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I browse thrift stores for wood to turn. Most people have no idea about wood or type. I have picked up pieces of Walnut, Purple Heart, Yellow Heart, etc. I saw a large clock made of Cypress. The clock was junk, but the wood looked interesting. I paid a few bucks for it and turned it into another Christmas ornament. The wood was challenging, it was soft, hard and sometimes brittle. This my first try and I must say this wood is beautiful when all goes right.
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I think I have a handle now on using epoxy on small turned pieces. These pieces came out good and look like a glass finish
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For some time I have wanted to finish a small piece (ornament) with 2 part Epoxy. I gives a great luster with depth. My first experiments were using 2 part 5 minute epoxy. It didn't do too bad, but I quickly found out that I'd better be set up to do the job BEFORE mixing the epoxy. The project and epoxy must also be at room temp. My lathe does not have RPM control that goes low enouogh and is located in my garage that can drop to 50 degrees. After a dry run I did get some promising results. However it did harden to enough to foil my attempt. I purchased some 30 minute epoxy from Amazon. There again I learned another property of epoxy. It does begin to harden enough in the first 7 minutes to prevent flow. Which makes touch up a bit tricky. Just when I though I messed up, I discovered that the epoxy does actually flow after 7 minutes.......but very slow. I allowed the piece to turn the full 30 minutes and it did even the the surface. The picture shows my set up and the final piece. As you can see, it is still in the drill, It is set up, but far from being hard. I had to let it set overnight in the drill to accomplish a tack free surface. I like it and will use it again. I'm sure I will learn more..................like use a small paddle instead of a brush, the epoxy will pull loose hairs from the brush. Most chucks will not close enough to take a small shaft, you can see my aux tiny chuck is chucked up. The speed control is my tiny clamp.
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This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use.- 2 reviews
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Ok Patriot Woodworkers, if you had a chance to speak to any woodworker in the entire history of our world, who would it be? Who that lucky guy, or gal be? Who would you travel back in time to see? Thanks for humoring me!
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So this may be a long one, and if posted in the wrong forum, feel free to relocate. My life has been very busy for the last year. I’m still working on one set of friends addition (end is in sight, but the garage hasn’t even been framed yet, I do the electrical). I went on vacation as of 3:00 pm yesterday, and will be changing the electrical service for another friend this week. Our son is engaged, they’ve bought a house, and I have projects going on over there. I average 48-50 hours a week at work. My only female cousin, and also only one older than me, passed away the first week of June from ALS. My kid brother committed suicide August last year. I am still mad at him for that, and obviously still coming to terms with it. I did not post this trolling for sympathies, or condolences, but it has a bearing on the story. My Mom passed away on Easter of 2014, and my sister was the executor. My Father’s Mother had collected Hummels, and my sister had not gotten to dividing them up among us, before my brother’s death. This really bothered her, and she was afraid that if she didn’t divide them up soon, another of us would be gone. So on Palm Sunday this year my other brother, and myself, met at my sisters house and we divided up the Hummels. They are porcelain/ceramic figurines of children, made in Germany. Around 1968 my Mom’s dad (my grandfather) made 4 mangers, and bought 4 nativity sets. He kept one, and gave one to each of his children. My sister got my grandparents manger and I got my parents manger. There were roughly 60 Hummels, and there was a nativity set. My sister and I agreed to give Paul the nativity set, and I would build him a manger, before Christmas (see there is something dealing with WW’ing here ). When I got home from my sisters house that Palm Sunday, I was putting the Hummels away. I happened to glimpse into one of them, which was a bank, and saw a piece of paper. The key to the bank was taped to the bottom of it. It was a gift to my Dad’s Mom, from my parents, Christmas of 1957. I know this because my grandmother wrote it on the bottom of the Hummel, in pen. (Probably not adding to it’s value). So I opened the bank, and the piece of paper inside was my Father’s first grade picture, Dec 20, 1937 (pictures will follow). It was kinda like Dad saying hi, from the beyond. So today I went down to the basement and looked at my manger, and started cutting pieces of 1/4 Baltic birch for the new manger. I have a ShopSmith so I had to set everything up, and then disassemble and put away, clean up, so the Missus can use the basement. I also did a couple of loads of laundry while I was down there. I GOT TO SMELL SAWDUST! Now this is gonna be a box with a slanted top, pretty simple, nothing special. But for me this is awesome, I even got to use my tapering jig (store bought) for the first time. I will post some pictures of the process as it happens, and even if my friends projects don’t get done on time, or if I don’t work all the OT my job may demand, I’m gonna get my brother’s manger done in time. One of my reasons for posting this is so that if there are any other members here like me, just beginners, or still learning, it’s ok. The regular posters here are very talented, and their work is beautiful, and I suspect that may intimidate some of us from posting (There is a very high bar here), so I’ll happily be a representative for the newbie’s, still learning, 2 left handed, among the forum. One of the reasons that this is my single favorite forum is the overwhelming friendliness, and helpfulness of the members. There is none of the condensension, and snide remarks, that I have seen from the experts (self nominated) at some other sites (and I’m not referring necessarily about woodworking forums). So I stopped working on the project while I’m contemplating how I’m gonna do the joinery. This is NOT a request for help or advice, I wanna think about this, and come up with my own ideas, not because of pride, but because this is how I learn best. I had a great day, just being in the shop, it’s so much fun. I suspect that those here who have decades working in their own shops still get this feeling. I try to remind the old timers on some of my metal detecting sites, how much of a thrill it is for the newbs to just find a quarter, it can be easily forgotten how we all started out. On another note, my Missus’s friend, who has Everett for a son, does not seem inclined to let him come over and learn to use the scroll saw. I have asked, and the look on her face was like I was asking to let him swim in the alligator infested water. I learned, and I had fun, so there’s always that. Sorry for the long, disjointed epic
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Today is clock day. I have built many clocks, cuckoo clocks, grandfather clocks, novelty clocks, etc. Each year I devote a day to changing batteries, setting chimes and adjusting DST, etc. There is one clock that is always a challenge. It used to be a Bulova battery chiming clock with swinging pendulum. I got it at a garage sale for $2. This thing is solid brass and weighs more than 10 lbs. When I got it home and opened it, the old batteries had corroded it so badly that all was ruined. I purchased a new battery chiming clock and replaced the old one. It did not look right without the pendulum. I purchased the swinging bell thing for an anniversary clock and placed an octagonal mirror behind it. (when I saw it, it was the perfect size, I couldn't believe I was so lucky.) This thing was extremely hard to work with because of its weight and available room to get my hands in. When I went to install it, the weight was troubling because I could NOT see the hole to hang it with. No wonder it was left on the wall and batteries never changed. I changed that quickly by reworking the hanger to be above the clock in plain sight, but not from below. My wife couldn't be happier with her chiming anniversary clock.
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before I should be able to buff it? I have had very limited experience with Tung oil and have always wondered when I should be able to buff it. Thanks I like Tung oil on these tops because it does not give a very slippery surface when dried.
