Our Christmas Project is underway. Help us to make a military family's Christmas one to remember!

 

Check out all the awesome prizes and details here-

https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/topic/42294-adopt-a-warrior-family-for-christmas-2025/

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Steve Krumanaker is putting his new laser to good use creating unique Christmas ornaments!

 

 

Check out these two post from Steve to learn more about how these are done

 

Unfortunately, there was a "catch" during the turning process as Steve explains here-

 

A couple of weeks ago we had a post asking our preference for either a Longworth chuck or vacuum chuck. There have been a few additional comments. The post picks up here-

 

From @Gordon on our "Off The Lathe" topic, a gorgeous natural edge bowl in a board type turning. Check out the comments and catch with some of the other comments on past posts.

 

 

@RustyFN scored some awesome maple! Preparing the blanks for storage kept him busy!!

 

Head on over to Rusty's post to see the rest of the blanks!!

 

New member, @Rusty S, shared a heart breaking incident with a walnut turning he had "almost" finished.

 

In his post, he explains what happened and received lots of sympathy from those of us in the  "BTDT Club"

 

What's Coming Up-

If you missed the Fall Vendor Showcase, it is available on YouTube. Unfortunately, the link won't embed the video but clicking the link will take to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJVVo-vrKA

 

Cindy Drozda will be hosting here Tool Talk on Friday November21, 2025

 

Here's the link for registration-

https://streamyard.com/watch/nFhunNEiiBP6

 

Cindy also has some of her previous IRD's available for rent. This trailer is for her Gilded Sphere Box-

 

The link for renting the IRD video- 

https://www.cindydrozda.com/html/IRDvideo4rent.html

 

For The Newbies-

Turning tools are expensive. Some manufacturers sell the tools without handles, which reduces the costs. Tools with round shafts are fairly simple to create handles by drilling the correct size hole. But, what about the tools with square shafts? Sam Angelo has a solution-

 

Looking for a project that can help you advance your skills and learn a few new ones? Check out this ornaments from Carl Jacobson.

 

Using a jam chuck  can solve a lot of "How do I hold this piece". Richard Raffan demonstrated using this type of chuck for bowl/lid turning

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Add a little custom bling to your life with turned ring! Mike peace show how it's done.

 

You know if Alan Stratton is going to share a video it will have some cool jigs involved! This one is no exception!

 

 

I've been known for doing some crazy glue-ups on some of my turnings, but this one is insane! Roger Wollam demonstrates Tangential segment turning.

 

Tim Yoder demonstrates how to create and finish captive rings-

 

Tomislav Tomasic may have you rethinking how you create your tenons on those turning blanks

 

Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools-

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the unique Easy Wood Tools, midsized rougher created specifically for The Patriot Woodworker Christmas project- 

 

To paraphrase a well known person- "Bid Baby Bid"

 

We find Easy Wood Tools turning all sorts of materials. Deadrise Wood Crafts turns some leather pens with the EWT Finisher-

 

Demonstrations for next week-

Come burn off some of those turkey and pumpkin pie calories by checking out this demo-

https://www.woodcraft.com/pages/store/oklahoma-city

@Jordan Martindale

 

New Turning Items-

These are not new items but they are from a fairly new company. This is another review of the CBN wheels from the Ukraine company https://www.uksg.tools/

 

Everything Else-

Want to thank @kmealy for sending me this YouTube video from Stumpy Nubs. Keith knows I love Celtic Knot patterns. Stumpy's video shows an easier way to glue up a Celtic Knot rolling pin. It's pretty cool and his diagonal cutting jig is really easy to make/use. The only thing I would caution on is to NOT cut the square blank completely through. By separating the blank and gluing the insert will cause the overall blank to "grow' in length on each successive rotation. this will cause the "knots" to be out of alignment.

 

Here's the video-

 

 

Safe turning

Out did yourself this week Lew.  Lots to peruse.

Thanks fr the post Lew. Something interesting is now in the future

Thanks Lew.

Thanks Lew. While not a "wood spinner" looking forward to watching the video about CBN wheels. Now that I have an 8" variable speed grinder, looking to upgrade it for chisels and plane irons.

21 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Thanks Lew. While not a "wood spinner" looking forward to watching the video about CBN wheels. Now that I have an 8" variable speed grinder, looking to upgrade it for chisels and plane irons.

You only want to sharpen HSS on a CBN. Carbon steel will plug it up.

@HandyDan   Thanks!

 

@Gerald   Thank You!

 

@RustyFN   Thanks! And, thanks for the additional CBN information.

 

@Grandpadave52  Thank You!