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No, it's VERY relevant. If there's silly rules that are being enforced unnecessarily they need to be challenged. Indeed, Peter is hardly some newbie of dubious reputation. He wouldn't make a post like this unless he thought it was appropriate. and that should apply to the moderators too. Let's...

being pedantic, the OP doesn't contradict any rules anyway. There are several ways a member could assist the lady to sell her tools through this site that would not contravene the rules as they stand.

Maybe it's time to look again at that then ? If someone here is prepared to help facilitate the third party's sale of goods via the forum, that should fit with the "members to find Workshop Equipment" surely ?

You need to remember that Jacob's "glory days of woodworking" was before mass manufacture. Helpful sharpening jigs have been available since mass manufacture of tools in the 19th century http://www3.telus.net/BrentBeach/Sharpen/jigarch.html so Jacob calling them a 'new fashion' says a lot.

only £16 cheaper than Axminster ? not that great a deal really.

If you think ripping generates waste, you're in for a shock when you see the volume of waste a PT generates. If you back read through the forum, you'll find every thread from someone looking to get a PT for the first time is always told to budget for an extractor too. The problem is that PTs...

Thanks for that Lexx. It all sounds very good.

Just place a magnetic tray under the chuck on the bars. Anything that gets dropped, gets caught. http://www.toolpost.co.uk/pages/Chucks_ ... ories.html Also a box of 100 spare bolts for less than a fiver is a 'no brainer' too.

If you buy the large ones, you can buy the inserts to bring down the size at a later date. If you just buy the middle size, you'd have to buy complete jaws for the other sizes.

Leigh jigs are excellent. Very versatile range of options, well made and excellent instructions supplied too. The cheaper dovetail jigs have a fixed pitch, that can dictate your project dimensions unnecessarily. Think carefully before purchase if you can work within those limitations, I found...

It's not me suggesting this. I just posted the photo for clarification. I agree there are many other better ways of work holding than this, I'd be pressed to think of anything worse myself.

The recommendation is to put it against the jaws NOT in them. Then cut the locating spigot to grip the blank with. Like this:-

On a set of C jaws there's around two square inches of shiny flat metal surface to grip the blank with. To get that to hold enough to take the first cuts (and it will be out of balance to some degree) you must need to put a lot of pressure from the tailstock into the lathe bearings.

Reading the August edition of Woodturning there's an article by Neil Scobie on making a lidded box. The first instruction is; “open the jaws of your scroll chuck a little before placing the blank against the jaws with tailstock centre pressing the centre” I've never come across this work...

Er yes, that's why people build special benches for that task if they need to. Similarly you don't mount a woodturning lathe on a standard workbench either.

and isn't meant to be. Did you read the title ? it's only meant for dovetailing and joinery

A bit unfair. You'll note that it's described as a dovetail AND joinery bench, so covers M&Ts too. Dovetailing and tenoning are some of the activities that a standard bench is too low for comfort. There's a tradition of making supplemental benches that sit on a standard bench to bring the height...

What puzzles me about these is how impractical they are. Solid threaded rods sticking out from the bench all the time, it's going to hurt walking into those one day. Why doesn't the rod thread into the bench with the handle always on the end ? just like a normal vice.

I've had my Versachuck for over a year now. I'm not sure I'd recommend it myself now, unless budget was a very major concern or you have a particularly obscure headstock thread. See the thread at versachuck-a-good-choice-t78022.html?hilit=versachuck for more details. In use over the last year...

Probably more Maple than Goncalo Alves or Marblewood.