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Good Monday Morning Patriot Woodworkers! November 18, 2024
John Morris posted a topic in General Woodworking
Good Monday morning! Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks! Welcome new members To view our newest members and welcome them to our digs, please see our Members Page, you can "Sort" by join date and click on their names and be taken to their profile page where you can leave a message of welcome. Thank you for making our newest folks feel welcome. Featured topic Mr and Mrs @Smallpatch collaborated on this beautiful fireplace screen, what a wonderful family heirloom this will be, to be treasured for many years by all. Featured image @RustyFN created a beautiful winged box (vessel) with lid, see more at the topic Winged Box. Featured video This video features Harley Refsal, a woodcarver, teaching at the John C. Campbell Folk School. The school, founded in 1925, teaches traditional crafts and celebrates the heritage of the Appalachian region. Harley shares their expertise in Scandinavian flat-plane carving, demonstrating the techniques and discussing the history and symbolism behind the art form. -
Wife did most of the labor in the construction of this thing for there is lots of little pieces of glass everywhere. Me, I just spent most of my time on something else? Can't remember what? I cheated a little on this one... These things that look like carvings are the little 1/8 " pieces of pressed wood that are called Appliques... When I decided I wanted to try carving wood in 2016 I knew my hands don't work very good holding the carving knives so I decided power carving would be better and besides I already had a few air tools I used for other things so that was the start.. I got this brainer that if I ordered some appliques , I could lay them out on the large pages of 1/4" squares of graph paper I could trace around the little appliques on to 3/4" ash or maple and would have thicker wood so I did the easy way out for if I made mistakes the wood would be thick enough to correct my goofs before I ran out of the depth of the wood.. All my clocks for the first few years was laid out of the graph paper and I would try to make something look good for I had lots of different pieces of appliques to play with. So this fire screen was a place I could get rid of these things and maybe make something look decient and still make it look like I maybe carved on the three pieces of the screen without buying any more of the same. So I took my little angle air grinder and ground out all around these pieces and left all the scratches there like someone who might have carved these things. Just an exercise in faking something . I'm getting to where I like to use 100% tung oil more and more. This is the first time I have turned out something with only natural wood but has 2 helpings of 100% tung oil .. .. by far the most easiest thing a person can do to wood and I think the oil does more to protect it than anything I have ever used. I have used the tung oil quite often but it has always been over some stain or dye or coloring. I get to typing then can't remember exactually what it was I set out to tell? I will read this over and might come back with a bunch of corrections???? The first fire place screen stayed lit like this one for about three years every night. I don't burn any wood for it takes too much labor to maintain it. And we think it looks better than a log burning!
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The garden center where my wife worked wanted a fireplace for a Christmas display some years back. Some left-over lumber, left-over floor laminate, paint, stain, and VOILA! Still in use, year-round, to this day.
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The wife handed me a new drawing and project last night. It’s a small project to keep me busy while she finishes up the drawings for the next big project which is the media room. This is a stand for the fireplace tools. It’s mostly a long spindle turning of segmented bubinga and ebony. The bubinga I have but the ebony stash is too low. There isn’t enough left. She may have to compromise. I can get the same effect with black lacquered maple. I also don’t think I am going to do segmented rings. I think I will just cut discs of bubinga using the Shaper Origin and glue them up. Turning bubinga is always a thrill. Paul
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I know you probably don't want to hear this, but Christmas is only 2 months away. Lockdowns and job layoffs are really affecting everyone. Again, this year, we will have the opportunity to make one family's Christmas not so bleak. Please check out this information on our annual Adopt-a-Family project- Also, reminding our turners to please add tags to their posts. Those tags help us all when searching for specific information. Our Patriot Turners- Today, @Gerald added an extremely informative blog on drying turned wood. I had asked Gerald what his techniques were and he offered to put together the information. Please check out what he has done. Lots of great information! @Ron Altier showed us a couple of his recent projects. First up is one of his beautiful ornaments. Ron generally creates his own blanks but with this one he tried something different- Ron tells us about this one in his post- He also made some turnings from an aromatic wood- Lots of comments about uses for it- @Masonsailor put the finishing touches on the fireplace utensils stand. It sure is a thing of beauty- Paul shows us the final steps- @PostalTom gave us an update on his lathe. Tom and Gerald had been working together to solve a problem. With Gerald's help and a Jet technician, he is back up and running! It's wonderful how our turners can "turn" to each other for help and advice! @AndrewB cranked out a couple of pine bowls from a Home Depot board He showed us some of the progress pictures in his post Andrew also refined his lathe bench after removing the standard Harbor Freight metal stand- What’s Coming Up- Cindy Drozda has another online demonstration coming up. This one is her signature finial box- Click on the above image for the link to Cindy's site and registration information. For The Newbies- The skew chisel, what can I say?! An often ignored tool but in the hands of a master it is a wonder to behold- A nice project that can have you practicing learned skills and maybe developing some new ones- Expand Your Horizons- This is quite a lengthy video from Sam Angelo on embellishing turnings. Sam demonstrates various tools and techniques. When I first saw the picture, I thought- "only Tim Yoder would attempt this on the lathe"! It's a pretty neat project. When I was subbing at school some of the kids were doing this with 3-D printers- New Turning Items- The folks at Woodturners Wonders have a Pro Sanding kit put together. If you are thinking about upping your sanding game, this might be for you- Here's the link- https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/random-orbital-sanders/products/pros-pro-pack Everything Else- Last week's YouTube videos from Rick Turns- Last week I posted a couple of closeup pix of repaired knots in the cherry bowl I was finishing. This is the bowl as it came out of the bag of shavings- Turned, sanded and mineral oil finish- @Gerald's blog on drying originated from a question I had about drying green wood- specifically for this project. This large bowl dried without cracks but I needed two smaller bowls as well. Last week I mentioned that I found Rick Morris (Rick Turns) had a couple of videos on a simple dryer that could speed up the process. It was a simple build, everything needed was in my spare parts stache. A quick Sketchup drawing to get the idea- Then the build- ...and the results are in... Not exactly what I had hoped for. What went wrong??? First, I think I had a too high wattage bulb. I grabbed a 60 watt bulb which I think generated too much heat in the box. Second, the little bowls were about 5.5" in diameter and about 2.5" deep. I left the wall thickness at about 1/2" which is around 1/10 the diameter (see Geralds blog). This is typical for the bag/shaving process but I think it was too thick for this application. I'm on the second attempt, now. I reduced the bulb wattage to 40 watts and turned the bowls to a wall thickness of about 3/8". After 24 hours in the dryer, no cracks have appeared. Fingers crossed!! If you are interested in Rick's process, Safe turning and stay well
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From the album: Reface and Mantel
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From the album: Fireplace Surround
front view, showing how the fireplace insert fits -
From the album: Fireplace Surround
End view. Showing the feet details -
Anyone have experience with pellet stoves? My new house has a fireplace that I probably won't use as is, and heat is via heat pump. Would a pellet stove insert be cost effective as supplemental / primary heat source? 1700 sq ft.
