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Hey, it ain't over yet, we just made a tactical withdrawal to lull you into a false sense of security. We'll be back to take the good bits, you can keep Disney ;) ;) Tea anyone?

Happy 4th July to all in the US, no hard feelings eh?

Seen 2 nasty accidents and have been lucky enough to avoid personal injury myself. The first was in college when a lecturer lost 2 fingers from his right hand on one of those reciprocating shapers, he did this after delivering a lecture on the safe use of the machine!! Second was at my fathers...

While visiting one of my customers today one of the young mechanics came out and produced a box of lathe tools saying "my mate was throwing these out and I thought of you.".... What a nice bloke. There is a layer of light surface rust on everthing but the cutting tools all have their wax...

That is superb, the builder must have been a gynaecologist! David

That is a very nice looking lathe and such and organised workshop. Looks like a lovely part of the world too. David

I'm a newbie too and I'd go with HSS blanks, as has already been said it sounds much more difficult than it really is plus you have the advantage of having a few tools already which will give you a rough idea of what the finished product should look like. The great thing about working with HSS...

I would love to take on something simple from this build if there is room for me? David

Nice runner CC!

Hi Brian, It sounds like you have come to the right place, I'm fairly new here too but I'm sure you will find very quickly that the pool of knowledge here is amazing and you would have to go a long way to find a better bunch of blokes! David

I'm in awe, you make it look easy. Great pics and narrative too

Glad you got away lightly this time Rick, the weather over here is just as strange although no where near as severe as over your side of the pond. I run a SMART repair business (that's paintwork repairs to bumper scuffs, scratches etc on autos) over here with most of our work done on the...

Looking forward to lots of lovely pictures of your workshop when it's finished John and all the wonderful "objets d'art" you will be producing. And very excited to see how you are going to bling up the Halo. Oh and I'm sure I could find a use.. some storage space for some of that kit :big: ;D...

Thanks Al, catalogue ordered, so many goodies!!!!

Thanks guys, as I suspected, I think that this lump will sit on the shelf until I feel confident enough not to break anything while cutting. It must be aluminium bronze as the swarf swirls for about 1/2" then breaks. I like the simplicity of that formula Rick, the way I have been working...

Seconded! I am still very "wet behind the ears" in this hobby but luckily this was the first forum that I came across and haven't looked elsewhere at all. All members here seem to treat others with respect, inept or expert nobody is singled out for "special" treatment. In my experience of...

Picked up this 180mm (6") ring of what I thought was brass at a local steam fair, it was pretty grubby. Anyway it doesn't cut very freely and produces short swirls of swarf when cut. In fact it grabs the tool very easily and makes it blunt in no time but this could be the way I have ground the...

Hi CC, Yep, sorry I should have put something in the pic for scale, will do next time. Just to give you an idea the bore of the power cylinder is 13.5mm or just over 1/2" in old money. I'm doing pretty much everything in Aluminium for the moment just to get a feel for things as I'm really...

Spent most of the day in the workshop today but don't have a lot to show for it I'm afraid. My 3 week old cheap nasty Chinese lathe decided it didn't like me touching the forward/reverse switch and refused to start >:(, I did manage to get a few bits done to the power piston/cylinder after...

Very nice!!! Can these also do concave cuts? Daivd