Tim Rinehart
12-27-2011, 6:25 PM
I briefly (30 seconds) met Nate Davey at the NC Symposium this past November, but I was scrambling around to keep our room manned, so didn't have much time to chat. Nate, knowing my troubles and struggles with photo setup and retouch afterwards most generously offered a visit recently, and that's a couple hours away for him.
Nate had on prior occasion mentioned an interest in work and lathe used by Anatoly Tsiris, and since Anatoly lives only about 10 minutes away, we were able to combine his lesson to me with a visit to see what "turning large" is all about at Anatoly's shop.
We headed over to Anatoly's shop and he had an ash log in the Nichol's lathe, about 2 feet in diameter and about 5 feet long. He showed us his process for roughing using a very robust Thompson roughing gouges in a custom handle. Anatoly talked about the modifications he's made to the lathe, including replacement of the bearings that look every bit of 2.5" diameter by eyeballing. Nate got some other stills of that piece he may be able to post.
We then walked over to Anatoly's garage to see "roughed works", which are fully turned, just not finish sanded. Must have been several dozen of these huge forms, the smallest of which most of us would push the limits of our PMs, Robusts, VMs and Oneways to churn out.
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Back to my shop, we talked about some stuff I have in process, the small carbide tools I made over the past few weeks, techniques and wood stashes. I just recently got some flamed cherry that I had sealed, and sent him back with a couple pieces of that wood....but like many of us, there are limits to what the Finance Minister will allow to take up room in the common areas, i.e garage/basements.
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Finished up by Nate showing me how to do some better setups that I hadn't even explored with my SLR digital camera, getting the shot setup to take about 4-8 secs, with a much better depth of field (high F-stop and longer shutter setting...right Nate??). I have a much better starting point to work on now, besides just relying on the software corrections alone after taking the pic.
Great visit, it was good seeing Nate for longer time than our first meeting. Thanks again Nate, you're welcome anytime!
Nate had on prior occasion mentioned an interest in work and lathe used by Anatoly Tsiris, and since Anatoly lives only about 10 minutes away, we were able to combine his lesson to me with a visit to see what "turning large" is all about at Anatoly's shop.
We headed over to Anatoly's shop and he had an ash log in the Nichol's lathe, about 2 feet in diameter and about 5 feet long. He showed us his process for roughing using a very robust Thompson roughing gouges in a custom handle. Anatoly talked about the modifications he's made to the lathe, including replacement of the bearings that look every bit of 2.5" diameter by eyeballing. Nate got some other stills of that piece he may be able to post.
We then walked over to Anatoly's garage to see "roughed works", which are fully turned, just not finish sanded. Must have been several dozen of these huge forms, the smallest of which most of us would push the limits of our PMs, Robusts, VMs and Oneways to churn out.
217367
Back to my shop, we talked about some stuff I have in process, the small carbide tools I made over the past few weeks, techniques and wood stashes. I just recently got some flamed cherry that I had sealed, and sent him back with a couple pieces of that wood....but like many of us, there are limits to what the Finance Minister will allow to take up room in the common areas, i.e garage/basements.
217366
Finished up by Nate showing me how to do some better setups that I hadn't even explored with my SLR digital camera, getting the shot setup to take about 4-8 secs, with a much better depth of field (high F-stop and longer shutter setting...right Nate??). I have a much better starting point to work on now, besides just relying on the software corrections alone after taking the pic.
Great visit, it was good seeing Nate for longer time than our first meeting. Thanks again Nate, you're welcome anytime!