Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners February 28, 2024

[lew]

60° this afternoon. Storm front passed over a few minutes ago, now down to 51°

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

We've had a couple of entries in our "What's On Your Late" continuing post-

 

@kreisdorph and @teesquare posted some of their work-

 

 

You can catchup with all the comments and more images at

 

 

@Gerald is still recovering from knee surgery but is slowly getting back into his shop. He is working to put together a JaHo jig. From the video in his post, it looks like an awesome device to add incredible embellishments to turned pieces.

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for more information and registration information-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the video from Todd Raines (All Things Woodturning) on jam chucking that was presented live this past Friday. A little long but some interesting pointers.

https://streamyard.com/watch/dRHpgGNz55hV

 

 

For The Newbies-

Thinking of buying a new lathe? 

 

Kent Weakley has an article on some of the things you may want to consider-

https://turnawoodbowl.com/buying-a-wood-lathe-5-things-you-need-to-know/?ck_subscriber_id=1577117793

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

A week or so ago, we posted Part# 1 of a Mike Wald video "A Lidded Box an In Depth Guide". Mike has added part #2-

 

 

Woodworker's Journal has published their Woodturning Monthly newsletter

The entire newsletter can be read here-

https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodturning-monthly/?utm_medium=email

 

One of the articles is from Ernie Conover in which he turns an Hawaiian Calabash bowl-

 

Several of our turners have made this style of bowl. The article links  to an Hawaiian turner- Emiliano Achaval- and conversation about turning this style of bowl- https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/video-emiliano-achaval/

 

 

New Turning Items-

"Nothing to see here, move along"  

 

 

Everything Else-

I have never been very skilled at creating pleasant looking designs/forms/proportions. Every now and then something turns out OK but usually it's pretty neanderthal and my hollowing is mostly confined to bowls. There was some of that wind shake cherry left, so I decided to play a little.

 

I have a set of Easy Wood Tools Mini Hollowers as well as a set of mid-sized hollowers. Used some of each to make these. I think the one on the right should have had a smaller diameter "neck". I didn't make any real effort to finish them- just some sanding.

 

 

 

 

Safe turning 

 

 

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[Grandpadave52]

Great post and really nice work on your hollowing projects Lew especially considering their size.

[Cal]

I'll second all of Dave's comment there Lew

[John Morris]

Lew, those vases looked big till you got the coin next to it! Had me going there for a second.

Which EWT did you use to hollow those?

[HandyDan]

Love you little vases Lew.  Thank you for this weeks post.

[lew]

5 hours ago, John Morris said:

Lew, those vases looked big till you got the coin next to it! Had me going there for a second.

Which EWT did you use to hollow those?

Mini hollowers #1 and #2 and Mid hollower#1

[Gerald]

Lew I can hollow but when it comes to micro mini it is bowls only. Looks like you done good. Thanks for the post

[lew]

@Grandpadave52  Thank You!

 

@Cal  Thanks!

 

@John Morris  Thank You!

 

@HandyDan  Thanks! Hope you are feeling better and can get back in the shop pretty soon!

 

@Gerald  Thank You! I still have a long way to go on proportions and shapes.

[Grandpadave52]

18 minutes ago, lew said:

I still have a long way to go on proportions and shapes

Me too. Beginning to think it might be the donuts.