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Thank you all for the pointers. I'll try a few different options on the different slabs and see if I can just find some time to rough out the blanks properly.

Thanks for the suggestions, the wood is stickered, and I am out of town for an extended period of time, so I can't easily rough them out (I did as many as I could). Any ideas for something less...

Gents,
A neighbor was kind enough to let me at a black walnut he cut down. I slabbed some chunks, sealed the ends, and stickered them in my basement in preparation for the next time I have some free...

That looks like russian olive, which is rather hard to patch up because of how differentiated the growth rings are from one another. I hate throwing away blanks when I've got some work in them, but...

I have some neighbors with chickens who love the larger shaving for their coop.

This may be a little beyond the geographic reach of SMC, but I'm going to be in Israel for a week or so and want to know if there are any turners in the area, or enclaves of good woodwork outside the...

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm going to make another tool rest with some curve in it to reach down to the bottom. I'll post pictures when I can.

To clarify, I've got the bowl in a chuck. My issue isn't the bottom of the bowl, but the bottom of the inside. I'm having a go with a 5/8" gouge, but still have too much overhang. I'm probably going...

With a triumphant "let's see if I can max out my lathe" I embarked on a rather large box elder bowl. It can swing on my lathe, and after some sandbagging, doesn't bounce around, but my tool rest...

Tim's setup beat me with his outlet, but mine is a similar concept.

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I have a series of 1/2" holes drilled to let me move the lamps around, and a 1/2" hole drilled in the end so I can clamp...

Thank you all for the replies. I'm buried with work right now, but will post pictures as soon as I get a start on this project.

Hey guys, I'm typically over in the turners forum, but I have a joinery question. As a precursor, I've searched extensively here and elsewhere but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

Has...

That's gorgeous! I really like the foot on that one that makes the bowl look a little like its floating.

Thanks Pat.

I know people have different terminology, but I thought your picture was more of a saturn bowl, as the natural portion that extends below the rim as the rings on Saturn. The rule of...

So I tried the jam chuck approach again, and had some decent results.
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I think this has inspired me to build a vacuum chuck.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I didn't get a chance to try them today, but I'll try another jam chuck tomorrow.

A friend of mine cut down a walnut tree and offered me some chunks, so I got straight to work.
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It still needs a few more coats of finish, but the main problem I'm having...

My general irritation at work and college.

I use a Tormek that I bought from a former woodturner. Consequently, it came with more jigs than I could have bought with the amount of money I paid for the whole setup. With that said, I almost...

Peter, I turned a 7/8" tenon for the inner chuck jaws to grip on. The surfaces of the chuck are pretty broad, so they don't exert enough pressure to mark up the aluminum. I also haven't found the...

I am back from my hiatus at college and finally have had a chance to turn some wood. I'm currently building a photo tent, so I don't have many good pictures of my new work to post, but I did make one...

Must be quite a vacuum chuck to finish the bottom.

That would be one of the first places I'd go, but in this case, the insert adapter is fixed into the chuck with a snap ring from the factory.

The adapter I'm using to change from 1-1/4 8 to 1-8 is...

Its always a good question to ask at the beginning. The jaws are in order and on the correct slides. Even when I grip a test bar with the slides alone, I get runout. The jaws run true on my other...

I have a pair of Nova chucks, a 1-8 threaded Midi that I started out with, and a 1-1/4 threaded Supernova that I now mainly use. I changed lathes since I got the first one, so I use an adapter for...