The summer community fund raiser has begun! Our very generous sponsors have donated some awesome gifts for the raffle winners. Here's where you can participate-

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@RustyFN gave us a look at some cedar he scored. Looks like some awesome turnings and lovely fragrance filling his shop-

 

 

 

 

@Fred W. Hargis Jr finished up his "learning experience" and posted images of what he had done. 

 

 

Our turners had good things to say about Fred's experience. His new information picks up here-

 

Fred also posted the images of his finished, turned box.

 

The update is here-

 

 

Our What's On Your lathe had some activity this past week. There were some comments on past activity and @teesquare and @Geraldposted images of urns they have turned. These urns are incredibly beautiful and have such interesting stories about their creation. 

 

 

Catch up on all of the activity and see more images at-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

If you missed Cindy Drozda's live Tool Talk, last Friday, it is available on YouTube-

 

 

Then, this Friday, June 28, Cindy and Todd Raines are doing a live sharing event.

 

Sign up for this free zoom at-

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

 

 

For The Newbies-

From Mike Peace, some information about turning catches, fails and some humorous bloopers. Mike explains why things went wrong.

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Lyle Jamieson's Tuesday Tip gives us his thoughts on the bandsaw for making round turning blanks.

 

 

Alan Stratton demonstrates turning a Trembleur-

 

 

Jim Rodgers turns a square platter. The corners droop down to become feet. Keep the band aids close at hand!

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Couldn't find anything this week.

 

 

Everything Else-

I've been preparing French rolling pin blanks for the local turning club. About 20 blanks are needed of several different lengths and diameters. Ran out of stock. Started gluing what I could cobble together.

 

 

 

 

Safe turning

 

 

 

Great post as always Lew. Looks like you're keeping plenty busy. Love that Craftsman "throne" you have there. Much fancier than mine.

Thanks for the recap Lew.  Your rolling pins always turn out great.

Thanks for the mention Lew. For those who do not watch the videos Cindy does this is one to see for some very interesting methods to correct loose box lids.

@Grandpadave52  Thank you!  Mimi got me that for Christmas several years ago. It replaced a wicker bar stool 

 

@HandyDan Thanks! Usually I'm not on a schedule to make them. Already cut out an insert already glued in place- trying to hurry 

 

@Gerald  Thank you! Cindy certainly has some very good videos.