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What’s on your lathe?

Kent Reisdorph said:
Just walnut hands. ;) Apparently, I also showed him the Bosch "following" system. Phones.
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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. :eek: )

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

JKJ
 
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….

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Up before sunrise this morning to pick some blueberries so before the sun hit the shop I cut a new maple log a friend brought me to see what it was going to look like. It has some nice ambrosia and figure, now time for a hollow form.
He called and asked if I wanted a maple log since he thought it was white oak he was cutting, he’s made several mistakes identifying trees. I took the log and sent him a picture of white oak leaves….should be getting another log soon😁.


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I can't remember where I saw it, maybe Wood by Wright, but he had some ambrosia maple on the bench and called it hard maple. I always thought that the ambrosia maple was a soft maple. Any one know? We don't get it here in Oregon. Also, there is almost no hard/sugar maple.

robo hippy
 
robo hippy said:
I can't remember where I saw it, maybe Wood by Wright, but he had some ambrosia maple on the bench and called it hard maple. I always thought that the ambrosia maple was a soft maple. Any one know? We don't get it here in Oregon. Also, there is almost no hard/sugar maple.

robo hippy
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I understand the ambrosia beetles are more commonly found in soft maple (silver maple, red maple) but sometimes get into hard maple. We have both soft and hard maples here but I've personally only had soft ambrosia maple.

JKJ
 
Kent Reisdorph said:
Second time I got the Cole jaws out this week. Cherry with darkly spalted sapwood.
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John Kananis said:
I have a love/hate relationship with mine. It's awesome when/where a jamb chuck doesn't work but it never gives me a true bottom and things always look a little off (to me) when the piece is done.
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I've quit using the rubber pieces that came with the jaws and instead slip short lengths of clear plastic tubing over the screws. I think they compress less and maybe allow a little too much slop.

JKJ
 
Kent Reisdorph said:
I bailed on the Cole jaws. The bowl is thin and it didn't feel stable when I put a gouge to it. I went back to a jam chuck.
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For future reference - you might want to turn your Cole jaws into a large version of Flat Jaws.
Here's a link to an old post (one of several) about this topic.
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David Wyke said:
Up before sunrise this morning to pick some blueberries so before the sun hit the shop I cut a new maple log a friend brought me to see what it was going to look like. It has some nice ambrosia and figure, now time for a hollow form.
He called and asked if I wanted a maple log since he thought it was white oak he was cutting, he’s made several mistakes identifying trees. I took the log and sent him a picture of white oak leaves….should be getting another log soon😁.


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Incredible piece of timber!
 
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