I'm getting a lathe!

[Nobby]

You could start with a set of bored tubes for drilling float bodies true; .....just buy some 1cm steel bar and make 4 x 3 inch sections and drill it from one end with a 3mm drill and the other end part-way only ( say 2 inches) with 6,8,10 and 12mm drills. You never make a wonkey float again!


Ferrule stoppers is a good place to start with wood and now's the time to go foraging for 'interesting' wood before it gets too wet. For that matter you could turn some 'Hardy' ones from aluminium bar too. Boring cork is interesting to say the least....


And the dust from it is worse than balsa.


A cheap small Hoover with replaceable bags can be set up to suck near your chuck and act as a dust extractor.

In the future you'll be able to turn your own ferrules, polish them to size and turn down cork handles from shives

Tools, bits, chucks & work-lamps all here:

http://www.warco.co.uk/

[Aitch]

Wear a face mask too.... some wood resins are carcinogenic
http://www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/harts1/HA ... azards.txt