Having a hard time finding pretty much anything I'm looking for that is in stock! Oneway easy core knives, bowl gouges. Everything I clicked on to order on many sites, is out of stock. I guess many are getting into wood turning and woodworking.
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I doubt it is a glut of new wood turners buying everything. Rather supply chain issues caused by factors that are verboten to discuss here.
john lucas
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Yea I talked to a friend of mine in the tool making business and they had lots of things on hold waiting for the steel.
Lots of cargo on the move though. I ride a rail trail on my tadpole trike and do some train watching in a little town called Princeville, IL. A major 2 line east-west corridor. On Friday I saw 5 cargo trains in 30 minutes. From 140 sea container cars behind 6 locomotives to 60 empty automobile box cars behind 2 locomotives. I'm usually lucky to see 1 train. So maybe some catching up happening with higher prices and shipping improvements.
Anything made of stainless steel will be a challenge in the foreseeable future with long lead times. Nickel is one of the main metals used in the stainless-steel process and a large amount of high grade nickel is mined in Russia.
Its pretty much the same here, out of stock due to supply issues and no really reliable estimates when supply might be returned to normal. Oh I'm in Australia
I'm friends with one of the big tool makers and some sizes of the m42 that he already ordered won't be in until later this year and even into next year.
I just found a used Oneway easy core base unit for cheap but now I can't get any knives for it
I just found a used Oneway easy core base unit for cheap but now I can't get any knives for it
I believe there are differing versions of the hole diameter in the base unit of the Easy Core depending on age.
Same here, can't get the last knife set I need. I ordered it because they said it was in stock; of course it wasn't so I have to wait.I'm friends with one of the big tool makers and some sizes of the m42 that he already ordered won't be in until later this year and even into next year.
I just found a used Oneway easy core base unit for cheap but now I can't get any knives for it
Donna Banfield
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This is correct. Around 2004 or 2005, a friend bought the Oneway coring set-up for his 2436. He told me he was going to drop it off and let me use it because he was too busy with work at the moment. I warned him not to do that (I had the McNaughton) and knew if I used his Oneway set-up, I would want to buy one. He just laughed.
So, a few days later (of course) I'm using his Oneway to core out some maple and it's working like a hot knife through butter. He left that set-up with me for 2-3 years. When I acquired my own, I bought the base, and two of the cutters. Several years later (2012 or so) I order the other two cutters. When I received them, they didn't fit the earlier model base. I called Kevin at Oneway and learned that there was a change in the post size - and he was very clear that it was not his decision. So, if you have an older base, check the post diameter before buying any newer cutters/knives.
In a way, this is reassuring. It's not just the bottleneck at the Port of Los Angeles strangling us, it's other places, too. Or maybe it's that Australia is just as unpopular with the Chinese government as we are.
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The problems affecting woodturning supplies cost and availability are :
supply chain, inflation, fuels costs
These are worldwide problems. By many reports the US is doing better than many countries.
I do know the base unit I bought is one of the current ones. The guy I bought it from upgraded to a bigger lathe and kept the knives to use in the new base unit. The one I have is still like new, he didn't have it very long.
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Some of the steel I use is made in Ukraine and hard to find a substitute. Everything happening around the world affects these things, and being shut down really got things out of whack. I'm not having trouble getting most of my steel and am in good shape for now, but the price of the steel has more than doubled.
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To those despairing about supply chain issues, all is not hopeless. I ordered the base and knives for the Oneway coring system five weeks ago and they arrived this week. Five weeks wasn't so bad. Gave me time to prepare some more blanks...
You need turning tools call Doug Thompson he has the steel. He got a half or full ton of 10V steel and will get the same amount early next year. He did run out of some tools in Chattanooga but that always happens as you never know what is going to sell the best and you can only bring so much.
Just one aspect of the situation: https://ciemanufacturing.com/how-container-ship-sizes-have-grown-over-time/
Our infrastructure (ports) capacity hasn't grown at the same rate. Shortage of truckers at the ports has also slowed things down. Complex problem without one simple answer. It's one big world like it or not.
Our infrastructure (ports) capacity hasn't grown at the same rate. Shortage of truckers at the ports has also slowed things down. Complex problem without one simple answer. It's one big world like it or not.
If you make a product in this country you don't have to load it into containers and truck it to a port where they load it on a ship that travels half way around the world and then sits offshore waiting to enter the port to get unloaded and go through customs inspections and then loaded onto another truck to be transported to another warehouse where it gets broke down into individual loads that gets loaded onto another truck to be shipped to its distributor and then trucked out to the retailer who then sends it to the end user. What could possibly go wrong?
Mike-I'm reading an article here and there to the effect that manufacturing is coming back here to the States because of these issues, especially the shutdowns in China that have had such a huge impact. Hopefully this trend accelerates, as manufacturing (and home ownership) really built the American economic engine after WWII.
As for Australia, our good friend lives in Brisbane. They have a saying: "When China sneezes, Australia gets a cold." Anything that defangs the Chinese government's growing power is a good development IMO. And ol' Vlad Pootin's reckless war is a whole other kettle of fish that has the world in chaos. Interesting times.
Manufacturers will go to the cheapest product they can. We just purchased Rao Pasta Sauce. The label says, "Product of Italy" Manufactured for: Rao's Specialty Foods, Inc. Montclair, NJ Does that mean it's made in Italy for an American Company? Since it's an American company is that mean it's made in America? How about foreign owned companies like Toyota that assemble product here in the US? Very complex situation.
I work at a large Biorefinery with multiple process facilities on the site, we are running into supply-line issues for repair parts for various pieces of equipment that keep the various facilities running. With many long-time employees retiring we are struggling to replace these experienced people
with talent that has experience and knowhow to keep the wheels turning. When I hear someone mention that they can't run a certain machine or process because the parts are on backorder, I have to remind them that we can make the parts ourselves or have our local machine shop make
the parts and get them back up and running again. No-one needs to wait for parts that are backordered, make your own parts. We had a million-dollar Chiller with a tube & shell exchanger that needed to be replaced, the factory said it would take 9-months, we fabricated and welded a new one in less than 30 days.
with talent that has experience and knowhow to keep the wheels turning. When I hear someone mention that they can't run a certain machine or process because the parts are on backorder, I have to remind them that we can make the parts ourselves or have our local machine shop make
the parts and get them back up and running again. No-one needs to wait for parts that are backordered, make your own parts. We had a million-dollar Chiller with a tube & shell exchanger that needed to be replaced, the factory said it would take 9-months, we fabricated and welded a new one in less than 30 days.