Having spent a few weeks playing with the Creality Ender 3 Neo that I got from my son, I’m hooked on 3D printing. So that’ll mean another new toy!!! So here we are with my shiny new FlashForge AD5X. As the eagle eyed might spot this is a four colour printer. It also prints faster
It is quite some time since I’ve worked on an intarsia project and I have been asked to produce a piece, it’s a big one! As you might surmise from the header image it is an owl in flight and when finished it will have a wingspan of approximately 85cm. It will probably get mounted
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As wood dries the size along the grain stays pretty much the same but across the grain it shrinks. This can be a problem when producing bowls. Two ways to avoid this is to make sure the wood is properly dried before turning another popular solution is to “twice-turn”. A twice-turned bowl is initially turned
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I had a little jaunt down to Inverness on Wednesday to visit a sawmill and a tree surgeons to shop for timber and I’ll share more on this later (once I’ve unloaded the truck, but not today as it’s bad weather – welcome home!). Whilst looking at the various pieces of timber at Epic Tree
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Yesterday, I made a couple of new turning tools, a point tool, and a multi-purpose tool. I used 10mm diameter by 200mm long high-speed steel bar stock purchased on eBay for the “working end”. The first job was to turn a couple of handles. I used Elm for the handles, as this is what I
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