My wife called me in for supper. I made a very....very makeshift table for the mini..........guess what I'm doing?...............having a lot of fun. SWMBO is coming out to take some pictures.............I'll post them later!
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My wife called me in for supper. I made a very....very makeshift table for the mini..........guess what I'm doing?...............having a lot of fun. SWMBO is coming out to take some pictures.............I'll post them later!
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
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Go ahead and kiss her goodnight Ken, we'll see you in the morning!
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That's really cool Ken, glad you are having a ball. Will be looking forward to the upcoming pics.
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Hot Dog!!!! It isn't Chariot Wheels is it?
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That great Ken. Fun isn't it? Can't wait for the pictures.
Bernie
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
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Okay folks.........it's not a bowl.......it's a spindle of sorts.........species unknown........green it isn't....it was in my old shop and I haven't put any wood in there in a decade........it started out as a 2x2........I thought .....if you're going to get smacked in the chops rounding off something.....you might as well get it over with..........Mike Ramsey had sent me a couple of Raffan videos that I'd watched.........I took one of his practice sessions.....added my own twist.........so here it is.........my first ever wood turning.......don't hesitate to tell me what you think..........I'll ignore you and be out there in the morning practicing anyway!
Included is photographic evidence that I was using the lathe and a picture of the makeshift bench I rigged to turn this.
Last edited by Ken Fitzgerald; 02-12-2006 at 2:17 AM.
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
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Ken I'm impressed as all getout!! Good job
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Great job Ken!! That would make an excellent salmon bonker! Congrats on the new addiction......
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Excellent job Ken. My wife calls that a "attitude adjustment tool." Ken that is awesome right out of the chute. I think I tried 8 or 9 sqaure 2 x 2's to get used to what each tool will do. Keep praticing and you'll have it down soon. Congrats Ken.
Bernie
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
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Way to go Ken !!!!! this is how it begins...Your confinements to the flat plane of being are over, Reminds me of a song by the Steve miller band...
I heat up, I can't cool down
You got me spinnin'
'Round and 'round
'Round and 'round and 'round it goes
Where it stops nobody knows...
good to see you spinning some wood...
"The element of competition has never worried me, because from the start, I suppose I realized wood contains so much inspiration and beauty and rhythm that if used properly it would result in an individual and unique object." - James Krenov
What you do speaks so loud, I cannot hear what you say. -R. W. Emerson
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Ken, that is fantabulous!!!! And that lathe bench is first-class....
Keep it coming, man... keep it coming!!!!
THANKS for the pictures!
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OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!
So Ken, that sting wasn't so bad, was it?
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Just love to see someone making those first shavings (sawdust in this case?)
Me thinks you got some really dry stuff there Ken...tough to turn, but darned if you didn't do a bang-up job of it! Now go grab a green limb off a tree and watch those 4' ribbons come curling off there. That's the final step to total addiction.
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Indeed it has Andy.....Indeed it has my friend!
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So much to learn, so little time.....
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