Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners November 4, 2020

[lew]

Beautiful day here in south central Pennsylvania. Got my garlic planted and the leaves raked.

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@PostalTom added this to the general woodworking forum but it applies to turners, too. We all use glue! Thaks, Tom for a great discussion.

 

Although he was away for a while, @Steve Krumanaker hasn't lost a bit of his turning talents. Steve gave us a peek at his birdhouse ornaments-

 

 

 

He also posted one of his segmented birdhouses

 

 

Please check out both his posts and give him your comments!

 

 

@FrederickH posted an update on the African Blackwood Spill Vase. You may recall he originally wasn't too pleased with the color. After some time, the color has changed. Rick tells us more about it in this entry on his post-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

In case you missed it, the David Ellsworth natural edge bowl demo is still available-

 

Click on the above image for more details.

 

Woodcraft is looking for volunteers for their turn pens for our troops. 

 

If you live near a Woodcraft store, you can participate at the store. You can also turn a pen at home a get it to the store. Woodcraft will give you a pen kit for each one you turn. It's a win-win all the way around!

 

More information is available here-

https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/woodcraft-seeks-volunteers-to-turn-pens-for-troops?fbclid=IwAR35Fn82vh63TcyeLqoO-nDXvWQbXAnC2D6kmfM9Ed-6OKUe0ku3PxKkq40#

 

 

For The Newbies-

Last week we included a short video from Lyle Jamieson on turning speed. Here's another author discussing the same subject-

 

 

Sam Angelo put together a video describing how and when to use certain turning tools.

 

 

 

Looking for a nice gift idea?

 

The patterns are free and available from-

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/turned-spatula-and-spoon-pattern/

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Carl Jacobson turned a large hollow vase. Notice the use of some of the recently available Easy Wood Tools  @Jim from Easy Wood Tools . The new parting tool and the new larger hollowing tools. All are available at the Easy Wood Tools website.

 

 

Mike Peace has a video demonstrating a bandsaw jig for processing logs. If you've ever tried to feed a round log through your bandsaw and had it grab, you'll appreciate this jig-

 

 

New Turning Items-

Looking for a new lathe? I have just the thing!

 

 

 

If you use CBN wheels on your grinder, Ken Rizza (Woodturners Wonders) has a product that may help you extend the life of the wheel-

 

While you are checking out the Slick Stick, look at their Outlet Products-

https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/outlet-products

 

 

Ruth Niles has a new stopper specifically made for larger openings-

 

Check out her website for more details-

https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/product/cosmopolitan-ss-1000/

 

 

Everything Else-

One turner we feature here often is Tim Yoder. Well Tim has some really big news!

 

Looks like we will beeing lots more of his tremendous videos!

 

 

Rick Turns list of Youtube turning videos from last week-

 

 

 

I haven't had much time to be in the shop these last couple of week and when I did get there it was not all pleasant.

As I mentioned before, I've been experimenting with soap/water soak on rough turned bowls. For the most part, the results have been very positive as far as cracking/splitting during the drying process. I'm also very please with the small amount of warping taking place. I made a bunch of small cherry test bowls. These were between 5" and 6" in diameter.

 

 

After they reached moisture equilibrium I checked the roundness.

 

The red circle is a tracing of the bowl opening and the pencil circle was drawn with a compass. Slightly warped but not much.

 

Unfortunately, these two bowls had other ideas about what they were going to do-

 

The one on the right may be salvageable with some sort of a creative embellishment.

 

Before all this happened, I was have great fun with the finishing cuts on the outside of the bowls. I was comparing the the finish left from a freshly sharpened bowl gouge- using a shear scraping cut and a new carbide cutter on my full sized Easy Wood Tools finisher.

 

Easy Wood Cutter-

 

Bowl Gouge

Pretty similar.

 

 

Safe turning and stay well

[Gerald]

Found the slick stick to be interesting. So since two bowls dropped out of experiment what is the good percentage? Thanks Lew

Edited November 5, 2020 by Gerald

[Gunny]

Nice post, plenty for me to look at tomorrow when I am on breaks and such.  Well maybe...

[HandyDan]

Thanks Lew.  Good post.  Mike Peace's sled caught my eye.  Why didn't I think of that? 

Seeing your bowl pieces brought a little tear to my eye.  Hate when that happens.

[Jim L]

Thanks Lew...   nice post

[AndrewB]

nice post lew sorry I didn't have a lot of time to catch it yesterday....

[Larry Buskirk]

@lew

That Rikon lathe looked really cool until I looked at the price tag! 

I'm trying to replace a vehicle, and can't afford to spend what that lathe is listed for. 

[Larry Buskirk]

I guess somebody had to go and do it! 

Those ornaments of Steve's done got me feeling itchy. 

Wonder if I can pull a few of those off with my "Old School Fool" lathe? 

[lew]

@Gerald Thanks! I can't blame the failure of those 2 bowls on the soak process. The one that came apart was my fault. When turning near the inside rim, I got a vibration due to resonance. I was trying clean it up and got a little to thin. The other one I'm not sure what caused the crack. It is along a growth ring and didn't show up until after I had turned to the final thickness. Maybe I didn't let it dry long enough.

 

@Gunny Thank You!

 

@HandyDan Thanks! Maybe to one that came apart can become a small shallow bowl for pocket change.

 

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools Thank You!

 

@AndrewB Thanks!

 

@Larry BuskirkThank You! Yeah, that lathe is nice but out of my league. Please post the birdhouses you turn!

 

 

[Larry Buskirk]

@lew,

I've been busy watching Steve's YouTube videos, he's posted a lot to digest!

I'll have to do things a bit differently though due to having different style chucks etc.

I'm sure mine won't look near as good, the last time I did any real turning was in Jr. High Wood Shop.

That was a long time ago. 

Edited November 7, 2020 by Larry Buskirk

[Larry Buskirk]

@Gunny

I'm sure you're laughing with me, at least I hope so. 

[Gunny]

9 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

@Gunny

I'm sure you're laughing with me, at least I hope so. 

Reminded me of my Dad talking about last time he used a lathe. High School shop class.