What’s on your lathe?

[John K Jordan]

Just walnut hands. Apparently, I also showed him the Bosch "following" system. Phones.

I gave up completely on accessing web sites on phones - drives me insane. I have a hard enough time with text messages with fat fingers on those tiny virtual keyboards! The worst is a doctor's office that texts a link to some big form to fill in before an appointment. I ignore those.

For web sites I use a dual-screen desktop computer in the shop, a laptop in the house, and an iPad pro where convenient, all with keyboards I can operate with fingers. Amazing! After decades of computer programming I can usually type like the wind. (Maybe why my posts are so long. )

I still mess up but the cause is my brain, not the tiny pretend keyboards.

JKJ

 

[Gary T Egbert]

One of eight cherry bowls of similar size I dried in grocery bags for about eight weeks after first turning them.

 

[Ted Pelfrey]

Cherry

 

[John Kananis]

Mahogany and paduak

 

[John Kananis]

Bah, here's a better shot.

 

[Gary Beasley]

Huge lump of fresh cherry wood.

 

[Phil Hamel]

Was driving by the local wood shop today and noticed the free wood box was out in their yard. Spun around and checked it out. Brought home 13 4x4 pieces, 1 6x6 piece and a couple 2x pieces of what I believe is cedar. Not sure I will have to check it out when I work on it.

 

[David Wyke]

Dug out a cherry bowl to second turning today, too hot to cut the green logs. This cherry had warped more than any cherry I’ve turned before. I cut a least 2” off the rim to get it level. Since I lost so much height on the bowl I decided to turn what some refer to as a “thumb rim” . Ogee on the outside and undercut on the inside so when picking up your thumb wraps around and under the rim. I just call it an ogee with an undercut rim.
Also noticed when I put it on the finish shelf that I have 28 pieces of bowls and hollow forms in various stages of completion. So I need to stop turning and complete the finishing process on those….

 

[Beth Lockamy]

and the ugly duckling emerges.

That’s beautiful!