Category: project

  • Custom Nunit runner for parallel testing part 2

    Last week I wrote about my desire for an nunit runner that could execute tests in parallel batches. Specifically selenium tests that were using the nunit framework. It turned out to be pretty easy to implement.

  • 2 axis tool platform

    I’m sure there is a proper name for this but I can’t think what it is.So to describe it… basically it’s a platform on which I have mounted a rotary tool. By turning the big wheel at the end I can make the platform move left and right.

  • Locking box project – competition entry

    Last Monday was the first woodturning competition of the Hampshire woodturners association. 

  • Windmill Project

    I love mechanisms, I guess it’s a geek thing, but I really like the idea of making things that move, be it simple latch mechanisms in oak or put-put boats from coke cans. 

  • wood carving a FSH!

    What do you call a fish with no eyes?…a FSH! After last months HWA meeting where we had a demonstration of wood carving, I was inspired to try my hand. I decided that a fish is a relatively simple shape, and should be easily possible with just a basic stanley knife, no need for fancy…

  • green wood wine glass

    Last weekend a friend turned up at my house with a log from a conifer tree. He had been helping another friend remove some trees from her garden and thought I’d like to have a sample to see if it was worth turning. 

  • Little vase with lid

    Some time ago I bought a block of spalted beech, mainly because it seemed fairly cheap and I was on a spending spree in a wood turning suppliers.

  • Fixing old mistakes

    I was making a little lidded box in spalted beech. All was going well enough but as I came to hollow the lid I managed a nasty catch which sent it flying and damaged the finished exterior. I gave up in frustration at having gotten so far and then irrecoverably screwed up.Or so I thought at…

  • Holy exploding woodturnings batman!

    At the HWA meeting in February Mark Baker demonstrated an interesting arched stand with finialed box.