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Beautiful late summer day here in south central PA.

 

Unless you are very new to woodturning, you probably have heard of "Cap'n Eddie"- Eddie Castelin. Cap'n provided education and products for turners. A video he posted last week-

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Ron Altier upped his ornament game by refurbishing a windchime!

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Ron explains about some of the wood he used on this upgrade in his post-

 

 

@Gene Howe gave us a heads-up on an interesting website from Ron Brown.

 

 

If you create an account, at the bottom of the create an account page, there is a place to check to subscribe to Ron's newsletter.

 

 

@Gerald is into mushrooms- the legal kind :rolleyes:

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He explains about his techniques in his post-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for links to information and registration.

 

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For The Newbies-

Chuck maintenance is often overlooked but extremely important

 

 

If you are considering whether or not you want to try carbide tool, this video from Easy Wood Tools ( @Jim from Easy Wood Tools ) may answer some of your questions-

 

 

A nice, short video from Richard Raffan on using the spindle roughing gouge-

 

 

We have discussed dust extraction for the lathe here several times. Richard Raffan shows us his setup-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Measuring tools for the turner can be very useful. Mike Peace demonstrates several types of shop made measuring devices-

 

 

Carl and Robin Jacobson are the new owners of Niles Bottle Stoppers. Carl has been producing videos to demonstrate some of the other product sold by Ruth. This offset jig is pretty slick-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

In keeping with Mike Peace's video on measuring tools, Woodturners Wonders have a sale on their calipers-

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Check it out at- 

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Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

 

Last week we posted a video from Alan Stratton on turning a ball within a ball. Ala's octagon technique for turning a sphere was different than what I had used before- David Reed Smith's shadow technique. Thought I'd give it a try. No finish or fine grit sanding and a bit of a catch on the larger sphere.

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The inside of the walnut sphere could have been a little more accurate. I think it would have been better for the species to be reversed but these were scraps. 

 

 

 

Safe turning

 

 

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Always grateful for your support, thanks Lew

 

Thanks Lew.  Enjoyed Captain Eddie's video, always a class act.  Your ball turning is going well.  Need to watch the dust collection video.  Looks interesting. 

Thanks for the post Lew. Now I have something to do, as if I had no idea:cowboy:

Also thanks for the Captain Eddie video. Was wondering what his current status was.

 

Also picked up a good hint from the Jim Rogers video.

 

smitty

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