Justin Braden

[Justin Braden]

My name is Justin Braden. I've been a member of the Southwest Missouri Woodturners for almost 2 years now.
I've always liked working with my hands and woodworking but I had never tried turning. When I expressed interest, my father in law dug out a homebrew lathe from the 1930's that ran on a washing machine motor, a light switch, and prayer. It was love at first spin.

In less than a month I had a new lathe and had joined my local AAW chapter.

Right now I'm working out of my half of the garage for a shop. My wife and her car get the other half.

I'm looking forward to sharing my work and being inspired by your work.

Here's a few photos of my work and shop.

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Welcome to the forum, Justin! Keep posting your work here; it's good stuff. By the way, did you adapt the copper lid to the piece or did you make it from scratch or what?

Mark

 

[Justin Braden]

Welcome to the forum, Justin! Keep posting your work here; it's good stuff. By the way, did you adapt the copper lid to the piece or did you make it from scratch or what?

Mark

Thanks Mark. It's from scratch. I adapted a technique from Steve McNeil that he demonstrated at SWAT in Waco this year. I turned a form that had the shape I wanted into a scrap on a face plate. Then used the tailstock to hold a copper sheet into the form, then sunk it into the form with a ball peen hammer. Then once it had the shape I wanted I turned off the edge with a carbide diamond tool. here's my practice with aluminum.

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Very cool.

 

[John K Jordan]

Right now I'm working out of my half of the garage for a shop. My wife and her car get the other half.

You’re having too much fun!

When we moved to this farm my shop was 1/2 a 2-car garage until I built a shop down by the barn.

It was great! But tight. When a friend came over one had to step outside so the other could get to the lathe! Did a lot of turning there! Besides a full-sized lathe, I had a mini lathe, two bandsaws, routers, sanders, wood storage, planer, workbench, shelves, and too many lathe tools. The radial arm saw did stick a TINY bit into the car parking side!

The garage wasn’t heated or cooled so in the summer I used a fan and opened the garage door when it wasn’t too hot. For the winter a kerosene heater knocked off the chill if I remembered to start it up ahead of time! I used a big shop vac for dust collection and ceiling-mounted Jet air cleaner worked well to pull the fines out of the air.

The metal work looks fun. I learned once to make carve/grind a hollow into the end grain of a piece of log then peen the metal into the hollow with special smooth tools. Kind of noisy!

JKJ

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

welcome to the forum. I saw that demo and you have done it well. I have a roll of copper but am in the process of building and moving to new shop and house so have not tried it yet.