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  1. Dr.Al

    Reaching the limit of diameter

    I'm curious, why would you never use it? Just because of the hassle of turning it away? I'm using it based on a recommendation from our resident turning expert, @CHJ. It certainly seems to hold very well. It does have the enormous (in my opinion) advantage over paper and PVA that you can...
  2. Dr.Al

    I really didn't expect that to work...

    With a (gas powered) soldering iron. One of these, for which I turned some very simple brass ends.
  3. Dr.Al

    Don't see these on EBay very often

    I doubt it's anywhere near as rigid as a proper mill or lathe. Great if you have limited space but most machine shops have plenty of room.
  4. Dr.Al

    Reaching the limit of diameter

    After all the experimentation with the duplicator, I wanted to get back to more conventional turning for a little bit longer before I hang the lathe from the ceiling again. I recently bought a couple of big bowl blanks. One of them is destined to be a new fruit bowl and is big, both in...
  5. Dr.Al

    I really didn't expect that to work...

    Version 2 has been printed and fitted: View from the rear of the lathe: As you can see, the tool post now rotates, thanks to a conical washer in the base: It's stiff, but I see that as a good thing: less likely to rotate when I don't want it to. After the first test, I also had to...
  6. Dr.Al

    Chairs - Done!

    Fantastic looking chairs Nick. I really like the style and have thoroughly enjoyed watching the well-documented journey.
  7. Dr.Al

    I really didn't expect that to work...

    That's interesting to see. I possibly over-constrained mine by keeping the tool on what I think of as the Y axis, whereas that one has a freely moveable base. I deliberately didn't look at online examples before starting as I wanted to see what I could come up with on my own. For now, mine does...
  8. Dr.Al

    I really didn't expect that to work...

    Honestly... I'm not really sure. The inspiration for it came when I was making drawer knobs for a recent box. It took me a few attempts to get two matching knobs. If that sort of thing comes up again (and especially if there are only two of them), I'll probably still make them all manually...
  9. Dr.Al

    I really didn't expect that to work...

    This was an experiment, mostly to work out ergonomics and dimensions before designing something suitable for machining from lots of bits of aluminium. However, I think I won't bother with the aluminium now. The experiment started with two left-over bits of walnut (from when I made a lot of...
  10. Dr.Al

    Chestnut Hard Wax Oil

    Yes, that's the ones.
  11. Dr.Al

    Chestnut Hard Wax Oil

    I haven't had my can long enough for it to have a chance to skim over, but a simple option is just to stick it in a different container (wine bottle with vacu-vin or those bags I've forgotten the name of despite having my Mike's Magic Mix stored in one of them).
  12. Dr.Al

    Kitchen cabinet door thickness

    I've never noticed any.
  13. Dr.Al

    Kitchen cabinet door thickness

    I use Waze as well and agree that it's much better than any alternative I've tried.
  14. Dr.Al

    A rasp making experiment

    Interesting experiment. I'd seen the Clickspring video on file making but never been especially tempted to try it myself. Have you ever tried using borax when heat treating? It works wonders for stopping the scale build up, leaving a glassy shell on the quenched part, which cleans off easily...
  15. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Possibly, but not very easily and not while still allowing me to adjust the steel plates that are attached to the box section. There's a row of holes, visible in the following old photo, that allow access to the screws that hold the steel plates in place. To fill the box section, I'd have to...
  16. Dr.Al

    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Another bowl, which started out as a blank I picked up at a meeting of the Gloucestershire Association of Woodturners a few weeks it ago. After turning the square blank round and pouring some superglue into a faint crack, it looked like this: then after a while it looked like this: Note...
  17. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    Maybe, although it seems remarkable uniform. I'm quite tempted to cut up an off-cut of the same ash and see if it changes colour in the same way regardless of handling. That's a good point, I don't know why I didn't think of it (given that it's what I would have done had it been a mortice &...
  18. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    I think you're almost certainly right. The "shaft" was a fairly good fit in the hole so there wasn't much room for it to expand at all. I think I need to work on my wedge-making technique (or just clear the bandsaw table & use that!)
  19. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    I'm really looking forward to trying it out. Mine has a flat top too, but only in the Ash bit - the sanding disc brought it down to a flat surface (then refined with finer sandpaper) so it stands up on end easily enough.
  20. Dr.Al

    Persuading Stick

    You may well be right. It only showed up after I'd left the oil to dry overnight, but it could easily have picked some environmental dust up: my dust extraction regime is not great - an air fed mask to protect my lungs but otherwise just the garage door being wide open. The big dust sheet that...
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