Another week in the books. It was a delightful, low humidity day here is south central PA.

 

A friend from Virginia stopped by today on his way home. He always brings the neatest gifts and today was no exception. He handed me a bag full of ebony piano keys. He told me that his friend had stripped down the old instrument and salvaged to ebony and ivory keys. Now I just have to figure out how to incorporate then into a turning.

 

Member @RustyFN posted a question about bowl turning and the wax that is used to seal the blanks and the moisture levels within a blank-

Several of the turners offered answers. Check it out and jump in with your suggestions.

 

 

In a different Patriot forum there was a discussion on gluing. As turners we often create our own turning blanks from glued up pieces. I found this article interesting. Some of the glue brand names were a little different than I am used to but the general information is good. It is from the James L. Taylor company.

 

Book_on_Gluing.pdf

 

 

I think I may have posted this project before but just in case... Tim Yoder has a 2 part video on turning a wooden  Roman canteen-

 

 

Part 2 is linked from the Youtube site.

 

 

Carl Jacobson made an off-centered wine goblets. There's some turning and some wood bending in this project-

 

 

 

 

I did spend some time at the lathe this week. A friend wanted a mallet for his new chisel set. Made  his similar to the one Steven Newman uses. Got it packed up and sent before I realized I did not take any pictures! Hope he likes it.

 

Safe Turning

Nice post Lew.  Need to watch the canteen video.  Looks very interesting.

Edited June 29, 20179 yr by HandyDan

7 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Nice post Lew.  Need to watch the canteen video.  Looks very interesting.

 

One of the guys in our club made several of those, they are a neat project.  Nice job Lew!

 

Steve