The master becomes the student
Since I was a lad my Dad has been repairing and rebuilding wooden boats. Hence whenever I have any questions on wood (or rope), I give him a ring for his advice. In the last few years he’s moved from
Posted in: Uncategorised
Materials: Stainless Steel
Tags: Drill bits, Metal Work
CNC Rotary Indexer from Sherline
Thanks to Robot Magazine I’ve found out about the Sherline CNC Rotary Indexer Part No. 8700. The advantages of attaching a stepper motor and control box to your rotary table is that you don’t need to deal with the mathematics,
Posted in: CNC, Machining
Tags: DivisionMaster, Sherline
Project Links
A collection of projects to make with the lathe or mill Duncan Munro’s Metal Pages has a variety of projects from furnaces to workshop furniture to advanced projects such as a gear hobber or a dividing head. Astronomer and model
Posted in: Lathe, Projects, Workshop Furniture
Tags: adjustment, Tools
Gib-strip adjustment
When I started machining the square bars, I realised that there was movement in the cross slide and hence I was getting an uneven surface on the faces of the bars. On the right hand side of my cross slide
Posted in: Lathe
Tags: adjustment, finish
Machining square things in a lathe
This week I decided to start some work on a caliper knurling tool, based around the ideas in the Workshop Practice book, Making Small Workshop Tools. After sketching some plans, the first thing I needed to do was saw up
Posted in: Knurling Tool, Lathe, Machining
Tags: knurling, Steel
Finished Gates
After many weekends of work, the gates are finally finished and fitted. I can now focus on some of my own projects, hopefully I’ll be able to get started on a caliper style knurling tool. I did manage to sneak
Posted in: Repairs
Tags: metal gates
James Watt’s Workshop
The Science and Society Picture library has some excellent pictures of Steam Engineer James Watt’s Workshop and the Science Museum’s reproduction of it. The Heathfield House workshop was photographed by J Willoughby Harrison in December 1924 before it was moved
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Tags: James Watt, Science Museum, Steam Engine
Gates Report
As mentioned a few weeks back, one of the projects I’ve been working on this year is some salvaged iron gates (from next door). We’ve spend many of the weekends this year stripping off the paint and repainted the gates
Posted in: Repairs
Tags: metal gates, Painting, posts
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
