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Last day of August! Where did the summer go?!?!? Our Patriot Turners- Our turners have been busy this week! @Gerald posted about a novel idea for embellishing a turning. He describes the materials he used and how he obtained the neat colorization in his post- @Gunny posted this in the "What's on tour weekend agenda"- Gunny has these down to an art! @forty_caliber finished up a bowl he started a while back. The grain and color in this one is incredible! He explains the name in his post- @RustyFN posted his beautiful Calabash bowl. He received lots of positive comments and @Gerald was kind enough to post a couple of his bowls for comparison. What’s Coming Up- Hold onto your hats- lots coming up in the near future! A bunch from the AAW. Click on the images for links and information. For The Newbies- Jim Rodgers continues his instruction on how/why catches happen. In this one, Jim discusses the scraper- Expand Your Horizons- Mike Waldt turns and embellishes an ash hollow form- ...and a Yew lidded box Seems we have been really concentrating on making scoops. Another idea but quite different than the previous designs- New Turning Items- SWAT was this past weekend. Cindy Drozda took the opportunity to video many of the vendors and their products. She was live on several occasions. She has posted some of the material on her YouTube Channel. The link to her channel- https://www.youtube.com/user/cindydrozda Craft Supplies USA is having a closeout on a bunch of their products. Some good prices! https://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/Sales/20/Closeout?utm_source=csusa&utm_medium=email&utm_content=closeout&utm_campaign=22-08-closeout Woodturners Wonders Weekly sale: https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/weekly-sale A couple of weeks ago we mentioned the 3M Xtract sand paper. Taylor Toolworks is currently having a sale on the product- https://taytools.com/collections/3m-xtract?afmc=17p&utm_campaign=17p&utm_source=leaddyno&utm_medium=affiliate Everything Else- Rick Morris must be on vacation this week- He didn't post his usual list of turning videos. Tim Yoder is always a lot of fun to watch- I've been kicking this idea around for a while. Usually, when I make a lidded container, I will use contrasting species for the lid and body. Some things like pepper mills are made from a single piece of the same species. Cutting the blank in half and then creating a tenon can cause a noticeable grain mismatch where the cut/tenon is created. I was watching one of Cindy Drozda's live tool talks and she described a technique that minimizes the material loss and grain mismatch. After cutting the blank, it is glued back together with a sacrificial piece between the halves. This sacrificial piece becomes the tenon. My first attempt at this was a miserable failure. The cuts were not clean enough to create a good glue joint. I'm thinking I need a way to ensure the pieces will look seamless when mated together. My next try was a little better. The first thing was to create a sharp cut with no tear out. I forgot to take a picture in my haste but I used a skew chisel to start the separation cut. Then used my freshly sharpened, shop made, thin parting tool. Also cranked the lathe speed way up to part off the pieces- I did not create a tenon. Instead, I decided to turn tight fitting plug that would be used as the lid tenon. Mortice in one end- Fitting the plug Glue the plug into one of the mortices- the lid on this one. Trim the plug so the two halves fit together- Carefully hollow out the insides making certain not to touch the plug mating surfaces. I did not spend a lot of time sanding the inside. My main goal was to see if the plug idea would work. Some sanding on the outside and testing the grain match- Had to play a little to fancy up the very plain shape- I think this will have a much great effect when used on highly figured wood. This was from a very old piece of air dried walnut. Quite brittle. Safe turning
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Just about to wrap up on the first of these. I did several several searches with different phrases and eventually found some quotes that I thought would work. Some of the lids have knobs and some don't so I wrote two versions of each quote for the engraver. These have two coats of spray can shellac on them. They'll get sanded and finish coated in the morning. "Sereni-tea" for a lid with a knob. Liked this quote when I found it. "Sereni-tea" for a lid with no knob. This one I made up. Can't see it because of the knob but the last word at the top is "me" Wife liked this one too. 21 of them starters, actually did four more but didn't have metal lids for them. They'll go in the kitty for next batch if there is a next batch. Also did 25 honey dipper lids. I came up with a new look for the knobs on a few of them. If you notice there is a little "tail" at some of the intersections on the honeycomb. I was also getting that on my lettering. Replaced the belts on the Y axis and that fixed it. The belts didn't appear to be worn but apparently they were.
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Made another lidded pot for my wife. I love making these.
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From the album: Box for a Stanley 45
With the lid opened, you can see how Stanley stored the cutters in this style of a box. The rest of the plane's parts all get stashed in the main compartment. Dividers sit in hand cut dados. I cut the two dados with a backsaw, then a narrow chisel to pop out the waste. Not sure where that racing stripe in the grain came from, but it goes along with the rest of the fancy grain. I chose not to finish the insides...for now.-
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Got the "lid" out of the clamps today. Ends needed to be squared up. Bandsaw tried, and failed to cut a straight line, again. Sooo Millers Fals No.14 Jack plane to straighten the edges. Panel needed flattened as well...Sooo Gave both the 14 and a No. 11 a crack at it. Part of the panel was a hair thicker than the other. Beltsander on standby.. Dressed the edges a bit.. Low angle block plane. Looks a little better? Got the box, and the lid, set things up in the clamps, needed to plane a bit more... Decided to give the sides a bit of "Tumblehome" where the sides taper towards the inside. Planes and beltsander to do all four sides. Don't have the hinges..yet. Got a bit tricky rotating the box around. Finally. Got things matched up.. Almost like a Jewelery Case? Gave the outside a coat of that SMELLY BLO... Just to see where I'm at.... Need to go out and find some hinges, maybe a latch? Then I can work on how I am going to stash all of them bits....stay tuned..
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