se7enthdevil

and of course i've been making loads of skittles. .

i also made some indian clubs for tomD on here (see his thread http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/100173-idea-wood-turners.html ) and it was quite a challenge but also an enjoyable one to do something different. on top of that the oak ones came out spectacularly good. the big ones are 24" tall and 5 1/2" diameter and each weighed about 8lb 4oz. .

not put anything on this thread for a while so i thought i'd list a couple of jobs i've done this year. this thing is the drum for an "apple scratter" which to anyone who doesn't know is basically an apple pulveriser and will have screws sticking out of it when it's fitted to the machine. i made it for this gent, http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members/arthurbottlesworth.html it's made up of three 3" thick sections which were themselves two 6"x3"x12". the whole thing ended up at 12" diameter and 9" across the axis and required a 1" hole down the axis for the shaft. given a good coat of beeswax seeing as it's going to be used for food. .

i'd be interested in rings or large branches?

what species is that???

i'm willing to bet that other that 6"-12" either end of the log it will still be normal green timber (whatever MC that is) throughout the log. you can use a router on any moisture content.

now replied to. sorry but i forgot about it, 25 years of epilepsy drugs have given me a very bad memory. thanks for pointing him in the right direction james.

the bessy's and the ones on ebay all have the same problem in my book. the reach is always only about 80mm whereas the 140mm reach is so useful i'd like more clamps like them. the reach only goes up on the bessy's if you buy long ones. the tilgear clamps look well made but they have flat bars and i've always found them a bit flexible when really clamping hard. the same problem is with the axminster ones, they are good for small scale but not for heavy duty clamping. i have ones like theses 2 PACK - HEAVY DUTY 600MM X 80MM F CLAMPS - SOFT GRIP HANDLE QUICK SLIDE | eBay and although they are both serrated the bar is thinner than the fortis ones as is the castings and even the screw thread. this is why i want to try and find them as everything about them is beefier thicker chunkier and just better all round. i'll have to weigh one of them compared to ones i have from ebay which are closer to the fortis ones even than the ones in the link but they are lighter i'm sure.

sounds like you should be a saw doctor yourself if they are that good...

hi all, as per title really. i can't find any for sale or any info on the manufacturer except for this web page. FORTIS ? quality brand for tools and industrial safety - Trade brands - Services - E/D/E GmbH i recently bought an ebay lot listed as 8 heavy duty f clamps and it turned out to be these. F clamps | eBay 300mm capacity and a reach of 140mm. very heavy duty and as far as quality goes they are the dogs ging gang goolies... i recognise them from ones we had when i was still employed and they were the best in the workshop. would be interested to know if anyone knows where i can get some.

of course they are going to tell the others are awful, they want you to buy theirs even if theres is awful too. big j had a good one i think, not sure what it is though.

no . i'm happy to pay for postage.

any chance of scavenging a log (8" or over please) if it is manna ash. i'd like that species for the wood database.

they work well as slab tables for internals as they dry without too much degrade.

any chance it could be a Manna ash?

that's the one i was thinking of, couldn't recall what it was called. . [ame] [/ame]

sounds wicked, i saw some jousting on a tv show a while ago and i think they were all american but it was all very serious and was great fun to watch. on top of that a knight's tale is one of my favorite films... never understood why golf is in the olympics? all you see on tv is a bloke wiggling his bum at the tee then whacking it, tv camera goes sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, flag pole. polite round of applause..

would a country be blackmailed just because it had no nukes??? what is the point of having a nuclear weapon that is not going to be used? i had hoped that humanity had left the blowing the crap out of each other on a world war scale was left in the last century. has the time not come where we just try to live with the earth and each other. i'm no hippie but i really think the money should be spent on the important things like the NHS.

surely you can't think that we need them J? if it's to keep the people whose jobs it may affect why not just divide the£25,000,000,000 (mod's estimate) - £205,000,000,000 (cnd's estimate) up between those people...

if you want some rock hard exotics (no need to stabilise them) the you are welcome to come round. i've got all sorts of species and colours. a fair bit of genuine lignum, angelim vermelho, ekki, ebony, ziricote, cocobolo, kingwood, boxwood, laburnum, wenge and loads of others that would look great on a knife...

my fault mate , as mr bullman said i should have read the post properly before saying something. sorry. i may have it sorted actually, an arbtalkers girlfriend lives near the collection point and he goes to london once a week and would be able to drop it off. hopefully i'll have the boards next week. once it's all arranged i'll let everyone know.

not all epilepsy is the same and in theory i could have got a license at certain times as i was many years without a fit. people who are completely under control through drugs just have to prove that you are fit free for a particular length of time (used to be 1 year when i was 18) for me a fit is caused by a flash of light (like through trees at sunset) or by certain patterns (strong striping on fences is a good one) but there does not always seem to be a reason as to why one occurs... sometimes i just go to sleep or i get blurred vision but other times a full on shaky seizure is difficult for others to control and at 6'3" and a well built 17-18st i can hurt others or myself. last year i had one on my 32nd birthday (the first in many years) and i had one a couple of weeks ago. neither of these seemed to have any reason to be triggered, the one the other week was a fit where my vision is pretty much lost and i am not necessarily in full control of my actions. the one on my birthday last year was a complete loss of consciousness and my brother called an ambulance as i stopped breathing and turned blue. this proves to me that i am not 100% under control even though i take my pills. in a nutshell an epileptic fit is a lightening storm in the brain and every one has the potential to end my life. this is why i choose not to be a driver and possibly career into dozens of people on a busy high street potentially killing babies old people and anyone else who happens to be in the path of whatever i'm driving. as it would be a timber van/truck is would be big. think of the bin truck that the driver fainted in scotland. that could happen to me. i don't care if i die because of epilepsy but i would care if i were to kill others because of an irresponsible and selfish choice i had made.

in answer to your question it's not yandles but an ebayer that i've had a few nice bowl blanks from, proper bargains too and now she is selling three planks of a suspected unusual timber that i'd like to own.

too right steve, thanks for correcting me. sorry Wendelspanswick, my mistake. i suppose the next post should say where did i learn to read:lol::lol:

the reason i have to rely on couriers and kind people who are going that way is that i'm epileptic and have been since i was 7. aspenarb, thanks for the offer bob but i had a phone call tonight from another arbtalker who may be able to help me.