Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners July 7, 2021

[lew]

Hope everyone has purchased their raffle tickets to support the Patriot site! Only about 30 hours left until the big drawing! Just in case you want to get in on the action-

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

We are going to start off this week with another incredibly important cause in which we can all be involved. It costs us nothing but a little time and can make a huge difference in a young persons life.

@Gerald posted a little vessel he turned-

 

This turned box will hold "Beads Of Courage" for the recipient. Gerald and the Magnolia Woodturners have been making these containers and giving them to kids battling cancer. This video tells us about the Beads of Courage program-

 

 

Gerald also provide us with additional information on how to participate in this wonderful program. The Beads of Courage organization has partnered with the AAW to garner interest in turning the bowls-

 

2018_AAW_handout_guidelines.pdf

 

In addition, Gerald provided the link to the Beads of Courage website.

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

 

 

Here is Gerald's original post-

 

 

@Gerald posted this in the General Woodworking Forum but since many of our turners do craft shows, we thought it might be of interest here.

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

One last time!

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Woodworker's Journal has posted another video, by Ernie Conover, comparing carbide and traditional turning tools. Sometime back, we included an earlier video on the same topic by Mr. Conover. Not sure what changed, but, Mr. Conover seems to have a little more positive opinion on the carbide tools in this video.

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

The seventh and last part of Jim Rodgers series on segmented turnings-

 

 

A beautiful maple burl platter from Lyle Jamieson-

 

 

New Turning Items-

The folks at Woodturners Wonders have added a new CBN wheel to their inventory.

 

 

This is the 4 in 1 Plus wheel. More information and specs can be found at their website-

https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/new-products/products/4-in-1-plus-cbn-wheel

 

 

We featured this Sorby product a few weeks ago. It has undergone a name change. It is now the Robert Sorby SteadyPro Turning System-

 

 

Not new but on sale at a great price-

 

If you need Easy Wood Tools cutters, now is the time to stock up!!!

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from week-

 

Trying to clear out all those half finished turnings. 

The finished "square bowl" 

 

 

 

The elm bowl that warped and cracked

 

 

 

and a cherry bowl that I added a rounded lip and foot.

 

 

 

When it came time to finish off the bottom, the Cole jaws on the Easy Chuck stretched just far enough!

 

This one is setting on the workbench with the poly finish slowly drying.

 

Safe turning and stay well

Edited July 8, 2021 by lew

[Gunny]

Alot of good stuff, have to get back to this on the weekend.  Trench project has me whipped for tonight.  

Edited July 8, 2021 by Gunny

[HandyDan]

Nice thread Lew.  You posted a couple videos want to watch.

[Cal]

Those bowls are spectacular Lew!

[AndrewB]

late as usual but another nicely put together post @lew

[Gerald]

Thanks for the mention. Lew I like the square bowl but what caught my eye was the foot on the cherry bowl. I have done rounded lip but not a foot and will have to try that now.

[lew]

@Gunny Thank you! I find it doesn't take too much to tucker me out.

 

@HandyDan Thanks!

 

@Cal Thank You!

 

@AndrewB Thanks!

 

@Gerald Thank You! Can't take credit for the idea, saw it someplace on the Internet and decided to give it a go. Now if I just hadn't ruined the entire turning by going against my better judgement and putting a gloss finish on it. What made matters worse is that I guess the finish was old and the surface didn't smooth out. I guess I'll try my hand at buffing!