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ANOTHER UPDATE: We did the show last Sunday. The pole lathe went down a storm. fitted in really well with the rest of the display of Blacksmith, carpenter, pewter caster and needle maker. After waiting five years to get this working, I was well chuffed!

It's only got two wheels, You can fall off them you know. LOL

UPDATE: I managed to track down a school friend who I knew works in woodland conservation. He has supplied me with a six year old, 14ft long nice springy sapling of Alder, We will be putting the lathe together and refining it on the 23rd of April at Fordhill farm Shropshire. If anyone wants to...

Oh and remember to get some tallow as well

You will need a wide tip for this about 15mm I think mine is. It's 80 watts and does the job. I did stained glass work a while ago and that is what was recommended to me ( It's in the garage so I can't tell you the make sorry)

I went, I'm not a serious woodworker so I wasn't after anything specific. A good selection of machine dealers, but not too many deals( although there were a few). Demonstrators were working hard for all the time I was there. Best of the show for me was the powerbond glue I got cheaper than my...

no, your not missing anything. I just posted it to show that pincers are an early invention

If you look closely http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTop ... penter.jpg

to be fair to your missus, you were a bit vague about what you wanted. There are a lot of drills around at that price. The salesman in Argos is just a box sifter, He won't know if it's good or not.

I was lucky. I knew about the fault with the Focus before I got mine in 2006. The main dealer who I bought it off, changed it before I accepted it. The mileage was reset to zero so bear that in mind. I still have the car 130000 miles and still going strong

Life is too short to hang washing outside, and it rains

for a light duty stick welder. I've got one from Aldi, cheap as chips but does the job for me.

We are lucky that the carpender was in restoration for 32years with a proper apprenticeship. and the blacksmith is a professional farrier.

What about when you have no power available? e.g in the middle of a field? I am part of a re-enactment group and as such, we cannot use power tools for reasons of authenticity. Our carpender and blacksmith can ,and do, make anything we require, even tools. This year we will have a pole lathe as...

My dear mom would be turning in her grave, She used to work for Raybone Chesterman. The Machine she used to work on is in Thinktank in Birmingham!

oh her, she has a bit of a reputation you know. LOL

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we still have to research the authenticity of the sprung poles, Although given that Medieval craftsman would be in a woodland I am of the thought that he would have used a branch that would still be attached to the tree! Unfortunately, The land owners of the fields we use, take a dim view of...

I'm a FLT driver, Have been for 30 years. In my experience, the hardwood pallets are from Japan, Solid spacer blocks. Euro pallets from, well, Europe surprisingly, These have mostly chipboard spaces and are fast grown softwood. The metre square blue pallets are owned by CHEP who will come...

Thanks for the reply Sheffield Tony. I take it you demonstrate the pole lathe, We will have no problems with set up. We have been doing this for 20 years and are well versed in it. (At least our 18 page risk assessment says so) We use riven oak fences to keep the public at a distance from the...