Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners May 15, 2019

[lew]

Finally a day without rain! Too bad I had to spend it indoors.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@HandyDan created the most awesome miniature cremation urn for a friend. Dan certainly has a talent for making the most personalized gifts.

 

Check out Dan's post to see why he made this particular item-

 

 

@Steve Krumanaker made a couple of walking sticks, that we featured a couple Wednesdays ago. Steve produced 3 videos of the turning/construction processes. We posted the videos in the Turner's Forum but in case you missed them, here's a link-

 

 

@Gerald was kind enough to give us all a heads up on an AAW resource. A lot of the Association of American Woodturners resources require a subscription/membership. This particular one is free to everyone with very few limitations. 

 

 

In last weeks, "Wednesday's..." @Gerald posted pictures of a "turning" tool he is repairing. If you turn a lot of projects from logs. This gem comes in really handy!

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

 

Click on the above image for the link to more information.

 

 

For The Newbies-

Turned pens are always a nice gift and they are not difficult to make, although they do require a few extra "accessories". Here's a 2 part video from Tim Yoder making a not-so-ordinary pen from a laser cut kit.

 

The second part is linked from Tim's YouTube channel.

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Mike Peace shows us how to create a natural edge winged bowl. It sure came out beautifully. Watch you knuckles!!!

 

 

New Turning Items-

Our very generous sponsor, Easy Wood Tools ( @Jim from Easy Wood Tools ), has a new product! The EWT Wire Burning Kit!!!

Here's a video from Carl Jacobson demonstrating it! So Cool!!!

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns put up his list of April YouTube turning videos-

 

 

Safe turning

 

[Steve Krumanaker]

Thanks lew. That EWT wood burning wire set up looks pretty slick. May have to get one of those.

[Gerald]

Thanks for another post Lew. It is amazing how these videos keep coming

[Gunny]

For years I have used various gauges of electrical solid core wire with two blocks on each end to hold.  I had no idea someone made a tool for it.

[Larry Buskirk]

47 minutes ago, lew said:

Finally a day without rain! Too bad I had to spend it indoors.

Lew, Lew, Lew, 

I waited almost a week for outdoor shop time, should have mowed but....

[HandyDan]

Nice post Lew.  Thanks for the nod on the urn.  Looks like plenty of viewing pleasure in the videos you posted. Thank you for your efforts.

[Jim L]

Thanks Lew!

[lew]

@Steve Krumanaker Thank You! Those EWT handles are really neat!

 

@Gerald Thanks!

 

@Woodbutcherbynight Thank You! I've used old banjo strings.

 

@Larry Buskirk Thanks! I should have mowed but it's been a week of subbing.

 

@HandyDan Thank You! That  urn is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time!

 

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools Thanks!

 

[FlGatorwood]

If you think you can do this yourself, here are a couple of videos.

 

 

At the moment, I can't find the ones by Capn Eddie.  I'll keep looking.  

 

Lew, as always a wonderful post and motivation.  Thank you.

 

 

[Gerald]

I used guitar string braided and handles are indian rosewood. Made two sets, one for the shop and one for my demo box. I keep a lot of small turning tools or accessories in my demo box so all I have to gather is wood and gouges when doing on site turning.

[lew]

@FlGatorwood That's a neat video, Thanks!

 

@Gerald I have used old banjo strings. I really like how the EWT handles/strings are designed for interchangeability.