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When we first met, my wife and I shared a pottery class in college.

We have an electric kiln & wheel -- but haven't thrown anything for the last years. We plan, in the next year, to kick this up...

I have 2 domain names with which I've done nothing.

So, I'd be willing to either (a) take some ideas and build a site, for whatever common good it'd be for; or (b) transfer them over to someone...

Yes - that is very close to what I'm looking for.
I'll take a look at it.
Thanks --

- joe

Looking for plans
Something like a display case on something like a sofa table.

I have about 13 width by some length, so I assume a sofa table would be about right.
I need to place items inside...

I've only used this jacobs chuck in my tailstock.

So, maybe I solve my problem a different way -- time to buy some spigot jaws for the oneway chuck :-)


--joe

I got another, small Jet-like lathe (Delta LA200) and noticed that my jacobs chuck ... won't' fit !?!

I guess it would fit, if it would insert all the way. You see, the arbor has a little tang...

Some plexiglass yellows over time -- if I remember correctly. But, I don't remember anything about the finish breaking down.

There was (is?) a lot of discussion of using plexiglass as a pen...

The woodturningz folks are one of the mian places to go for super prices on pen kits. I love these guys.

I'm working on some of their copper finish pen kits now.


I've been in on group...

I had a mandrel that was fixed length.
You have to add bushings if you were turning only a 1/2 a pen blank, etc.

I've since bought the compression type -- where the morse-taper end of my mandrel...

The wife got me a B&N gift card for fathers day.

I know book choice is a personal one ... but it'd be neat to hear what you all would do. I've got some good wood working/turning books (and the...

You make it look so easy ...

Nice hat!

-- joe

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or ... maybe you could install VMware (virtual machine software) and install win98 or dos into that virtual machine.

I run linux sometimes, under vmware, on WinXP


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You can also use...

Whats 'the Oak'?

and, if you need me, I'm a perl guy too.

(perl, php, python - whatever it takes :-)

-- joe

I posted earlier this week about this chest. Its meant to hold hanging folders, for a weaver/friend that likes to keep printed patterns with their samples.

I'd cut the wood to the inside...

So ... heck with it.
I am now working on the LETTER sized hanging folder chest :-)

1/2 the carcass pict:


-- joe
Never enough clamps.
When you think you have enough clamps, then you realize...

*sigh* ... I keep making stupid, yet new mistakes!

(tale of woe)

A weaver-friend needs a small cedar chest to hold her cloth samples + pattern notes. So, a hanging-folder/cedar chest is under...

I googled once for 'double dovetail' and found a step-by-step walk through for doing those kind of dove tails.

Of course, I lost the bookmark :-(

The rare earth magnets I picked up from Rockler broke easily.

So, maybe you can score them and break them ??

I have a talon, also -- and I've been thinking that it'd be possible to make some jumbo jaws. Have you considered that?


--joe

Lots of decent guitar finishing info at 'guitar reranch' (google for it).

I've seen some pretty guitars done with rattle cans, but most appear to use spray (hvlp), and purists claim nitro-lacquer...

I got obsessed with finding example images for demi lune tables a while back.

So, I have this folder filled with occasional table/demi-lune table pictures, or pictures of elements/features of...

I've been wanting to make a Rude Osolnik type rolling pin for some time (i.e., angle cut, laminated wood). Craft Supplies USA has blanks for this kind of rolling pin.

Then recently, I'd found a...

2 - in re: wet pen blank
The folks at Woodturningz are absolutely super. You may want to ask them about that blank. I doubt they meant to send a green one -- and you should let them know.

If it...

I've put off making a scratch awl ... but that burl looks wonderful.
After xmas gifts are made (and the demilune table, and the serving tray) a scratch awl is next!.

--joe

I like the older, heavier lathes.
From my background ... here was the plan:


Start with pens -- quick turn around, instant gratification.
You also have a safe/low-risk way to learn about
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