Well, I hope everyone is recuperating from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas holiday and that you all got at least one thing you had on Santa's List.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

 

@Steve Krumanaker posted a couple of bowls he recently completed. As always, Steve's design, choice of woods and finishes are impeccable .

 

Steve's post has more images and descriptions of what he has done. Please head on over there check out the post in its' entirety-

 

 

A couple of weeks ago, @hawkeye10 asked us how he could hold work pieces to make legs for a small table. He finished up the legs (and table) and it is gorgeous. There is so much great woodworking going on in his project, you just have to check it out for yourself-

 

Here's the complete post including images of the table build-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

 

111 W. General Cavazos Blvd.

Kingsville, Texas 78363

 

Click on the image for more details.

 

 

For The Newbies-

Big shout out to @HandyDan for the heads up on this video from Ernie Conover. It's all about drilling on the lathe. In many instances this is faster, easier and more accurate than trying to drill with a drill press.

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Back in October, @Steve Krumanaker spent a week enjoying a woodturning class from Glenn Lucas. One of the important aspects Steve mentioned was the shape of a bowl. Here's a video discussing bowl shapes. Steve stressed the importance of pleasing bowl shapes. This video is more about reading the wood and the eventual bowl shape.

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Not exactly new but the Easy Wood Tools negative rake cutters are now available for all of the Easy Wood Tools ( @Jim from Easy Wood Tools). Craft Supplies USA has a short video demonstrating these cutters on man made materials. The finish is awesome!

 

 

If your lathe doesn't have a built in indexing device, Mike Peace has a video illustrating how he built a really nice addition to his (or any) lathe.

 

The index wheel (and a complete kit) is available from-

https://www.chefwarekits.com/basket-weave-illusion-wood-burning-carving-tools/ez-index-wheel-steel-12in-dia-for-woodturning.html

 

 

Everything Else-

A two part video from Tim Yoder creating a hollow vessel, well sorta. 

 

Part 2 is linked from Tim's YouTube site.

 

Safe turning

 

 

Lots of good videos to check out again, thanks Lew and thanks for the nod!

 

Steve

Nice weekly post Lew.   I like the idea of the two piece hollow form.  Going to look into that a little more.

More to put on my round tuit list. Thanks

Thanks Lew