se7enthdevil

from what i understand the contract is the email giving the order of requested items and my reply with the acceptance of the order. no written and signed document needs to be drawn up. there is no mention of a deadline or date on the email he sent me requesting his order, it just says a set of 9 pins (to include a kingpin) and 6 balls in two different sizes...

hi all, i make custom turned skittles and balls for a living and have just had a customer say that they no longer want them. i'll be honest and say the the "consumer rights act 2015" which replaced the "sale of goods act 1979" goes over my head a bit. my understanding of it says that they do not have the right to cancel the order as it is custom made for them https://www.businesscompanion.info/en/quick-guides/distance-sales/consumer-contracts-distance-sales#Righttocancel however, there is another bit saying that there is a right to cancel as a deadline had been missed. https://www.businesscompanion.info/en/quick-guides/goods/the-sale-and-supply-of-goods#Thecontract i should point out that i thought the deadline was 29th and i contacted him on the 22nd requesting he pay and collect and heard nothing till i contacted him again last night. in no email traded between us can i find mention of a deadline date. he made no effort to contact me to say that the deadline was looming and where were his pins. any ideas as to who is in the right here??? any help would be appreciated as it's alot of money to me (over £600) and i can't sell the items to another customer as they are custom made to his specifics...

reading the title i had the image of this old wine barrel:thumbup:

i sand the wood smooth but it's just danish buffed.

got to be a sorbus... just flicked through my book and there is one called a himalayan whitebeam that looked very similar with regards to leaf shape.

yes looking at them they are not as bad as i first thought a good hole or two will do them good but i still wanted to find you as much info in them as i could.

liquidambar. not sure if young liquidambar styraciflua has smooth bark and it roughens with age??? i had a liquidambar with dead smooth bark and it turned out to be liquidambar formosana.

here are a couple of close ups. .

another set again today. .

how on earth does anyone find that out??? a chemist who had nothing to do i suppose?

fair enough then, you'd need some arms to put a 24" drill through a bit of wood though. i think they are meant to go with a tbar handle of some sort as there is a flat ground into the side of the shaft.

treequip, these are not designed for use in a brace and bit drill as they are straight shafted to fit into a jacobs chuck. lasurus, i am a bit of a tool junkie and you never know when these sorts of things will come in handy. spiral, that's a great tip about using the diet variety. i'll stick a close up of them some time tonight. one of them has dominion on the shaft but other than that they appear blank. the construction of each drill is a twisted bit of flat that is then cylindrically ground to give the diameter. there is no central support shaft.

surely elm should be milled rather than made into firewood... get it over to big j.

i'll have to try the cheap cola trick... it's only mild surface rust and i didn't want to take an abrasive to them unless 100% necessary. anyone know where you can buy these things??? i can't find anything like them this side of the pond.

also a set of 10"x 5" with narrower tops and bottoms with an extra pair. a normal set of 10" x 5" and someone wanted me to skim an old bunch of balls which now look like new. .

i've been doing more skittles as well of course. some big 12"x6" in beech plus 5 1/2" lignum balls. .

here is one of my more labour intensive commissions i've had for a while. all in all i had to make 12 american ash croquet mallets plus 12 posts made from robinia (i was asked not to paint the coloured the band's), six sets of 10" X 4" beech skittles (not pictured), and 5 sets of draughts comprising of 12 a side, one half was ash and the other was Makore. 120 in total was soooo boring... i worked out that the draughts pieces alone took about 13 minutes for each one so that's about 26 hours for 5 sets which did not include cutting out the blanks. .

here are the little beauties. .

evening all, i recently won a box of slightly rusty augers and wondered if anyone had tips on the best way to clean them up. they are big buggars and am not sure how to tackle them. all have 24" of twist and range from 5/8" up to 2" diameter. any help appreciated. also does anyone know where to buy augers this size?

old age? how big is the tree? just incase it's coming down i'd be interested in getting it milled assuming it's a half decent stem

i think it's because it's done at the end of the games nearly and some people have got slightly bored??? i really felt for lutalo muhammed last night, in gold medal position till the very last second... poor git. i really wanted to punch the reporter for asking stupid questions like "how do you feel?" rather than giving him a hug.

well i know it's coming to a close in a few days so i think i should say how i feel about our british olympic team. :thumbup:Well Done!!! watching the women's hockey, jade jones and mr skelton today makes you proud to be british. we should be congratulating all our olympians on their return home.

any decent woodturner should take it off your hands in return for some bowls out of it but don't be expecting to come away with a wad of cash. lazarus is up your way. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members/lazurus.html

get it to a woodturner.

i just bought a 3400mm x 820mm x 26mm bit of brazilian for a bargain price. rarely have i seen boards as wide as these then three turn up at the same time.