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  1. H

    Polyester resin

    Hi Guys, For a few years, I have been using polyester resin from M B Fibreglass, their water clear stuff, but they have been out of stock for months. I found another supplier and tried theirs, but it is not as easy to turn as it sets very brittle. I don't know if M B will ever get it back in...
  2. Garno

    Just returned

    Just collected the blanks from edlea and would like to say what a great bloke he is. Made to feel very welcome and we had a great old chin wag, just a shame it was late afternoon when I arrived at his house as I could of spent hours chatting with him he is so friendly. You have probably seen...
  3. Terry Q

    To much rain

    Huge storm yesterday. Over 8" of rain in a 6 hour time frame. Creek behind the house over flowed its banks. 2" of water in my basement that backed up through the floor drain. My vegetable patch is probably done now as it's saturated with chemicals washed out of the farm fields. 3rd time...
  4. P

    Mirror Dinghy.

    I bought this dinghy a couple of weeks before lockdown. Today I got it on the water, next outing will hopefully be my first sail.:thumbs: Mirror Dinghy row. - YouTube
  5. Graham W

    Fire pen

    Todays turning resulted in this nice little number. As i work for the Emergency Services and always taking the micky out of our water showering brother thought id make this tribute to them....
  6. Gadget-UK

    A Trio of Zepher's

    (OK, we all know my photographic skills are pants but I am still learning and not set up my box yet so these are not great but I am doing my best.) A Trio of Zepher’s (one of each) My granddaughter who is 5 next month, went on holiday this year with her Mum & Dad to Cornwall and Devon camping...
  7. Dalboy

    Razor handles

    How many of you make razors either for yourselves or for sale. What do you use for the handles do you stick to acrylic type blanks or have you used wood. If you use wood what finish do you use as it comes into contact with water on a daily basis (well that is if you shave everyday).
  8. P

    Yew & Resin

    Hi All, I used the wrong bushings but I was still fairly happy with the result. I used Opti cast 100, Yew and water slide decal used for nail art. Sprayed the tube with Plasticoat white. Edit: I didn't really know which category to choose. I wonder if there could be a Hybrid category? Yew &...
  9. Anthraquinone

    Totally waterproof finish ??

    My wife is a flower arranger and has been looking at some Ikebana designs. Those used a ceramic bowl filled with water and a submerged pin holder for the flowers. I was wondering if it was possible to make a wooden equivalent, not the pin holder. Part of the bowl would obvisously be under...
  10. Dalboy

    Why drink wine instead of water

    To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine... and those who don't. As Ben Franklin said: "In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end...
  11. angelo49

    Damascus ??

    Elegent Sierra. My Damascus? water slide cast in clear.
  12. Dalboy

    Is History boring

    Not sure where this should go so put it here. They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor" But worse than that were the really poor folk who...
  13. angelo49

    flowered elegant

    My resin blank covered with home made water slide decal burried in CA.
  14. P

    Playing with hexagonal blanks

    Hi all! For a Vertex, one hex kit from PSI, I choose a piece of hard wood that I turned a bit oversized. I drilled it, draw some lines and with a hand plane I made a nice hexagonal blank. Then I dipped it for 2 hours in boiling water. After having prepared a tube, I took the blank out of the...
  15. Chriscb

    Hollow forms or weed pots?

    Morning, Like to share a couple of hollow forms (vases?!) of mine. The top row is Sycamore with a Cherry insert, the bottom Oak also with a Cherry insert. Both measure around 130mm high by 95mm around the middle. Designed to accept a plastic tube for water, though you can't see that very well...
  16. angelo49

    Fdny

    My nephew became a New York City Fireman Made this Sierra click with my resin blank and printed water slide decals burried in many coats of CA then sanded and polished. That's his badge number. The NYC fireman's motto is ''NYFD Bravest''
  17. S

    Even more Pastime Pens

    Trout Flies with feather Trout Flies Top one Trout Feathers For the fresh water fishermen All cast in PE resin.
  18. Bill Mooney

    Three TM Deltas

    Three TM Deltas dressed in Beartoothwoods Blue Topaz Water Mesh blanks.
  19. Buckeye

    It never rains when it pours!

    We had water streaming down the inside of the window in my Granddaughter's bedroom and water pooling in the bowl type lampshade in the toilet room so much that it overflowed onto the floor, at least we knew then that water was the cause of the light fitting buzzing away merrily. The roofer...
  20. nimrod

    Rust Remover

    Having decided we no longer need such a large bungalow due to lack of children we have decided to downsize, I now have to sort out the things I am going to sell. Due to lack of use some of the smaller items have gone rusty, not wanting to use traditional methods I found a product on the internet...
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