Everyone seems pretty sure it is your tool size or your toolrest which but I will have to disagree. Box making rests are nice but not essential. I made thousands of boxes without one and can't say...
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Everyone seems pretty sure it is your tool size or your toolrest which but I will have to disagree. Box making rests are nice but not essential. I made thousands of boxes without one and can't say...
You can if you know where to look. I bought most of mine locally 1x8 1.25x8 and 1.5x8 at $5, $5 and $10. But since most of you don't have access to mendelsons I suggest you keep an eye on ebay for...
They said they would honor the warranty they had no problem with that but shipping the piece and a signature to confirm they got it would have run be $15 or so and would have taken them 3 to 6 weeks...
you can square off the cast iro0n ones just fine with your regular turning tools, it is just a bit hard on the edge. In my opinion if you are going to be using faceplates for vac chucking you will...
As some of you know by now, I have snapped a tendon in my wrist and won't be turning for some time to come and then only a limited amount :( The one thing I intend on doing in my time off though is...
I like the idea of a blank swap since I won't be doing any turning for atleast 8 weeks now that I have snapped a tendon in my fore arm :( It will give me something to do and atleast mildly involved...
by the looks of it that came from a silver maple and whether or not you seal the ends you should get a few pallets to stack it on. If you don't some of it will go punky pretty quickly and you will...
I thought that same thing and can'tr wait till this summer when I have the choicest pick of a 1/2 acre stand of mostly sycamore and elm is coming down. god bless my firends at the county parks...
Check out the cost of renting a big saw at your local tool rental place. That is what I am doing when the big oak in the neighborhood park comes down this summer. It will cost me $100 for the weekend...
I don't care for the finial, but the question is do you like the way the finial looks on it? The finial is not an all out waste though, even if you don't like it It could be fit into another piece...
This is a sycamore subspecies, probably not american sycamore based on how high that would have been cut from the ground based on diamter, but I don't have enough info on the rest of the tree to tell...
i don't know what Stu did but I have 3 different padding materials. For deep vessels with smaller openings I use a straight piece of pvc with a raquet ball slit and shoved over the end of the pipe. ...
on pen blanks it also helps to soak in if you predrill them to provide more and deeper penetration
speaking of indexing has anyone used the sorby indexing system? I have thought about buying that along with the boring kit for my mini?
Bill.
I would sand the edges smooth and either perpendicular to the bowl surface or at roughly the same radius as the natural edges if any. In keeping with the dark edges of the natural edge...
there are plenty of ways to texture it both on and off the lathe. Since I am out of commission except for my mini at the moment I am texturing several platter blanks by laying thin chain on thm and...
i have seen one, but didn't know that is what it was for.
I have never seen a tool motor no matter how much it cost quoted at anything other than apparent power of amps x volts divided by 748.
I don't know if I still have the jig but since I don't have the saw anymore I kind of doubt it I will be headed out to the storage shed this weekend and have a look and I'll look for the magazine I...
Your are right any unmodified entry level lathe. The Speed and stability of cheaper models including the jet 1442 are not such that what you are doing is really possible with them I have turned a...
I have a circle jig for a tablesaw but I use a whole lot more table & lot less wood. Though i am not beyond simply nocking the corners off with the tablesaw.
turning hackberry is akin to turning younger smaller soft maple. There usually isn't much difference between heartwood and sapwood. It spalts pretty easily but goes punky fast.
Sycamore comes in...
definately not osage orange or any other orangish tree in the locust family if it is oily like he says.
didn't say his info was wrong, just not enough of a reason to change from what I have or for others to think it is the only option worth doing. An 3PHS AC VFD maybe the top of the line, but it...
and just because everyone else is doing it we should too...