Wow, another week has gone by already! I've been busy with the typical spring fare- painting deck furniture, yard work and preparing the tiny garden for planting.

 

We had a really great discussion this week concerning the characteristics of a table for mounting a lathe.Patriot member Lissa Hull asked for help determining what she should consider when making a table for her new lathe. Check out the discussion here- http://thepatriotwoodworker.com/topic/16824-making-a-lathe-table/?page=1.

 

Another Patriot member, Todd Clippinger, provided a heads up on a new turning video from Brian Havens. Brian always has great information and this video is no exception. This particular video deals with using a gouge as a scraper. Brian's explanation on how to use the gouge for scraping and why it is a safe operation is really interesting.

 

 

 

I gleaned this next item from a post on Google+'s Woodturners community. I believed I may have referenced the Library Of Congress site in the past. This link is to an old book titled "A course in wood turning", published in 1919. What I found interesting was all of the detailed measured drawings at the end of the book. Here's a link to the book-

https://archive.org/details/courseinwoodturn00milt

 

While on that page, scroll to the bottom to see more old turning books!

 

Safe turning.

Hmm. the above video doesn't play for me. I'll try going to the link directly.

 

Thanks for the heads up, Charles. I'll check it out. If anyone else is having a problem let me know so I can try to figure out what I did wrong.

 

(I'm using the Chrome browser and it is playing on my computer)

Edited April 21, 201610 yr by lew

THat you were using Chrome may be the whole deal, I am not able to on this computer.

1 hour ago, Charles Nicholls said:

THat you were using Chrome may be the whole deal, I am not able to on this computer.

Let me try a couple of other browsers to see if it will open in them. I'll get back to you. Thanks for the follow-up.

OK, I loaded this week's "Wednesday..." in Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge (I'm using Windows 10), Chrome and Vivaldi (browser made by the former head honcho of Firefox). Brian Haven's video played directly in the post with each of the browsers.

 

Not sure what the problem might be. I guess you could try the old standby troubleshooting option of clearing cache and cookies.

1 hour ago, lew said:

OK, I loaded this week's "Wednesday..." in Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge (I'm using Windows 10), Chrome and Vivaldi (browser made by the former head honcho of Firefox). Brian Haven's video played directly in the post with each of the browsers.

 

Not sure what the problem might be. I guess you could try the old standby troubleshooting option of clearing cache and cookies.

It could be that this old computer is just too tired to run it. I hate to admit it but this computer was purchased back in 2007, I have not upgraded the motherboard or the processor since, but I have replaced just about everything else over the years..

 

Edited April 21, 201610 yr by Charles Nicholls

Haha, I tried to run the video just now and it's doing fine LOL go figure.

1 hour ago, Charles Nicholls said:

Haha, I tried to run the video just now and it's doing fine LOL go figure.

Computers- you gotta love'em