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There can't be many left. Most ports and almost anywhere that made liquid products had a Cooper or two. Where I grew up, N Devon, the town has a Cooper Street (and a Rope Walk) just off the Quay. Decades ago a retired Cooper told me that after work on a Saturday - 6 day week back then - all...

Danish Oil, like most oil finishes, appears to dry quickly and then cures - chemical bonds form - slowly. If you apply an extra coat too soon, all you do is re-soften the coat beneath. If you have the time, do 2 coats, bring it indoors for a week or two as Phil suggests, then apply a third...

Or whilst learning slacken off the belt drive from the motor (assuming yiu have a belt drive lathe) so it slips If anything really bad happens. You can't prevent all nastiness though.

Heres something perhaps similar to the Orkney wreck, website well out of date but informative. Trunnels get a mention. https://www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvironment/explore-devons-heritage/vanishing-wreck-westward-ho/ This tells you more http://www.westwardhohistory.co.uk/beach-wrecks/ I...

Looks conventional enough so that points to the incoming pressure being very high. Derbyshire, so chances are it is Severn Trent. Here is their page: https://www.stwater.co.uk/help-and-contact/legal/customer-guide-to-our-water-pressure-policy/ They do say that a pressure reducing valve is...

Now we've gone all modern I often just reach in with a mobile phone and take a few pictures at arms length. If you have the always on light enabled and take a few shots you usually get one or two that are helpful. (my phone will take a picture if you set audio control to 'on' and just shout at...

Have you asked neighbours if they have fluctuating or very high water pressure? I wonder if you are in an area with high pressure mains the water company stopcock, meter or whatever is faulty. After all, a fault in your stopcock could reduce pressure and flow but it can't create pressure that...

When in doubt, buy more kit :). Leaving a mortice seems fine, lots of old stuff you see in old-stuff shops has marks from faceplate screws.

NIce bowl, I did a shallow maple one recently with similarly interesting grain and figuring. You never really know what you've got until the cutting starts. Thinking about bottoms. I used to leave a wide shallow mortice, sometimes decorated with grooves. Then I got persuaded that it wasn't...

Ive had no trouble with 2+ year old ones, a lot of adhesives get stronger, not worse, with time as bonds develop. They call it permanent (they do non permament versions as well) but it is of course impossible to assess until time has passed. According to actuarial tables, if I last to the...

Not just Scotland. Mrs me worked for NWW back in the 80s and 90s. A lot of older properties had lead pipe shared supply, one stop valve served a cluster of homes. There was a big drive to end that and go to copper pipe single supply, if I recall you had to pay a heavily subsidised fixed fee...

I wonder if Ezra Pound was a hobby woodturner.....

Excellent idea, wonder if I can change my name to Elizabeth II. Or Charles III.

The Herald will in theory turn a chuck mounted 21 inch blank with the headstock turned 90 degrees. Not sure I would ever spend on a blank that big, or trust myself not to mess up, or know where to put a 20 inch bowl if I had one. So big enough for me.

I moved on from the 305 as well, although I had almost 3 happy years with the 305, no regrets. The ability to adjust speed in an instant means you never think 'oh, won't bother' and use a sub optimal speed for what you are doing. With out of balance blanks, I use a lot of self cut wood, its...

Took a while to find, longer ago than I remember so prices have probably gone up. stickershop.co.uk. I ordered round brushed silver, or was it silver with satin finish?, 25mm permanent adhesive (you can peel back and move if you do it immediately but next day its really stuck). I thought 25...

Yes, and no. First up, they do add a lot of weight and doubtless help with vibration. The accessories do look expensive but you are buying a heavy lump of iron with some machining. Like a lot of equipment I'm sure the headline price is set to be attractive with higher margins on the...

My first marker was one of those really big copper staples you get on boxes, bent with pliers so one end was a 'stalk' and the other my initial. Push stalk into old wine cork, heat end with blow lamp, mark. Free, works. Now I use pre printed stickers which do stick, 25mm mock-metal. I think...

Agree. Any bandsaw. schop saw, mitre saw will do it quickly. A hardpoint saw also, but you need to mark it out (although you can use the first one as a template to save time) clamp the workpiece somehow, assuming you have space on a bench and/or big vice, and move it round for each cut. OP...

Yes, and with platters which are usually only 20-30mm thick you can easily work from centre outwards with a bowl gouge and round it off as you go, even with square blanks. Octagons make it easier but not essential if you don't have the right kind of saw. I suspect 250 wide boards might be a...