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I made one - with tips folowing a guide I found somewhere (Ozzie/NZ site perhaps?) ... 2 pieces like making a round "box" for the rattle, then filled with rice/beans and glued shut ... but also bored a hole in the "base" which I then made a spindle handle to fit in as aplu and glued that in as...

I looked at a number of "good" lathes including the VicMarc and Hegner - the latter I couldn't justify on price or practicality - the V175 on practicality ... my workshop is in the basement of my house - you'd never get either down there. The Wivamac is "modular" so I carried the bits...

It's on a cable - but like Nick, I've been very impressed by the Fein Multimaster. Cheers Toby

Just to add to the comments above - I read this thread and thought "ah ha!" ... and just like PaulM says ... my T11 in a table is transformed, not having to push to the extremes of the plunge, and more importantly, changing bits is easy rather than fiddly. Vibration? Maybe I'm just lucky too ...

Picked up an interesting looking book that caught my eye in a local charity shop window ... "History of Woodworking Tools" by WL Goodman ... a 1978 reprint of the 1964 edition that was priced at £9.50 when it was originally sold - I got it for £2 which seemed like a bargain. I know there are...

My "first" good plane is a Clifton 5 1/2 (after reading lots of similar posts) and I'm delighted with it ...

I had a SuperNova and Patriot, and got a Versachuck when I got a new lathe ... I got into trouble and could have had a big incident when one of the jaws came off the Versachuck at speed ... there's no "end stop", if you keep opening the jaws come out. Yes, it's versatile ... if I had dozens of...

"Interesting" experience in the last 3 weeks ... I was trying a biggish natural-edge bowl 3 3weeks ago - and probably through stupidity, got a nasty catch with a scraper which pulled my left hand forward into the whirling wood ... OUCH! 2 deep cuts on much knuckles, lots of blood and swearing...

I have been very happy with one coat, then another 24 hours later ... and then perhaps a top-up wipe a week or so later ...

I had been looking at a #7 (I have a jack plane) as I want to do some long-ish edges accurately - but then have been drawn towards the Veritas bevel-up jointer plane as an alternative. It comes with a whole lot of additional blade options 38 and 50 degree and toothed as well as the standard 25...

I was struggling to cut dovetails with a cheapish "gentlemans saw" from Sheffield and generated rubbish results ... tried a Veritas saw ... highly impressed ... took one home (£!) and the next trial dovetails were almost acceptable ... maybe it was the practice not the tool ... but very happy...

I've not done a lot of carving ... but I bought some Ashley Isles carving chisels and, for every job I've used them for, they handle beatifully, cut fantastically ... and seem to sharpen easily ... well worth a look?

Hi Jenx You are at the stage, and doing the sort of things I am, and would like to do. Not had your success so early - made a couple of vases - one spalted beech effort had so much soggy wood that even with sanding sealer I got disheartened with finishing it, but good practice with tools...

If the seat bars are suspended by ropes from the arch of the back of the seat, will you have a tensioned rope along the back to prevent lateral sway - knots or pegged through? How will you be fixing them at the front - solid or flexible? The "sharks teeth" bit - does that overarch the whole...

VERY interesting design idea. As a thought, I have a fabulous bone-inspired "Skeletal Chair" from Tim Steads workshop (http://www.timsteadfurniture.co.uk/seating.htm) and it's made of sycamore which has the right colour and lack of grain that I see regularly in bone. It used to be very white and...

Can anyone advise me? Looking to make a couple of largish cutting boards for the kitchen ... approximately 30 x 50 cms ... not small cheese boards. I know end-grain has its proponents, but to make it light enough to lift easily I'm thinking of something 15-25 mm thick made of parallel boards...

What was your old chuck? Replaceable - or it's up-to-date guise? The Versachuck from The Toolpost is very versatile indeed at fitting all sorts of old jaws - I think I prefer the SuperNova or Patriot as a first choice - but the Versachuck might be just what you are after?

Tom - I have done exactly what you did with the Abranet - maybe pushed a bit hard, maybe it was the teeth protruding through - eitherway ... abrasive gone and seconds later velcro hooks melted/worn away ...

Potential injury could have been horrid and thankfully not - problems now are just unlucky ... ... but I think using tools where the ferrule on the handle is pretty much at the toolrest was asking for trouble ... trying to do ambitiously large work with too smaller tools makes the fulcrum of...

Nast accident last monday ... hollowing out the bottom of a natural-edge beech bowl ... about 25 cms diameter and 15-20 cms deep. Got a nasty catch with the scraper, left hand (at the tool rest) pulled forward into spinning uneven edge ... thankfully only two deep gashes between my knuckles and...