Once Upon a Time

The Story of a Stick. The Story Stick has been a useful tool for 100s of years, for recording and transferring measurements, without the need for a rule or tape measure. In its simplest form, it was nothing more than a straight stick, that had distances marked on it so there was consistency in lengths [...]

YHS Dust Masks

YHS (Your Health & Safety) have recently come up with further design improvements to two of their P2V dust masks (although with a P2V rating, dust isn’t all they can cope with!) which are worth mentioning.  For a disposable mask, these are impressively comfortable. I’ve been trying out both the DM20 and DM2000 models – [...]

Opinions of the Nova DVR XP

Spent about three hours out giving the DVR a solid workout, and I have come to the conclusion that the DVR XP is not a good lathe. In fact “good” and “DVR XP” shouldn’t be used in the same sentence. The DVR is not good.  It is spectacular.  I am so sorry for turners out [...]

Miniature Real Estate

And so it begins- hopefully it can be completed before my daughter’s birthday, this one or the next….. and not have it take so long that she will learn to read, let alone read this blog! Better be finished before she gets too old to play with it, let alone turn 16, 21 etc! It [...]

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism

John M. Shanahan And there is one truth with all veneers: the last thing you want, is a veneer to be painfully obvious. And that means how the veneer is attached is vitally important. So why use a veneer at all? Isn’t it just a huge cheat, for the woodworker, and for the recipient? That [...]

Teknatool Confetti

If you occassionally buy a Nova chuck, insert or accessory, you often find what looks to be a piece of confetti in the box or bag. In the past, I thought this was just a bit of rogue packaging offcut that had slipped in. However, when I recently got a few items, and found the [...]

An Evening with Stu’s Shed @ Carbatec

UPDATE: Carbatec have cancelled the entire “An evening with” programme, so the upcoming booking on September 1 has also been cancelled. In the near future, Carbatec Melbourne are going to trial late night shopping on a Thursday evening – great news for those of us who struggle to get there during working hours, and don’t [...]

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