Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners September 8, 2021

[lew]

Saturday is the twentieth anniversary of 9-11. Tragic national events have a way of sticking with us and we remember exactly where we were. I have vivid memories of two such event. President Kennedy's assignation- I was in Memphis going to Navy electronics school. The 9-11 attack- I was teaching at the Vo-Tech school.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Fred W. Hargis Jr had a little misfortune with a small bowl he was turning. We never know just how deep some of the cracks can be in a blank-

 

Fred asked our turners what they thought he should do at this point and he received lots of helpful advice.

 

 

@Gerald teste his new laser on his hollowing rig! What a fantastic turning rig. Gerald said it is from Tim Yoder.

 

He tells us more about this tool and some modifications in his post-

 

Gerald was kind enough to give us information concerning some of the vendors at S.W.A.T. in a response to last week's "Wednesday's..."

 

 

 

Our turners have also posted some of their work in other forums here on the Patriot-

In the "What's On Your Weekend Agenda" section, @forty_caliber showed us a little problem he had with his lathe-

 

Powermatic sent him a replacement for the handle. 

Forty also posted some turning he is doing, here-

 

In our "Good Monday Morning" section, Forty posted a lid he is turning for the bowl pictured above-

 

 

 

And, in our newly christened "Hump Day" section, 

@Fred W. Hargis Jr gives us a quick update on some handle turning-

 

@forty_caliber made a design change in the lid for his bowl-

 

@Gerald is setting up for a club meeting-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

As a reminder, a couple of AAW associated on-line events coming up. Click on the images for links to registration.

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

New lathes usually come with a faceplate. That one may, or may not, be ideal for your needs. Alan Stratton shows us how to make several faceplates and why you might want several different types-

 

 

Lacquer can make a nice finish on a turning. Here is Sam Angelo discussing use, application and thoughts on a lacquer finish-

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Carl Jacobson takes his beading and burning techniques to the next level!

 

 

Has this happened to you? Someone asks you to make a turning but you discover that your lathe isn't long enough to make the piece. Here, Ernie Conover gives us techniques to overcome the problem- sorry, it's not buying a bigger lathe 

 

 

And, just for the heck of it, watch Tim Yoder turn a gigundous platter-

 

 

New Turning Items-

The folks from Woodturners Wonders have a new smaller 4-in-1 CBM wheel. This one is 6" in diameter-

 

Check it out at-

https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/6-inch-wheels/products/6-4-in-1

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns' list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

Time to replenish my stock of rolling pins. The most time consuming part of them is making the walnut and cherry inserts- which does not require any turning. I had a cherry board in the shop but needed to drag up a few walnut boards from the wood storage shed. Each insert strip needs to be 10.5" long x 2" wide and .125' thick. I got started by ripping all the boards to the 2" width and 22" long. The thicknesses varied from about 1" to 1.25"-

 

Next, surface plane to one good side-

 

Then I need to re-saw the pieces into thinner slices. My old Taiwanese bandsaw doesn't do well with a rip fence so I scribe a line to follow. Just a tad under 3/16"

 

 

Using a re-saw post and slice off a strip-

 

 

After all the boards have the thin strip removed, it's back to the planer to smooth away the saw marks for the next strip. Wash, Rinse and Repeat until all of the boards have been converted into thin strips

 

 

The strips have one smooth side- from the planer, and one rough side from the re-saw operation. They are all about 3/16" thick but have slight variations. To bring them to the final thickness and remove the saw marks, out comes the shop made drum sander. The drum sander was built just for this purpose. I used to use the oscillating spindle sander and a fence but I couldn't get consistent thicknesses along the length of the inserts.

 

 

Notice there is no belt feed! Also, about the maximum I can remove with one pass is .01". This is gonna take a while!!!

 

 

3 passes thru and still need about 3 or 4 more to get to .125" 

 

 

Safe turning and stay well

 

 

[Gunny]

WOW, lots to read, wore out my finger scrolling down.  

 

Been busy on several other projects and none involved lathe till last week.  Made three mounting plates 7 inches in diameter for my finishing room light project.  Painted all the metal Hammered Bronze.  Thought it gave it a rustic look.  

 

[Gerald]

Thanks for the mention. Lots to look at on this one. Painted 3 Christmas bells today, ok dye and metallic ink .

 

I have a suggestion for your strips. Instead of flattening only one side before doing bandsaw cut , flatten both and then when cutting just flip it over and do the second side.

[HandyDan]

Some more interesting video to watch.  Thanks Lew.

[forty_caliber]

Outstanding!  Thank you once again. 

 

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[lew]

@GunnyThank You! Man that ceiling sure looks nice!!!

 

@Gerald Thanks! Those Christmas bells are super! Thank you for the idea on cutting the thin inserts. I'm down to the last full pass through the sander and then to squeak up on the final thickness.

 

@HandyDan Thank You!

 

@forty_caliber Thanks!