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    Melting Lead

    Medieval re-enactment.
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    Melting Lead

    Pour straight into the wood. You will have no problem there. use an old bean tin with a pouring spout bent in it. If you need to clear the dross, use tallow. I do this in a field most weekends in the summer.
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    I need some advice before buying a whetstone grinder

    Did you phone Machine Mart customer services or tech? Big difference. The larger wheel has more momentum when up to speed and will need less power to keep it turning. Obviously. You let the tool do the work and not lean on it, or you will stall it.
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    1st lathe advise.

    https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cwl460-18-460mm-variable-speed-wood-tur/ Mt2 tailstock taper. Electronic variable speed. and on offer until the 21st
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    Amazon delivery speedy

    I'm on the other side. I work as an assistant at a large tool retailer in the UK. so many people come in for advice that they just can't get anywhere else. This is due in part to the mix of people in the shop with their varying ages. Use your local store or loose it!
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    I was up early Christmas day finishing this. I make my partners grandkids something every year. Problem is storing them. I solved this by building it of a 'kallax' door from Ikea
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    What Generator To Buy

    put a good quality extension lead on the Gennie and plug whatever you need into that. Pop down to your local Machine Mart and tell then what you need to power and they will suggest the best one for your needs. Pity, you have just missed a price crash as well.
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    Creating hole with square mortice

    0.1mm tolerance in plywood? Take it indoors and it will have moved by that much!
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    General thoughts of whether better to buy a metal or wooden shed particularly if I want a stove with a chimney?

    wood stove and cheap are never used in the same sentence. I know, I sell them for a living. Whatever heat source you go for, for gods sake fit a CO2 alarm in there
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    Intro piece

    Which period you you re-enact? Simple 6 plank box with leather hinges could be from any era
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    Wanted Shavehorse

    Something for freeish, Travel
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    Paint spray guns

    your best bet is to pop into your local machine mart and talk to them. From your requirements listed, The airmaster 16/550 is Ideal. 50 litre tank on that one. Then you said you want to do sand blasting. That is very 'air hungry' so you would need its bigger brother the 16/1050, 100 litre tank...
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    Hello from a woodworking wife

    Whereabouts in the world are you? welcome to the forum
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    What's the most astounding work in wood you've seen?

    Any Grinling Gibbons work is is stunning. Sadly, I'm not related!
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    BS400 Bandsaw Problems

    As above, Tell us your location and maybe one of us are near enough to take a look at it. There are plenty of safety interlocks around them. It's usually one of them not closing properly. Does the motor 'hum'?
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    Can I make all usual structures with just wood from my small woodland?

    Know anyone with access to Pallets. Ideal for jobs like that and usually free
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    Can I make all usual structures with just wood from my small woodland?

    The sooner you put them in the ground after they have been cut, the better
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    Recommendation For a Supplier

    Richard Burbridge is the Manufacturer you need. Just my luck I've just cut a piece of 30mm oak, 4mm thick chamfered on both edges That was 600mm long into some 400mm!
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    Popups omg!!

    But the site won't survive if you disable the ad's. That's what the constant e-mails tell me anyway
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    Can I make all usual structures with just wood from my small woodland?

    No use chopping all your trees down to make a shelter, If you don't have enough wood left over to make a fire with
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