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With the help for Steve Langton, great week. 
Adam W.
A Major Clanger
Lovely.
Amazing! Is it a commission or something for your dining table?
Adam W.
A Major Clanger
It's for my wife to issue proclamations from.
Yorkieguy
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It's really heartening to know that Steve Langton is carrying on in the late Tom Thackray's footsteps. For my 60th Birthday back in 1999, never having done any woodturning, I attended a five-day course with Tom - a wonderful guy. As with all of his students, young or old, male or female, skilled or unskilled, I came away with a Windsor chair I'd made under Tom's guidance. What struck me most, was that all of the tools and techniques that were used are what could best be described as 'low tech' - high skill.
It was the catalyst that started my woodturning activities and untold hours of enjoyment in the intervening years.
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This was a great week with Steve, he is a very skilled woodworker and great instructor. No fancy computerised gadgets, all doable in a home workshop. And came away with a great chair. The wife wants 4 dining chairs to match.
Cabinetman
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It’s probably about time the King had a new throne, we should put the word out for you.
Now that would be a nice commission!
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I am so glad that you liked the video.
A double whammy of kitchen organising and clearing space in the garage.
About 5 years ago I built this breakfast bar type thing so we would have somewhere to eat meals in a relatively civilised fashion. Note the rounded corner on the RH end, this is because the unit next to it has been modified to 500mm depth so it didn't interfere with the door to the garage.
Fast forward a few years, and we had an extension built, and knocked through the kitchen into an actual room for dining. This meant the dishwasher had to be relocated, and the breakfast bar retired. This was the slightly jury rigged setup for a while. During the building works the dishwasher sat on a pile of concrete blocks so it could be pushed back against the wall to be out of the way. Having used it this way for a couple of months I was never going back to a floor standing machine, so I repurposed a drawer which was above the machine in it's old location, and stuck it in a homemade carcass underneath, which is disguised as a section of plinth.
A 600 drawer unit was a no brainer to sit next to the dishwasher, but this left a 400mm gap which needed a bespoke unit with a curver corner to accommodate the garage door.
On the subject of the garage, this project used a bunch of oak faced MDF that has been sat in a corner for years. Unfortunately it was 6mm not 18mm, so some laminating was in order.
All the panels are laid up from 3 layers of 6mm MR MDF, mostly odds and sods from the offcut pile.
About 5 years ago I built this breakfast bar type thing so we would have somewhere to eat meals in a relatively civilised fashion. Note the rounded corner on the RH end, this is because the unit next to it has been modified to 500mm depth so it didn't interfere with the door to the garage.
Fast forward a few years, and we had an extension built, and knocked through the kitchen into an actual room for dining. This meant the dishwasher had to be relocated, and the breakfast bar retired. This was the slightly jury rigged setup for a while. During the building works the dishwasher sat on a pile of concrete blocks so it could be pushed back against the wall to be out of the way. Having used it this way for a couple of months I was never going back to a floor standing machine, so I repurposed a drawer which was above the machine in it's old location, and stuck it in a homemade carcass underneath, which is disguised as a section of plinth.
A 600 drawer unit was a no brainer to sit next to the dishwasher, but this left a 400mm gap which needed a bespoke unit with a curver corner to accommodate the garage door.
On the subject of the garage, this project used a bunch of oak faced MDF that has been sat in a corner for years. Unfortunately it was 6mm not 18mm, so some laminating was in order.
All the panels are laid up from 3 layers of 6mm MR MDF, mostly odds and sods from the offcut pile.
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I love this, there's something really satisfying about building mini workbenches.
Dr Al
Established Member
Today I finished (give or take painting it when the weather gets warmer) a home-made woodturning lathe that I've been working on over the last month:
View under the cover (which is there to stop wood bits getting into the motor, but is very quick to remove):
My first ever attempt at turning wood:
For anyone who's interested and has nothing better to do
, there's a 30 page WIP with 324 photos on my website: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/woodwork/powertools/woodlathe/blog/page1
View under the cover (which is there to stop wood bits getting into the motor, but is very quick to remove):
My first ever attempt at turning wood:
For anyone who's interested and has nothing better to do
, there's a 30 page WIP with 324 photos on my website: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/woodwork/powertools/woodlathe/blog/page1niall Y
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Well done! I loved the whole process set out on your website. Obviously the secret to building a lathe , is to have another 'metalworking lathe' to do it with,Today I finished (give or take painting it when the weather gets warmer) a home-made woodturning lathe that I've been working on over the last month:
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View under the cover (which is there to stop wood bits getting into the motor, but is very quick to remove):
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My first ever attempt at turning wood:
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For anyone who's interested and has nothing better to do
‘Bus blind’ illuminated art work. Scottish elm case with simple rabbet glued joints at corners. Glass is held in 5mm groves and the back has two ‘stretchers’ to add some stiffness, the upper one is also a French cleat. The elm was stinky to work, cowpat elm as someone called it, and moved considerably as I worked it to size, thankfully the design could incorporate a bowed board without a problem. The LED lights could do with being brighter, imho, and the cord annoys me but not really another solution.
Prior planning….
My small trowel got left out in the garden and I found it in the compost heap. Of course the handle had mostly rotted away. I have a second-hand lathe, first project was a replacement handle so the pair are together again.
I haven’t done much turning but I’ve occasionally been taking bits out of my log pile. This piece looked interesting and I wanted to make a small knob for a key.
I poured in a bit of resin, but it got way too hot and cracked. Pressed on nevertheless. Slightly alarming as some bits pinged off all over the workshop.
Tried to keep the prettiest bit, but in the end it would have been too big to fit. Yes, you’re right, I didn’t measure before starting. lol. It will find a home somewhere!
In the end I used the small round piece off the end.
Think I quite like turning, need more hours in the day. I have a box of things needing new handles…
My small trowel got left out in the garden and I found it in the compost heap. Of course the handle had mostly rotted away. I have a second-hand lathe, first project was a replacement handle so the pair are together again.
I haven’t done much turning but I’ve occasionally been taking bits out of my log pile. This piece looked interesting and I wanted to make a small knob for a key.
I poured in a bit of resin, but it got way too hot and cracked. Pressed on nevertheless. Slightly alarming as some bits pinged off all over the workshop.
Tried to keep the prettiest bit, but in the end it would have been too big to fit. Yes, you’re right, I didn’t measure before starting. lol. It will find a home somewhere!
In the end I used the small round piece off the end.
Think I quite like turning, need more hours in the day. I have a box of things needing new handles…
Guid Aberdeen names there.
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
A dibber - my first turning undertaken without adult supervision!
Nice job, definitely looks like a dibber, well done
Andy's Shed
Established Member
I wasn't going to post this as it's just something simple, but yesterday I made my first bread board. My good lady had requested one.
I'm not overly keen on the dark patterns in the wood, but hey ho.
I'm not overly keen on the dark patterns in the wood, but hey ho.
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
Thanks Jim - I just need to turn four chair legs with no supervision nowNice job, definitely looks like a dibber, well done
