Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners January 24, 2024

[lew]

This month is quickly coming to an end!

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Gerald posted a beautiful bowl he finished. This one has some gorgeous embellishments on the bottom and the rim.

 

Gerald received lots of positive comments on this one!

 

Please keep Gerald and his family in your prayers. He had a knee replacement done recently.

 

 

@calabrese55 is working on a staved bowl. He built a really nice steady rest to do part of the turning. This was posted in our "What's On Your Lathe" continuing thread-

 

 

Check his comments about the wheels he used and see more images!

 

 

We've had an additional post in the "What's Off Lathe And Just Finished"

 

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

This is the video of the recent Tool Talk from Cindy Drozda, in case you missed it live.

 

She demonstrates Hook and Cygnet mini hollowers.

 

 

Cindy and Todd Raines will be hosting free Q&A session. Click on the image for the link.

 

 

 

From the Keystone Woodturners via their Facebook page. Click the image for the link to more information.

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Some things about making turning more safe.

 

Over the years, I've heard and read about something called "shake" or "wind shake". However, I had never had a piece of wood that displayed the characteristic split. Recently, the tree man called and said they were taking down a cherry tree and was saving me a couple of pieces. As I was making blanks from the logs, one of them plainly showed the results of wind shake.

 

 

The beginning of this video, from Tim Yoder, address the potential dangers of turning wood affected by this and other types of defects.

 

 

This short video illustrates why it is a good idea to grasp the Jacob's Chuck when using it for drilling, on the lathe. I usually hold it when advancing the quill. Now I'll hold it for movement in both directions.

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Some weeks back we posted a video, from Carl Jacobson/Niles Bottle Stoppers, demonstrating the use of the Joyner Offset Jig.  Mike Peace decided too build a similar device to do offset embellishments.

 

 

Alan Stratton is still making goblets. These are done in three pieces.

 

 

New Turning Items-

Woodturners Wonders continues with their weekly sales.

https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/weekly-sale?_kx=gV5SF2As_3IwtBi5TrpHVQM0F3UvGVbQKzhWGippDlk%3D.VJvU8R

 

 

Everything Else-

Safe turning

 

 

 

[Grandpadave52]

28 minutes ago, lew said:

We've had an additional post in the "What's Off Lathe And Just Finished"

You're too modest Lew. Beautiful piece

 

Found the info on "wind shake" very interesting. I'd never heard of the phenomena let alone seen it before. Or if I had, didn't know what I was looking at as the piece likely ended up in the wood stove.

 

Thanks for your weekly commitment to provide recognition and resource materials.

[HandyDan]

Thanks Lew.  Ring shake is pretty amazing and that is a prime example.  The crotch wood and pendant videos are peaking my interest this time.

[RustyFN]

Thanks Lew. I will be holding onto my Jacob’s Chuck from now on.

[lew]

@Grandpadave52  Thank you!

 

@HandyDan  Thanks!

 

@RustyFN  Thank you!  Me too.