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talked about a million times here but I am going to throw it out again anyway. =)

http://ronkent.com/techniques.php

go to the last technique on the page... "The Soap Solution" I have done...

Weird... I have a Jet 1220 (from like the first week they were out) and I have not had a problem with the switch (probably just jinxed myself as well).

Is it mostly the VS that is having the...

I would get a friend and a couple of timber jacks...

I would cut in as far as you can with the FIL's 20" then use your friend and some timberjacks to rotate the tree some and do another cut......

I have a metric-buttload of computer parts laying around... how do you make the blank?

LOL... Perhaps. But it doesn't really stand all that well the base has warped so bad. I need to take pix.

I love the stem work that you do... absolutely awesome.

The whole thing was just to try and get my dad into turning... that is why I took a piece that had JUST fallen off the tree and turned it. Then to show what you can do I made the goblet real quick. ...

It's all out of wack... and still not completely dry. The stem looks to be fairly straight but the base is all out of wack.

I am toying with the idea of a jam chuck at the headstock and a live...

So the goblet that I made the other day is warping like CRAZY. I knew it was going to happen but I was still wondering...

How do you keep it from getting too bad? I know how to re-turn bowls but...

I had noticed the same thing the other day. I have the Jet 12x20 mini lathe and my dad is interested in getting one... They are like $500 now! I was SURE that I did not pay that much.

That is about as finished as it is going to get... I would not even want to think about the logistics involved in trying to remount and finish turn that thing. =)

Do you have a storage place for your wood outside? Or do you leave it just setting on the ground?

I know just about every firewood pile I have ever gone into down here has had black widow spiders...

You never can tell with him...

He was surprised at how easy it was. I think he was expecting it to be rocket surgery or something. The hard part about turning (to me anyway) is just getting all...

Sorry if this is a repeat, but...

We cut down a lot of trees this weekend and a lot of the trees have ants and the like crawling all over them. What do you do about that? Just leave the stuff...

My dad needs a hobby BIG TIME... he was visiting so I gave him a shot at using a roughing gouge on a piece of firewood (We have been cutting trees down like crazy in my yard).

After we got it to...

I have a softwood glue block... I am not putting it in a chuck though. I have the beal spindle tap and just made it a big block and then it screws right to the headstock... no problems so far with...

I have the wolverine paired with a variable speed 8" delta bench grinder. Works pretty well as far as I can tell. I still have issues with the skew (yes, I have the jig for that) but I am...

here is one:

http://www.packardwoodworks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=packard&Product_Code=990109&Category_Code=appr-tshirts

I have the echo backpack leaf blower and couldn't be happier with the thing... I had tried out a couple of others before dropping the cash on this one and none of them were as easy to start or as...

I have not decided... and not really looking for any validation. In the beginning of this thread I really wanted to know if the Poulan was worth the plastic it is made out of... looks like the...

I went to Stihl's website... Used their product selector... chose Gas/18"/cutting heating and firewood.

Cheapest one they have is $389... I know it sounds silly to squabble about $80 or so......

Marley makes me sick... he makes EVERYTHING look easy. =)

I dig the offset handle... cool stuff.

Interesting you mentioned Efco... I was looking at Northern Tool yesterday and noticed that is a brand they have a LOT of... I had never heard of them before.

Happened to find this last night...

http://marleyturned.com/id175.htm

Alan just happens to be a skew God.... He turns just about everything with that tool.

In Bill's videos he uses bowl and detail gouges along with parting tools and scrapers.

The best way to...