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Hope this Wednesday finds all of you healthy and safe. I've added a few more videos this week just in case you are locked in the house/shop. If you watch and enjoy any video directly on YouTube, please give the author a "thumbs up" and leave a comment letting them know you appreciate their hard work. Our Patriot Turners- @Ron Altier created another beautiful ornament. Ron has a magical talent for design and color! Along with the picture, Ron asked our opinion on making it into a tree topper. Check out his post on the star and see if you can give him some ideas- Ron also posted an inquiry concerning negative rake carbide cutters and acrylic blanks. Check out the post. If you can provide some insight on his questions, please let him know. Ron is this weeks big winner in the number of posts department! Using input from his negative rake cutters question, he showed us the gorgeous acrylic egg he turned. In his post, Ron tells us a little about his experiences. Ron gave us a heads up on a cool video for an open segmented turning. The video author sure has a light touch and sharp tools! And another video where the author turns an unusual object. I found this especially interesting in light of a question asked by member @FrederickH concerning the use files as turning tools. Check out the parting tool at about 6:32 @Masonsailor continues his work on the lazy susan tulips. He showed us the trimmed out "home" for it! Check out more images here- @Artie brought up a couple of observations on safety. He noticed the latest issue of Woodcraft Magazine pictured a turner working without a face shield and was wearing long sleeves. We had a great discussion as our turners provided their thoughts. How do you feel about it? Self Isolation- For The Newbies- A video from Lyle Jamieson on tool rest position and rough turning between centers- Easy Wood Tools has started posting very short videos demonstrating their products. You can check out all of the videos from links at this YouTube Video- Expand Your Horizons- The Woodworker's Journal has a nicely illustrated article from Ernie Conover on accessories for hollowing tall forms. The complete article is here- https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/accessories-for-excavating-tall-hollow-forms/ @Ron Altier's experience with acrylics led me to this rather lengthy video. If you are considering getting into casting your own acrylic/resin blanks, there is a lot of good information. New Turning Items- Sam Angelo- The WyomingWoodturner- demonstrates the new Carter and Son Thread Chaser. If you are into pen making, Woodpeckers has some new kits- Check their website for more information- https://cdn.woodpeck.com/triton-rollerball-and-fountain-pen-kits.html?_bta_tid=32476282785476398023750574440026478214355615690754598719186774204374129149320745779994015069695242775658 The folks at Woodturners Wonders also a sale of until the end of March on many of their products- https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/specials Everything Else- @Artie's post on safety gear was very timely. I had an old piece of locust that might have made a nice shallow bowl. I was getting a lot of tearout so I decided to experiment with different speeds and different negative rake cutters. I found that, for the outside of the bowl, the Ci2-NR2 (2" radius, rougher, negative rake) is awesome at high speeds. Unfortunately the blank had a defect that I didn't see. I still haven't found all of the pieces! Safe turning and stay well
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Something has been gnawing at me for several months, I'm interested in what others think. In the past 5 months or so I've had several different contractors doing work around the house. New flooring, door replacement, and the shop that's being built as I type. There were also quite a few instances of my headache with contractors at the last house....and I couldn't decide whether to remind them about safety. Actually, I could decide; I did nothing. But here's the dilemma, some of these guys are so unsafe with their work habits I kept the phone in hand to dial 911. the worst i saw was the laminate flooring guy doing free hand cuts on a bench top table saw, even "rip" cuts were done freehand, the fence was taken off the saw and lay in the grass next to where he was working. No eye protection, no nothing. Same with the door installer, though he wasn't using a table saw. The Amish crew building my shop have nothing in way of PPE, and they are walking around on the roof making cuts with small chain saws, using pneumatic nailers, miter saws, circ saws and whatever. The leader of the Amish crew was talking to me about table saws, and showed me the scars on both thumbs where he ran them into the saw blade. The thumbs were not severed off (apparently), just badly cut. The concrete crew had no problem gassing up their power trowel while they were smoking, and the list goes on and on. Like I said, I'm just waiting to dial 911...what would you do? Calling them out on safe practices would almost certainly be unwelcome (to them) and I suspect to potentially lead to legal woes.
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