MarkDennehy
Member
Started woodworking about five or six years ago, made some bits and pieces.
Then I bought a minilathe for christmas just before covid and was half-way through a course on woodturning in the local school when we first locked down in March 2020 and since then I've been learning from youtube and a dozen or so books and a friend or two who've been turning for years.
Then this xmas I got a pen-turning kit just to see what that was like...
Slowly improving.
The shed (I'd call it a workshop, but that seems overly grand) I work out of is an 8x6 garden shed (that's eight feet by six feet, not metres) that I lined with some OSB and put lighting up in and have gradually improved over the last few years. It's a bit small compared to most US workshops
This lovely site has a lot of useful technical information on which kits and what bushings and so on (I didn't even know that that Alpha kit is a Triton kit from other manufacturers, which has been a very useful thing to learn because brexit has meant buying stuff from the UK is getting less fun and I'm trying to find more and more EU sources). So, I signed up, and this is the mandatory introductory thread
Then I bought a minilathe for christmas just before covid and was half-way through a course on woodturning in the local school when we first locked down in March 2020 and since then I've been learning from youtube and a dozen or so books and a friend or two who've been turning for years.
Then this xmas I got a pen-turning kit just to see what that was like...
Slowly improving.
The shed (I'd call it a workshop, but that seems overly grand) I work out of is an 8x6 garden shed (that's eight feet by six feet, not metres) that I lined with some OSB and put lighting up in and have gradually improved over the last few years. It's a bit small compared to most US workshops
This lovely site has a lot of useful technical information on which kits and what bushings and so on (I didn't even know that that Alpha kit is a Triton kit from other manufacturers, which has been a very useful thing to learn because brexit has meant buying stuff from the UK is getting less fun and I'm trying to find more and more EU sources). So, I signed up, and this is the mandatory introductory thread
