Welcome to 2024!

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

We've had some activity on our continuing thread of "What's On Your Lathe"-

 

@forty_caliber is whittling away at his stash of pecan. In his post, he tells us a little more about the source of the wood-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

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

 

 

 

 

Cindy Drozda's Live Tool Talk covering the the Arc and Sweep tools as negative rake scrapers that refine and smooth the surface to eliminate a lot of sanding.

 

 

The Southwest Wood Art Expo-

 

 

For The Newbies-

Lyle Jamieson has a short video explaining reverse chucking methods-

 

Lyle also has a nice little video explaining the importance of the tool rest height-

 

 

Ever wonder why some lathe tools have really long handles? Tim Yoder can help, with that!

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

It's just past the first of the month and the "4 Ways" videos have been posted. Not sure if these will continue but I find it interesting to see the different ways a single concept can be approached.

Tomislav Tomasic-

 

Mike Peace-

 

 

Richard Raffan-

 

 

Sam Angelo-

 

 

 

I was looking at some of the social media sites for woodturners. Just trying to get ideas for something different to try. There was an interesting twist on a bowl posted and there were questions about how it was created. Following several links, I finally found this video by the fellow who has made "Wave Bowls" his passion. You all know my passion for jigs so this might just be my next attempt! The video is long but very detailed so every step is explained-

 

 

New Turning Items-

A couple of new things.

 

From Craft Supplies USA, some new finishing/polishing products mainly focused at acrylics-

 

 

From Woodturners Wonders, new sharpening products that mimic the actions of the Tormek system but work with the Wolverine system.

 

https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/tormek-style-wheels-and-accessories

 

 

Everything Else-

Things have been busy over the holidays, got to the lathe the other afternoon and roughed out 3 small sycamore bowls. The oak platters have just about finished losing weight in the drying box. One of them will probably not see the lathe. A bark inclusion was worse than I thought and opened up. Might be able to use a couple of dutchmen to keep it together, or maybe some epoxy?

 

After roughing the sycamore, those bowls went into the soap/water soak for 3 days. Pulled them out today, weighed them and placed them in the drying box.

 

What they look like straight out of the soak, pretty gnarly-

 

 

Rinsed off and in the drying box-

 

Not sure how long it will take to reach equilibrium. These are pretty small 5-6" diameter. Probably one to two weeks.

 

 

Safe turning 

Sure liking this weeks selection of videos.  They look interesting.  Can't wait to view them.

Thanks Lew for another great post. Not planning on another chess set but the different concepts do make it interesting.

I'm surprised no one has introduced that Tormek type rest for a bench grinder before this. That would have some real useful applications.

Edited January 4, 20242 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr

Another info packed post for turners Lew.

 

Interesting to see your approach for drying rough stock. Appreciate the visual.

 

Thanks for all your research and time to post.