drink the nation's spirit rather than that American tosh. I do trust that you mean WHISKY = uisge beatha =The Water of Life. OW

A large beech came down near me 20 months ago. I logged the top wood for logs last year and took some more out this year. Its is now beginning to spalt in the smaller timbers - up to 12". The main bole is at least 36". There's probably at least 15 tons of wood still in this tree. The...

Many thanks John and Dennis. The website is http://www.ironfirellc.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=13 - typo in Dennis' answer but Google helped ! Might well go down that way if the postage isn't too serious. John - that's an impressive bit of drilling. A couple of questions - what thickness of...

There speaks a real engineer - many thanks Trevor, that is the solution. Freehand thereafter possibly, but just getting the initial cut. Many thanks Rob

Thanks Malcolm - good try ! Two problems with it - it's expensive, though by the time you take the key into account it may be justified, plus my nose thread is 1 3/8" and isn't covered. Its only advantage is that is qualifies on the grounds of being easy !! At the worst I may have to look for...

OK guys, many thanks. Blister's found the tool, so that's a picture of it - the advantage of the narrow point is being able to make a deep definition of the bead edge, a bit like making a V with a skew. So now it can be seen what I want. The problem is grinding, and maintaining, that shape...

I've got 2 chainsaws because I log for burning wood. I started with a 35cc 16" husky maybe as much as 20 years ago and it's still going strong. I have cut soft wood that is longer than it's blade but at that power level it struggles, and certainly is unwilling to cope with deep hardwood...

My Wadkins Bursgreen BZL lathe, excellent as it is, doesn't have any indexing. My chuck does but that forces me to work round using the chuck if I want to do some dividing. Anyone found an easy method of fitting some sort of indexing to an older lathe ? Rob

I was at a tuition/demo today at the local club and the guy lent me a tool that was great for doing a row of small beads. 10mm round shaft, sharpened to a central point with three long flat faces. He sharpens it on a flat bed sander, but with his skill he can do it by hand. I've found 2/3rds...

Continuing on about the observation of the high tool rest with the skew, I stole a couple of minutes just now to go and try that. I've bit of basic pine on the lathe 400m x 40mm dia. and I did a simple plane along it with the rest level with the top and was impressed by the control, thinness of...

For those that don't keep bees, typical hives are made of cedar and consist of 'lifts' piled on top of one another (3 to 6 in number, 6 or 8" deep approx.) to hold the combs, with obviously a lid on top. Each lift is a four sided open box, doved tailed corners. In order to manage the bees, the...

I'm a real newbie - I've the gear and some wood, but am only at the stage of following through some training suggestions. I saw a couple of good recommendations for 'Fundamentals of Woodturning' by Mike Darlow and in relative ignorance (ie vague words from some quarters!) of the difficulty...

Yes I can see where you are coming from but .... my mate has just bought an Axminster 100mm extractor with several meters of 100mm hose; apart from it having a slightly bigger container, it is near enough the same as my cheapo version - the general layout is the same and it uses a very similar...

Ahh - a hussif. Where do you get the metal bits from ? And thanks again for the wet wood advice - understand now! Cheers Rob

Sometime back I bought one of these wet 'n dry vacuum cleaners from Lidl/Aldis for the workshop. It came with an ordinary sized vacuum hose which is pretty useless on shavings, etc, so I'm looking around to see if I can get a wider hose for it. The current hose is screwed onto the casing...