Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners December 15, 2021

[lew]

We are almost there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Woodcraft, one of our generous sponsors, is helping us reach our goal by spreading the word on our annual campaign. Check out their blog-

https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/woodcraft-supports-patriot-woodworker-to-thank-veteran

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

Member @Larry Cutlip posted some of his awesome turnings for us to drool over.

Larry's designs cover a wide spectrum of shapes as can be seen in his post-

 

 

Our resident ornament designer, @Ron Altier gave us a look at one of his earlier works-

 

Ron explains a little about this red beauty-

 

 

@Gerald gave us an update on the bowl job on which he was working.

 

These beauties are ready for shipping-

 

 

@forty_caliber also finalized his monkey pod bowl for a customer-

 

Check out the fancy laser engraving on the bottom!

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

From the AAW-

 

https://community.woodturner.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=af6fae66-aa2c-45ce-bf24-18e8c3a5c442&Home=%2fevents%2fird-demonstrations&_zs=ceDib&_zl=bTDs2

 

 

 

https://community.woodturner.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=ddc59ff8-1a11-42f9-9043-155bb3347a48&Home=%2fevents%2fird-demonstrations&_zs=ceDib&_zl=cTDs2

 

From Cindy Drozda-

 

http://www.cindydrozda.com/?fbclid=IwAR0LRPwo1BK3tK2rFy6PhTYyqqdWuwxBk1kte7gpG41BQGgFsxqNZ1fNp3A

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Ornaments are the thing to do this time of year. A couple of videos recommended by the AAW-

 

 

 

 

 

@Gerald gave me a heads up on the Richard Raffan YouTube channel. There are a few videos posted there. Not so much of "how-to" but just watching how efficient a profession turner works is a real pleasure-

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2tEGrCP1GiVwfaT4K9bcNw/videos

 

 

Want to turn a bowl but have some questions? This video from "Turn a Wood Bowl" may have the answers your answers-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Our own @Steve Krumanaker recently posted his birdhouse ornaments. Steve is kind enough to share his knowledge with anyone who would like to have help making these. Here's a video from Mike Peace and his take on making this type of ornament and one on making his little birds-

 

 

 

Steve also creates beautiful little birds to adorn his ornaments. This is from Steve's YouTube channel about putting the birds together-

 

 

 

OK, get a cup of coffee, or your beverage of choice, and enjoy Frank Howarth make a Christmas ornament-

 

 

Many of us follow Lyle Jamieson. He has a series of videos called Tuesday's Tips. Check them all out at-

https://www.youtube.com/user/JamiesonLyle/search?query=tuesday

 

 

Jim Rodgers has made yet another improvement in his technique for turning a scoop. The why and the what are explained in his video-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

This is not a new turning item but a change in a turning product. This video, starting about halfway through, talks about Niles Bottle Stoppers and something that can now be made public-

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns must be on vacation as he did not post his usual roundup of YouTube woodturning videos. Hopefully you can find something interesting within our post, this week.

 

I finally put the finishing touches on those rolling pin holders. There is no lathe work involved with these so I'm going to bore you with the flat work. 

 

These start out as 3/8" x 2 1/4" x 23" pieces of walnut-

 

Using a template for all measurements the pieces are marked

 

 

Before they are shaped into ellipses, a dovetail is milled into each end to accept the rings to hold the actual pin. The rings are milled from maple and have the corresponding dovetail shape

 

 

The top maple piece is an open ring-

 

The bottom maple piece has a recess cut made with a Forstner bit

 

Both are glued into place. Nine more to go, only took a couple of days- I'm not @steven newman 

 

 

 

Finish is next. 2 coats of oil based poly, steel wool rub down and an application of paste wax

 

Next to install the hangers

 

Locate the holes using the same template

 

 

 

Drill for the nails

 

 

 

Well this sucks. The shortest nail is too long. As Steven would say- "we have ways..."

 

 

 

Hanger...Done!

 

 

...and finished-

 

 

 

Safe turning and stay well

Edited December 16, 2021 by lew

[FlGatorwood]

Lew, I love those rolling pin holders.  Creative idea.  I have enjoyed all the videos.  Love the ones on the bird houses, the scoop and the other one I can't remember.  Thanks for all the information and keeping us up each week.  

[HandyDan]

You out did yourself this week and all a lot of it Christmas oriented too.  Thanks and I like the rolling pin holders.  Never saw or heard of such a thing before.  Very nice idea.

[Grandpadave52]

You hit it out of the park this week Lew. Overwhelming with so much talent to review beginning with are very own TPW members.

Equally overwhelming yet humbling are the kind words, publicity and support from our sponsor, Woodcraft helping to communicate why we are here. THANK-YOU Woodcraft and THANK-YOU Lew.

Edited December 16, 2021 by Grandpadave52

[Steve Krumanaker]

Lots of great info this week. I personally like that tooth pick holder idea. Thanks for the nod Lew, I appreciate it.

 

Edited December 16, 2021 by Steve Krumanaker

[forty_caliber]

Great Job @lew.  I'm going to have to try out making one of those piston boxes.  Looks like it would be fun to build. 

 

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[Cal]

Your rolling pins and holders are some kinda sweet Lew!

[Gene Howe]

30 minutes ago, Cal said:

Your rolling pins and holders are some kinda sweet Lew!

They sure are! We have one prominently displayed in the kitchen. It never fails to elicit amazed comments from guests.

Edited December 16, 2021 by Gene Howe

[lew]

@FlGatorwood Thank You!

 

@HandyDan Thanks! Actually the holder idea came from a lady who purchased a rolling pin and wanted a way to display it. Hearts were big around here for a while so I made Mimi this one. There were several iteration before settling on the current one, where shape is suppose to compliment the arc on the rolling pin.

 

 

The insert is a walnut heart shaped knot that I found when milling some lumber and inlayed it into the back. The pin lays horizontal in the cradle end pieces.

 

@Grandpadave52 Thank You!

 

@Steve Krumanaker Thanks!

 

@forty_caliber Thank You!

 

@Cal Thanks!

 

@Gene Howe Thank You!

[Gerald]

Late to the party as Have been trying to get some projects done before Christmas . Lew it looks like you have been a busy elf. I see some possibilities in new projects in the future. I got the same response you did about display when I did end grain cutting boards and inside out ornaments, great display idea.

[lew]

@Gerald Thank You!

[Gerald]

We had a demo last month on ornaments and one he did was the off center tree. So had been planning to do it and since Christmas is done tried it with of all things a piece poplar a rare thing on my shop. All worked out well. Will probably add color to the ball. 

[Grandpadave52]

That's cool Gerald. Pretty nice grain pattern for popular too.

[HandyDan]

I like those trees but have never done one.  Maybe they should be next years ornaments for me.  Thanks for showing.

[FlGatorwood]

@Gerald I have one question about the tree.  How did you do the slots?  Those are intriguing.  

[lew]

@Gerald Thanks for showing that tree! It is amazing!

[Gunny]

My contribution to turning. Used a HSS skew chisel.  Needed a shaft for paper towel holder in finishing room. Just about ready to install.

 

 

[lew]

Nice done @Gunny!

[Grandpadave52]

12 minutes ago, Gunny said:

My contribution to turning. Used a HSS skew chisel.  Needed a shaft for paper towel holder in finishing room. Just about ready to install.

Ooooh, fancy smancy. Guess you'll have to use that "designer foo foo" style paper towel in that one?

I just stick my fingers in one end of the tube, then unroll with the the other hand. 

[Gunny]

1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Ooooh, fancy smancy. Guess you'll have to use that "designer foo foo" style paper towel in that one?

I just stick my fingers in one end of the tube, then unroll with the the other hand. 

 

 

Nah this is for finishing room.  Fancy one is in shop.