Can you believe on 5 more days left in August! As @Charles Nicholls posted in another forum, we hope everyone along the Gulf coast stays safe from the impending hurricane.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools alerted me to a couple of very good articles on carbide tools and carbide cutters. The post and the PDF files of the articles are located here-

 

 

That post tied in well with a question raised by @PostalTom. Tom was asking us what/why the difference between a carbide hollowing tool and a carbide finishing tool. Several of our turners offered their ideas to his question. Please check Tom's post and add your thoughts-

 

 

 

@HandyDan gave us a fantastic tutorial on how he makes the metal parts of his scratch awls-

 

 

 

@AndrewB contributed several posts this week. This first one includes a video of his Myrtle wood bowl

 

Andrew also worked on a couple of pens. The first one has a real time video from start to finish making a set of pen barrels. He raised several questions about turning equipment in this post.

 

Andrew's second pen post used a glued-up pen blank that unfortunately separated during turning. Several of our turners offer their opinions on why that may have occurred and what might help avoid it in the future.

 

 

Last weeks "Wednesday's..." generated more comments from several entries.

@FrederickH added to his post on the African Blackwood turning he was making

 

 

@PostalTom's post on his new bowl gouge also continued to generate input-

 

@Artie was kind enough to show us the turning tools he won in the annual Patriot raffle/fundraiser-

 

 

Just today, we have a new member to the Patriot Woodworker site- @PatriotWoodturning. He is a Veteran and a woodturner. Please hop over to his profile and make him feel welcome!

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

As online/virtual teaching continues to grow in popularity, many of us have the opportunity to receive instruction from people/places we might not ever be able to attend. 

 

Cinda Drozda has been providing teaching experiences for several months. Her latest class-

 

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

 

 

For The Newbies-

Every Monday, Bradley McCalister from Spiracraft, does a live Youtube turning presentation. It is recorded and can be watched at any time. He covers a wide range of topics, materials and techniques. This is a recent presentation-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Rick Morris (Rick Turns) posted a nice video on turning a Sycamore crotch piece into a bowl-

 

 

New Turning Items-

@AndrewB's pen turning post had some comments concerning "collets". Although not a new turning item or one exclusive to woodturning, some turners may not be familiar with what they are or their uses.

These can be purchased from most woodworking/turning suppliers such as Woodcraft-

https://www.woodcraft.com/products/woodriver-turners-collet-chuck-set-2-mt

 

They can also be made as shown in this article from Woodworker's Journal

 

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/making-a-forgiving-shopmade-collet-chuck/

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns YouTube videos from last week-

 

 

Getting close to finishing up the latest batch of rolling pins. These are the first ones I've made using the new lathe and the  re-worked jigs. 

 

 

The one on the left was made a while back and sets in a holder. I see I'm going to have to learn the camera settings on the new phone- the pin holder looks really distorted!

 

The finished rolling pins are about 2" shorter so the ends need trimmed, rounded and sanded. Then finished with mineral oil.

 

The square blank on the right is a custom length one that doesn't fit my tapering jig. Looks like a freehand shape on this one!

 

 

Safe turning and stay well

Another packed post!!!  

Nice post @lew .......................OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF thats a bit on the spendy side for me on collets.  It will probably be a while before I can get anything like that.

Thanks for the post Lew. May have to try making a collet chuck, but have to decide what I will make first.

Thanks for the nod for my awls.  Great recap of the week.

Your rolling pins are looking great.

@Gunny Thanks!

 

@AndrewB Thank You! I think there are some less expensive. It is one of those accessories that is really good at what it does but you may not need it very often. I have a shop made version of one but can't remember when I used it last.

 

@Gerald Thanks! 

 

@HandyDan Thank You!

Needed a dead mans handle for a winch on my Dad's jonboat.  Turned down a piece of mahogany to 2 inches diameter.  Then drilled out 5/16 inch hole to 9/16.  Cut it in half along axis then glued in place on the winch handle.  3 coats of Helmsman urethane should hold up for a few years.

 

   

2 hours ago, Gunny said:

Needed a dead mans handle for a winch on my Dad's jonboat.  Turned down a piece of mahogany to 2 inches diameter.  Then drilled out 5/16 inch hole to 9/16.  Cut it in half along axis then glued in place on the winch handle.  3 coats of Helmsman urethane should hold up for a few years.

 

   

Nice functional turning!

Finally, got back to my email and catching up.  LOL  Like that is ever going to happen.  Thanks, Lew for all the new idea and that collet thing is something to consider.  It reminds me of collets on routers and Dremels.  I can make the basic piece, but I need to figure out how to get the collar on so that there will be sufficient pressure on the collet.  Some really good videos and ideas here.  

 

Gunny, good job on the handle.  

 

Lew, I understand the angled pieces of wood, but I see something that appears to go on the ends at the end of the angles.  Do you cut the stock into 2 pieces to put in more pieces or are the end of the angled inserts make the end curve?  I'm a little lost on the way this works.  Believe me, I will never try this.  It takes far more time than I have.  

55 minutes ago, FlGatorwood said:

I'm a little lost on the way this works

There are 4 cutting operations and insert glues. I don’t cut completely through the square blank. I leaves about 1/16” holding the blank together. That helps with keeping everything lined up. There is a multi part blog post in the blogs section detailing how to make make them. Lots of pictures that might make it more clear 

An "Old School" set of collet chucks from the 1950's.

These are two sided collets with different sizes on both sides.