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Al Smith
Mac Daddy
--sharp tools and a rock steady hand with lots of patience .
MasterBlaster
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And don't forget the shirt! 
lumberjack
Young man on the go
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How slow is "slow"?
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
If it were I that shirt would be made of chain mail armor .Those damned wood lathes can fling a razor sharp chisel a long ways if you don't do it correctly .And don't forget the shirt!
I'll be real honest I can carve out about any thing on a metal lathe but lack the true skills to be a good wood turner . That said though I do admire the work .
MB, it is not a shirt, but a turners smock.
It is designed to keep parts of me from being caught by the rotating wood and torn off.
Besides, it hides my beergut. That is my definition of stylish
A bowl like the one I'm standing next to takes about 4 hours total to make.
After about 20 years of practise, that is.
As for lathe speed, I like to go fast. About 1500-2000 rpm for a bowl that size.
Keeps vibrations down.Vibrations are the woodturners enemy.
You can go slow and take a hard cut or fast and take a light one, result is the same. I get a better surface by going fast.
A bowl like that, i'll finish the outside first, sanding and all, then wrap it in gaffer tape before doing the inside.
That way, if it blows up on me, which is a real danger when going for a thin walled burl bowl , the tape will (hopefully) keep the scrapnel from hitting me.
Jay, last year I did a turning demo at the museum of wood with a famous japanese turner; Takehito Nakajima.
He turned the traditional japanese way and I the american way.
And yes, I mean american way. I was the one to introduce the american "pull-cut" turning to the danes.
A whole bunch of danish turners showed up to watch, I had a hard time keeping my heartbeat down, while demonstrating in front of that bunch, next to a true master.
It went real well, though, everybody had a good time.
It is designed to keep parts of me from being caught by the rotating wood and torn off.
Besides, it hides my beergut. That is my definition of stylish
A bowl like the one I'm standing next to takes about 4 hours total to make.
After about 20 years of practise, that is.
As for lathe speed, I like to go fast. About 1500-2000 rpm for a bowl that size.
Keeps vibrations down.Vibrations are the woodturners enemy.
You can go slow and take a hard cut or fast and take a light one, result is the same. I get a better surface by going fast.
A bowl like that, i'll finish the outside first, sanding and all, then wrap it in gaffer tape before doing the inside.
That way, if it blows up on me, which is a real danger when going for a thin walled burl bowl , the tape will (hopefully) keep the scrapnel from hitting me.
Jay, last year I did a turning demo at the museum of wood with a famous japanese turner; Takehito Nakajima.
He turned the traditional japanese way and I the american way.
And yes, I mean american way. I was the one to introduce the american "pull-cut" turning to the danes.
A whole bunch of danish turners showed up to watch, I had a hard time keeping my heartbeat down, while demonstrating in front of that bunch, next to a true master.
It went real well, though, everybody had a good time.
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Stig, as you probably know, there is a long history for wooden utensils in Japan, and turners working fast and efficiently was/is the norm. Many of them are skilled at urushi application as well. Just south of me is a mountain woods area where many turners were located. Unfortunately, their skills are in decreasing demand, and their isn't much market for "art" wood turning.
I have some cool photos of "Bodgers" in Great Britain, people who would purchase a stand of Beech and work there to supply the chair industry with parts. Their lathes in the huts they built, were powered by a sapling that they would run a rope off of and wind around the object on the lathe, then with their foot control the thing. Not faceplate turning, but an interesting turning profession that is extinct now.
Cool photos, I'll have to scan them and get a few posted.
I have some cool photos of "Bodgers" in Great Britain, people who would purchase a stand of Beech and work there to supply the chair industry with parts. Their lathes in the huts they built, were powered by a sapling that they would run a rope off of and wind around the object on the lathe, then with their foot control the thing. Not faceplate turning, but an interesting turning profession that is extinct now.
Cool photos, I'll have to scan them and get a few posted.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Speaking of bodgers:
www.bodgers.org.uk
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www.bodgers.org.uk
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Cool vid, Dave, and nice utilitarian bowl without electricity. That tool says sharp!
