Just a little over a week left to reach our goal of $1800. If you haven't gotten your raffle tickets- DON'T DELAY!

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@FrederickH salvaged an oak burl and wondered whether we thought it was worth turning. You can probably guess we were 100% in favorite of doing it!!

 

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What’s Coming Up-

Last Friday (June 20) Cindy Drozda's Tool Talk was about cutting threads. She used a dedicated jig for her demonstration. If you missed it, she made it available on YouTube-

 

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For The Newbies-

If you are getting ready to turn that first bowl but need some advice on mounting the blank, Mike Peace has some ideas-

 

Sam Angelo follows up with more ways to mount turnings on the lathe-

 

Woodcraft has a great page on their site for turning lessons. If you need ideas on awesome projects, check it out!

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Expand Your Horizons-

On your tool rack , there's the spindle gouge, the bowl gouge and the parting tool. But, what about that skew chisel gathering dust. Richard Raffan and Tomislav Tomasic have some tips, techniques and ideas for improving our skew skills!

 

 

Speaking of Richard Raffan, he was recently given the 2025 Honorary Lifetime Award by the AAW-

 

Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools-

If you are in the Leesburg, VA are on Saturday, June 28, stop by the Woodcraft store and check out the Easy Wood Tools demo-

https://www.woodcraft.com/pages/store/northern-virginia?srsltid=AfmBOooX-T5uZvqRSaE53QE8POZK3Az_uUkkKI4F6AiBz28zxtHegHai

 

 

Another EWT shared video showing how easily a bottle stopper can be made-

 

@Jordan Martindale

 

New Turning Items-

Tim Yoder recently reviewed a new CBN wheel for his grinder.

 

Woodcraft has a sale on turning kits and supplies! Click on the image for the link to all the goodies!

Highland Woodworking has the Woodslicer Bandsaw Blades on sale-. Click on the image for the link

 

Everything Else-

@Gerald asked for some images of the John Beaver wave bowls I am preparing for a demo I am doing in August. This will be a club demo for the local Cumberland Valley Woodturners. These are just some images of the bowls in various stages of development that I will use to show how they are made. The actual production of a bowl, from start to finish takes several days to allow for glue drying, coloring, sanding and finishing.

The bowls are roughed out but left a bit thick so that there will be enough "meat" for gluing later in the process

 

Special supports are made to custom fit inside the bowl to provide a way of holding it together while turning operations are done later.

 

The supports are hot melt glued in place. John Beaver uses MDF but I didn't have any.

 

The supports are drilled to accept dowels to maintain alignment. One of the supports is labeled to keep things aligned.

 

The blank is moved to the bandsaw and a wave is cut in two steps.

 

 

 

Dowels are inserted and a pressure block added to the tail stock to make sure everything stays in place and aligned.

At his point, the bowl could be made with a wave that stands proud of the surface or recessed below the surface.

 

Recessed wave waiting for the squeeze out to gel. The inside of the bowl will have the supports removed and then turned to the final thickness. The extra "meat" in the wall thickness makes sure there is enough surface for a good glue bond when turning the inside to a respectable wall thickness.

 

 

Safe turning

Thanks Lew.  I really enjoy watching Richard Raffin.  He is a great turner and yet never edits his mistakes out.  An honest man letting the rest of us know it is going to happen now and then.

Thanks Lew for the wave bowl tutorial. Interesting. Time consuming process but worth it for the unique finished product.

 

Enjoyed Tim's review of the CBN wheels. WOW at 14 lbs x2 that's a lot of mass spinning. I'd have to upgrade grinders to use. Good to see Ukraine is still able to produce product amid a war and maintain a commerce.

Thanks for the tutorial Lew. It is an interesting process. 

@HandyDan Thank You! I agree about Raffan and allowing us to see mistakes.

 

@Grandpadave52  Thanks! I, too, was surprised to learn where those wheels were made. Also, didn't realize the Tim made the tools himself.

 

@Gerald  Thank You! I don't know why but I seem to be attracted to items that require more jigs than actual turning