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What a lovely little box Tom. A nice, simple design that looks easy but can be tricky to get the proportions right. Just wondering - what is the dark area inside the base? Also a note on the light tent - when I first got mine I used the supplied backdrops that came with it but struggled to get...

Your prices are way too low! When you factor in the price of the wood (which you may not have bought but you should price as if you have), finish, abrasives, tools etc it would appear as though you aren't taking into account the time spent. Maybe it would be better to start at double the prices...

Great work JT. An excellent way to show of some lovely timber. Well done on the matching pair. Duncan

I really like the box. My only thought was that it's likely to roll away when put down.

It's certainly different, but it doesn't work for me. The leather on the top is a distraction away from the interesting grain. From the front/side the tube is a distraction form the nice, simple lines of the main part of the turning. If you want the front edge raised from the surface then...

There are several option in this pdf which I just found I use a variant of the jam chuck which always requires tailstock support. Depending on the item which I'm turning I make a wooden dome, a disc with a curved edge or a flat surface out of some scrap wood. This either fits inside the item...

It depends on the make of chuck you have - Nova jaws will only fit the Nova chuck (and Versa chuck if you have the Nova slides), Axminster jaws will probably only fit the Axminster chuck etc. Which chuck to you have? I actually rarely use my button/cole jaws as I tend to make work that doesn't...

It's strange that you say that. I turn the occasional pen for presents and when I want to use up small offcuts, and I've produced some that I'm really pleased with. However, if I was to never turn another pen it wouldn't bother me at all. I can see how some people might like them and choose to...

I tend to prefer using a skew for everything, including the roughing out from square. I think mine is 3/4". I prefer my pens to have a relatively straight straight taper or perhaps a gentle curve, and that's what the skew is good at. Duncan

The first tweak could be to half the amount of time you spend doing stuff to see if it lessons the amount of time you need to spend lying down. It's probably better to start low and work up. Duncan

I know about that and am using this method on a few cored blanks at the moment. It would be a bit of a pain though to have to do it regularly with the 20+ pieces which I have waiting for grinders.

That's how I've always done it.

Thanks I have bought from Hong Kong before and it was the only time I've ever had any problem - won the auction at a very cheap price, item never arrived, he said it was in the post and then ignored all my communications. I won a PayPal dispute against him which he never contested. I left him...

Thanks for asking but, unfortunately, I don't have any ready and my lathe is broken (has been for 3 weeks and will be at least 3 weeks before repair :( ) One of the beauties of making them is that they don't use much timber and they're pretty quick to make, so if it goes wrong you haven't lost...

Where did you see one for £8.20 delivered? I don't want it just because it's a new gadget, but because I actually need one. I recently acquired some wet-ish timber that I want to use for pepper grinders and I need to know when it's dry enough to use - the design that I make requires that I turn...

Good work - they look great. One thing to consider - when I've been doing these recently I've given them a round bottom and off set the bowl so that the whole piece is off balance and rests on one edge when put on a surface. This shows off the crotch grain much more effectively as you can see...

I've made a few, as linked to by Paul. The first ones I did were the ones with the ribbons and I used a similar technique to one demoed at our club several years ago by a turner who I can't remember. He made the sphere and hollowed it through the hole where the handle fits using small hollowing...

If you can develop a system that works for you and can show your employers that it will lead to less time off (assuming you've taken time off) and you being more productive then it would be in their interest. One bloke on the course described the process and thinking behind pacing and his...

I guess it could be argued that all pain is in the head as that's where the pain receptors are - in the brain. This isn't the same as saying that pain is all in the mind and imagined, or that you necessarily have control over it. Knowing that there are pain pathways between the sites of pain...

Very nice. I'm not usually a fan of segmented work but I like these. Particularly the 3rd from left with the alternating colours. Is it yew? Duncan