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What are your thoughts on this saw?

Hi all, I'm willing to drive anywhere from Canberra To Sydney to get this stuff. In the future I may have to look at driving north for the Camphor.

I'm after a fair chunk of Camphor Laurel to make...

Yeah Chris,
The guys at Redcliffe wood society fell in love with it. There are these patches of light purple/pink that come through it in random places and they are stunning I'm just hoping they'll...

Hi all,
I've just purchased some very nice Paulownia from Maple man. I have never used it before and only have the research i've done online of it. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of it?
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Rod,

Yes I am an average woodworker as I'm also a full time soldier, and not someone who needs to make himself feel like a legend by being annoying. It is a whopper of a slab, I'll try and get a...

Oh cool do you have that in brisbane where I can use it for about $100 to do the slab?

I am pretty cool with using a jack plane but I don't own one and I'm a but unsure of the outlay of coin for one if after this table I never use it again. Although I do recall hnt having a kit for...

I would love it if you elaborate.

Hi all,
I have a slab of kauri that is 1600 wide and 2.5m long. With it being quite a soft timber I was thinking that I would like to give a go of removing the bulk of the saw mill cut lines with an...

the epoxy is for the extreme hard wearing. It will be a dining table so needs something very strong to stand up to abuse. The Shellac is purely for the colour potential that it will bring up as I'm...

I'm making the table now so the shellac will be very recent.

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering if there's anyone out there who has put clear epoxy over shellac? If you have is there any special requirements I should keep in mind when doing it?

Thanks in...

Hi alex,
thanks for the reply, No I haven't tried it on Jarrah, I have however done it on Iron bark and that wasn't visually very appealing. it was just a big black hunk of timber… To be honest on...

Hi guys,
I am making a dining table for a mate of mine. I have charred the top of it Shou sugi ban style, and my plan is to pour a nice layer of clear epoxy over the top of it. but as I'm making it...

Thanks so much guys, I have joined the redcliffe wood workers club and have found a guru who is happy as larry to pass on the skills to a bloke such as myself…
Once again, Thankyou very much for...

I'm sorry but I don't know what bevel angle is and what going under the lip means also…… As I said I'm self taught and don't know bugger all, sorry.

Okay, here are the tools, Lathe, and the latest broken bowl. It was held by a three jaw chuck that came with the Lathe (which I think is part of the problem) although I mostly hold them with a...

Hi guys,
I'm new to turning and I only have what would be called basic chisels, Roughing gouge, Skew, Round nose, a couple bowl gouges. I have been teaching my self how to make hollow forms, bowls,...

the finish is 3 light coats of tung oil, and then finished it with the two part HUT sticks. I really appreciate all the love guys as i've only been teaching myself lathe work for 6 months. with a...

Ted, it could be juniper I actually have had it up in another part of the forum trying to find out what it is!

HAHA Yeah a "feature" because I'm new to it I made the choice not to go through and get rid of the cracks in it cause I thought they gave it a bit more character

This is my latest item, it took me three days but slow and steady i guess hey.
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I've been turning for a little while, and I've been making lots of random things and giving them away, But I haven't kept anthing for myself and especially my wife. I suffer from acute...

treecycle, i"m open to anything mate, I enjoy all forms of wood working

Hi guys,
I am a fairly new wood worker and love experimenting on the lathe. I've been making a few bits ad bobs but I keep giving them away to friend family etc and I realised last night that I...

Yeah that would be great If you think it's similar?

Does anyone think it could be purple gidgee?

I've just started turning it on the lathe and the darker inner heartwood is like cutting rock. I've just finished making a bowl from an ironbark burl and it had nothing on how hard this thing...

Thanks mate, I'm having a real hard time sorting it out and the cedar is the closest so far except it's more of a brown heart wood and what I have here is a purple red colour….. This is a real doozey

As a correction to my original post I was told it was white cypress

I was told this was white mahogany but I don't think it is. I got it any way cause it's beautiful. I'm going to turn it on the lathe and make a bowl or something similar. But I would love to know...

Yeah I made up an epoxy pile of scrap bits that I wanted to experiment with turning and to get the teeth to bite into the epoxy i gave it some curry when placing it on the lathe rather than doing the...

Hi all,
My name is Ash, I've just bought this beautiful lathe from a family that had no idea what it was and it had been sitting in their dads shed unused for 15 years, So after I picked it up it...