You will knock this out of the park! When second turning are you just touring up the outside and a little on the top of the inside? Or do you second turn the full inside?
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- Thread starter Rusty Nesmith
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Opening and outside first, then inside. Full inside. Would love to know what others do. On occasion I’ve turned the whole wet piece but don’t like warped hollow forms.
simple boxelder bowl 4.5 x 7.5
It had been sitting waiting to be finish turned and what little flame it had is almost gone.
This was a practice piece for the Bosch system. I gotta question the cost of that versus being able to do the inside with regular tools usually, although not as easy.
I know smoothness on the inside isn't as critical on the small openings because who can feel in there?
Am I going to have to buy one of his tear drop scraper tool or other suggestions? Had quite a bit of tear out inside which is par for the course for me with boxelder.
It had been sitting waiting to be finish turned and what little flame it had is almost gone.
This was a practice piece for the Bosch system. I gotta question the cost of that versus being able to do the inside with regular tools usually, although not as easy.
I know smoothness on the inside isn't as critical on the small openings because who can feel in there?
Am I going to have to buy one of his tear drop scraper tool or other suggestions? Had quite a bit of tear out inside which is par for the course for me with boxelder.
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The same, but sometimes decide on the opening after I refine the outside. I do most turnings this way.
Yes, you will need scrapers. As you get thinner, carbide is too aggressive. You’ll want a smooth even wall, just won’t need to sand when opening under 3/4 inch. The final smooth wall thickness is—for me—achieved with scrapers.
The teardrop and other rounded scrapers are invaluable for insides, even if you can't feel to the bottom you can still see it. I want it baby=cheek soft all the way inside (unless the opening is too small for even a little finger.)
I use some of the Sorby scrapers but started making my own shapes from card scrapers. (The only problem is sometimes making the hole for the screw - a drill bit won't cut it. I usually grind a hole with a diamond bit in a Dremel.
I like the thin scrapers for the insides more than the thicker, stock, scrapers.
JKJ
I went with Trent bosch's recommendation and got the hss, not the carbide. I just need more practice feeling out the surface with the hollowing tools I'm sure.
Just another mulberry bowl. Has a coat of lacquer ready for some polishing then finish the foot.
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Have a local art show coming up in couple weeks. I rent a booth usually do pretty well. Display about 25 pieces. Almost all local wood. The large bowl is a piece of tamarind with a little resin where I cut out the rot which has amazing chartoyance and a couple small pieces of buttonwood which also has beautiful grain. I used the Laserpecker to engrave the buttonwood as the tourist love anything that has the locale printed on itAttachments
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Haven’t figured out the posting of photos showing up upside down yet
Please tell more. What are your exact steps for posting a photo? The command Posting from a computer, tablet, phone? Did you edit the photos before posting?Haven’t figured out the posting of photos showing up upside down yet
Show him John!
You remember what I went through not even a month ago. We did figure it out though.
From my iPad. I clicked on attach file. The photo was upright when I uploaded it. One photo posted correctly the other flipped upside down for some reason
Use the "insert image" icon instead.
Looks to me, when I enlarge the photos, that both posted upside down.
As David mentioned, several have had problems with photos rotated when posting directly from a phone. I looked into the file internals and found a clue then did some tests and found that I could replicate this problem if I used the "Attach files" control at the bottom of a message:
However, at least in those cases, the problem went away when I used the "Insert image" control at the top of the message:
You might try this and see if it works. You can Edit your message, use "Insert image" on both, check the results, then delete the originals (or the new uploads if it didn't work) by clicking on the little trashcan icon in the thumbnails below the message.
BTW, another quicker way I insert images when using one of my computers is copy/paste - click on the image or name in the Win10 File Explorer, Ctrl-C to copy, put the cursor where I want picture in the message and use Ctrl-V to paste. (iPad uses Cmd instead of Ctrl).
This will put the photo in the message body at a large (or forum maximum) size. I then click on the image and drag one of the blue corner boxes to reduce the image size as I want. This makes it easier to add text above and below, and put several small images beside each other. The viewer can always click on the reduced size image to view the larger size.
JKJ
With an iPad, try taking the picture in landscape (camera up), and then attaching the file with the camera up (position it was when you took the picture). Also make sure lock rotation is off.
Bingo! Thank you John!! Happy New Year to all!!
Thanks Webb, I’ll look into that