What a week! The furnace guy still hasn't shown up so the shop is in utter chaos. In other news- the icemaker in the frig decided to dump too much water. The bottom of the freezer looks like the North Atlantic in January. Of course, the warranty expired in August. The dishwasher figured we only need one wash cycle. And, my computer thought the BSOD screens were really funny. Needless to say, very little turning was done since the last "Wednesday's...". 

I did get to SuperGrit and picked up some Abranet sanding mesh sheets. I am impressed. If you haven't tried this product, you owe it to yourself to test drive a couple of sheets. This stuff is great for turning. Unlike grit sandpaper, it doesn't leave deep scratch lines, it doesn't clog and it is really flexible. Here's a link to the parent company- Mirka- but you can pick them up at many of the woodworking outlets.

http://mirka-online.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?cat=1256&q=abranet&gclid=CjwKEAjw-vewBRDH1-b52Lig1hkSJACTPfVFZgZOLHcsodZqFhTyi0Qc0HqO4ZVWmB-bMOssLEFJMBoCd6zw_wcB

I sanded the scoop bodies with the Abranet and then parted them from the unturned waste. I think  every time I turn, I learn something new. I've watched as other turners use either a parting tool or skew to separate the turning from the waste block. But never really paid too much attention to what was happening within the wood itself.  The waste block and the turning may actually twist apart instead of being cut cleanly.  If the separation cut is being made flush with the end of the turning, the twisting can actually tear out below the surface of the turning leaving a hole that needs to be sanded out or filled. From now on, I will be parting off my turnings  with a saw and leave just a little short nub to be sanded away.

During the computer fiasco, I lost my list of turning videos/sites/references so if you see some that were here, in the past, it's just   deja vu all over again.

Here's a link to some interesting turnings- Ladies Handbags

http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/kimberly-chalos/ 

 

Safe Turning

What a week! The furnace guy still hasn't shown up so the shop is in utter chaos. In other news- the icemaker in the frig decided to dump too much water. The bottom of the freezer looks like the North Atlantic in January. Of course, the warranty expired in August. The dishwasher figured we only need one wash cycle. And, my computer thought the BSOD screens were really funny. Needless to say, very little turning was done since the last "Wednesday's...". 

I've had weeks like that.

 

 The other day I closed  out a series of  such.

When I'd finished I almost started griping and then thought - - - hey - - I'm alive ain't I.  I got all my parts working  - for the most part anyway.  Heck I haven't even cut myself once in all of it. 

I decided it had been a lovely day after all.

lovely indeed.

 

BSOD screens. huh?

 

 OK a computer story is in order.

When I got my first computer it was a Proteus  Zero Wait State with a 450 MG hard drive.

 

My little girls were there when I fired it up the first time

I got the command prompt "C:/>"

I entered the fateful  words into the command line:

 

BLOW UP THE WORLD

 

My daughters pleaded with me to delete it please they  begged.

They were terrified.

Yah, I know,  I hit ENTER

The world didn't budge.  The lights didn't even flicker. Nuthin'.

Third time I entered it they got bored and wanted to play pac man

 

 

 

 

 

I started with an Apple II. No hard drive. I think back to what I could do with AppleWorks that only used 56K of memory!

I started with a Vic-20.... I still have my 64...