Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners January 8, 2020

[lew]

 

Snow and windy here tonight!

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Woodbutcherbynight is cranking out wooden stemmed wine glasses. He is using segmented blanks to make these beauties-

 

Check out his post and see the nice comments he received. Within that post, he also posted some gorgeous tool handles!

 

 

Gunny wins the award this week for the most posts of projects! In addition to the glasses, he turned a fantastic little "Q-Tip Holder".

 

He gives us an insight into how this handy item came about-

 

 

@HandyDan added more information to his ornament and stand posting. Dan's tutorials are always well detailed and photographed. Check out the addition information-

 

 

 

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools added some really great information to a resurrected post comparing Easy Wood Tools to some of the clones that have been showing up in the woodworking stores. Check it out so you don't buy a pig-in-a-poke!

 

 

You may remember from last week that @Cliff donated his Easy Wood Tools winnings, from our Operation Ward 57 Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family, to @Pauley. Well Pauley received the tools and sent his thanks and gratitude for the generosity.

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Bradley McCalister, from Spiracraft, has posted the dates he will be at the various woodworking show around the country-

 

 

For The Newbies-

Mike Peace posted a very interesting video on a shop made tool used for creating a chuck recess. This tool overcomes the drawbacks of many of the "store bought" tools-

 

 

Sam Angelo  gives us an insight into the differences between buffing and burnishing-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Rick Turns added his list of December 2019 videos.

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Ruth Niles sent out her latest newsletter. She has some great prices on her stainless steel stoppers-

 

Here is the link to Ruth's website- https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/

 

 

Everything Else-

Haven't been at the lathe this week. My Mom, who recently moved to an assisted living facility, wasn't happy with the only table in her living space. Finding one that would fit proved futile so I have been working on building one.

 

 

Safe turning

[Gunny]

Another packed post with plenty of videos for me to be studying, while I wait for glue to dry.  

[Gerald]

Lew between you and Gunny my mind is whirling

[FlGatorwood]

Thanks, Lew.  Thankfully, we are going to have a rainy day to watch and nap.  Yep, I need to have time space to process and store.  Thanks again.  I really enjoyed the one on burnishing and buffing.  

[Gunny]

5 minutes ago, FlGatorwood said:

I really enjoyed the one on burnishing and buffing.  

Just watched that one myself.  Interesting ideas come to mind.  Have to think about how to use it in a future project.  

[HandyDan]

Thanks Lew.  50 minimum on those stoppers is up there.  I look for them at the Habitat store and run into a couple every once in awhile. 

[lew]

@Woodbutcherbynight Thanks! I often use the shaving burnishing. It really does work!

 

@Gerald Thank You! It's been a while since I did any flat work. Really needed to stop and think about the most efficient methods.

 

@FlGatorwood Thanks! Supposed to rain here tomorrow. I need to get some stain on that table!

 

@HandyDan Thank You! I generally only order 10 at a time but if you make/sell a lot of bottle stoppers, it's really a good price.