Last month Geoff displayed these vases at the Shire Woodworking maxi day and was asked lots of questions about the making process so he brought his glueing assembly jig along at the next maxi day. This is his “simple jig” for spacing that he made! Basically it is an indexing plate that moves the piece […]
Category: Workshop
Workshop update – pen organisation and disassembly
Workshop update – pen organisation and disassembly. Have been turning some different pens recently and found that I didn’t know what blanks I had worked on; the plastic drawers as below are good to keep kits and bushings in but also including blanks was a bit messy. I saw something similar the the […]
Recommended site from a reader
A readers mother recently sent me a great email as follows: I’m Amy, a stay at home mom. My son Jack has a fascination with woodworking. His great grandfather has done it for quite some time, so he knows a bit about it from him. He did some research on his own to show his […]
Workshop Update – turning, selling & purchasing
Plank Competition I have spent a lot of my time on my Shire Woodworking Club plank entry; but did manage to finish it on time. See separate post regarding the making of the train set below: Pen Sales Sold a pen out on eBay out of the blue; I had forgot that I had […]
Workshop Update – Photography experimenting
David, my wife’s 13 year old nephew recently got a new canon EOS camera for his birthday so yesterday I setup my small light box for him to experiment with. I setup my three lights for him to use; the front one is on a tripod which makes it very flexible. I also provided […]
Workshop Update – a bit of turning and buying
Workshop Update – a bit of turning and buying Helped out at a working bee / wood clearout at Shire Woodworking club during the week and was able to restrict myself to only bring a small amount home. The PNG Rosewood block has some major cracks so will need to be cut into pieces for […]
Workshop Update – Resin infused hybrid pen blanks
I thought it was about time that I turned these resin infused hybrid pen blanks that I bought a while ago from The Burl Shed in Perth. Decided to make a Lucinda pen (9mm tube; slightly smaller than a sierra) and some keyrings with this blank: First attempt at turning this was a keyring and […]
Workshop Update – trucks and cufflinks
Workbench status has not changed since last weekend. I don’t normally get much done during the week other than batches of gluing or small tasks. Workshop looks messy but two projects happening at the same time. The green file holds my loose sandpaper sheets. I am working on another batch of toy trucks for […]