This week I'll start by adding a little more information to some questions that have been posed over the past several week.

 

Patriot member Charles purchased a hollowing tool. He was having difficulty because the tool had a tendency to twist in his hands during the hollowing operation. I suggested maybe the addition of a handle, perpendicular to the long axis, might help with stability. During a search for an unrelated subject, I came across this video that, in part, demonstrates hollowing a vase using the Robert Sorby Ultima hollowing tool. The video is by Martin Saban-Smith. The hollowing tool portion of the video starts at about 11 minutes. The Sorby tool has an additional right angle handle. Maybe you can get some ideas from this, Charles.

 

 

 

Mr. Saban-Smith has a unique twist to finishing many of his turnings so check out the rest of this video.

 

Patriot member Ron asked about ways to prevent dust bleed over when sanding on the lathe. One way is to seal the wood with shellac. Recently, however, I came across another turner's suggestion. This idea comes from Capt. Eddie. A little back story here- almost 2 years ago Capt. Eddie was undergoing brain surgery. No one (except Capt. Eddie) was sure, at the time, if he would be able to go back to the lathe. Well on July 2, 2016 he posted this video-

 

 

Capt. Eddie's suggestion is to use Deft lacquer sanding sealer. His description starts at about 2 and a half minutes.. The remainder of the video is about turning a bottle stopper using Ruth Niles' stainless steel stopper. Ruth has awesome stoppers. If you haven't tried them, you owe it to yourself to do so. You won't be disappointed.

 

It's great to have Capt. Eddie back!! 

 

Speaking of bottle stoppers, here's a short video, by Derek Oliver, demonstrating how to make a stopper mandrel-

 

 

 

The Woodturning On Line newsletter came this past week. Lots of good information. The project of the month is turning a yo-yo. I remember the Smothers Brothers TV show- Tommy Smothers was quite good with a yo-yo.

 

 

 

The entire newsletter is at- http:// http://www.woodturningonline.com/index.php

 

 

Safe Turning!

 

 

Thanks for all of that Lew. Great stuff. Lew, the link for the newsletter is not correct, it directs us back to this topic. But I just copy pasted it to get it to work.

And I subscribed to the newsletter, thanks for the link!

I hope Charles see this one, he was having a hellish time with this bowl tool.

 

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

the link for the newsletter is not correct, it directs us back to this topic. But I just copy pasted it to get it to work.

Thanks, John, getting forgetful in my old age. I usually check the links before posting.

 

I see Charles has posted some stuff lately on his Facebook page, recently, hope he checks in here, too.

5 hours ago, lew said:

Thanks, John, getting forgetful in my old age. I usually check the links before posting.

 

I see Charles has posted some stuff lately on his Facebook page, recently, hope he checks in here, too.

I'm most glad your still hanging in with the Wed posts! 

Lew Thanks for your efforts. Not sure if ya'll want comments here, but here goes. I have the Sorby Sovergien system and did not like it for hollowing . Had not seen the Ultima however the price is way up there for a bar with Munroe syatem on it. The Sovergien handle is good and I use it with my Thompson 5/8 bowl gouge. The finishing in that video was very interesting I am just afraid I would end up with a new color lathe.

 

The Stopper mandrel gave me an Idea. Use Beall tap and make my own face plate attach 3/4 place and use bolt threaded all the way with countersink on both sides to tighten bolt and not epoxy. Drill the face plate on the lathe so will be dead center as the DP will not give you that. Cut bolt to length of hole in stopper blank so that the blank seats and no wobble.

 

Just some thoughts

37 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Not sure if ya'll want comments here

Gerald,

Comments, ideas and criticisms are all welcome! I'm a self taught turner in an isolated area so all input is welcome. There is no ego here!

 

I managed to snag an 1 x 8 tap and make my own faceplates and glue blocks. You are absolutely correct about dead center drilling on the lathe vs. the drill press.

 

Again, thanks for the input. It is truly appreciated.