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The hard drive is 320gb SATA disk and the operating system is OS X Yosemite.

Hi Kierri. I'm sorry to hear you have not been well and hope you make a full recovery very soon and get back on the old saw. There is nothing worse than being laid low and unable to do the things we love so much.

I have got 92gb of free space left.

Hi Pete. My i Mac is a 2008 model. It has a 2.4GHz core 2 duo and has 3gb of ram. Yes, it still happens when I log in and out. It's fine in things like i player or if I go to BBC news, I can flick through several items no problem at all. Another little problem, and I don't know if it is...

When I go on to you tube or my facebook page I can bring up one or maybe two items up and then when I click on something else I get the little coloured wheel appear, as though something is loading, and it stays like this all the time. I obviously cannot click on anything else and the only way...

Hi Barry. Yes, I round them over on the router table using a small rounding over bit, have to watch the fingers when routing items this small.

Well done Gill. When we have a reasonable day or even better a good day it really does give a boost in the confidence department. Craft fairs here have been a bit slow but getting better each week. Key racks, key chains and candle holders have been my best sellers so far. Aldis are selling some...

There seems to be a problem with some PMs someone is trying to send to me. Several times I have received a PM and when i open it it states "unknown PM" I am not sure what it happening and never had this happen before, it's as though someone is sending a PM but without any content.

Hi Blaz. There are many things you can make from plywood. Christmas tree decorations are a firm favourite with many people. Others make small boxes and some even make clocks from it. A lot of things made from plywood need painting and birch faced plywood is very good for this as you can get a...

Hi Blaz. many of us here in the UK use plywood for many of the things we make but we also use hardwoods as well. There are many types of plywood but most of us here use Baltic birch plywood beacuse it has a very good surface veneer and it is easy to paint with acrylic paints. Birch ply wood has...

Hi John. No, I did not order them, they were sent as samples for me to try from the Wooden Teddy Bear Company and for me to let them know, and the forum members, if they were up to the job, and they were.

As you all know I had 3 dozen FD ultra reverse blades and 3 dozen Olsen mach spped blades sent to my by the Wooden Teddy Bear Company recently. I have now used a dozen of the FD blades and happy to report that every one of them performed beautifully. I never had one break or stretch and they cut...

Hi Boboxes. Pleased to hear you have bought a Hegner. Yes, they are very expensive but with care will last a life time. When ever I buy a machine I like to have cast iron if I can. A good example is my router table. When I bought it I had three options for the table top. MDF, aluminium or cast...

Very nice work Martin as usual. I too love the clock and think I might just make one of those. The wood looks like Sapele.

Hi Gill. They are 4 inches long. Some ladies like this sort of thing to put on their handbags, others just love a chunky key ring. The key fobs in the photo will go on display on my craft fair tables and people can either buy one, if their name is on it, or I take orders for them. I have half a...

I think the guy that's selling it should give you £25 to take it away. Over the years several people on the forum have bought Clarke scroll saws and then join the forum to tell us their tales of woe and cen we help to fix the problems they have. It would be a complete waste of time buying that...

Many thanks to everyone for their input. I feel I know where I have gone wrong reading the above post. I am going to sand the wood with a finer grit. I was using 120 initially but will now use 240 after the 120 and then 400 to finish. The wood i am using to practice on is birch plywood, 6mm...

Hi Brian. Yes, I use the router table to round over everything. I hold the wood free hand with both hands, very similar as if you were using a planer/thicknesser. It's quite easy and very safe. The aperture on the router table is just a little bigger that the router bit but even if it was bigger...

I found another use for the many off cuts I create while making other things and thought I would share with you all. They are made from 20mm thick oak with the dges rounded over using my smallest rounding over bit. They only have an oil finish, which I think is good enough. I got two types of...

I have had the pyrography machine for a few days now and things are not going well. I have been practicing writing names in the evenings on 6mm birch plywood and small hardwood off cuts. I know there are a few people on here that do pyrography so maybe they can point me in the right direction. I...