Dan Forman
02-07-2012, 4:51 AM
I had the pleasure of having John Altberg stop by this evening. We met through our local turning club, of which he is Treasurer. The plan was to grind a Skwaper, but before doing that to a perfectly good scraper, he wanted to see one in action. That meant having to finish turn a bowl from the drying rack to use for a demo, so I picked a small one so that it wouldn't take too much time, and got to work. Of course we were yaking about this and that, and engaging in the obligatory show and tell. When we got to the angle grinder high speed sander, he wanted to see that in action too.
Well, it took about twice as long as it should have to finish the bowl, because I couldn't find anything that I needed, and had to do a lot of looking about for things. I usually take the time to get sort of organized before I start a project, but I didn't have time to prepare, and everything was scattered hither and yon in the course of completing the funnel this afternoon (that's another post to come).
Anyway, by time the little bowl was turned and sanded, John had decided that he did indeed want to skwaperize one of his scrapers, but he was running out of steam, being a lark and not an owl like yours truly. So he will do the grinding at home, we measured the bevel angle at about 37* - nothing magical or scientific about that, it just looked about right when I was making it.
Sorry, I didn't take any pics, but John took one with his cell phone of the sander in action (well almost in action) and I'm sure he will post it tomorrow when he sees this. With him getting tired, I didn't want to go through getting out the camera and tripod and all of that.
I did get one pic of the bowl after John left, it has one coat of Antique Oil at present. Black Locust burl, 5" X 1 3/4".
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Dan
Well, it took about twice as long as it should have to finish the bowl, because I couldn't find anything that I needed, and had to do a lot of looking about for things. I usually take the time to get sort of organized before I start a project, but I didn't have time to prepare, and everything was scattered hither and yon in the course of completing the funnel this afternoon (that's another post to come).
Anyway, by time the little bowl was turned and sanded, John had decided that he did indeed want to skwaperize one of his scrapers, but he was running out of steam, being a lark and not an owl like yours truly. So he will do the grinding at home, we measured the bevel angle at about 37* - nothing magical or scientific about that, it just looked about right when I was making it.
Sorry, I didn't take any pics, but John took one with his cell phone of the sander in action (well almost in action) and I'm sure he will post it tomorrow when he sees this. With him getting tired, I didn't want to go through getting out the camera and tripod and all of that.
I did get one pic of the bowl after John left, it has one coat of Antique Oil at present. Black Locust burl, 5" X 1 3/4".
222942
Dan