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We only have about 3 weeks left to get your raffle tickets for the Summer Fund Raiser. This fund raiser will help keep our site alive and allow us to help veterans. Please Donate! Our Patriot Turners- @Turn n Learn posted some more items he scored with his lathe and wondered what some were used for. New comments and items begin here- @Gordon made a cool jam chuck using some neoprene rubber- He posted more images and the source for the rubber in his post- @Fred W. Hargis Jr gave us a heads up for an awesome sale price on new Jet and Powermatic lathes- Check his post for the link to Craft Supplies USA If you aren't sure what to look for in that new lathe, this video from Popular Woodworking may help- From our "What's On" posts, @BuckeyeHomestead posted a picture of his NEW Jet lathe and its first project That's an awesome lathe! @RustyFN had some difficulty with buffing out a finish. He explains the problem in this post- Check out what Rusty said and maybe you have some tips that will help him. What’s Coming Up- Click on the images for links to more information and registration. For The Newbies- Sam Angelo posted a nice spindle gouge tutorial Tomislav Tomasic created a great video on tips for turning. His videos have excellent closeup of gouge positions. From Popular Woodworking, a written tutorial on lathe tool sharpening- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/sharpening-for-woodturners/ And another on scrapers https://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/the-woodturning-scraper/ Expand Your Horizons- The theme for this week is embellishing- Mike Peace bleaches and burns turning to add neat effects- From Popular Woodworking- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/square-platter-with-textured-rim/ If you are looking for a nice gift project, Jimmy Clewes' coffee scoop tutorial might just be what you want- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/turned-scoop-with-pewter-finial/ Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools- Over the past several weeks, we have been showcasing the individual Easy Wood Tools. One thing that should be noted is that all Easy Wood products are made right here in the good ol' U. S. of A. Fascinating video of the manufacturing processes- All of the Easy Wood products are available directly from their home base in Lexington, KY and on Amazon. However, some of the best prices can be found by cruising their social media pages for special sales from woodworking retailers i.e. Woodcraft etc. For the month of June, a few - If you are thinking about attending the St. Paul, MN symposium, Easy Wood Tools will be well represented- And another shameless self promotion- @Jordan Martindale New Turning Items- Everything Else- From Ron Brown's Newsletter: Good Enough Perfection is often unattainable, and just as frequently, unnecessary. I hear from turners all the time who proudly sand salad bowls to 4,000 grit. Anything above 320 grit is just a waste of time and effort for most wood projects. However, acrylic and resin projects may well benefit from using abrasives up to 12,000 grit. The caution here is not to get bogged down in the last 2 percent trying to make something perfect when 98 percent of the work is very close to perfection and Good Enough. When I used to build custom furniture from cherry, walnut, oak, and hardwood plywood, I quickly discovered that stopping at 220 grit produced excellent results. Especially when covered by sanding sealer and pre-catalyzed lacquer as finishes. It’s true, sometimes less is more. The secret was to be careful with each finer sanding grit, ensuring that all scratches from the coarser grit were entirely removed. That is where patience really pays off, as I deliberately go over the entire surface, then examine my work with a raking light source before moving up to the next finer grit. Most folks don’t realize that excessive sanding with fine-grit paper creates heat that releases and then hardens the lignin in wood, often resulting in a splotchy finish. The finishing material will not be able to penetrate the surface evenly, and it looks awful. If you’ve ever blown up a bowl, it usually comes from making one last cut to get the finish just right and the walls as thin as possible. You forgot that wood moves and bowls can go out of round as you turn, even if they’ve been drying for months. As wood is removed, the moisture content can change, causing the thin walls to warp, or harmonic vibration to set in. That final cut produces an unexpected catch and bang! Fresh bowl pieces are lying around the shop once again. The problem with patience is that it takes so long. My projects rarely turn out exactly like I see them in my mind. My hope is to bring them close to my idea of perfection and bring them to the “Good Enough” stage of completion. I know some of you think I’m smarter than I actually am. What you see are the results of persistence, patience, and starting over many times before I was able to show you a finished version. You will never see the eight failures that came before. Remember how WD-40 got its name. I would rather have you do something slowly and well than do it quickly and poorly, sometimes referred to as Half-Fast. Many years ago, I got tired of hearing myself say “Oops! I didn’t see that before, and now it’s too late to fix it.” I am deliberate in my inspections before proceeding to the next step. It is always easier to fix it then, rather than several steps later. Safe turning
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Raining again! Our Patriot Turners- @Fred W. Hargis Jr updated us on his progress with his cool segmented coin holders. He has made some adjustments in his technique and describes them in his post. @RustyFN is teaching at his local Woodcraft. He got some practice in with this bowling ball. It didn't go quite as planned as Rusty describes in his post- What’s Coming Up- Click on the images for links to registration and more information For The Newbies- Sam Angelo discusses the difference between a traditional bowl gouge grind and the "Bottom Feeder" grind. Tomislav Tomasic posted a video that includes a new safety feature that protects both the operator and the lathe. I hope it becomes a standard feature on all lathes. Expand Your Horizons- A nice article/tutorial in Popular Woodworking, from Jimmy Clewes, on turning a winged box. The link to the tutorial- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/turned-winged-box/ Tim Yoder does some threading with an awesome looking threading "device" The video is apparently a little old. This is the link to a newer version of the jig. https://chefwarekits.com/Threading-Jigs-c9880435?srsltid=AfmBOorAAUTaQZHrT_dOYeJamCRCvOW1p_t4UJMLP--Wcow5aFwbgsj7 Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools- Most of the Easy Wood Tools carbide cutters are available in the Negative Rake configuration, identified by the "NR" notation in the descriptions. The negative rake cutters are less aggressive compared to the the "original" style of cutter. The negative rake design was originally developed for acrylic/hybrid blanks to be turned with less chipping that occurred with standard HSS and or standard carbide cutters. They work equally well on wooden blanks, especially during hollowing. Tools utilizing negative rake cutters are used with the same presentation angle/position as the standard cutters. For the Easy Wood Tools users "across the pond" a nice discount on the products- @Jordan Martindale New Turning Items- Reviews, something new and sale items. Tomislav unpack and reviews the Mike Mahoney Hollowing System Click on the images for links to the suppliers. Starbond- Woodcraft Spiracraft Everything Else- Safe turning
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Well apparently Punxsutawney Phil got it right, at least for PA. Snow and sleet tonight, rinse and repeat for Saturday! Our Patriot Turners- @calabrese55 added a beautiful mixed media, mixed construction vase to our "What's Off" topic and our turners showed their appreciation for his work- Please head over to Mike's post and check out more images and the great comments- @RustyFN taught another bowl turning class at his local Woodcraft store. Please see his, and our turner's, comments at- What’s Coming Up- Click on the image for the link to more information and registration If you missed it, last Friday, Cindy Drozda uploaded her Tool Talk presentation- For The Newbies- This video is a live demonstration showing some of the things to do for lathe maintenance. Filming isn't theater quality Pen turning is a nice way to ease into turning and the pens make awesome gifts. This video, from Craft Supplies USA, takes us through the steps. Although there lots of specialized jigs that can be purchase to do pen turning, many can be shop made for practically no cost. Expand Your Horizons- It is the beginning of the month and the "4 Ways Collaboration" group has uploaded their versions of a long stemmed goblet- New Turning Items- Everything Else- Popular Woodworking provided links to several turning articles. Beginners as well as more advanced turners should be able to find something useful. Jimmy Clewes turns a natural edge bowl- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/turn-a-live-edge-bowl/ Judy Ditmer discusses turning multiple copies of an item- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/techniques/making-multiples/ Alan Lancer turns handles for turning tools- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/handles-for-turning-tools/ And, Yoav Liberman provides his insights into using carbide tools for the beginner. Although I disagree with his observation that carbide tools are "crude but effective." https://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/carbide-tools-unlocking-woodturning-potential/ Safe turning
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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
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Hope this Wednesday finds everyone doing well. Our Patriot Turners- Member @Gordon posted a question about a problem he has had during the second turning of a twice turned bowl. He has noticed the wall thickness is not consistent around the perimeter of his bowls. Please check his post and see if you can offer some suggestions. Gordon also gave us a peek and an awesome maple score he managed! More images and some suggestions from our turners, here- @Masonsailor will be sharing his turning knowledge. He is having a segmented bowl class and showed us some of his prep work- Looks like this is going to be a fun class. Hope on over to Paul's post and check out the segment work! @HandyDan got a real jump on this year's family Christmas ornaments! He made a few really nice candles/holders- In Dan's post he provided some background on the amazing colors he used- @AndrewB has been keeping us up to date with the progress of his new lathe. The new Jet is performing great as per Andrew's posts- Another great week for our "ON/OFF" your lathe post! From ON- @kreisdorph worked his magic in walnut- Catch up here- And from "OFF"- @RustyFN created a gorgeous mixed media turned box- New items and comments begin here- What’s Coming Up- Click on the images for links to registration and more information. My free Tool Talk Livestream is this Friday. October 25th, at 2pm Eastern (18:00 UTC). For The Newbies- Mike Peace discusses dust collection. Good information for turners regardless of their skill level. Expand Your Horizons- The holiday season is fast approaching. As @HandyDan has already reminded us! Here's more ideas for turning projects, From Alan Stratton- And from the pages of Popular Woodworking, another project from Jimmy Clewes- The tutorial link- https://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/turned-scoop-with-pewter-finial/ New Turning Items- A couple of items on sale- Niles Bottle Stoppers https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/product/whiskey-sample-kit/ From World of Texas some Starbond Inlay Materials- https://woodworldtx.com/search?type=article%2Cpage%2Cproduct&q=starbond*+inlay* Everything Else- First coat of poly on the wave bowl- Safe turning
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Beautiful chilly fall weather here in south central PA. Our Patriot Turners- @AndrewB has himself a brand new lathe! He posted his adventure here- Check out the discussion on his post! @Fred W. Hargis Jr asked our members about how they attach a glue block. Fred received some great advice. Please see if you can add more to the conversation. @RustyFN is considering the purchase of an electric chainsaw. He is looking for input and advice from your experiences. If you have an electric chainsaw, I'm sure Rusty would appreciate your thoughts. New member, @OldBullWoodworks, asked for our help with a sticky situation he has encounter. Seems he has a bowl stuck on his worm screw. He is looking for ideas of how to remove the turning with out damaging it. Please check out his post and see if you can provide some help. Another great week for our "ON/OFF" your lathe posts! From ON- @HandyDan, @Gerald and @Gordon posted some awesome projects! The new posts start here- From OFF- @kreisdorph completed two beautiful natural edge walnut bowls- See more images of these bowls at- What’s Coming Up- This Saturday, October 19, 2024, Cindy Drozda and Todd Raines are hosting a free Halloween Vendor Showcase. Click on the image for the link to registration. For The Newbies- A short video from Tim Yoder on basic bowl turning- Basic Bowl.mp4 With Christmas not too far away, Mike Peace demonstrates how to turn a simple ornament. Great project for the beginner! Expand Your Horizons- With Halloween and Christmas holidays coming, a couple of ideas for the turner- From Tim Yoder, a pumpkin decoration- From Alan Stratton, a Christmas ornament- Speaking of Christmas, Carl Jacobson posted a really cute project that would make an awesome gift for the seamstress in your life- This popped up in my inbox, hadn't really considered Popular Woodworking as a reference for woodturning. But there is some informative material here Here's the link to the entire article- https://act.omeclk.com/portal/public/ViewCommInBrowser.jsp?Sv4%2BeOSSucz2BJKUzdldoFg5CS%2BPmHfFL%2FP4k895Hmr67t63Sj6nsTwy8Acoh7lM65fYWtIcCr9gd2UTkdsgqg%3D%3DA Included is a tutorial from Jimmy Clewes. New Turning Items- Maybe the Vendor's Show case (listed above) will have some new products. Everything Else- Safe turning
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Picked up a wild dose of the back door trots. Our Patriot Turners- @keithlong did his first craft show and picked up some additional turning work. Keith is looking for curly Koa. Check out his post and see if you can point him in the right direction! @Ron Altier picked up some cypress from his local thrift store. Ron is our resident ornament maker and this one doesn't disappoint! Check Ron's post for the wonderful comments from our members- @Gerald posted a cart/rack for holding his new Jaho jig. This jig is bigger than I realized and certainly heavy! More pictures and information about the build in Gerald's post- @kreisdorph put his new Rikon lathe through it paces! He tells us about it here- @smitty10101 is working on a bowl from a board. He has some questions about cutting the angles and a few other things. I know some of our turners use this technique, I you can help Smitty out, head on over to his post! In our "Good Monday Morning" forum, @John Morris posted a really amazing turning video. Checkout some of the custom made jigs for applying finish! We've had some entries on or continuing posts of ON/OFF your lathe From ON- @Gerald posted this one Catchup up on all the comments here- And from OFF- @Gerald, @kreisdorph and @lew Head on over to the topic and checkout the comments What’s Coming Up- This was last week but if you missed it, Cindy Drozda posted the video of her "Tool Talk"- https://streamyard.com/watch/CyvKGNCGNujG For The Newbies- A video from Mike Peace on the various types of drive centers- Sam Angelo demonstrates the use of the spindle gouge. From Tim Yoder on the roughing gouge- Facebook video.mp4 Expand Your Horizons- Lyle Jamieson discusses balancing the grain and color when turning a bowl- For some reason this video isn't showing up for me. Here is the YouTube link https://youtu.be/VtHVrf-1xlQ?si=n28y_i4yw_IKFfTY Alan Stratton makes a unique box that looks like a stacking toy! An interesting design on a cherry bowl by Kent Weakley Jim Rodgers makes a really neat one piece pen- New Turning Items- https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/product/threaded-rings-for-urns/ Everything Else- Safe turning
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From Popular Woodworking an online video course from Jimmy Clewes. https://popular-woodworking.mykajabi.com/offers/oy2VUxij/checkout?utm_source=email&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=pwwpromotionaloffers&utm_campaign=PWWWoodTurningBasics
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Remember, only 25 shopping days until Christmas! Our Patriot Turners- @calabrese55 and @Gerald added to our running thread on "What's On Your Lathe"- Read the comments and see Gerald's videos at- @Bob Hodge Posted a beautiful piece of art in our continuing thread "OFF the Lathe and Just Finished"_ Lots of nice comments here- What’s Coming Up- Actually, in case you missed it, this happened last week from Cindy Drozda on making a pizza cutter- And then coming up, Cindy and Todd Raines are co-hosting a live interactive sharing session, Friday December 1, at 2pm EST. You need to signup- it's free- at this link: http://www.cindydrozda.com/html/Signup.html For The Newbies- The Woodworker's Journal published their Woodturning Monthly newsletter. Some nice projects, just one example- Read the entire newsletter at: https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodturning-monthly/?utm_medium=email Expand Your Horizons- Happen to catch our local PBS airing of The Woodsmith Shop. It was a rerun from season 15 but the guest was Jimmy Clewes demonstrating his colored platter techniques. Here's the link to the Woodsmith site and information about the episode, including a PDF of the project. https://woodsmithshop.com/episodes/season15/1511/ New Turning Items- Lots of sales but nothing new. Woodturners Wonders and Easy Wood Tools among others. Everything Else- Relatives left and I had a chance to complete a shallow table centerpiece bowl requested by a dear friend. Walnut, about 11.5" in diameter and 2.5" deep. Finished with mineral oil and beeswax. Engraved with my little Ortur laser. Safe turning
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Ok it is over and turned out very well. For background our club has scheduled Jimmy Clewes twice before this weekend and both times the weather caused cancellation of his flight. Well in January 2018 I saw him at the TAW Symposium and scheduled again. Through all the planning and communication finally he was here Friday. We had a great turnout Saturday for the demo and have six new members for the club. Had a great time and all our video and sound equipment worked flawlessly. What Can I say I was responsible for getting that done with some help we made it happen and every time we do this we will get better. Jimmy did four pieces and we all learned something. Today was the hands on and we had 8 people turning . We did a colored rim platter and a scorched ash bowl with lid to be completed in home shop. Needless to say we created a lot of compost or bedding material. Yes everyone had something to take home to work on finish. Overall it would have been worth twice the cost.
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