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This tool was invented by an arts and crafts teacher in Sweden around 1950. The inventers name was Cederblad.
The tools where supposed to simplify woodturning among the pupils at school.
There...

Hello Chris. Go to Google, search for Drechseln and you will find a great deal of woodturning. As I do not know where in Germany you will be working it is hard to give informations. If in Southern...

Keep the chuck, you can rebuild it. When I got into woodturning 50 years ago there where not any four jaw scroll chucks for woodturning so I rebuild my tree jaw by annealing the jaws and then cut...

Why are you complaining? Here in Sweden we pay 14.30 Swedish kronor per liter which is the same as 8.78$ a US gallon.
Kurt Johansson

Hello John
Just a recess, no tailstock, 12 inch platter-2000rpm
Kurt Johansson

Hello John
Just a recess and no tailstock. 12 inch platter -2000 rpm. Three drills with 2 inch homemade sanding pads, grits 120 and 150 open grit and one with 150 close grit attached to the sanding...

I do platters in batches and work like this. I send the blanks trough the planer, thickness 22 mm. Got a jig on the bandsaw for cutting round blanks. After bandsawing I have got a centering mark on...

Hi Folks
When things like that happens to me I use hose clamps.
That is I cut the hose clamp band to sufficient lenght to fit around the tenon, put the hose clamp in the chuck and the tenon in the...

Peg will be leaking or seeping trough finishes if you use PEG with a number under 1500. Especially in a hot and humid environment.
I have never experienced any plastic look or waxy surfaces during...

I have been using PEG regulary for the last twenty years or so. It is not the same as antifreese which is highly toxic.
Most of us have eaten PEG as it is used in medical products, it is food safe....

Congratulations to you Americans, your gas price is just about half of ours here in Sweden.
Kurt Johansson

Hello
We turn quite a lot of pine here in Sweden and we have no problems
using that wood . By the way, I have been turning dolls heads from styrofoam, works allright if your chisel is razor sharp....

I am very sorry but I have not been able to find any prices for ringtools,
I suppose yuo have to mail Crown tool for prices.
Kurt Johansson
The hook and ringtool man.

The Termite is a crude ring tool that can stand abuse. A more delicate ringtool can be found at the web page of Crown tools.
www.crownhandtools.ltd.uk
The Swedish original ringtool has the ring...

The best tools for endgrain are for sure sharp hook or ringtools.
It is quite easy to achive a finish that will be ruined if you try to sand the turned item.
Kurt Johansson
the hook and ringtool...

Hello Ernie.
I found out that the place Nyvall you mention is a fairly small village in the commune of Arvidsjaur, Lappland. Northern Sweden.
I myself am from the village Moskosel in the same...

Hello Frank.

Unfortunately my English is not that good but I am writing anyhow.
To me your wooden sample looks like Laburnum, probably Laburnum Anagyroides, a very good wood for turning.
I know...