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Does anyone know if the Show is a goer? I ask as I'm coming down from the country Looking forward to getting some of logdogs maple have in the past and didnt regret it - after all if we put in all...

Wow Nice job mate

I said yes but it matters that they are available as really big sizes like 7x
and most of the time I can't get Polo shirts that big
But if I could It would be cool
and I'd wear it with Pride as...

I love having sharp knifes.

I have been sharpening the same set of knives for 25years and they are still roughly the same size.
they were all good quality to start with and I assume are still. I...

Its available in a number of stores
I see it in bunny's
and it gives a pretty nice finish with the slight smell of lanolin!!! naturally.

http://www.chefsresource.com/pocket-pepper-kit.html

its a Peugeot of however you spell it

pretty exe tho

Google is an amazing resource (sometimes)

when grinding the super gouge what did you find was the best angle and profile I have just got one and as usual it isn't sharpened in fact I don't think any Patience & Nicholson gouges are factory...

I had a few to do for a shed I built and a mate suggested I use the back of the axe to bruise the bark
which I did - I whacked it flat against the bark using the axe like a hammer until the bark...

I've asked high and low where to get an old keg for a similar purpose to yours (I wanna use it for a camp oven fire container for those places where open fires are banned)
where can i get one???

I would say that unless you make yourself a set of bushes out of hard but very light coloured wood you are always going to have some contamination as metal filings from sandpaper are most probably...

Nice work The deep lustre suits the library furniture don't you think?

wow what amazing sticks thats going to look Great

Hi,
When I read the thread I thought I would stop by and tell you what I think...
Firstly I am a Draftsman I hold certification in architectural design and have worked as well in civil, hydraulic...

Is there any audio with the chanel?

Slowing down the Silver aging of the OAK

I live in the sub tropics SE Qld Au

Around my way they all use Boiled linseed Oil as the other non-boiled goes black from a fungus and when it needs...

No Serously
when Butchers used endgrain Blocks to chop all they ever used was mutton fat and you'de think that would go rancid but No!

petroleum based products should be a NoNo where contact...

Think of WD40 when you make this

take 50/50 kerosene and diesel fuel

mix em up
thats it

spray some around let is settle in
(smells a lot like wd40)
wipe it off

A few years ago I purchased a turning tool that was a solid steel handle (lead shot inside the grip) It used one of two slide in attachments that held the cutting tool. One was a disc shaped cutter...

Hi,
If Metho isnt doing the trick it might be tar.

I read somewhere that there was a preperation made with tar and shellac.

I have never had much luck removing the black finish,

maybe...

Firstly,
It's because I dont live where I can easily get to a store and see machinery tools and systems etc in operation
So I make the once a year effort and spend the three days there that way i...

There's a guy like that who's lives down the road, the one with all the fruit the vet etc. spent 30k on machines 15 on a shed I honestly dont think he's has made a thing completly in the two years...

Looks like yellow stringy, Up here (cooloolabin sunshine coast) we get a red variety as well Both fantastic timbers the red crotches are trully beautiful as is your piece of stringy there too......

I have had great results using commercial clothing dyes on light to white timbers such hoop, silky oak, beech, blackbeen sapwood even!

Break the powdered dye down to a fairly strong mix then mix...

wow
I'm flabagastered
Nice wood working
extremely nice
Thanks for sharing

I originally bought a Gifkin jig to make a production run of boxes for a friend who makes tofu - Its a soy bean curd type food - anyway the stuff gets squeezed in the box and the water from the...

I haven't made many wooden hinges
BUT when i did it was my Triton finger joint making tool thingy jig that I used each time
and a "sanding method" (You should never be without one!!)

...about...

That sounds like leakage from the capacitor used to start the motor
IF you have Earth leakage detection devices installed (usually in your meter box) you should be safe but I'd have the lathe...

Hi I'm (finally) back on line - won't bore you with the details but If it's all still going ahead I'm still available and would love to help out.

cya
Allan

I'm not a real mechanically minded wood turner and havent been able to work out why my lath has developed the wobbles lately
It's only when I put a big bit of wood on it - over 100x100 - even when...

Hi Ian
If you still require another pen maker (Turner) I would love to help

Can also Turn Bowls amd small turned boxes to 250 diam and my lath is good to about 75 deep (so 250x75) chunks of...

There is a creek somewhere on the new England tablelands called "Three Legs O Man Creek"

and a lookout in Queensland called Whodathoughtofthat !!! all one word.

One of the funnyest signs I ever...

Hi LineLefty I was just wondering
would that be Sinistrpedal or sinistrorsal sinistrophobia
Hmmm?

Um Thanks everyone I think I have a better picture of it now.
so you dont have to guess anymore here is more more info for you -
The top was arranged with the growth rings alternating
the middle...

MATE!!! beautiful work & beautiful timber selection

Sorry to freak you out!!!
I can only guess but It might be a lot more stable at 100 YO!! at yleaset more than I am used to.
:rolleyes:

cya
Allan

Hi all!

I have a bit of a problem in as much as the top of a side board I recently made from Maple keeps warping and lifting up at one corner. Its actually quite bad and raises about 8 mm above...

Its sad to say that such a lovely timber that is also so easy to work is so prone to expansion and contraction that it's always on the move. So just watch out for that one -
I live around Yandina...

It reminds me of Cyprian Cedar or what they call Cyprian cedar around here. I'm lead to believe the real stuff is pretty rare and only come from - you guessed it Cyrus. I'll speak here only of...

I have three routers - One cheapie and two Hitachi routers both the same - big ones dont know what model, can't remember. I have two as one is permanently fitted to a table The other I got at a...

My Exp with burning bits is vast!
I found it stopped occuring considerably when I started to use a variable speed router. Whenever I am a bit ginger with a cut I go slow so I slow it down a bit and...

Thanks to all for the replies you have been very useful!
I read about mixing it with fungis shield but being a tight **** was trying to save the cost - I have mixed it with metho before and worked...

Greetings, Fellow woodys

I have a friend who has a benchtop ready to stain - what I would like to know is weather it is better to apply the Prooftint direct to the wood or mix it into the...

Hi,
The first URL is actually an old one and I guess there is a way of removing it from here but i don't know how (yet)
as for your question re the Puter top on the sml lid?
Carved or cast well I...

I reckon you got lucky! :-))

Ta for your thoughts

to be honest I haven't even done that (gone to a newsagent). I spose it's been niggling me and when I saw the pen forum I thought to see if anyone else had the same thoughts... but I spose its...

Well I did that - Officeworx - and your sooo right one refill was more than a whole kit!!!

There is a program called Intellicad its very good for 3d models and you can cut sections through the solids and print them full size - greart for creating profiles if you are using the designs for...

Hi,
I make a few pens. I have some for sale but feel a bit funny because they write so terribly.

What I mean has to do with the feel of them - the feel of the nib on paper it always drags or...

Great Ideas mate

Frreeeaaakkk - The address of the website has changed its now
http://web.aanet.com.au/a-marks

and for thos who dont wanna go through the groovy intro
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