Is this saw still available? I am a buyer if so.
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Is this saw still available? I am a buyer if so.
No one has talked about needing 220V power in your shop for the larger lathes. That can add $250-350 in a heartbeat. I have a Laguna platinum 1847, predecessor to the Revo. It is 2HP and many time I...
If you can remove the handwheel on the headstock, you can turn and thread a wooden replacement. In the outer face, you can capture your bearing (by turning a recess, securing bearing with epoxy),...
Name of your organization? Artistic Woodturners of NW Florida
Location? Pensacola, FL
Club affiliations: AAW
When do you meet? 2nd Saturday monthly 9-12; occ. paid workshops with visiting turner...
Sound advice.
Finishing is so individual. Most buyers like glossy finishes, most turners like the features that a matte (oil) finish produces. A good finish always magnifies tool miscues but expert sanding can...
That is a wonderful lathe. If you tell us you purchased it for less that $2k, I will cry tears of joy and incredulity for you.
I have not seen a course on treen offered at JCCS - a grand mixture of honey dippers, coffee scoops, spatulas with turned handles, salad tongs to go with gifted bowls, salt and pepper shakers and a...
Yes, the areas where the glue went will look different. The answer is to make all the wood look the same by flooding the surface with extra thin CA glue from a capillary tube tipped squeeze bottle....
How do you move that baby around? I had a wheeled frame but it got in the way of my toe room. Didn't try installing trailer jacks but did get hydraulic table on sale at Harbor Freight, which makes...
Pieces the size you have are uncommon and expensive. I would advise you to go for a series of bowls, which will require coring. Done carefully, you could get at least 4 bowls. Ask at your next wood...
I thought I had seen that wood before. Was gifted a piece of Hawaiian milo which exhibited an incredible array of colors when freshly turned - reds, purples and browns - but all those beautiful...
I will be visiting Highlands NC April 12-14 and wonder if anyone can point me to anyone in that area with bowl or platter blanks for sale. Send me a PM if so. Thanks.
If you've got a Hobby Lobby in town, print off one of their 40% off one item web coupons and pick up a 5 lb block of parrafin. Outside, hold the block against the wood and play a propane flame very...
Put me in the queue also, please.
Put me in the queue also.
On the dark oily tropical woods, buffing alone with a wax final finish will often yield beautiful results. The tripoli may show itself in nooks and crevices on light woods, as the white diamond may...
It's gorgeous. What did you wind up with for a final wall thickness?
I'm sorry but I am confused. When did you apply the wax? Or do you mean that some natural resinous exudate is working its way through the GWF? If the latter, then removing the GWF in those areas and...
Well done, Jeff. The finish is spectacular, or should I say chatoyant.
Steve, That is really elegant. I've always liked birch but don't seem too many examples of being turned into something so beautiful. What spindle rest system did you use to support it while turning?
Jamie, I love your organizational skills. I am not as well organized and get frustrated with replacing discs in the right place. I wish that all manufactured would stamp the grit size on each disc. I...
I scored a dual Moffett lamp set up from Craigslist that I mounted to a wooden beam bolted to the rear of my lathe; they're furnished with CF bulbs, which are of cool temperature but I do not like...
Please don't smirk, but out of desperation with the same problem turning a cypress bowl, getting fuzzed end grain twice each revolution, I reached out for an old can of petroleum jelly. I was amazed...
When you reverse it to hollow it, aren't you gripping a tenon in your chuck? Shouldn't any minor deviation from concentricity turn away easily? My challenge comes when I reverse the hollowed form to...