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Hi all , It all started after going to the newcastle woodworking show where i purchased my first lathe ( a comet 2 and 5 peice hamlet tool set and a bowl gouge from the carbatec stall ) having never...

Thanks ,Toymaker Len and Christos for your replies

Thanks Simplicity
I have already tried some pine, I did'nt find it too hard to turn

thanks pommyphil
i'll have a look:)

Thanks smiife , i can see already i'm enjoying it

Thanks pommyphil
There is plenty of that stuff around, but is there any greenwaste or lopped trees i should watch out for that may be poisonous etc , not that i know what i'm looking at anyway ?

Hi all
Bought my first lathe at the newcastle woodwork show,[ comet 11 from carbatec ] and i was wondering what easy to get wood is in and around the newcastle area, to practice on ? any ideas, i...

Thanks to everyone for the likes :U waterlogged

Thanks Keith

thanks pete,

Hi all just thought i'd show the farm truck i built , it was going to be a xmas present for mu 3 year old grandson , but by the time i finished it , i realised he would have it broken in no time, so...

thanks for the comment, fun but not all smooth sailing, http://d1r5wj36adg1sk.cloudfront.net/images/smilies/happy/biggrin.gif

I think there's no end to the idea's you can come u with , thanks for the thumb uphttp://d1r5wj36adg1sk.cloudfront.net/images/smilies/blush-anim-cl.gif

your right it is ply , thought I'd try something different, I'm still trying different things, thanks for the thumbs up

here are two more box's I made , which I used shellac on , my results with shellac were poor , the box's were cleaned and resanded a few times too many to try and get the finish right and almost went...

Hi everyone this is my second bandsaw box (don't have a picture of the first ) it had a few changes as it went but I finally ended up with something I was happy with, and the person I gave it to was...

Thanks for the replies everyone ,https://www.woodworkforums.com/images/icons/icon14.png I will have another look at them all and make a decision, thanks Keith

Hi everyone , I want to buy either a new carba-tec 14'' two speed BAS-350B or scheppach Basato 3h Vario, or hare and forbs bp-305
I will be only making bandsaw boxes and some small projects at this...

Hi I'm not that happy with the ozito , read my post getting started , I got the ozito cause it was cheap, and didn't know how much I would use it,[still don't] using it is not that easy, but until I...

Hi, these are the first two projects I have made, which gave as xmas presents, the saw was yet to be lacquered

Hi, for anyone interested, I have looked at my saw a bit closer and I found the two arms which hold the mounts for the blade were not parallel to each other causing the blade to be in an s shape , I...

Thanks for your reply, that's what I did, I turned it by hand to measure the angle of the blade, ill have another look the blade mounts are adjustable left and right which I moved to line the blade...

Hi everyone, I have just joined the forum, and have just started to scroll after buying an ozito 16 inch saw from bunnings, it was terrible to use, I found that the top and bottom clamps were miss...