Arthur Dubois

[Arthur Dubois]

Good morning and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all members!
My name is Art and I live in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, near Thunder Bay. We are about 350 miles due north of Minneapolis/St. Paul. I'm 72 years old, retired, and never touched a piece of lumber before 2015 and last year I discovered the lathe. I am obsessed with it!
I started out making canes because of a mobility issue but after 26 canes, my wife pleaded with me to make something else. So I started out making bowls, then round lidded "boxes", salt and pepper shakers, and just made my first salad bowl set.
I don't have a lathe but rather attend a Senior Center where they have all the tools needed. But Santa did bring me Robert Sorby chisels. The Center is closed now until January 7th, so it's time to read, study and learn more about this fascinating hobby. This site has provided me with lots of instruction and ideas. I will attend seminars and demonstrations as far as 700 miles from home, which would include Chicago area and Missouri.
I look forward to learning something new about turning each and every day!

 

[Bill Boehme]

Welcome to the AAW forum and Merry Christmas, Arthur. Many of us can identify with your obsession over woodturning ... it's certainly what happened to me. I had done "flat and square" woodworking for many years and didn't have any interest in woodturning. Then when I retired I thought that a lathe would be handy for occasionally making table legs. That was fifteen years ago and so far I've only turned one table leg, but I've turned lots of other things and meanwhile my other woodworking tools have seen very little use.

 

[John Torchick]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Lamar Wright]

Welcome to the forum Arthur, You will learn a lot here!

 

[Arthur Dubois]

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the welcome, John! And also to all others who welcomed me to the group! Unfortunately my Center where my lathe is is closed until Jan 7, but that gives me plenty of time to study and view....but I'm sure I'll never be able to duplicate some of this work! Amazing!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Arthur,
Time to put your vehicle up on blocks and mount a bowl chuck to one of the drive wheels and turn a 24" bowl.

 

[Arthur Dubois]

Arthur,
Time to put your vehicle up on blocks and mount a bowl chuck to one of the drive wheels and turn a 24" bowl.

Haha - never thought of that (nor have I ever heard it before!). My biggest bowl is 11-1/2", the maximum that the old (70-ish) lathe can handle, but certainly at this stage in my career that's big enough! When I mounted the laminated block onto the chuck and got that doo-wop sound I was about to give up. But I persevered and the bowl actually turned out ok, for my eyes at least!

 

[hockenbery]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Hi Art, welcome, I do some wood turning, and live in Atikokan, and am a member of SAW, wood workers in Thunder Bay, there are a couple of people that turn but mostly flat wood working.
Still nice to get together, next meeting is January 21, maybe you can come and visit.
Maybe this will get the info you need/want ?

http://search.211north.ca/record/TBY1211

 

[Arthur Dubois]

Hi Art, welcome, I do some wood turning, and live in Atikokan, and am a member of SAW, wood workers in Thunder Bay, there are a couple of people that turn but mostly flat wood working.
Still nice to get together, next meeting is January 21, maybe you can come and visit.
Maybe this will get the info you need/want ?

http://search.211north.ca/record/TBY1211

G'day Leo! I just realized that there were posts replying to my introduction, yours being one of them. Sorry I didn't visit sooner...:>(( Getting to be spring (finally) and so in the summer I just do some glue-ups in my little workshop (no lathe) and then when fall comes, I have lots of projects to do in Rural 60 Plus! If you're driving through Kakabeka Falls en route to Thunder Bay, Rural 60 Plus is just 2 kms east of the Kakabeka Legion, open daily weekdays 10 am till 4. Stop in to say hello!!

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

G'day Leo! I just realized that there were posts replying to my introduction, yours being one of them. Sorry I didn't visit sooner...:>(( Getting to be spring (finally) and so in the summer I just do some glue-ups in my little workshop (no lathe) and then when fall comes, I have lots of projects to do in Rural 60 Plus! If you're driving through Kakabeka Falls en route to Thunder Bay, Rural 60 Plus is just 2 kms east of the Kakabeka Legion, open daily weekdays 10 am till 4. Stop in to say hello!!

I might just do that Arthur, though usually we are all gung-ho to get where we are going, and thanks for your reply, be good.