My best friend is an ER nurse. She confirmed that this happens a lot after Christmas....
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My best friend is an ER nurse. She confirmed that this happens a lot after Christmas....
robo hippy
I got some from, I think it was Maverick Leather in Bend Oregon. Can't remember the cost, but it isn't cheap. I don't think you can get it in California or New York. Used to make hacky sacks out of...
I have a friend who was a spoon carver. He came from the upper mid west, and birch was his favorite carving wood. He would rive all of his blanks, so the buttress part of the base of the tree was...
Side note on sycamore, it has a very high water content, which means that if you twice turn your bowls, they can warp beyond the 10% rule, 1 inch thick for 10 inch bowl.
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Well, which one is easier for you to get to? It will be 'information overload'! First one I went to, by Sunday, my brain was fried trying to absorb everything. I have never been to the SWAT since it...
I got one sycamore tree, probably a European Plane rather than American Sycamore. When the tree company was cutting it, the shavings were blood red. Most of that color was gone with in about an hour....
Well, still learning planes. That will probably last a life time, or the next 30 or so years, which ever comes first. Straight edges are mandatory. I would suggest starting small first, then stepping...
I am more of a bowl turner than anything, but I do some spindle work. There are 2 kinds of spindle roughing gouges. The standard used to be forged, so made from flat stock and heated and bent to a...
I use it on bowls and rolling pins. OH, cutting boards also. I make end grain ones, and put it on with a heat gun after it has soaked most of it up.
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I had to look on the jug, but I use the Doctor's "Microcrystal Wax Bowl Finish". The doctor, because he has a PHD in Chemistry. He does some thing to his carnauba wax so that you don't need heat or...
Beeswax for a finish is pretty much worthless. Almost no protection from water. I have been using walnut oils, at first from Mike Mahoney, and now from the Doctor's Woodshop. It has carnauba wax in...
I sign each piece. For dates, I only put the year, in part because pieces sit on the shelf for a while, so the year is good enough. I sign each one, who knows, I may be famous and collectable some...
I have a box that is made out of catalpa, and have had it for at least 5 years. The inside of it still stinks like catalpa wood, and I don't think that smell will ever go away. When taking a threaded...
This is a topic I am interested in. I just filmed a video about using the Baxter threading jig. I think it would be really handy to have an x/y cutter jig as well to make sure the tenon and recess...
A friend of mine used to use the Timberwolf blades. I gave him a Lennox blade and he commented, it cuts straighter and longer. I have known a few others who switched.
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If I had wood screws on my vice, I would not use bees wax. From a bowl turning background, carnauba wax offers far better moisture protection and longevity. Kiwi Neutral shoe polish is carnauba wax....
No clue as to what the Lennox Classic is, but if you want smooth cuts, the carbide tipped blade is, as they told me at the shop, for cutting veneers.
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A whole bunch! Funny thing, I saw a turner dull his skew chisel on the lathe bed. He took it to a 60 grit CBN wheel to resharpen the edge, stropped it, and then shaved his arm. Most of mine have a...
I know they have different widths. I do have 2 bandsaws. The small one, a PM that only cuts 6 inches high, has a 1/2 by 3 tpi blade on it. I got the thicker one, but don't know the measure. It is...
For rough cutting blanks, I prefer the Lennox bimetal blades. I use a 1/2 inch, 3 tpi blade for cutting circles, and a 1 1/4 by 3/4 inch spaced teeth for slabbing up log sections. I did see a...
Here is an old video of mine that covers this subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlEfNb9A1Ac
Mostly it is keeping your body from twisting as you push across the bottom of the bowl, keep...
I have a couple of the Vicmark 120s for my bowls. I use the standard jaws for bowls up to 14 inches, in a recess. Some will argue that tenon is better than a recess, but to me, as long as they are...
I use firm interface pads for grits up to about 220, then go to medium pads to 400. If I go over 400, which is almost never, then I go to soft pads. If you put 80 grit on a soft pad, it does not cut...
For me, most of the time, I hold my tools fairly level. This means that my tool rest is at or slightly below center. Many prefer when doing spindles to have the tool rest slightly above center. The...
I have all Vicmark chucks. I have never used a set screw on them, mostly because I don't think they are necessary, and this may be more for the way I turn since I don't do much of anything in...