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Welcome to the madhouse Grumpy :D enjoy your time here as I do. A very inspiring site and we love pictures of what you do as well cheers from an aussie ;D Pete

Thanks bogs for another nice handy tool. Off to the shed I go ;D Pete

Hello Gerry enjoy your stay Pete (down under)

Welcome to the asylum. Enjoy your stay ;D Pete (In Australia)

nope just basic woodwork Herbiev. Dovetails are a arcane art to me and besides its only pinus crapiata :big: Main thing is I now have a place to put more ....oops my mics and stuff.and with luck have room to require another tool or 2 ;D Pete

Nice work as always Arnold :bow: Pete

Bonza job guys Pete

and the last pics ;D I did think of leaving the screws in as handles but wife said to behave :big: Pete

OK all done except for the drawer pulls but I will turn them up shortly. Stained the box and it came out pretty good as I didn't want a finish to say its new and it happened better than I planned. I forgot the pic with the top up but you can see that ;) Andrew I work the brown stuff in another...

Well after making the dividing head I was packing away some tools and thought 'gee I would love a machinist tool box' As I don't do dovetail joints I thought it beyond my abilities but then figured don't try dont know. Drew up a basic plan and am now underway. photos to follow Pete

Good on the guy I reckon as he is supplying a market at a reasonable price in my view. Not all of us are fitters & turners/machinistsand as such find these tools helpful. When we get more experience and onto fora that show us how to make our own etc then we make tools rather than buy them. For...

Now that the dividing head is done I need to make a simple cutter to make my index wheel. I just need a 'V' shape made in the disc so any help would be good. Pete

+1 for the tip John :bow: Another tool to modify and a use for the throwaway pliers Pete

the small amount of spam that gets past the mods here I can live with. I find it annoying that a country that defends its material with a vengeance thinks nothing of stealing others patents and refusing to deal with it. A lot of the stolen posts claimed as their own turn up there regularly. Best...

well its done :big: a learning curve but all ok now. here are the pics as promised. Thanks for all the help & advice. A truly helpful forum Pete