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  1. I hope everyone can enjoy a peaceful Easter accordance with your customs. Our Patriot Turners- @Smallpatch was hitting the yard sale circuit when he spied an old lathe. Not one to pass up a bargain, he took it home a refurbished it. Check out his post for more images and the back story- New member @User74 posted a question about carbide tools. We had a very informative discussion about the quality of tools and cutters. Check out the post and see if you can add to it- @Steve Krumanaker created a beautiful Beads of Courage box. Steve used a special technique to create the staves for his turning project. Head on over to his post for more images and our members' comments Another great week for our What's ON/OFF your lathe discussions. From ON the lathe, @Gerald and @User74 gave us a look at their current turnings New information starts here- And, from OFF the lathe- @RustyFN and @User74 completed some really nice turnings- New posts for this week starts here- What’s Coming Up- Click on the images for links to more information and registration- Last week, we posted a link to the Mid-Atlantic Woodturning Symposium. One of the presenters is Alan Lancer. Here's a short video of what you can expect to see from him- For The Newbies- A tip, from Lyle Jamieson, for holding small turnings without a chuck- Easy Wood Tools shared a new video on how their products are made. Easy Wood Tools are made, in America, entirely in house- even their carbide cutters! @Jordan Martindale Expand Your Horizons- Tim Yoder shows us how he makes his French rolling pin. Tim is always fun to watch! Richard Raffan is bucking the trend of large turnings. In these two videos, he creates lovely small turnings. His commentary, while turning, gives an insight into his turning techniques- The Woodworker's Journal has published the Woodturning Monthly newsletter. Nice article on how to add butterfly patches to a turning. The newsletter can be found at- https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodturning-monthly/?utm_medium=email New Turning Items- Got a heads-up from @Grandpadave52 about a great price on a Longworth chuck sale. Everything Else- Safe turning
  2. I just called Teknatool for the first time today. I am looking for parts for a Nova Brand Lathe (1624). I was sent to Customer Service message line and was told I would be called back within 48 hours. Is this crazy? I've been in Customer Service for 30+ years and have never, ever received this type of service. This in my opinion is ridiculous! 48 hour wait just to talk to somebody? They don't even know what my problem is yet. Is it just me? What is your experience with this company and the service they provide? Please note... this is for me personally, and has nothing to do with Easy Wood Tools.
  3. I have had bad luck with pencils. I like the ole wooden pencils to mark my wood with. Nearly all I have purchased have faulty graphite that breaks easily or the outer wooden/artificial substance falls apart. There are a lot of my pencils located around my shop in unusual places. That is where they landed when I threw them when they failed. The flat carpenters pencils are too large for my liking. How about a recommendation for quality pencils. The ones at HD (for wood marking) are predictably awful . I don't like the mechanical, not because of cost, but they mysteriously hide shortly after purchase. I think they are possessed
  4. Yesterday son and I made some Pull Out Shelving for mama, see proceeding link. And while cutting down the panel for the shelves, we had to do some cross cutting of ply on my Shopsmith. I was pleasantly, actually, very very happy, to see the quality of cut that was produced on the smith with the blade I used. Also this cut was made without a zero clearance insert, I just had on the factory insert, and the quality was perfect, I was very impressed. I don't remember getting this good a cut even on my 12" 5hp Grizz cabinet saw using an 80 tooth Amana Blue melamine blade. I am not sure what happened here, but really, I was not expecting such a great cut, so there are several factors in play here. And I'll list them. Quality of ply, the ply we are using is excellent, prefinished maple ply Made in the USA. Just great stuff. So the finish is binding the maple veneer which may be preventing tear out. Shopsmith 60 tooth 10" blade The variable speed on my smith, I had it set at "R" or 3500 RPM, (not sure if that is arbor speed or tooth speed) Given that, I am sure the factors created a concert for a perfect cut, I'll have to test the cut on some less desirable ply, and see if that makes a difference. But boy was I happy. Again, no zero clearance insert here. Something really cool about the smith, is the variable speed, so I could have done some test cuts, and played with the speed a little to get the best cut, but in this case the first cut was perfect. I just used the Shopsmith speed chart, they did not list ply in the chart, so I chose the setting for softwood thinking ply is equivalent possibly to soft wood. My Shopsmith keeps giving me surprises like this frequently, just when I think I have pushed the limits of the smith, something like this happens, and it just makes me feel better about giving up my dedicated machinery as I had, and the smith in its place. I am not advocating the idea that the smith can take the place of dedicated machinery, I don't wholly agree with that, machinery made for a specific use is going to be much better and more efficient, typically, but for those who are considering a Shopsmith in order to save space, or you moved to more confined quarters, or just to add one to your arsenal of machinery, the cut quality on ply, may not have to be a concern during your deliberations. That being said, for my use, and my tight quarters (car in garage at night) I could not imagine another machine in my shop, or needing another machine, I have had this machine for two years now, while I needed to adjust my brain around it, and the sequence of work, yes there was an adjustment period, and a honeymoon period, and a disappointment period that was due mainly to my own ignorance on how the machine works, and its capabilities. But at this time after using it for two years, and learning its operations, I am happy. And it keeps surprising me, pleasantly. Image below is the top side of the cut Image below is the underside of the cut I used this Shopsmith 1 1/4" arbor 60 tooth cross cut blade. The blade below is from their website, but I used this exact same one.
  5. Whatever poisonous garbage the Chinese are putting on Harbor frieght chisels is dangerous stuff. I smoked just a little of it off welding the bases of their 4" brick chisels. The stuff made my shop all smoky and like when one burns rubber there were weird floaties of black goo floating in the air. Then the sickness set in. My throat became terribly raw and I have sinus issues. I've never had a paint do this. I can't even guess what they used.
  6. http://www.finehomebuilding.com/2017/01/18/far-better-abrasives
  7. Hi all, I ask this question, because i am having a real hard time finding a drill bit or drill bit set with any quality other than bad. I have purchased 2 7mm drill bits over the last few years, and both were pretty much dull out of the package. can someone point me to a place that makes quality drill bits? I prefer Brad point, but it isn't absolutely required. Thanks
  8. Tales of the repair guy 1. One job yesterday was to repair a leg on the back of a sofa that had collapsed. I'd say "medium quality" market. Open it up and find the frame and the support block made of that terrible Chinese plywood that must be held together with duck spit. You know, the kind that is 7-12 layers, depending on where you look? Overlaps, voids, plies that look like fine straw? I could literally pull that corner support apart with my fingers and the side frame was not much better. Not to mention those structural staples trying to hold it together. Replaced it with some solid hardwood. Lady watching me was impressed and thought it would be better than new. Yep. 2. I made a couple of free-standing linen cabinets last year. The lumber store led me to their premium ply, what they call "Dragon Ply." This is a large commercial distributor. Told me they have an inspector in the plant, assure high quality, they import a bunch of it and "the Amish love it." So I decided to give it a go. Every time I touched a fresh cut edge, I got these microscopic splinters from the thin face veneer. So fine I could fell them, but not see them, which made removal a problem. Had to back order the 1/4" stuff for the back. When I got it to the shop it looked like a Dorito to the point It was hard to even cut it and keep it against the fence. Never again. 3. I used to have a retail customer that would fly to Mexico, pick up "marble" (limestone) circular table tops and rent a truck to haul them back. He'd have me cut plywood in his warehouse to attach underneath so we could screw on the bases. Most were more than 4' diameter so it would involve a couple of pieces. He was telling what a great deal he got for this plywood at Home Depot. Didn't think much about, but I was not really impressed. He grabbed the cutoffs there and took them out to the covered loading dock in preparation for hauling to the dumpster. Just a light mist but he wanted to wait and make trips when it stopped. I needed to cut a second piece for the table I was working on and I remembered one of the cutoffs would probably work so I walked over by the loading dock. The piece was there, not really wet, but delaminated complete in the high humidity. Like I said, "duck spit" adhesive. Side story: A few months later, he lost his store lease and decided to close the store, have a clearance sale and he and his wife would take some time off. Couple of years later, they bought the lease for a store that was another customer and restarted the business. About six months later, he was busted for hydroponically growing marijuana in his warehouse and working with a ring to sell it at a local high school. Wife kept the business running while he was in the slammer, got out in a few years, and shortly thereafter, gave up the second store. So maybe he was not just bringing tables back from Mexico. His grow operation was in a warehouse that I never worked in.
  9. I've been thinking of how to write this post for a few days. I am a member, and now (unbelievably) president of the Northeast Indiana Turners and Chiselers, a wood turning club near Ft. Wayne IN. Anyway, we had a visitor at our last meeting, a retired guy(are all turners retired?). He said he was trying to turn some table legs and they were "all fuzzy". He wanted to know if there was anyone who could visit his shop and show him what he's doing wrong. It happens he lives about ten mile from me and I did visit his shop the other day. Where to start? He's trying to turn pine, about 36" long and 1 1/2" diameter and he doesn't have a steady rest. It would've been nearly impossible to do what what he was trying to do. It didn't help that his tools are very dull. The really bad thing though, is his lathe, it's a Grizzly. I don't know the model number but it swings 14", with a very small variable speed motor. Worse, the ways looked to be 1/8" or less C-channel. Very, very light duty. If I had to guess I would say the lathe weighed less than 100lbs. I'll admit I'm not a Grizzly fan but neither am I a basher. This lathe though, to me it's little more than stealing to sell such a piece of equipment. I'm not sure a person could even turn a pen on it, let alone a 12 or 14" bowl. The guy told me he bought the lathe to see if he would like wood turning. I told him I could guarantee he wouldn't like it if he had to use that lathe. It made me wonder, how many people have bought that lathe, or a similar product to see if they would like turning only to give it up and never know what turning is really like Steve
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