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Yeah on that file business .FWIW the very best hunting knife I ever owned was made from a repurposed file that came from Solgen Germany .It would hold an edge like a razor .My dear old dad lost it some place on the side of a mountain in Colorado. An oven with a "soak heat " is probabley the...

Just as little thought on that my lathe came with a nice set of tooling that someone make by grinding down heavy files .It also has a set of regular chisels but they aren't as nice the homemade ones .

I've really not done much wood turning although I have a nice little wood lathe .It was soon rather apparent to me you have to watch what you are doing because that thing can toss a chisel in a heart beat .If you don't have a spindle chucked up good and tight it can come out on you like a...

You're going to have to wind that Southbend up to get enough speed to turn wood .If you blow the chips off the ways I doubt you'd hurt it .Probabley a good idea to cover up the feed screw though .

I was going to send somebody on the west coast ,California maybe a chunk of shagbark hickory .As it turned out the size needed exeeded the size and weight limit for a flat rate box .It was intended for a big bowl of some sort like a hundred pounds of it in a round .Cost prohibative as it turned...

I was going to ship a chunk of shag bark hickory to somebody in the west but the price was outragious .Whoever it was wanted to turn a salad or nut bowl but because of the cost involved it wasn't practical .