Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners May 25, 2022

[lew]

Memorial Day weekend coming up. Please take time to remember all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Gerald was kind enough to tell us about their recent turning club meeting. Their guest was Jeff Hornung. He does absolutely incredible spiral embellishments.

 

You can read more about the meeting and our members input at-

 

 

@Ron Altier showed us some of his recent ornaments.

 

Ron received lots of comments on these. In his post he explained a little about the wood he used in making these-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for links to more information and registration.

 

From the AAW-

 

 

Lyle Jamieson-

 

 

For The Newbies-

Over the past several weeks, Alan Stratton has been working on turned goblets. He continues to refine the process as shown in this video-

 

 

A short tip from Lyle Jamieson on the use of the "Pull Cut" with a bowl gouge-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Mike Peace demonstrates turning a Holly box with lid. He adds some beautiful pyrographic embellishments-

 

 

Many woodturners get requests to turn cremation urns. Mike Peace demonstrates the process as well as providing information about size and lids-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

@Gerald provide this link for a turning light. He said the light is available from Jeff Hornung's store-

 

Here's the link again-

https://www.thewalnutlog.com/woodworking-store/#!/GloForce-Eye-Light-With-Magnetic-Base/p/162397077/category=41610157

 

 

Last week, we posted a video from Carl Jacobson using the new Easy Wood Tools face plate rings. In this video, Carl demonstrates their use in more detail as well as their new chuck drive centers-

 

These are both excellent products and of the quality we have come to expect from Easy Wood Tools.

 

 

From Craft Supplies USA, some new ring cores-

 

https://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/p/58/7506/artisan-Hammered-Tungsten-Comfort-Fit-Inlay-Ring-Core?utm_source=csusa&utm_medium=email&utm_content=tungsten&utm_campaign=22-05-rings

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

 

Lathe face plates and face plate rings need to be centered as close as possible to the center of the piece we are going to turn. I guess some turners are able to do it "by eye", but my eye isn't calibrated very accurately. I've seen (and made) a couple of devices to aid in the centering but they all relied on getting a sharp point to set into a depression. When I got my EWT face plate rings, I decided to make a different centering device.

 

Turned a wooden prototype to be used as a casting model. Then made a silicon mold from the model. Then used clear Alumilite resin for the centering device.

 

The blank cut and the center marked with sharpie-

 

A face plate ring and the centering device-

 

 

The centering device dropped into the faceplate ring-

 

The larger black dot is the Sharpie mark on the wood and the smaller black dot is the center of the device. My faceplate ring is too far to the left of center

 

 

 

 Now it's centered and I can mark the holes to mount the ring. There is an small rare earth magnet cast in the resin to hold the device in the faceplate. Which also works great to hold it on the lathe when not in use-

 

 

 

...and for those who argue that carbide tools only scrape and not cut-

 

Air dried white oak more than50 years old!

 

 

Safe turning

Edited May 25, 2022 by lew

[Gerald]

Great post Lew. I went a slightly different faceplate route. Turned a dowel to fit open thread on faceplate. Drilled center for nail in rod. Place fp on blank and put center finder into mark on blank. The center finder can be driven into the blank to hold fp while I drill for screws.

    Oh here is something we have not covered in a long time . What screws to use in a Faceplate? Do NOT use drywall screws. I use sheetmetal screws #12, pan head with phillips drive. I tried hex drive but ended up breaking heads off and that ain't good. If you use bugle head you cannot guarantee centering the screw. So using pan head the screw does not cause the fp to move upon tightening. Length I use is 2 inch but "might" get by with 1.5 inch.

[HandyDan]

Thanks Lew.  Always some interesting items in these posts.

[lew]

@Gerald Thank You! You are right about the screws. I'll add something to next Wednesday's post. Thanks for the reminder.

 

@HandyDan Thanks!