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That was rad.
Funny how when he first started turning it on the lathe it made kinda a cool drumbeat as the imperfections started to come off.
You clearly have a thing for dead eyes and old time sailing aspects, imo
I wonder how much different the process was back in the day. Idk, maybe lathes have been around for quite awhile.
My wild guess is that was sugar maple wood
Funny how when he first started turning it on the lathe it made kinda a cool drumbeat as the imperfections started to come off.
You clearly have a thing for dead eyes and old time sailing aspects, imo
I wonder how much different the process was back in the day. Idk, maybe lathes have been around for quite awhile.
My wild guess is that was sugar maple wood
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Lathes have been around forever, and making deadeyes and blocks was critical to both national security and economic might. They used to have entire huge factories just dedicated to their construction, some of which the buildings are still standing today.
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Portsmouth Block Mills - Wikipedia
That was rad.
Funny how when he first started turning it on the lathe it made kinda a cool drumbeat as the imperfections started to come off.
You clearly have a thing for dead eyes and old time sailing aspects, imo
I wonder how much different the process was back in the day. Idk, maybe lathes have been around for quite awhile.
My wild guess is that was sugar maple wood
The reason for the "drumbeat" is that the guy can't turn wood for shit!!!!
He is using a round nose scraper to clean that blank off, might as well use a screwdriver!!
Yep, lots and lots of Sugar maple in Norway.
It is Beech!
Sorry for coming off kinda harshly, but this is exactly the problem with the internet.
Some dude in Norway, who can't turn for shit posts something and someone on the other side of the World, who doesn't know shit about lathes and turning, goes: " Wow, cool" and before we know it, they have created a woodturning Murphy.
The Vikings used lathes, so did the ancient Egyptians!
The vikings did stuff that was so good, that I once flew to Oslo, just to look at a bowl and learn from it.
Been trying for a while now to find a picture of that bowl.
A drinking cup made in apple wood for a viking princess, found on the Oseberg ship.
The most exquisite little thing, just perfect in the lines ( Jay would have absolutely loved it).
No luck so far.
I had a book with pictures of it, but that was lost in the big book pogrome, when I thought I was moving to Schweiz.
A drinking cup made in apple wood for a viking princess, found on the Oseberg ship.
The most exquisite little thing, just perfect in the lines ( Jay would have absolutely loved it).
No luck so far.
I had a book with pictures of it, but that was lost in the big book pogrome, when I thought I was moving to Schweiz.
Curiously harsh and off base, sir, imo.
Facts:
I have never used a lathe.
There's excellent chance I never will.
I guessed maple; beech, in hindsight makes even better sense.
The vid was, and remains, cool, to me.
I dint know it was in Norway.
Opinion:
In the beginning of any lathing process, wouldn't a 'drumbeat' be typical as the irregularly placed high spots come off first?
When you got to Oslo, did they say, yo, ho, you don't know chit about lathing!!
Facts:
I have never used a lathe.
There's excellent chance I never will.
I guessed maple; beech, in hindsight makes even better sense.
The vid was, and remains, cool, to me.
I dint know it was in Norway.
Opinion:
In the beginning of any lathing process, wouldn't a 'drumbeat' be typical as the irregularly placed high spots come off first?
When you got to Oslo, did they say, yo, ho, you don't know chit about lathing!!
I just figured he either messed up his center layout or did so intentionally for some reason. I've never done any wood turning, so i wouldn't know squat about it, and didn't even consider his abilities to do so, i was simply interested in his finished product, which was decent and serviceable imo. I do have a metal lathe coming, traded an old truck for it. Give me a few years and hopefully I'll know more.
Cory, two passes with a large milled roughing gouge and that blank would have been smooth.
No drumbeat, either.
That comes because his scraper gets knocked away by the high points, whereas a sharp gouge just goes through them.
Then he used a parting tool or Bedan ( Rather narrow for a Bedan, though) to shape the ends, instead of a chisel or a detail gouge.
To me, that was like watching someone fell a tree with a showel and someone else saying:" RAD!"
They didn't say anything in Norway, it is in a museum.
I just went in order to see great design made on a reciprocating lathe.
Stuff that I can easily do on a modern one.
But there is something about seing something made 1000 years ago, that design wise is outstanding in it's simplicity and still valid.
No drumbeat, either.
That comes because his scraper gets knocked away by the high points, whereas a sharp gouge just goes through them.
Then he used a parting tool or Bedan ( Rather narrow for a Bedan, though) to shape the ends, instead of a chisel or a detail gouge.
To me, that was like watching someone fell a tree with a showel and someone else saying:" RAD!"
They didn't say anything in Norway, it is in a museum.
I just went in order to see great design made on a reciprocating lathe.
Stuff that I can easily do on a modern one.
But there is something about seing something made 1000 years ago, that design wise is outstanding in it's simplicity and still valid.
Just watched it again.
I owe you an apology.
No way you could know, Hardanger fartöyvernsenter is in Norway, unless you recognize the name of Hardanger.
So Maple was a good guess.
I just read the name and, speaking Norwegian, didn't even realize it wasn't in English.
But as for the turning, he is simply doing EVERYTHING wrong.
He does use a chisel to round one end, but has it on it's side, so he scrapes instead of cutting.
Skewchisels are not scraping tools.
He mounts the blank on a faceplate. That tecnique was not known back when they did that kind of work and it forced him to have to cut the chunk off and sand the finished piece flat on a band sander.
The right and historically correct way of doing it would be to mount it between centers, turn it down to a needle thin piece of wood on both sides, and cut that with a knife.
That way you get both sides looking the same instead of one side being flat.
Look at 5.46 and see all the tearout in the wood. Any turner worth his salt could have made that thing totally smooth.
Felling a tree with a showel, being proud of it and putting it on Youtube for the World to see.
It is not like he didn't have a chance to learn how.
One of the top turners in the World lives in Norway, I've taken several classes with him:
I owe you an apology.
No way you could know, Hardanger fartöyvernsenter is in Norway, unless you recognize the name of Hardanger.
So Maple was a good guess.
I just read the name and, speaking Norwegian, didn't even realize it wasn't in English.
But as for the turning, he is simply doing EVERYTHING wrong.
He does use a chisel to round one end, but has it on it's side, so he scrapes instead of cutting.
Skewchisels are not scraping tools.
He mounts the blank on a faceplate. That tecnique was not known back when they did that kind of work and it forced him to have to cut the chunk off and sand the finished piece flat on a band sander.
The right and historically correct way of doing it would be to mount it between centers, turn it down to a needle thin piece of wood on both sides, and cut that with a knife.
That way you get both sides looking the same instead of one side being flat.
Look at 5.46 and see all the tearout in the wood. Any turner worth his salt could have made that thing totally smooth.
Felling a tree with a showel, being proud of it and putting it on Youtube for the World to see.
It is not like he didn't have a chance to learn how.
One of the top turners in the World lives in Norway, I've taken several classes with him:
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Not even. S'all guh in da House.
kevin bingham
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pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Wonder if they miss while they're 'learning'? Could be painful I'd think...
Nutball
TreeHouser
You have been coming across much harsher than need be lately.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Maybe you need a hobby...how about playing grim music on a pipe organ? The numb fingers could make it spooky sounding with all the wrong notes.
BlackSmith
Uncivil
FFS, the guy was hog’n out a piece of rigging not some museum quality shit. Could’ve used a rusty railroad spike as far as it matters.
Steve Mack
Life Member.
I found a good article for you, Kyle.
Bit long, but I guess you have the time right now:
Surfboards and submarines: the secret escape of East Germans to Copenhagen
Tales of Berlin Wall escapes are well known – but those daring East Germans who fled across the ‘invisible border’ into Denmark using kayaks, surfboards or home-built submarines are only now coming to lightwww.theguardian.com
Those who made it to us, were welcomed and let stay if they wanted.
Due to the rather arbitrary way, Germany was cut in half, lots of them had family in the BRD and moved down there.
It is kind of funny how fast the World changes.
I bet a lot of members here, having read my posts and having never actually come across a real commie, think of Denmark and myself that way.
But back in the day, we stood ready to help those escaping from Communism.
Even the dear Joe Mccarthy would have looked at us kindly back then.............................maybe. There was of course the free porn thing, abortions and other stuff that no red blooded American would have had any truck with.
I've tried to find an article about the week the Berlin wall fell for you, but unless you want to learn Deutsch or Dansk, no luck.
When the Wall fell, a bunch of East Germans wanted to celebrate their newly won freedom.
How best to do that unless you were close enough to the border to just do a hop, skip and jump across.
Take a train, then get on the first free BRD ferry 3 days later to the land of milk and honey.................yep, you guessed it, Denmark.
The mayors of Rødby and Gedser ferry haven towns got a friendly warning from the opposite harbours in Germany that the ferries were literally packed with merry makers from DDR.
They got the local firebrigades and army together and set up a big welcome with coffee ( As in REAL coffee, not Erzatz) cakes, flags and the whole works. Lots of local folks joined in and did their best to make tyhe Germans feel welcome.
The happy folks spent the day browsing the local stores ( They couldn't buy much, since their money was worthless) and took the ferry home again that night, smiling all the way.
folketidende.dk - Gallery - https://folketidende.dk/modules/folketid/gallery/?articleId=526961 ( click on the foto, then you can scroll through them all.
I forgot to reply to this, was a bit busy.
Stig you might know of Pyotr Patrushev, if not or if you have this is really worth listening to. There's a podcast I listened to on a Sydney radio station a few years ago here. Pyotr Patrushev's daring escape from the Soviet Union - https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2016/04/05/4437244.htm
Amazing man, escaped from the Soviet Union by swimming to Turkey, that didn't turn out too good but he ended up here.
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Burnham
Woods walker
Talent...issues.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
That boy is plumb funny. 
