Now don't be eating all of the candy for tomorrow night's Trick or Treaters!!

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Masonsailor posted a follow up on his turning class. His students turned some tool handles and a segmented bowl!

 

 

Check out Paul's additional information and more images here- 

 

 

 

@Gordon is working on some of that silver maple he scored! He has a beautiful blank on his lathe and gave us a peek at how it's going-

 

See more images and comments here-

 

 

From OFF the lathe and finished, a "Wave Bowl" in cherry and walnut. The design concept is from John Beaver.

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for links to more information and registration

 

 

 

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

@Ron Altier makes knitting/crocheting needles for his Mrs. If you know a quilter, Alan Stratton shows us how to turn a quilting tool. Great project for practicing your spindle turning!

 

 

A close up view of using some of the typical woodturning tool, Tomislav Tomasic. This might be helpful to the beginning turner to be able to see just how the cutting edges interact with the wood being turned.

 

 

 

Cute Christmas ornament from Mike Peace-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Jimmy Clewes is a world renowned turning instructor and many of us would love to be able to attend one of his courses. Well, Popular Woodworking has done the next best thing. They have paired with Mr. Clewes to create a video course. Click on the image below to the registration site and more information!

 

 

 

"Electrified" Christmas ornament form Carl Jacobson-

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

From Ron Brown, more information on his "Bowl From A Board" tool-

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Last week @Gordon asked a question about the variations in his bowl wall thickness.

Several of our members gave possible reasons for this. Just happens that I had the same thing happen to me, yesterday, when turning a sycamore bowl. I was doing the second turning and had sanded and finished the outside. Had gotten started on the inside. I was giving extra thickness to the walls to allow some waste as the wood was quite soft and needed stabilized. I used some shellac and CA to strengthen the wood and would turn away any staining to reach the final thickness. As it so often happens, an "emergency" showed up at the front door. By the time I got back to the lathe, the bowl blank had warped. The blank had been dried to moisture equilibrium. Turning it to the final thickness caused the rim to have thinner areas. If I hadn't put finish on the outside, I could have touched up both the outside and inside to correct the problem, but alas, I'm lazy.  Moral- don't stop half way through!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Safe turning

Thank-you Lew.

Thanks for the post Lew

Thanks for this weeks recap Lew.  I've done a couple bowls from a board free hand.  Ron Brown's jig would take the guessing out.

@Grandpadave52  Thank you!

 

@Gerald  Thanks!

 

@HandyDan  Thank You!  That's what I thought, too.