Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners August 5, 2020

[lew]

Congrats to all of the Patriot Raffle winners. We made our fundraising goal!

 

Hope everyone along the east coast is safe and didn't suffer any damage from the hurricane over the weekend.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Gerald Started a thread that should generate a lot of input. Sanding your lathe projects. You all know that sanding is my second favorite thing in all the world. Please check out what Gerald's setup is and show us your sanding techniques.

 

 

@Ron Altier has been frustrated by the U/V finish he has been using. Ron applied it to a beautiful segmented turning only to end up with problems.

 

 

Ron explains his frustrations in his post-

 

 

@AndrewB Has been working on several projects this past week. He has been fighting a "wobble" problem with some of his turnings. We have been offering suggestions. Maybe one of you has experienced a similar problem and can help solve this elusive gremlin.

 

Andrew also was having some trouble with tearout on a small bowl on which he is working. We've all been there. Maybe you could share your experiences and advice-

 

It hasn't all been problems for Andrew, however. He showed us a really nice bowl he finished-

 

 

And, he has pen making down pretty good, too!

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Cindy Drozda has another virtual demonstration schedule for this month-

 

Click on the above image for the link to more information

 

Cindy will also be a demonstrator at the virtual Woodturners Worldwide Symposium

Click on the above image for the link to the registration site.

 

 

For The Newbies-

Have a lot here for the new turners this week-

 

You don't need a fancy chuck to turn a bowl. Mike Peace's video shows you how to use a Jam Chuck-

 

In that video, Mike used traditional tools for turning. HSS tools must be sharp to give the best and consistent results. Here's a couple of videos demonstrating the sharpening process on some of the common HSS tools-

 

 

 

 

And a couple of videos covering some of the lathe parts-

 

 

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Tim Yoder posted a video on turning a sphere. There are some jigs available to help create a sphere on the lathe but this jig is a little different.

 

 

 

Carl Jacobson turns a beautiful maple burl lidded box. I really like the "lid pull" he added to the top.

 

 

New Turning Items-

Cheated a bit here. This is the set that Tim Yoder used to make the sphere. 

 

https://drechsler-wissen.de/produkt/spannvorrichtung-zum-kugeldrechseln-im-set-74-mm-grosses-set/

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns videos from last week-

 

 

 

Not sure why it happened. In the past, I have used the soap soak method and not had any roughed blanks crack or warp. This one made a liar out of me. It's about 8" in diameter and maybe 5"deep. Turned with no trouble.

 

Came out of the soak with no warping or cracking-

 

 

Put it in a paper bag with shaving for a couple of weeks and when I pulled it -

 

Three cracks developed. This one and another about 180° around the circumference and one near the bottom. I added the walnut dutchmans and am in the process of returning and sanding. Hope it doesn't end up in the trash.

 

 

Safe turing and stay well

[Gunny]

Great post @lew  Plenty to look at as far as videos.

 

[FlGatorwood]

@lew, this is another great post.  I will have to take some time in the heat of the day or hope for some rain to watch the remainder of videos that I did not get to see.  I really enjoyed learning about the live centers.  I had heard Cap'n Eddie Castelin use the Sorby drive center and I think that I like that one.  Still building boxes, but hope to get to turning soon.  Thank you, @lew.

 

 

[HandyDan]

Liking the new videos.  Your bowl patch is interesting.  Look forward to seeing the results.

[Gerald]

Got to spend my after lunch preshop time watching videos. Thanks Lew. I have been turning a lot of the shape you used. Til you called it a Dutchman I thought you had watched Emiliano on Pewas. Try black CA in the crack to make it stand out.

[Jim L]

Thanks @lew, great post

[lew]

@Gunny Thanks!

 

@FlGatorwood Thank You! I see Captain Eddie is back to actually turning.

 

@HandyDan Thanks! 

 

@Gerald Thank You! You lost me on- "thought you had watched Emiliano on Pewas". The brown CA looked a lot like a cherry wood pitch pocket.

 

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools Thanks!!

[AndrewB]

Just got done watchin all the videos lew and a nice post..

[Gerald]

1 hour ago, lew said:

 

@Gerald Thank You! You lost me on- "thought you had watched Emiliano on Pewas". The brown CA looked a lot like a cherry wood pitch pocket.

 

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools Thanks!!

Emilano Archival did a demo Saturday on putting Pewa in Hawaiian Calabash. Pewa is a patch used for centuries to patch the bowls (calabash) used for cooking and eating in Hawaii.

https://www.hawaiiankoaturner.com/picture-gallery-kea-woodturning/

 

[lew]

@Gerald Thanks for the clarification! One of my goals is to successfully complete a calabash bowl. 

 

@AndrewB Thank You!

[AndrewB]

I'm still trying to figure out what to do and how to go abouts removing a rounded scew out of one of my roughers LOL.  One rougher is good how ever the one with my regular carbide tip rougher is rounded out completely, cleaned it out really dang well and no luck.  I'm almost wondering if crazy glue would work in this situation basically glue onto the screw and then twist out from the bottom.  Not sure if that would even work.  The tool is still good the carbide tip is still good still got 3 sides to use, how ever I don't want the carbide to go to waste because of a screw LOL.  just gotta work something out.  Fortunately for me I have two roughers LOL.

[lew]

5 hours ago, AndrewB said:

I'm still trying to figure out what to do and how to go abouts removing a rounded scew out of one of my roughers LOL.  One rougher is good how ever the one with my regular carbide tip rougher is rounded out completely, cleaned it out really dang well and no luck.  I'm almost wondering if crazy glue would work in this situation basically glue onto the screw and then twist out from the bottom.  Not sure if that would even work.  The tool is still good the carbide tip is still good still got 3 sides to use, how ever I don't want the carbide to go to waste because of a screw LOL.  just gotta work something out.  Fortunately for me I have two roughers LOL.

I would get an "easy out". Put the rougher in a vice with the cutting end as far away from the vise jaws as possible. Take a lighter and heat the tool bar under the screw and at the same time use the easy out to unscrew the screw. It'll probably take at least 3 hands

Edited August 7, 2020 by lew

[AndrewB]

one problem no VICE lol and honestly heating the bar up, if it was heat treated would ruin the heat treatment LOL.  Either way fortunately as stated I have two of them.  Bought two for a reason.  I'll just order a new tip and call that one for now LOL.

Edited August 7, 2020 by AndrewB

[FlGatorwood]

Do you have an old fashioned hardware store nearby?  They may have the tools and knowledge.  These people who work there amaze me with their knowledge.  I have a hardware store nearby that is run by a man about my age and it amazes me when I take something in and he can repair it or tell me in a few seconds.  I dread the day he closes his little store.  

[Gunny]

37 minutes ago, AndrewB said:

one problem no VICE lol and honestly heating the bar up, if it was heat treated would ruin the heat treatment LOL.  Either way fortunately as stated I have two of them.  Bought two for a reason.  I'll just order a new tip and call that one for now LOL.

Heat as in some propane, not acetylene can't be tight if it is liquid hot.

 

No vice?? 

[AndrewB]

Nope haven't bought one yet.  Either way as I said I have two of them LOL.  So not a huge deal.  I usually try not to heat tools up as I said if they are heat treated it will ruin the treatment.

[lew]

2 hours ago, AndrewB said:

honestly heating the bar up, if it was heat treated would ruin the heat treatment

Using a lighter like this would probably not affect the temper for the time it takes to loosen the screw

 

This method is approved by Easy Wood Tools for really stubborn screws. Also, they recommend installing the screws using the LONG shaft of the Allen wrench in the hex head hole. This prevents over-tightening. 

[AndrewB]

I may have to give it a go at some point.

[AndrewB]

Not any time soon but eventually I'll be getting into resin casted pens, turns out all I have to buy is the pressure pot which is NICE so so nice.  I didn't realize that pressure pots worked off air compressors which I already have one.  Welp one less thing I have to buy for that end of things LOL.

[Larry Buskirk]

...Vice, or Vise?