Henry, As pointed out, you could try and apply a coat of what ever you think you are going to use as a finish to help stiffen the fibres before cutting them.
With your gouge, have you tried turning...
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Henry, As pointed out, you could try and apply a coat of what ever you think you are going to use as a finish to help stiffen the fibres before cutting them.
With your gouge, have you tried turning...
It is a very nice looking combo, but I would think that you will need to limit the nut level in the main bowl or the shell will easily overflow the bottom bowl.
The spilt shells seem to take up a...
Fantastic looking piece.
I suspect the initial versions were to try and figure out the best thickness of the blocks to allow you to offset them and still have contact between the blocks. You...
I think most people who have tried both the Varigrind (original) and #2 find the same thing that John reported.
As for trying to get a set-up that works best for your limit control, I would look...
Frederick,
when sharping on a regular grinder, you will know your tools are as sharp as they can get off the grinder when you see fine sparks tripping over the leading edge and down the flute. The...
The grain structure of lilac is very fine compared to Ash, so will dry much slower. It also has more stresses than Ash, so left as whole log lengths will like slip.
As mentioned above, do not rush...
Some of those larger blanks would have made great natural edge bowls, though they would have been much harder to core.
Great haul for ash as I suspect most will survive the drying, starting this...
It is really too soft for a usable turned piece, but you can use it as practice. Dust mask should be used. With your tools freshly sharpened, try and take a very small light cut with just the nose...
My first thought was much like Mark just suggested, but I was thinking all thread of that size. Drill the hole in the end of the blocks to turn and use a cone in them to support it while turning to...
Either lathe would do the job as I suspect that the bodies are staved rather than starting off as solid tree trunks, so they are not that heavy and pretty balanced.
The manual speed changes on...
I guess the bearing is needed if you had rewound the yarn into a ball. You can stick the ball on the spindle and it will rotate to unwind.
If you do not turn your yarn into a ball before use and...
Lots of assistance passed along so far, so I will just add a bit of info on a way to centre a blank on a face plate so you can use that in the future.
attach a waste block of wood a couple of...
Hal,
Check with Doug Fisher in BC (www.douglasjfisher.com) . He uses bits very similar, so may have another source.
I am ok with your disagreements. I have a jet 1014 evs as my first lathe, a busy bee 1847 ( same as the older Grizzly with DC 2hp motor) which blew the controller and now have the used Nova as well...
If you are just getting into it, and you want to primarily do chairs, I would start with the Nova 16-44. It is not EVS, but the belt is quick to change and for spindles you will likely not be...
Mine does not have a hand wheel on it. Is there a chance the hand wheel is rubbing the casing at all? You did not mention any scraping sounds so I figure not, but might be worth looking at as well.
You can get chatter on end and side grain, but to get a consistent pattern, then end grain works better. Chatter is a compressive detail, so if your wood has a consistent grain structure then you can...
John,
Have you worked out a way to make the background surface all the same level with out too much sanding? So you would have what looks like parts of 2 slightly different sized bowls...
Great info. The only thing I might add is that sometimes you can also try to change the lathe speed up or down to try and get a better cut or change the speed you move the tool across the wood.
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nice bowl,
Maybe in keeping with the "aged look" if the texture have a coat of milk paint and then sanded back to have it look "used". A solid color on the texture might look odd, but with some...
Also watch out that you if you are going to apply a penetrating oil finish, after sanding back the shellac you want a solid surface of shellac. If you sand back through the shellac in spots, then the...
If you draw out the profile you hope to get, you can plan the cuts on the individual rings so that you do not need to have a cone shaped bowl. The starting material should be a bit thicker, but then...
Joe,
I think you will find that the sides of the flutes in V and U are straight, so the distance from the inner surface to the outer part of the tool varies quite a bit up and down the flute. On...
John looks to be doing demo's on the wave bowls at Totally Turning in late March if any was looking for a smaller symposium than the AAW to attend.
Great job on the lathe revamp.
as far working when your back and legs start to give out, instead of a chair or stool why not something like a bosons chair suspended from the ceiling? Have it...