Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners October 13, 2021

[lew]

 

Hard to believe that October is almost half over! Usually we have had a frost by now.

 

Not too much happening, here, this past week-

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@forty_caliber finished up a gorgeous multi species bowl for his Mrs.

 

He tells us more about the species, finish and how it got its name-

 

 

@Fred W. Hargis Jr asked our turners for their input on bowl gouge use. Fred had started turning a bowl and was unsure of just how to get the best cut from his gouge. We had a very informative conversation with a lot of our turners. They offered their ideas, suggestions and links to resources -

 

Head on over to the this thread and see if you can give Fred additional ideas-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for links to registration-

 

 From the AAW-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

If you are considering purchasing carbide turning tools, please consider checking out our sponsor Easy Wood Tools. To learn more about using the EWT products, they have added an "EWT University" tab on their website. 

 

Check out this link!

https://www.easywoodtools.com/resources

 

Thanks @Jim from Easy Wood Tools !!

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

The AAW has made available this video on multi-axis turning by Barbara Dill

 

Ms. Dill has another video on the same subject-

 

 

 

Wanna turn a BIG bowl??? Watch Mike Waldt-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Hang on to your lunch money, this week. 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

 

How about a little fun with Tim Yoder and this year's Halloween project!!

 

 

 

After a go of antibiotics and industrial strength decongestants, I was finally able to get back into the basement shop. The first order of business was to make a dust collector "hood" to do the sanding on the last batch of rolling pins. I cobbled it from scraps around the shop but did buy a piece of acrylic at Hobby Lobby.

 

The hood attaches to my PVC port that was built sometime back. This port can be positioned along the length of the lathe as well as placed close/farther from the turning. 

 

 

Front view- the "hood" is 24" long

 

End view-

 

Back view-

 

 

Interface between the PVC pipe and the collector-

 

Top View-

 

Bottom view- the bottom is a piece of aluminum trim coil.

 

Oblique view-

 

 

Mistake- the acrylic bowed up as I bent it into shape. The heat gun idea to bring it down was not a complete success

 

 

To attach the hood onto the PVC, I used a pin through the 1.5" thick interface block and into the PVC pipe-

 

 

 

Now, will it work? A strip of what passes for toilet tissue these days

 

 

 

I power sanded 6 rolling pins thru 3 grits and there was no dust on the white bottom. I'm pretty happy.

 

 

Safe turning and stay well

 

[forty_caliber]

@lew  Thank you once again for putting all of this together for us. 

 

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[Gerald]

Thanks for the post Lew. You must have a powerful DC . Gonna have to try the TP test on mine.

[HandyDan]

That hood is a winner.  I like it and the video proves it's worth.  Thanks for the post.

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

I agree with that hood being a clever design. Well done!

[Cal]

Great job Lew, your weekly post and the dust collection.  Glad you are back on your feet too!

[Jim L]

Great post @lew, thanks for the mention.  Excellent job on the hood too!

 

[lew]

I just realized I had not acknowledged your responses to this "Wednesday's...". I apologize for being tardy on this,

 

@forty_caliber  Thank You!

 

@Gerald  Thanks! My dust collector isn't that big but the that port is closest to the unit.

 

@HandyDan  Thank You!

 

@Fred W. Hargis Jr Thanks!

 

@Cal  Thank You! I'm glad to be off of those antibiotics!!!!

 

@Jim from Easy Wood Tools  Thanks!!!