Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners May 15, 2024

[lew]

Picked up a wild dose of the back door trots.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@keithlong did his first craft show and picked up some additional turning work. Keith is looking for curly Koa.  Check out his post and see if you can point him in the right direction!

 

 

@Ron Altier picked up some cypress from his local thrift store. Ron is our resident ornament maker and this one doesn't disappoint!

 

 

Check Ron's post for the wonderful comments from our members-

 

 

@Gerald posted a cart/rack for holding his new Jaho jig. This jig is bigger than I realized and certainly heavy!

 

More pictures and information about the build in Gerald's post-

 

 

@kreisdorph put his new Rikon lathe through it paces!

 

He tells us about it here-

 

 

@smitty10101 is working on a bowl from a board. He has some questions about cutting the angles and a few other things.

 

 

I know some of our turners use this technique, I you can help Smitty out, head on over to his post!

 

 

In our "Good Monday Morning" forum, @John Morris posted a really amazing turning video. Checkout some of the custom made jigs for applying finish!

 

 

 

We've had some entries on or continuing posts of ON/OFF your lathe

From ON-

@Gerald posted this one

 

 

Catchup up on all the comments here-

 

 

And from OFF-

@Gerald, @kreisdorph and @lew

 

 

 

 

 

Head on over to the topic and checkout the comments

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

This was last week but if you missed it, Cindy Drozda posted the video of her "Tool Talk"-

https://streamyard.com/watch/CyvKGNCGNujG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

A video from Mike Peace on the various types of drive centers-

 

 

Sam Angelo demonstrates the use of the spindle gouge.

 

 

From Tim Yoder on the roughing gouge-

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Lyle Jamieson discusses balancing the grain and color when turning a bowl-

 

 

For some reason this video isn't showing up for me. Here is the YouTube link

https://youtu.be/VtHVrf-1xlQ?si=n28y_i4yw_IKFfTY

 

 

Alan Stratton makes a unique box that looks like a stacking toy!

 

 

An interesting design on a cherry bowl by Kent Weakley

 

 

Jim Rodgers makes a really neat one piece pen-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

 

https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/product/threaded-rings-for-urns/

 

 

Everything Else-

Safe turning

 

 

 

[HandyDan]

Love all the info and videos you gathered this week Lew.  Those brass thread sets are a real deal.

[Gerald]

Thanks for the mention Lew. Funny I ordered 1 set of rings a couple hours ago.

[John Morris]

Thank you Lew for your wonderful Wed topics!

[lew]

@HandyDan  Thank You!

 

@Gerald  Thanks!  Hope the rings work great.

 

@John Morris  Thank You!

 

 

[Grandpadave52]

Holy cow, I'm a whole month of Wednesday topics behind not including all the projects showcased within. Lots to catch up on...

 

BTW, Lew, hope you're not doing the backdoor trot anymore.

[lew]

5 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Holy cow, I'm a whole month of Wednesday topics behind not including all the projects showcased within. Lots to catch up on...

 

BTW, Lew, hope you're not doing the backdoor trot anymore.

Thanks, @Grandpadave52! Everything back to normal here.