Henry Coles

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Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social‬ https://henrycoles.com Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com

St Anthony's Chapel ruins reflecting in St Margaret's Loch near Arthur's seat in Edinburgh.
Cherry wood keyboard with light oak wrist wrest.
keyboard with switches mounted directly into a piece of cherry wood.
Spud, Renton and Begbie
A yellow 2cv car with roll down roof.
A yellow citroen 2cv - apparently a still from a bond movie.
Record turnable covered in dirt with head missing from tone arm.
Small knife with wooden handle and cylindrical blade flattened at the end.
Fish tail palm gouge with a hand turned wooden handle and copper ferule.
Chris Stott thin parting tool with a little rust and possibly some discolouration at the tip from overheating. Handle is a thin sheath of red plastic.
Wooden keyboard with vintage apple keycaps. Keys split into two curved sections for the left and right hand.
Silver ring on a cork background. Ring looks like two hands clasping each other.
76 key keyboard made out of light cherry wood.
Small 42 key keyboard made out of oak with an additional square of cherry wood near the top.
Keyboard built from a small piece of oaks with 42 keys laid out in staggered columns.
Wooden board with neatly cut holes containing alps key switches inserted without keycaps.
me with an awkward smile, but somehow younger.
Red tile roof above a dormer window with large patch of tiles removed by the wind.
Messy desk with an Acorn Electron opened up on it to expose the circuit boards. The Acorn Electron basic prompt shows on a TV behind it.
Front cover of first edition of Rebecca's World by Terry Nation.
Top of braid hills, covered with snow.
Settled snow over a garden path.
Banjo mandolin looking a look cleaner with a new skin on.
Signature on back of banjo skin. Reads something like "Harlley".
Body of banjo mandolin with rips in the skin drum and rust on the screw heads.
Antique bench lathe in a poor state covered in rust and flaking blue paint
Lathe painted green all over with countershaft and flat belt set up. Tool post not yet attached.
Lathe stand covered in grey primer.
Piece of metal rod held in three jaw chuck, turned down to a narrow diameter at the end with a very poor finish.
Headstock being driven by large wooden pulley and flat belt
Lathe bed painted green with protective tape still covering the ways. Maker's details can now be read embossed on the side "James Spencer & co Hollingwood Manchester"
"Before" shot of lathe headstock covered in grease, rust, dirt and flaking blue paint
Lathe headstock a feet freshly painted in green, looking really quite nice.
Piece of rusty metal sizzling and steaming on top of lathe bed with a piece of we cloth in between and wire protruding.
Exposed underside of lathe bed covered in flaking paint and oil
Wooden countershaft being driven by large plywood pulley
Very large diameter stepped wooden pulley
Large piece of plywood with some circles cut out of it
Wooden stepped pulley
Piece of oak partially turned to reveal a large split.
End of a jacob chuck with a bit of metal bar mounted in it with a groove filed out. A piece of nail rests in the groove.
Detached tailstock spindle
Threaded spindle nose of shaft
Piece of scrap wood bolted across lathe face plate
Headstock covered in flaking blue paint with latex gloves stuffed into the bearings
Yellow plastic strap wrench next to small shaft and two gears removed from it.
Headstock with hand pulling out spring loaded knob
Detached shat and gear, covered in rusty oil
Rear of headstock showing pull out lever
Close up of small gear
Rusty oil covered shaft and handle now detached from lathe.
Small grub screw visible at end of shaft
Head stock covered in dirt on flaking blue paint
Hidden back face of pulley showing grooves
Lathe spindle detached from lathe with faceplate still attached.
Cleaned up geared apron handle
Small sliding lever on face of bull gear