Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners April 5, 2023

[lew]

Mother Nature decided to treat us with two days of summer. Got a lot of yard work done.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Headhunter showed us some of his early work. Like a lot of turners, he started out with some pens.

 

He wondered if any of our turners started that way-

 

 

@forty_caliber posted some images of a platter he turned. I wasn't familiar with his term for the species. Well, Google is your friend and discovered another name for it

 

Check out his post for more images. Oh yeah- it's Osage Orange.

 

Forty also posted a beautiful bowl. I really love the colors and contrasts in this one-

 

 

Check out how he did this!

 

 

Our thread of "What's On Your Lathe" continues to be quite popular. This is about where we left off last week-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you missed it live, Cindy Drozda put her presentation of "Planning A Turned Box" on her YouTube channel. The beauty of her turnings don't just happen by accident!

 

 

For The Newbies-

A neat little spring turning for Easter-

 

 

The bandsaw is quite possibly the next most used piece of equipment, besides the lathe, for a turner. Mike Peace demonstrates some of the push sticks that can be used when cutting-

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Something I've always struggled with is pricing a turning. Kent Weakley has some guidance for turned bowls-

 

 

Every turner seems to have their own procedure for turning an object. This is the second in the series of "4 Ways" where four turners do the same project, using their own techniques.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Yoder turns an arched, winged bowl. Not sure what kept the lathe from taking off and flying around his shop!

 

 

Richard Raffan turns and burns a natural edge bowl. What I found interesting is that he does the entire bowl without the aid of a faceplate, Cole jaws or jam chuck-

 

 

New Turning Items-

With all of the "burning" as embellishment, this might be something interesting-

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Playing with some of the elm from behind the shed, This piece was rough turned and then soaked for 3 days in a soap/water solution. Looks pretty ugly but as it dries the color will lighten and turning to the final thickness will remove all discolorations from the soak. These go into my little drying box ala Rick Turns. I weigh the pieces once each day until they reach equilibrium. The day after I put this one in, it lost 100 grams of weight. 

 

 

 

 

Safe turning

[HandyDan]

See some interesting videos again this week.  I am following your soap soaking bowl endeavor.  Keep it up.

[forty_caliber]

Thanks for putting all of this together Lew. 

 

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[Gerald]

Thanks for the post again Lew. Had not thought of a wide rim bowl in a while.

[lew]

@HandyDan Thank You! Got a second soaked bowl in the dryer now.

 

@forty_caliber Thanks!

 

@Gerald Thank You! I don't remember ever purposely making one of those.