Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners August 10, 2022

[lew]

It's been a slow week here for our turners. However, Easy Wood Tools is helping veterans get started and enjoy the satisfaction of woodturning and dealing with their PTSD. You can help this awesome cause by purchasing T-shirts.

 

Head over to the Easy Wood Tools site and order yours while there is still time- https://www.easywoodtools.com/

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

Everyone was busy cleaning their shops 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

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

 

The mid Atlantic Woodturning Symposium-

 

From Craft Supplies USA-

 

 

For The Newbies-

Scroll chucks are are excellent for holding turnings but they can leave jaw impression marks on your work. In this video, Richard Raffan demonstrates how to almost completely eliminate them-

 

 

A great video from Jim Rodgers on why catches occur when using gouges-

 

 

Alan Stratton comes up with yet another method for turning scoops. This is a one piece scoop-

 

 

Speaking of scoops, here's an old video from Tim Yoder demonstrating how he does it-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

How thin do you turn your bowls?? Here, Kent Weakley demonstrate techniques for turning really this bowls-

 

 

Sometimes the turning we had in our mind isn't quite what comes off the lathe. Here, Tim Yoder makes design modifications on the fly. The results are pretty neat!

 

 

 If you have one of Ruth Niles' Joyner Off Center Jigs

 

You know it can be a little frustrating imagining exactly what the final pattern will look like. In this video, from the AAW, 

Dawn Petrie-George shows how to create a template to help with this.

 

 

 

Speaking of Ruth Niles, Cindy Drozda recently did a live stream on YouTube making bottle stoppers using Ruth's products-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Mike Waldt demonstrates a modular tool rest system. Not sure if this manufacturer is available in the U.S.

 

Here in the U.S., there are several sources of similar products including Nova, Sorby and other woodworking outlets.

 

Not a new item but a sale on sanding supplies from Woodturners Wonders-

Check out the deals here- https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/weekly-sale

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-  

 

 

Safe turning

[Gerald]

Thanks for the post Lew. Now to view some videos.

[HandyDan]

Another nice round of videos to review.  Thanks Lew.  It is appreciated.

[lew]

@Gerald Thank You!

 

@HandyDan  Thanks!!