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Mind you, the Crown one in Jacob's picture is about £5-6, and is available in left and right handed versions. If you put a price on your time, you'd be struggling to make one cheaper. If you enjoy making tools though (and why not ?), it is an easy job.

Laser sintering. The link I posted earlier gives a good overview. It opens up a variety of possibilities, like 3D printing dies for injection moulding.

This company do a variety of "additive manufacturing" aka 3D printing techniques https://www.protolabs.co.uk/ They have a nice little PDF about what can be made in plastic & metals here.

If you believe the marketing department. From the small print of what I saw, it is plastic with sawdust in it. Which makes another near impossible to recycle material we could do without.

Don't suppose you can drill the hole in a even thicker dowel, put in on the lathe then turn it down to 10mm?

Interesting. I've just been using some recycled window frames made of "mahogany" - probably meranti or sapele or such like. Some work really nicely, others have grain that twists and turns and tears out at the slightest chance. I presume they are not all the same species. Will keep an eye on...

Is the locking mechanism a secret ... ?

I think some of the difference between my experience of bow saw and Bugbear's might be down to his being an older Tyzack and mine being a Forge Steel piece of junk. My other was an S&J I think. Unlike a proper saw, there is no weight in it to speak of so makes no progress without downward...

We were taught never to go back to edge tools after sanding, to avoid the tools being dulled by embedded grit. Mind you, we were using glass paper then that shed abrasive copiously. What you might want is a scrub plane, or other narrow, rough old plane with a heavily cambered iron set to take...

There must be people on here who can help, many of us have met up at Mike's in the past. He has had an enforced relocation recently though and is only just back in business, so most experience will be from the old location. One man (plus partner) band. Definitely hobby friendly, will let you...

It's not you. It's the saw, they are rubbish. I placed all mine in the metal skip and bought a one man crosscut saw for firewood. Much better.

Nah, it looks great. Just don't try any hot work ... As an APTGW (Association of Pole Lathe Turners and Green Woodworkers) I get that esteemed publication "The Bodger's Gazette", which has a list of green woodworking courses, including chairmaking. So if anyone is desperate to get back to...

Looking around at the possibiltiy of "JF" I found John Finch, of Finch's foundry, 1873-1882. https://www.360cities.net/image/finch-f ... on-england There's a drawknife on the wall ... Bit fanciful maybe. The French pattern drawknives I've seen are quite distinctive; bevel on both sides as...

Well thanks for the extra picture, but I'm none the wiser. I had the passing thought that, if it had looked to be French, it could have been I.... Freres, but it doesn't. It could be that the mark are the blacksmiths initials, things like drawknives and billhooks could be made by any village...

Any other marks or distinguishing features? Any chance of a picture of the whole tool ? Might help guess from the style if it may be British, French, American...

I think I've expressed my scepticism about floating shelves before. Probably many times. If you really want to, use the most sturdy fixings you can. Bonded in studding does sound a good option. If the walls are tiled on top of 1/2" of plaster, a 60mm screw doesn't go as far into brick. But...

8mm + grinder = 7mm. Assuming you don't want the fancy sort with spurs.

My "other forum" is hosted on Forumotion, and is set up to use servimg.com, which I presume belongs to the same stable, though it is hard to get much detail about the ownership of the sites: https://servimg.com/ Its T&C's prohibit indecent images, commercial use or copyright infringement, and...

Most folk seem to use the James Mursell travisher. I made my own copy of that design, which is nice to use but has a design flaw; overtightening the iron retaining screws, or leaving them done up tight when stored in a damp place can split through the handles. Remember to loosen them after use...

With tables like those Custard, is the splay of the legs small enough that you don't have to worry about the compound angle, i.e., whether the legs should be square in cross section, and the shoulders angled, or the legs square in the horizontal plane (so not square in cross section) but the...