Looks like a thunderstorm brewing off to the west. Garden could use a little water.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Headhunter posted a couple of beautiful segmented bowls he created using a Ringmaster!

 

These became gifts for friends. He tells us more about them in this post-

 

 

Our What's ON/OFF Your Lathe again had some gorgeous content!

 

From "ON"-

@kreisdorph worked with several different species of wood to produce these lovely pieces-

 

 

 

New items start here-

 

And from What's OFF Your Lathe-

@kreisdorph and @User74 showed us what they are doing!

 

 

 

 

You can catch up and see more images here-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Just a reminder that this Friday, May 24, Cindy Drozda and Todd Raines are having a free Sharing Q&A Session on Zoom.

Here are 2 links for signing up for the Zoom meeting.

https://www.cindydrozda.com/html/Signup.html

https://woodturningtoolstore.com/event/sharing-session-free-and-live-on-zoom-4/

 

If you don't have Zoom on your computer/phone, here's the link for the free download-

https://zoom.us/download

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

Mentioned before that Sam Angelo has started a new YouTube channel to assist the new turner. This video compares and contrasts the spindle and bowl gouges. New turners are often confused why/where to use these two gouges.

 

 

 

This is the opening lecture from a nine-hour seminar on how woodturning tools work, from Jim Rodgers. Lots of good information on the various HSS materials.

 

 

Craft Supplies USA has a nice video on chuck maintenance. Although this video is for a specific brand/model, much of the information is common to all scroll chucks.

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

If you have watched Richard Raffan for any length of time, you've probably noticed most of his turning tools have been resharpened many, many times! Not one to let tings go to waste, Richard repurposes an old spindle gouge.

 

 

 

 

I remember @Gerald using various painting schemes and came across this method of creating a Cosmic Clouds motif with iridescent paints. I think this was done by Tim Yoder-

   

 

Thinking about working with acrylics?  Craft Supplies USA posted a start to finish  hybrid handle. Casting and finishing tips included!

 

 

 

Last week we posted that Niles Bottle Stoppers had their bronze threaded rings for sale. Carl Jacobson created a very stylish urn using a set of rings-

 

 

If hand chasing threads is more your thing, Mike Peace recently posted this video creating threads in a piece of Palo Santo Wood, Bulnesia sarmientoi, from Argentina.

 

 

Finally, the Woodworker's Journal published their Woodturner's Monthly newsletter.

 

Here's the link to the entire newsletter-

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

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

OK, this is something you can create in your shop. I thought it was pretty neat as I do not have an accurate cross sled for my drill press.

 

 

 

Everything Else-

A few thoughts from Ron Brown-

Sharing Makes You Better

 

Three reasons you will be better:

1)    When you explain your process, you must organize your thoughts. You will discover some steps are unnecessary while others need more attention.

2)    Your audience usually asks questions that spark new ideas to improve your process and ultimately the result.

3)    Explaining how you do it will often uncover why you do it this way. There is always room to be more efficient and you usually discover them by accident often during an explanation.

 

The skills you have learned are a gift and make you who you are. The laws of sowing and reaping are in full effect. The more you share what you have discovered, the deeper your understanding will become. This is true with any skill or knowledge set you have

 

 

 

Safe turning

Thanks for this weeks recap Lew..  The TPW turners are making lots of mulch churning out some lovely items. 

Thanks for the post Lew. I was wondering which is in the top male or female threads. Now I know but it may not really make any difference anyway.

17 hours ago, lew said:

OK, this is something you can create in your shop. I thought it was pretty neat as I do not have an accurate cross sled for my drill press.

 

Here's another method

 

 

@HandyDan Thanks! And, thanks for the video on the centering technique!!

 

@Gerald Thank you!