Thunderstorm in progress here this evening. Not too much rain so far.

 

Please remember that our annual fund drive/raffle is in progress.  More about the awesome prizes and what we do with the proceeds is found here-

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@AndrewB wins the prize this week for the most contributions to our forum!

In response to last week's "Wednesday's...", Andrew reviewed is purchase of Savannah carbide tools along with a link to a source- 

 

He also provided additional information on the Wen lathe he purchased-

 

Andrew also started a great discussion about which screws to use when turning with a faceplate. Lots of great suggestions and ides were given-

 

After Andrew solved the faceplate problem he showed us his candle holder

 

Check out the great comments and suggestions offered by our forum members-

 

Andrew also asked us about a galloping lathe! Unbalanced turning blanks can get your lathe walking around the shop.

 

He received a bunch of great suggestions on anchoring the lathe. Check out his post and see if you can add any additional ideas-

 

The fact that Andrew asks questions about things of which he is unsure has really brought our forum alive! We have had so many great ideas and suggestions. Thank You all for being here!!!

In this post, there are a variety of topics, one leading to another- 

 

Please check it out-

 

 

@Gunny is building a Lazy Susan. He asked us about how he could trim out the disks

 

He is looking for a nautical theme. See his post and give him some ideas-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Don't forget that the AAW is presenting their annual symposium as a virtual event-

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

 

 

For The Newbies-

A short video from Woodworker's Journal showing how to turn a small yarn bowl from a glued-up blank. Rob Johnstone is the presenter-

 

 

We often show the work of Carl Jacobson in this weekly post. Here's a link to an article, from Woodcraft, about Carl and his woodworking and woodturning adventures-

https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/welcome-to-carl-jacobson-s-world?trk_msg=MG4VHH78BSLKP042QCRGRP2H94&trk_contact=QNSFAEQ45HFA1IHE09ORJKR45S&trk_sid=VE2RTBE6U7IN2QAPIP4HNBNF4S&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=WCBLOG%3a+WELCOME+TO+CARL+JACOBSON%26%2339%3bS+WORLD&utm_campaign=Woodcraft's+June+Catalog

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Have a chess player in your circle of friends? A nice "Rook Box" turned by Mike Peace-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

The folks at Woodturners Wonders Have a new Drive Spur. If you need a super heavy duty one, this might be what you are looking for-

 

https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/lathe-accessories/products/big-bite-jumbo-spur-center

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns weekly YouTube video list for woodturners-

 

 

 

There was some discussion in our forum comparing the finish obtainable with carbide cutters vs. traditional HSS tools. I have been messing/experimenting with a chinese elm bowl. It seemed all my tools- negative rake carbide and HSS- were not providing the finish I was looking for. A lot of tear out. Just for the heck of it, I replaced the negative rake cutter on the Easy Wood Tools "Rougher" with their standard Ci1 R2 cutter.

 

Then cranked the speed up to about 1500 RPMs

 

 

You can see (about in the center of each picture) the change in surface texture between the negative rake and standard cutter. For this particular operation, the standard cutter produced the superior finish. Chinese elm has lovely grain but is not the easiest wood to get a nice finish directly from the tools.

 

 

 

 

Sanded and ready to finish out the bottom.

 

 

Safe turning and stay healthy

*Reads thread in confusion* LOL.

5 minutes ago, AndrewB said:

*Reads thread in confusion* LOL.

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Its been a long day lol.  Well at least I'll be able to start a bowl of some sorts either tomorrow evening or Friday.

Great job Lew! Had a great time reading this, and your highlighting of Andrew B was appropriate, great work Andrew and thanks for jumping into our forum in a big way!

Another action packed posts.  Very refreshing to have @AndrewB just starting out turning, many questions and alot of interesting ideas and methods presented.  Perfect.  

 

Keep one of our fellow turners  @Charles Nicholls in your prayers.  Spoke with him last Friday and he was about to go into hospital.  

Edited June 11, 20205 yr by Gunny

Great post Lew. Have to ask you to look at the Nova Jumbo spur. It has 4 removable spurs and adjustable point. This thing has become my go to for almost everything except 2 inch or less spindle.

https://www.cpooutlets.com/nova-9087-1-piece-jumbo-spur-center-for-1-1-4-in.-spindles/nvan9087.html?ref=pla&zmam=31282435&zmas=47&zmac=722&zmap=nvan9087&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIleW_ts346QIVr4VaBR04awIDEAQYAyABEgJcGPD_BwE

@John Morris @lew  well if I'm not actually outside working on something, I'm usually gaming playing the virtual farm world until I can get things figured out.  But I'm also a forum junkie LOL.  Just outta curiosity have you guys thought or considered setting up a discord server, it's basically free to use and download.  Fairly simple to set up from my understanding as well.  Just a random thought.

Edited June 11, 20205 yr by AndrewB

@lew, a great thread.  I always enjoy the videos and learn so much.  Congratulations, AndrewB.  

Your Chinese Elm bowl is fabulous.  Nicely turned and the grain is mesmerizing.  Nice choice of wood.

Thanks, Dan.  I forgot to mention that I love that wood and the job you did on that bowl, Lew.  Awesome grain.  

That bowl you are working on is one beautiful piece Lew!

@lew thanks for another great post and a nice review.  I've attached a little article with more information on our carbide negative rake cutters if you are interested.  Thanks!

Why is rake important in woodturning Final rev 6.11.2020.pdf

I'm still debating on picking up a set of easy wood carbide cutters myself even though I have a set of the other carbides.  Can't hurt to have more carbides LOL.  Especially for roughing out shapes and hallowing out.  I've been seeing a lot of people use a cutter with  a curved hook shapped to it I'm assuming that is another type of bowl gouge?  Please correct me if I'm wrong but that would probably be another investment for myself since I do not have a curved hallowing tool which would also make things a lot easier.  I'm also seeing a lot of folks with Curved shaped Tool rests to fit bowls and other projects.  I'm wondering if these would be good worthy long term investments one should make.

13 hours ago, Gunny said:

Another action packed posts.  Very refreshing to have @AndrewB just starting out turning, many questions and alot of interesting ideas and methods presented.  Perfect.  

 

Keep one of our fellow turners  @Charles Nicholls in your prayers.  Spoke with him last Friday and he was about to go into hospital.  

Hi gang from the hospital. Love the works everyone is doing! I wont go into a lot of detail, but I feel better now and have for a day or two. But The previous 7 or 8 I didn’t feel good at all. Sepsis was the big culprit other than infection. 
 

everyone be safe whatever you do!

Edited June 11, 20205 yr by Charles Nicholls

10 minutes ago, Charles Nicholls said:

Hi gang from the hospital. Love the works everyone is doing! I wont go into a lot of detail, but I feel better now and have for a day or two. But The previous 7 or 8 I didn’t feel good at all. Sepsis was the big culprit other than infection. 
 

everyone be safe whatever you do!

Good to hear you are doing better.

Sweet me new lathe will be here in about an hour.  I'm happy about that one.  Looks like I'll be putting together a new lathe this afternoon.

@Charles Nicholls sorry to hear you had a bad week and glad to hear doing better.

 

@AndrewB Not sure what too you refer to but there are several with a curved configuration  for the bar or holder of cutter. Cutters are mostly round , rectangular (straight) , or teardrop (scraper) . Example Rolly Munroe has a linked bar with a round covered cutter. I wonder if you may be talking about curved bars with cutter attached. Now for these there are many on the market such as Sorby, John Jordan and many more. One more possible you may be talking about a swan neck tool which are made by several also such as Hunter and others.

Yes its the goose neck chisel I just had to look it up online and yes I've also seen some folks using S shaped or curved tool rests to fit for carving bowls and what ever else on their projects.  I've seen this on several you tube videos.

These are some from Easy Wood Tools-