Well, one more day and March will be in the books...

 

Typical spring weather here in PA. This morning we were under a winter weather advisory. Tomorrow afternoon a severe thunder storm watch.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Steve Krumanaker said he finally mastered the operation of a Throw Top. 

 

Some of our members sympathized with Steve's predicament. Check out the post at-

 

Steve continued his adventures in gnome turning. He added his unique touch to this one-

 

Along with his post was a challenge to guess the source of the "hair".

 

@Gerald added a great comment to last week's "Wednesday's..." post. His idea was that we might share our thought process of determining what the final piece will look like when starting with a chunk of wood. I'll try to start something this week and hope our turners will share their ideas.

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Several upcoming events. Click on the images for the links to more information and registrations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Mike Peace has another video to help us with lathe problems. This one covers the banjo-

 

 

Cindy Drozda talks about her Vortex and Pyramid Tools. From a live presentation-

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

You say you'd like to try segmented turning? Check this out-

 

 

Alan Stratton has a cute video just in time for Easter-

 

 

Turned finials are a great way to add pizzazz to hollow forms. But, how to turn them really thin and delicate without breaking? Cap'n Eddie has a tip-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

This isn't exclusively for turning but certainly can be used to get those glued up blanks on the lathe a little quicker. Big thanks to @Gene Howe for the heads up-

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

A couple of weeks ago, Alan Stratton, posted a project where he added Celtic Knots to a segmented turning. Using his jig concept to make my own version, I've been playing around with some turnings.

 

My first attempt-

 

Just some glued up scraps and quickly turned to see if the knot would look OK.

 

 

Second blank. Not sure how it will look as I goofed on one of the setups. This one might become a small sugar bowl or a "pepper cellar"

 

Working on getting a blog written up with detailed process shots.

 

 

Safe turning

Thanks Lew. That knot idea I think will pan out to be a winner.

I like the bunny video.  Your Celtic Knot box is intriguing too.

@Gerald Thank You!

 

@HandyDan Thank You!