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Its a really poor design, relies on spring tension from a half nut to clamp down. I think if it had two opposing nut halves it might help. I spent a lot of time prepping that vice and routing out the jaws etc for everything to sit flush. Its honestly the most disappointed I have ever been in a tool.

I try not to talk about that vice or think about it, the amount of rage that thing causes me is insane!! It literally will not hold anything without putting pressure on the quick release lever to hold it open, ends up being a two hand job to close it. Even then it will barely hold anything before breaking loose and dropping my work on the ground. I have taken it apart so many times to try and bend things and add tension but nothing helps. Only thing I think would work is replacing the quick release with a nut welded in place but that would require the same pitch etc which would be hard to find. Urgh Im sommer in a bad mood now from thinking about the pain that vice caused

OK last one from me! This old clock used to be two industrial time keepers in a factory my grandfather worked in. He basically combined two smaller clocks into a bigger one. Note the line on the door and the repeating of the pattern where it was joined. Its very interesting ply wood, super thick and many many layers. I had to remove the top layer from the door because of the scratches and chips it had from neglect over the years. The layer under wasnt perfect but I didnt want to go any thinner on it. The clock face might look a mess but it was a wreck before, my wife hand painted the numbers/lines back on it and its sealed with clear lacquer now. She wanted to keep the patina look of it. Check that monster plywood! never seen anything like it.

Haha! I know what you mean, I generally know where everything is but I couldnt actually use the workbench because of all of the stuff on it. I have a space of about 1.5m x 4m to work in so its a case of swapping things around a lot to get anything done. Still working on storage so hopefully I can improve the space a bit soon. Plywood is damn expensive though so little bit by little bit the storage gets built. The drill press table definitely has a little movement in it, I have tried very carefully to center things and work around it and it seems to be working well enough for my needs now. Its a huge difference to me and a tool I have wanted for a long time. I did have to buy a 24mm socket to get the bolt under the table loosened for the wood storage rack. Its a MASSIVE bolt!! Next is to finish the table on it and build a cabinet around the foot for drill bit storage. It will probably be the new base for it because the existing one is too small so the drill is not very stable.

I have one in my restoration pile at the moment, need to get stuck into it soon. Very cool tool to have.

This one I really like, it was an old hand grenade case from my grandfather, it used to have the foam inserts etc for holding grenades. I had been wanting to turn it into a plane case for a bit to keep them free from salt air and have them easily accessible. The inserts I made were from Oregon pine offcuts and were shaped sized to fit the plane so that it can be lifted slightly to remove. They naturally want to fall over backwards so the retention system works well. I had to chisel out some sections of the door to get certain irons to fit. Planes from left to right are No6, No5 1/2, No5C, No4, No4(sentimental value). My block plane and spokeshave are in there too. Im going to add a holder for my No3 when I figure out where I want it.

So then Im not sure what got into my wife last night, might be the mess that the garage has been for the last few months or that I never have a spot on my workbench to actually do anything with it. I got uitgekak in a serious way about the bench and was instructed to clean it and send her a photo of it sorted out lol. Im glad she did because now I can actually use it again, it just took 2 hours to find places for all of the part completed projects on it and to get it cleaned up. I really need to plane down the surface again and refinish it, its looking really shoddy at the moment.

Talking about drill presses, I recently picked this guy up, very happy with it, just waiting for the T-track to arrive from toolcraft then will make a table for it. Note the mess in the background and on the workbench... more on that later... I just noticed the clock mechanism hanging from my lathe cart, it was an old grandfather clock which is to the left of the press I found in my dads garage recently after his passing. It was in a horrific state and the internals of the clock were rusted firm. I spent many weeks working on everything to get it going again so will get a few pics of the finished product later today. Was interesting figuring out how a clock mechanism works, pretty fascinating stuff really.

Its been a while since I posted any projects in here, I have been bad at taking pics of them so dont have everything. I needed to sort out some wood storage a week or two ago, my garage was getting super messy. So I built these guys, yes I know they are a bit skew, was having to eyeball them while holding and trying to mark Its just pine beams I resawed in half and then set the drill press to 15deg to drill holes with a forstner bit to fit sections of iron pipe.

I have been wearing glasses for many many years and mostly gone with Oakley, you cant really go wrong with them. I tried some other brands but always ended up coming back.

I have the normal marking gauge, its awesome. That was a pretty funny april fools video they release though

Oh yay, Im glad it was a good price after all. I was pretty sure it was the same one I had seen you post recently which was an off chance because I dont really come into this thread much.

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https://www.takealot.com/lego-technic-rough-terrain-crane/PLID52162561 This one? Seems to be on special at takalot today, although Im not sure how special the price is.

After your experiences with your last fox fork I never thought I would see you saying anything positive about them! Glad you are enjoying the setup.

I did notice that about the second winner. None of the other projects that have been entered come close to yours so even if the liking part doesnt happen then their judges should choose yours.

As he definitely should be! Im not sure which wins between mr Carerra being an amazingly nice guy and a super skilled woodworker. Going to rope in some friends to get some more votes going, no doubt other people will create fake profiles to vote for themselves which is just plain wrong. As an aside I had a friend who won a facebook comp requiring votes. Him and his wife took 2 days off work to create fake email addresses and register facebook accounts with it to vote for themselves. They won in the end but we arent friends anymore, I can never accept cheating like that.

More like tree mansion! good job on that, looks great.

anyone watched You? New series on Netflix, enjoyed the first season.

I have been giving bags of it to a local chicken farm, they use it in the nesting boxes. Wood turning produces TONS of the stuff.

Good luck Cois! I know its going to be really hard but try to be as positive as you can, it really helps. Be strong, you can beat this!!!!

I had some work done yesterday afternoon, I can see this becoming a regular thing when its a boring Sunday afternoon and your wife has all the kit... Not a great photo but it was the start of the tattoo, will probably extend the doodles to run further down my leg later, this is just below my hip. Will add shading and colour later once its grown and I have an idea of what I want. We kept this one smaller on purpose, its around the size of a R100 note at the moment. I wanted to test healing of it with Tegaderm so was better to start small and see what happens. If you have never tried Tegaderm before its pretty cool. Get tattoo done and clean/wrap as per normal. Next morning wash tattoo and disinfect with alcohol swab. Dont add any moisturizers or creams, just cleaned with alcohol and apply Tegaderm to it. Leave for 5-7 days then remove with warm water. By that stage its should be quite far along the healing process and past the flaky stage. Then just moisturize as per normal from there. Nice part is that you dont have to worry about it much because its protected and you can do life as normal.

Had to go and check that, seems its sold through Strand hardware. Maybe check out BPM toolcraft too, from what I recall theirs was priced better and they have lots of cool stuff aside from that.

Ooh chisel work is fun, I really enjoy it when I get to use them. Danish oil is great for getting the wood looking amazing, super easy to apply too.

That is sad news indeed