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Not sure if this is the correct forum section but here goes. Got three pieces of HSS a while back. Discovered them hiding on the top shelf in the shop. One is going to be a bedan tool. I was thinking the other two could be ground to RH and LH scrapers similar to those used for bowl interiors. I...
It was supposed to be a natural edge bowl or vase ... started with a wrong position on the lathe when I realized that it could not be anymore a natural edge ... so I turn it in 2 axis. 6" diameter, 5" wide and 3 1/2" tall
It was supposed to be a natural edge bowl or vase ... started with a wrong position on the lathe when I realized that it could not be anymore a natural edge ... so I turn it in 2 axis. 6" diameter, 5" wide and 3 1/2" tall
Treated myself to an early birthday present. Had a birthday card from Woodcraft for 10% off. Bought some pen kits for some Christmas orders already. I have the Wolverine jig already. I saw the original Vari Grind Jig and put it in my basket. Now to continue on another thread, what is the best...
Blackwood spirals 8" dia AO and buffed. This is piece came from a tree downed in a major rain storm it literally washed away its roots. A very gnarly piece of wood with the grain going every whichaway. No tear out more like divot out.
We finally got our schedules together. My wife and I got him a "Christmas gift" for a penturning class at our local Woodcraft store. Only took 10 months to get together. He turned one blank yesterday and found it had worm holes. When he got down so far, we could see the tube. The wood let...
So I have been doing the LDD bowl drying method for a few weeks now with pretty great success until recently...
I decided to get the big bottles of Great Value Brand Dish-washing Liquid so I could feel up a large container and soak more bowls at once. WELL the outcome was I lost all 8 Maple...
I've been trying to use free wood for my projects so that I can learn how to prepare blanks, dry the roughed bowls properly etc. I had a bunch of ornamental pear logs (it's quite popular in Southern Calif for lining the streets) The bowl pictured was turned from an approximately 3" thick slab...
A yard tree taken down gave me lots of wood to air dry, and this is the first bowl made from our home Catalpa. Seven one-half inches in diameter, and about four and one-half inches deep.
I have been at turning for many years, just getting used to some newer bowl mounting methods.
How do you all eliminate those annoying chuck marks on either ti interior expanding dovetail or the calmping onto a dovetail tenon.
See the dimples on this mini bowl I turned today?
I use the...
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