Two cloudless days is south central Pennsylvania- something is about to give!

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@forty_caliber turned a gorgeous mortar and pestle!  

 

Check out his post to see what species he used-

 

He also posted a beautiful Pecan bowl-

 

 

 

We are still getting comments on our thread "What's On Your Lathe"! Let's keep this alive!

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Lots happening! Click on the images for links to more information and registration-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Cindy Drozda did a live chat on sharpening scrapers-

 

 

Bowl turners talk a lot about using jam chuck to hold their work. Here Mike Peace shows us those chucks can be used for other types of turnings

 

 

Richard Raffan adds more information on how to get the most out of a tree branch/log

 

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Using resins/epoxies to fill voids is a common practice for woodturners. Alan Stratton tried a different approach to speed things up-

 

 

Carl Jacobson turns a nice little project. Be a great thing to give the grandkids-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

These will be available soon from Ron Brown. Click on the images for more information-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Morris (aka Rick Turns) had a major computer failure. He has decided to discontinue his weekly roundup of YouTube woodturning videos. Rick says he is going back to producing his own turning videos in the near future.

 

 

Got some lathe time this past week. The little calabash bowl looks pretty good, at first glance, from this angle

 

From here, not so much-

 

Got in a hurry and didn't change the EWT square cutter to the square R2 cutter I would normally use to finish off the outside. Still looking for a couple of the smaller pieces.

 

The other bowl , from the same log, had finished up in the kiln-

 

 

When I rough turned it, I hadn't really decided what the final shape would be. When EWT released their beading cutter, I thought I could use this for a bit of practice.

 

 

 

My practice pieces generally aren't sanded well, or finished. They usually just end up on a shelf or hold small parts. Mimi saw it and immediately gave it to one of her friends. Not real happy about it- could have been a lot nicer.

 

I am really happy with the beading cutters. Very smooth finish with no chip out- at least on this mystery wood. Need to give them a real test on walnut and red oak. One thing EWT mentions is to increase the RPMs when cutting the beads. These were at about 2800. @Jordan Martindale

 

Thinking about making a wall thickness gauge. The "figure 8" caliper I have is pretty large. On this one I used a simple bent wire and maybe that's all I need?? 

 

 

 

Safe turning

 

 

Edited March 9, 20233 yr by lew

Thanks for keep us up on what's new in the turning world.  Your bowl looks swell.  Love the way the beads turned out.  Very smooth.  EWT sure makes nice sharp inserts.

11 hours ago, lew said:

From here, not so much-

 

 

 

Youch!

@HandyDan Thank You!

 

@Cal Thanks! Fortunately, it missed me!!

Guess I missed this or got distracted. Thanks for a great post Lew. Are you making shades for ceiling lights now?

@Gerald Thanks! Never thought about the lamp shade!