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| 5 hours ago |
sorry sorry sorry - 12 replies Well how are you doing buddIes I am busy working in my machine shop on a project don’t think I don’t worry about you guys LOL keep well I am coming back really soon kindest regards Alistair P S love my brothers and sisters here and wish them all the best for the holidays |
| 17 days ago |
sharpening saw blades - 25 replies First off it’s good to be back after my injury to my back which I twisted a little while ago.Thanks to those of you who asked after me God Bless all of you for being really wonderful friends to me over the last year or so,it means evrything to me as my shops are apart from my wonderful wife of almost forty years Bronwen and my sons Alistai... |
| 35 days ago |
any idea what it is? - 24 replies I don’t know either seems to be interesting. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1886-RARE-WOODWORKING-VICE-MACHINE_W0QQitemZ200396292028QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectable_ToolsHasdware_RL?hash=item2ea88cbfbc |
| 38 days ago |
Wooden box with wooden hinges . - 23 replies Here is a wooden box I made with wooden hinges I designed and made it a while ago hope you like it.Alistair |
| 38 days ago |
My Celtic cross . - 21 replies Here is My Celtic Cross made a few years ago I thought you might like to see it.Alistair |
| 39 days ago |
My son's request .Please help. - 19 replies MY son Russell is wanting me to make a nice garden sculpture.I know as an artist this might be more of a personal thing to do but I would love to hear your comments and ideas. fellow artists and woodworkers I bow as always to your superiority on these matters and await your worthy comments with baited breath. and such posh sounding stuff . Alistair |
| 40 days ago |
wouldn't it be nice????? - 47 replies I wonder if it would be ventually possible to have a spellchecker and some smileys here man that would be so good especially the spellchecker with my wobbly hand movementsLOL Alistair |
| 40 days ago |
strange request for planer thicknesser information?? - 10 replies In Europe we mostly use a combined planer thicknesser all built into one cabinet.Not always but most modern units are like this.I have to be careful as what we call a planer you call a jointer and what we call a thicknesser I believe you guys call a thickness planer.I think that’s correct, anyway I have a nice new modern planer with thickn... |
| 47 days ago |
can't even find my own posts - 6 replies I can’t even find my own posts now.Alistair |
| 47 days ago |
what's happening on this site????? - 10 replies Is It me or what? I have opened some topics to read answered a few then the dissapear I answerred on on building an over the blade dust collector on your saw then one on making 2 inch sanding disks for air operated grinder and now one were the guy is going to london for an operation they have all dissapered immediately and I cannot find them.Is ... |
| 112 days ago |
calling all knifemakers??????? - 7 replies Since from what I can see you guys in the good old USA are excellent at knife making , and it is a well developed skill over with you.I have a basic question that sprung to mind,as I am about to make a knife style handle to a very long 2” scraper for woodturning bowl turning. So here it is I have done a fair bit of metal working over the l... |
| 115 days ago |
Well guys-n-Gals a year ago today I joined the jock club - 43 replies Well well it seems it’s a year ago today I joined you great people as a jock. I thought it was tomorrow anyway thanks for the wonderful brotherly love you have shown me, and I hope I have not been to much of a nuisance during my first year .You are such definitely very wonderful people everyone of you have become my dear friends and I have... |
| 115 days ago |
need porter cable information - 19 replies Please help I have an new porter cable bammer nail gun I paid top dollar for this and used it sparingly as most of my nailing is done with the compressor and gun . I use this only when I can’t do a job in the workshop and can’t be bothered to bring the compressor and nail gun up three flights of stairs. I now find I cannot get gas e... |
| 123 days ago |
I try, I,try but do I succeed ? not very well ! Or so it seems LOL - 3 replies I finally managed to get myself made two new fittings for the Delta large scroll saw this is the one with quick Blade fitting ,but I still have problems changing the blade. I guess it’s time likes this I wish I had amore steady hand LOL but on the other hand are these things just far too fiddly? What is your experience with quick change b... |
| 136 days ago |
Have any of my friends here ever made their own woodturning tools - 14 replies I have made a few woodturning quick change tool handles, mostly from metal, or metal and wood for Bowl turning /spindle turning .So I wondered since this is going to be a project of mine which I have started and will continue working on in the next few months (I always have a few projects going on at a time ) so if you’ve made handles or ... |
| 138 days ago |
New goodies GLOAT - 20 replies HI I just bought a new double 14.4 makita drill driver set two batterries tw drills charger fitted case etc etc and I am looking forward to it I have quite a few cordless drills, and didn’t really need them but was feeling a little low today so treated myself to this wee present for myself You’ve got to it’s your duty isn’... |
| 141 days ago |
Hi wanted dust extractor design information! - 4 replies Hi since I have two lovely as new squirrel fans from which I intend to make a large rectangular ceiling type boxed fine dust extractor.So can anyone show me any books designs on this type also interested in a floor mounted for later in the yeaar, but this type on the ceiling would be best for these fans.Any blogs articles books etc with desig... |
| 144 days ago |
29 years of orthodotic training was helpfull in fixing my scroll saw. - 4 replies Well as a Dental orthodontic technician for nigh over twenty nine years my old skill “not used for about the last eighteen years or more “came in very handy tonight.I have a Delta scrollsaw and stripped the threads on the bolts which tighten up the blade closer, anyway I made new bolts and hand nuts with knurled edges and went to fit... |
| 149 days ago |
Beware Fox chucks beware - 2 replies I bought a small delta midi lathe last year and use it mainly for pen making anyway.I decided to buy a chuck for it and since I have a full chucking device with all sorts of jaws which I like made by titan for my big lathe.I bought a small FOX chuck sold here in the UK I don’t know if it’s available to you guys.Well watch out they a... |
| 150 days ago |
man this is beautiful on ebay - 13 replies see this guys I have never seen one before.Alistair http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Superb-MELHUISH-The-Exonian-Work-Bench-Tool-Cabinet_W0QQitemZ280359363826QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectable_ToolsHasdware_RL?hash=item4146b864f2&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1683%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 |
