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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

Thank you Tel for your kind offer. I wil keep it in mind if this method won't work or is not good enough. Steamer I will see how I end up using it and if I need to go the other route so be it. Pete

Just a quick update ;D. Have been trying to decide which way to go for clamping the spindle as I would have to purchase the slitting saw whereas I have brass rod on hand so I've gone the easy way out and will use a cotter pin as did xo18thfa (Bob) in his build. Pics are in the camera :) Pete

well as promised a photo of what I had done yesterday. I have a bit more done now so will us the camera this time. phones are only just a camera I feel. (Or it could be me :big:) It shows the main block with the brass bearings (didn't have CI) in place ready to be bored to size, the spindle...

Thanks for the heads up Harold but I saw the discusion on this in another thread when I was debating on whether I was cabable of doing this project. So far it is going well. It is looking good Tel and as a RT is out of my reach at the moment I reckon the dividing head will be more useful for me...

A while ago I asked for help with making some gears for my faceting machine and got a lot of help. I then decided to see if I could make a dividing head as outlined in Harold Hall's book. I went through my scrap bin and found enough to make a start. I will post some picctures later as the camera...