Wood Turning

[pigwot]

I belong to OTI (Ornamental Turner’s Intern.) and SOT (Society of Ornamental Turners)- both groups are all about rose engine lathes. Most RELs are somewhat limited on the size of projects that one can produce on them and quite expensive to build or buy.

 

[BlackSmith]

Finished making a steady rest, should be a big help.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Berry noice!

 

[lxskllr]

I don't know how it's used, but it looks pretty cool.

 

[BlackSmith]

It holds the work piece “steady” reducing chatter and vibration.

 

[Raj]

I'm making some replacement spindle for someone restoring a property, 66" long, but I'm.going to join 3 sections together. This is one section.

 

[SeanKroll]

Very cool, Peter!

 

[davidwyby]

One of these days I’m gonna put a root ball in the VTL…

 

[Raj]

Got a little job to turn a 66" long replacement spire. My working lathe only does 24".

 

[stig]

My male apprentice is getting married next week.
Has no money, so they have agreed on no rings.
Then he got inspired by the wooden rings, I made when I married the mail order bride.

He is slowly, under my tutelage, turning into a wood turner.
So I did a ring turning seminar for him, and he turned two rings in yew.

I made the box in Elm burl.

He can't wait to whip them out, when the mayor asks if they have rings, and his girlfriend says, no.

Romance isn't quite dead, yet!

He was just so friggin' happy when he drove off with the rings and box, really touched my heart.

 

[stig]

Yes, I know the ring box is thick walled as Hell.

Had a split almost to the top.
Only way to save it was t make it a fat one.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't see thick as being a problem. Gives it a substantial heft. Good match for something like wedding rings.

 

[stig]

Also good to whack the bride with, if she tries to run off.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Or her to throw at groom.

 

[stikine]

My male apprentice is getting married next week.
Has no money, so they have agreed on no rings.

Why does your apprentice have no money? Is the boss a scrooge?

 

[stig]

Bought a house with a mortgage, then had a birth go so wrong, he almost lost both the mother and child.
Girlfriend had to quit her job for 3 years to take care of the kid ( Who is thankfully coming along OK and is a great friend of Thais dog)
Meanwhile Emil is on an apprentice wage.

Not good!

I pass all the small moonlighting jobs to him, to help him along.

So no, the boss is not a scrooge.

Bah, humbug!

 

[Raj]

Finally got around to making a live center for my outside lathe to mount on the tailstock I made. Ended up putting another bearing on. I have some spindles to make.

 

[Raj]

Well, on Facebook marketplace this came up.for sale, much less than scrap value. 32" swing, 11-12' work piece length. Only problem is it's bloody heavy, had to tear it apart down to the bed, which alone weighed 1.ton. My chainfall has a 1ton limit. Has everything I'm trying to fabricate. I've been trying to be nice to people and I got.a friend to help me get it!

 

[pigwot]

That’s a lot of lathe!!!

 

[Raj]

You're telling me! I can't even move the bed around.

 

[Raj]

I shored up my I beam, lifted the bed onto a log/slab cart and a bare trailer axle, moved it myself into place. Wasn't that bad.

 

[friedrich]

our salad bowl that i turned on my pole-lathe, alnus glutinosa.

 

[Raj]

Got the head and tail stock, and the carriage mounted. Had to to make a new shaft for the carriage feed since it was bent. Need to find/make a handwheel or gear feed. I have a few jobs lined up for it.

 

[pigwot]

Piece of redwood from a sink cutout in a new counter at the nonprofit outside San Francisco where my son works. Brought it back from a visit there recently.
Cut the blank yesterday morning, turned it, carnauba waxed it to keep it close to natural color, boxed, and mailed it back that afternoon.

 

[pigwot]

I didn’t put up the view of the back at first as the copper foil doesn’t match the curvature and looks sloppy where it overlaps; - but, I wanted you to see the feet on the bottom of the tray.