Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners May 12, 2021

[lew]

Just a reminder that we are about 2 weeks into our summer raffle to help offset the costs of running the Patriot site. If you haven't already picked up your tickets for some awesome prizes, here's the scoop!

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

Our turners were back at their lathes this week!

 

@RustyFN posted his curly maple segmented bowl and it is a beauty!

 

Rusty received lots of positive comments about it. Check out the post at-

 

 

@AndrewB turned a slightly different style pepper mill. The grinding mechanism is different from his past turnings-

 

Andrew shows us his progress from the rough blank to the finished mill-

 

Andrew also gave us a review of his new buffing system

 

He gave us the link to this product in his post-

 

 

One of our long time members posted his first turning. @Ron showed us the beginnings of a cane he is making-

 

He received lots of encouragement and some suggestions on this turning-

 

 

@forty_caliber poste a question about using the parting tool. Check out his post and see if you can offer some suggestions or ideas-

 

 

@Steve Krumanaker started turning a tall vase from flame box elder. Looks like this is going to be a beauty!

 

More images in Steve's post-

 

Just a note here, if you subscribe to the Woodworker's Journal, next issue has an article about flame box elder-

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/box-elder/

 

Steve has decided to up his game, when deep hollowing, and ditch the laser pointer for a more advance method of determining wall thickness. Check out his post on his most recent upgrade-

 

 

@Gerald challenged us to post our Mother's Day turning gifts. Gerald's gift turning is fantastic!

 

See additional images and our member's comments in his post-

 

 

I need to start writing down the trails to some of the stuff for each weeks Wednesday's...  I can't remember how I came across this video of Gerald's presentation to the Magnolia Woodturners-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

A little something different from Cindy Drozda-

Click on the above image to Cindy's site and registration information.

 

From the AAW-

 

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

 

 

For The Newbies-

We have been linking videos from Record Power on lathe maintenance. Although aimed at a specific lathe model, the information can be pretty much applied to any lathe.

 

 

Here is part# 3Part# 3 of Mike Waldt's beginner series for turners. Again this is a replay of a live session and is kind of long. 

 

 

From the World Wide Wood Turners, a nice demonstration on various methods of holding a turning.

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Mike Waldt has something for the more advanced turner in this video-

 

 

Alan Stratton's take on chasing threads

 

 

Mike Peace recently published a video on the various types of spiraling and texturing tools.

 

Within the video, Mike refers to links for longer videos on each tool. He also has a PDF article that can be downloaded at-

https://www.mikepeacewoodturning.com/2019/05/03/texturing-and-spiraling/

 

 

IMHO, there can be no greater honor than to be asked to create a burial urn. Sam Angelo has a video demonstrating how to calculate the internal volume using some easily made measuring devices.

 

 

New Turning Items-

Robert Sorby Brand Ambassador Darryl Jones introduces the Deluxe Sovereign TurnMaster Box Set-

 

 

 

The folks at Woodturners Wonders have a heavy duty compass capable of drawing 28" circles. 

 

Check it out at-

https://woodturnerswonders.com/products/12-inch-carpenters-compass

 

 

Premier Gauges has some interestingly designed  wall and bottom thickness gauges-

 

More information can be found at-

https://premiergauges.com/

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

 

I had one last piece of cherry but it had some pretty nasty cracks. Decided to see what could be found inside.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm surprised that I could get this much.

 

 

Sill a couple of cracks that will need taken care of

 

 

At this point I normally submerge the piece in the soap and water solution for a couple of days and then on to drying in a paper bag with shavings. Turned out my pot is only 12" in diameter!. I CA'ed the cracks, wrapped the bowl in stretch wrap and put it in my little drying box (ala Rick Turns).

 

 

 

 

Then for the cleanup!

 

 

Safe turning and stay well

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by lew

[Gunny]

WOW, was this the War and Peace version of Wednesday posts???  

 

Nice work, lots of good stuff.   

[AndrewB]

a nice post @lew an extremely busy week this week.  I completely forgot it was Wednesday HAHA.

[Gerald]

I am like Gunny "you been keeping things from us". Great posts in this , gotta watch me some video. By the way you said something about videos and I said I had one so that is how you found out about it. Thanks for the post. Oh another thing we have several videos by other club members (Magnolia Woodturners) on YouTube from our year of Zoom meetings. Of interest might be Segmented turning and Dry Brush Technique. Also one on using PVC for Beads of Courage Bowls.

[HandyDan]

Thanks for the weekly review and this weeks dose of new video to peruse.  Much appreciated.

[lew]

@Gunny  Thanks!

 

@AndrewB Thank You!

 

@Gerald Thanks! Appreciate you keeping me straight. Did not mean to not give you credit. I'll make sure to post some of the videos from the Magnolia YouTube channel.

 

@HandyDan Thank You!