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Please keep @John Morris and his family in your prayers. John lost his Dad this week. Our Patriot Turners- @kreisdorph received a new toy this week- Please avoid drooling on the unpainted surfaces- we don't want no rust! Thanks everyone for the continued support of our 2 running post of "What' On/Off Your Lathe"- ON- @Gerald and @calabrese55 added their projects and some updates Catch up up here- And OFF- @User74, @RustyFN and @kreisdorph posted what they finished- More images and information about each of these projects are at- What’s Coming Up- Click on the following images for links to registration and more information- For The Newbies- Jim Rodgers demonstrates how to make a couple of helpful turning tools to add to your arsenal- Craft Supplies USA posted a nice video using some of their exotic species for making projects. Some good tips on working with exotics. Expand Your Horizons- Mike Peace demonstrates several embellishing tools- Alan Stratton turns some unique flowers for mothers day. Check out the materials he uses for the stigma and stamen! @Gerald's hollow form reminded me of this one turned by Carl Jacobson- New Turning Items- This item has been available from Woodturners Wonders for awhile. Mike shows how to set it up and runs it through its paces. Also from Woodturners Wonders, a sale on Yellowhammer HSS turning tools https://woodturnerswonders.com/collections/yellowhammer?_kx=gV5SF2As_3IwtBi5TrpHVQM0F3UvGVbQKzhWGippDlk.VJvU8R Everything Else- Trying to use up those little pieces of wind shake cherry by making tiny vases for Mimi. I tried pure beeswax on these an buffed them with an old T-shirt but they feel sticky. I think I will burnish them with shavings, again, and see what they look like. I have some Hampshire Sheen wax that might be better. My predicament now is how to reverse chuck them, to finish the bottoms. The entry holes are not identical in diameter. Thinking on making an expandable piece to fit into the holes The piece will need to be adjustable to take care of the minor variations in diameter. Safe turning
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Ok I'm on to something new. I must have ADD! Can't stay on one thing for too long. I've been looking @ Youtube videos about making stacked ring bowls after cutting the rings on a lathe as opposed to band sawing the ring sections out. It seems that in order to use the lathe & cut the rings out a "thin parting tool" is used. My experience with a standard parting tool is to work the groove in widths that allow the tool to do its job & not bind in the cut. In the videos the author/presenter just rides the same groove until the ring is cut loose. All w/o binding in the cut. So my questions: #1 Does anyone know of a source for a "thin parting tool"? All the ones that I've seen seem to be about standard thickness. #2 The AAW forum has a Q & A that some respondents say to make your own from "sawzall or hack saw blades or a kitchen knife". In my mind all those are too thin and asking for trouble. And not just from SWMBO. #3 Can I make one from an OLD small file after grinding the teeth off the file and shaping the cutting point. How much of a PIA would that entail? I'm assuming that a file should be stiffer and less likely to break than a sawzall blade! #4 Any words of wisdom/caution? Thks smitty
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