Wednesday's Wisdom For Woodturners July 30, 2025

[lew]

Back porch thermometer recorded 99° today! Luckily, I had stuff to do in the basement.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Headhunter posted a couple of his segmented Ringmaster bowls in our Ringmaster sub-forum. Amazing designs on these!!

He showed us some closeup views in his post and explained where their new home will be.

 

What’s Coming Up-

If you missed last weeks presentation from Tod Raines, on chuck maintenance, it is available on Steamyard

https://streamyard.com/watch/rAtEceTTQCVp. 

 

Cindy Drozda will be having a Tool Talk this Friday.

You can sign up here-

https://streamyard.com/watch/DRbzDT7r5HAk

 

Cindy will also be doing a live IRD on Saturday.

Registration is here-  https://www.cindydrozda.com/

 

The Mid Atlantic Woodturners Symposium has been sharing information about their demonstrators for the September event.

Registration and more information here- https://mawts.com/

 

For The Newbies-

A few short videos from Tim Yoder. 

This one on tail stock maintenance

This one on what to look for when buying gouges

 And sizing bowl blanks for safe cutting-

 

From Mike Peace, a jig to size the tenons on your turnings.

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Richard Raffan demonstrates how to turn a spiral rim bowl

 

Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools-

Time is running out for these awesome prices!

 

The Mike Peace video for a tenon jig reminded me of an accessory available from Easy Wood Tools to size tenons/mortices.

Comes with a handy magnet to keep it at the ready, on your lathe.

https://www.easywoodtools.com/product-page/easy-chuck-template-set

 

We highlighted the EWT Detailer a while back. Tim Yoder found another use!

 

Cutting coves, with the Easy Wood Finisher, is a snap as illustrated by Nathan McCollim

 

Some Easy Wood Tools demonstrations next week!

 

@Jordan Martindale

 

New Turning Items-

New item from Niles Bottle Stoppers. 

Stainless steel decorative loop

The decorative loops work great for key chains, Christmas ornaments, and attaching a cord to a bottle opener so that you can hang it.

They are made from solid 304 Stainless Steel with the same 3/8″-16 threads stud as all of our other stoppers and openers. They work great with our stainless steel inserts. The cross hole is 1/8″ diameter with a overall length of 7/8″.

https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/product/decorative-loops/

 

Everything Else-

Safe turning

 

 

[HandyDan]

Thanks Lew.  Lots of very handy tips in Tim Yoder's videos.  

[Gerald]

Nice post Lew. Raffin really has a steady hand to cut a rim like that.

[John Morris]

Lew, these are slick as heck! Easy Wood Tools to size tenons/mortises

Thanks for the heads up!

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

I have no idea what's ahppening here, but the Yoder video on tails appear like the first shot below, when I hit the play button I get audio but no video. Then the Yoder video for the gouges appear like the second shot below. Now on this one when I click the arrow it plays, no audio but captioned with big letters (I guess that's how it's supposed to be) The Yoder video for the detailer tool appears just like this, as i type I haven't tried to play it yet.

 

Edit: I just tried to play the deatiler video and it played with no audio, but the large caption.

Edited July 31 by Fred W. Hargis Jr

[lew]

@Fred W. Hargis Jr Thanks for the heads up on the videos, Fred. Many of the turners are using "TikTok" and "Instagram" for their platform to show the short videos. YouTube videos will post directly to The Patriot but I'm having trouble getting the other platforms to post here. I will try to do better on checking the playbacks.

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

That's OK Lew, I thought it might be something with the server change; or my Mac.

[lew]

20 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

That's OK Lew, I thought it might be something with the server change; or my Mac.

I sure it's something I did wrong in download/converting to videos. I appreciate your feedback. It really helps me.

[lew]

On 7/31/2025 at 8:55 AM, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I have no idea what's ahppening here, but the Yoder video on tails appear like the first shot below, when I hit the play button I get audio but no video. Then the Yoder video for the gouges appear like the second shot below. Now on this one when I click the arrow it plays, no audio but captioned with big letters (I guess that's how it's supposed to be) The Yoder video for the detailer tool appears just like this, as i type I haven't tried to play it yet.

 

Edit: I just tried to play the deatiler video and it played with no audio, but the large caption.

 

 

@Fred W. Hargis Jr  Found a post of this video on YouTube. See if it plays OK for you-

 

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

That one worked the way it should!

[lew]

1 hour ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

That one worked the way it should!

Thanks!

[lew]

Apologies to all who had difficulties watching some of the videos in the post. Seems the "Shorts" type videos are becoming more popular and also creators are making more use of TikTok and Instagram platforms. Some of these are not directly linkable to the posts as we can do with YouTube. I'm trying to find a work-a-round.

 

@HandyDan  Thank You!

 

@Gerald  Thanks!

 

@John Morris  Thank You!

 

@Fred W. Hargis Jr  Thanks for the feedback on the videos!