Bill Walsh
09-15-2011, 6:31 PM
I've been a lurker since 2007, guess its time to start posting. I open Sawmill Creek almost every morning at work and check out the new posts. Even though no one here knows me I feel like your all old friends as I've read lots of posts and learned a lot of neat things here. I belong to The Woodchuck Turners of Northern Vermont. Have been turning since 2002. As for turning equipment I have a Oneway 1640 w/ the outboard attachment, 3620B Powermatic and a mini Jet which after watching some pens being turned at a craft show set the hook.
I'm obsessed with sharpening, have two sharpening benches set up. Two 8" grinders, Tormek 2000, a General Internation belt grinder that I changed the direction (belt runs up instead of down) and my favorite a Sorby Pro Edge. There was a post just a day or so ago on an improvement made to the gouge jig that looked like a good idea. I've struggled with being able to grind the wings back far enough to where I like them. I now use the knife sharpening accessory post with the jig to get the shape I want.
We had an unexpected death in the family and I was honored to be asked the turn the urn. I will post a photo as soon as I get a chance and figure out how to post pictures. The finial is threaded using a Baxter Threading jig and the hollowing was done using a homemade Jamison hollowing jig w/ a Oneway laser arm and back support. The tools I've been using for hollowing for the last year are Hollow-Pro from Mike Jackofsky which are used in the homemade Jamison system. I've started texturing a small area and using a woodburning pen to outline random shapes that all have corners that fine lines are burnt from towards the center of the shape. Hard to describe and I've been lurking long enough to know everyone wants to see photos myself included.
I hope to be able to give back or help answer other turners questions based on equipment that I own and have experance with.
I'm waiting for a new 1/2" 10V Glaser gouge and a fluteless Thompson gouge in a 16" Thompson handle. I have maybe 6 Thompson gouges and really wanted to give the Glaser a try. After e-mailing both Doug and Paulo and getting responses back from both in great detail I can't see where a turner could go wrong with either of these tool manufactures. I'll post my opinion of both the Glaser and Thompson as soon as I've had a chance to try them out.
Thanks to all that have shared ideas and offered help.
I'm obsessed with sharpening, have two sharpening benches set up. Two 8" grinders, Tormek 2000, a General Internation belt grinder that I changed the direction (belt runs up instead of down) and my favorite a Sorby Pro Edge. There was a post just a day or so ago on an improvement made to the gouge jig that looked like a good idea. I've struggled with being able to grind the wings back far enough to where I like them. I now use the knife sharpening accessory post with the jig to get the shape I want.
We had an unexpected death in the family and I was honored to be asked the turn the urn. I will post a photo as soon as I get a chance and figure out how to post pictures. The finial is threaded using a Baxter Threading jig and the hollowing was done using a homemade Jamison hollowing jig w/ a Oneway laser arm and back support. The tools I've been using for hollowing for the last year are Hollow-Pro from Mike Jackofsky which are used in the homemade Jamison system. I've started texturing a small area and using a woodburning pen to outline random shapes that all have corners that fine lines are burnt from towards the center of the shape. Hard to describe and I've been lurking long enough to know everyone wants to see photos myself included.
I hope to be able to give back or help answer other turners questions based on equipment that I own and have experance with.
I'm waiting for a new 1/2" 10V Glaser gouge and a fluteless Thompson gouge in a 16" Thompson handle. I have maybe 6 Thompson gouges and really wanted to give the Glaser a try. After e-mailing both Doug and Paulo and getting responses back from both in great detail I can't see where a turner could go wrong with either of these tool manufactures. I'll post my opinion of both the Glaser and Thompson as soon as I've had a chance to try them out.
Thanks to all that have shared ideas and offered help.