Last week I was asked by our Membership Secretary at our Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild to assist a new member, Gerry, with processing some wood he wanted to ultimately use on his new to him lathe. Gerry is completely new to woodturning. After an email introduction we spoke and I started doing some basic setup photos and then video clips to send to him. Over the past 20 years I have accumulated about 4 Gb of woodturning information I have sorted into about 60 folders and pulled numerous items from that as well. Today we did an almost two hour Zoom session on mounting and roughing the exterior of a 10” bowl from some box elder I picked up in November of 2019.
Video started with my iPhone 11 mounted on a Monopod taped to my Oneway 2436 tailstock on an angle looking down towards the headstock and some basic spindle work. From that I started playing with ideas to support my iPhone and ended up with a simple system of a 2x2 wood post with a 1/2” dowel at the top mounted to a small board clamped to lathe bed and a horizontal piece with 1/2” holes and dowels which allow horizontal rotation fitted with a wooden tilt mechanism on a 1/2” post, with an old screw camera clip I had, holding a 1/4” x 20 TPI tripod mount for smart phones I got from Amazon for about $15. I think my next rendition will be something mounted to the side of a wall cabinet behind the lathe, projecting out from the wall and adapting my current holder approach to it, so I do not run into the pole base on the lathe ways.
Gerry has a Zoom subscription and yesterday we tried some basic stuff to establish that we could transmit and receive a Zoom session from our workshops using the devices we have. We are both Apple users. Our rural home is on DSL internet that runs at about 2 to 3 Mb/s download and less than 500 KB/s upload. I used my iPhone 11 for video only and logged in to Zoom unidentified, as I have registered myself on the IPad Pro 2020 to Zoom. I had my iPad Pro 2020 running only audio with my ID and used Air Pods that our kids gave me for my birthday last December, as microphone and speakers. That way the tool noise was pretty much not audible. He said the audio/video was excellent. During our trial yesterday I was able to use Zoom on my Win 10 Notebook and identify the iPhone 11 as a second camera.
Today’s session was very successful. The bright sun was creating a bit too much light from the two south facing windows I have behind the lathe, which I can easily block out. The next session will be the bowl interior. Gerry has rigged up a mount for his iPhone in his shop as well. We are going to venture into “I do it” and “Gerry does it” sessions so I can watch him and coach and he can question my actions. Not a lot of technology and stuff we already had. I had been wanting to venture into this for some time and this pushed me over the edge. I do have to give credit to the couple of IRD sessions from the AAW that I have watched and the Record Power sessions that I have been taking in since last December. The same should be able to be accomplished using FaceTime or Facebook Messenger Video Chat in which case I would just use the iPhone. I believe some of the video chats now accommodate a small group. Lots of fun!
Video started with my iPhone 11 mounted on a Monopod taped to my Oneway 2436 tailstock on an angle looking down towards the headstock and some basic spindle work. From that I started playing with ideas to support my iPhone and ended up with a simple system of a 2x2 wood post with a 1/2” dowel at the top mounted to a small board clamped to lathe bed and a horizontal piece with 1/2” holes and dowels which allow horizontal rotation fitted with a wooden tilt mechanism on a 1/2” post, with an old screw camera clip I had, holding a 1/4” x 20 TPI tripod mount for smart phones I got from Amazon for about $15. I think my next rendition will be something mounted to the side of a wall cabinet behind the lathe, projecting out from the wall and adapting my current holder approach to it, so I do not run into the pole base on the lathe ways.
Gerry has a Zoom subscription and yesterday we tried some basic stuff to establish that we could transmit and receive a Zoom session from our workshops using the devices we have. We are both Apple users. Our rural home is on DSL internet that runs at about 2 to 3 Mb/s download and less than 500 KB/s upload. I used my iPhone 11 for video only and logged in to Zoom unidentified, as I have registered myself on the IPad Pro 2020 to Zoom. I had my iPad Pro 2020 running only audio with my ID and used Air Pods that our kids gave me for my birthday last December, as microphone and speakers. That way the tool noise was pretty much not audible. He said the audio/video was excellent. During our trial yesterday I was able to use Zoom on my Win 10 Notebook and identify the iPhone 11 as a second camera.
Today’s session was very successful. The bright sun was creating a bit too much light from the two south facing windows I have behind the lathe, which I can easily block out. The next session will be the bowl interior. Gerry has rigged up a mount for his iPhone in his shop as well. We are going to venture into “I do it” and “Gerry does it” sessions so I can watch him and coach and he can question my actions. Not a lot of technology and stuff we already had. I had been wanting to venture into this for some time and this pushed me over the edge. I do have to give credit to the couple of IRD sessions from the AAW that I have watched and the Record Power sessions that I have been taking in since last December. The same should be able to be accomplished using FaceTime or Facebook Messenger Video Chat in which case I would just use the iPhone. I believe some of the video chats now accommodate a small group. Lots of fun!
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