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Volume 07 Issue 4 Website: jaxturners.org April 2007
President’s Message April 04 I have come to realize just how fortunate our club is to have so many talented members who are willing to share their
knowledge with others at the monthly meetings. Emory never turns me down when I ask him to do a demo. Randy did a great job teaching us how to make our own turning tools. Dan is going to teach us how to sharpen our tools this month, and has invited everyone to his shop the following weekend for more practice. Ed Taylor has done a couple of rotations. And many others. It wouldn’t be nearly as impressive if it was done on an impromptu basis, which requires no preparation. But, our demonstrators always come well prepared, having spent time at home getting materials together, planning their demo, making pieces showing the various stages of completion to save time, making handouts, etc. Thanks to all of you for sharing your talents with us. The annual AAW convention is fast approaching. I have arranged to have a front row seat in at least 6 of the demonstrations, guaranteed. How? I
volunteered to be a videographer (fancy word for running the camera), which required that I commit to assisting at least 6 demonstrators. Not only do I get to be within mere inches of all the action, the AAW is waiving my registration fee. And, I get a cool T-shirt! Now all I have to do is pay for round trip airfare (my wife is going as well), hotel, meals, rental car, my wife’s shopping, etc. Even with the registration fee savings, this will not be a cheap trip. But, I ran the camera in 3 demonstrations a few years ago in Orlando, and I got to spend a little time with Cindy Drozda and others while setting up and packing away. If you ever get the chance, and can assure them you can keep your mind on the camera and not the demonstration, I encourage you give it a go. I know you will see it is well worth the effort. Well, I have to beg off with a short message this month (I know you are all disappointed). It is midnight, and only 5 days before the April meeting, and Ed has been patiently waiting on me to get this to him for the newsletter. I have been to south Georgia, California, Phoenix and Flagstaff in one week. Not sure where I was the week before. I know there is more I wanted to share, but just can’t seem to focus. So, after I finish laying 10 pallets of sod in my yard this weekend, I will work on the agenda for Monday, and cover anything I missed then. Hope you all have a great Easter/Passover weekend.
Randy Blake showed us how to make a first class boring bar for hollow turning.
He gave us a handout with all the particulars. He showed us how to drill the shaft to hold the HSS cutting tip, how to safely cut the tool steel with a Dremel tool and how to drill and tap a setscrew to hold the cutting tip in place.
He even made a fancy handle and used gun blue on the tool shaft..
Bob Hunt also showed us a steady rest he had made. What started out as a MDF prototype has stood up to many years of use.
Plans for Bob’s steady rest can be found at this link:
http://turnwood.net/projects/SteadyRest.pdf
Scott Layman showed us the results of his class in metal spinning. The class was taught by David Hout at the Campbell Folk School. We’re now trying to get Scott to do a demo for the club.
Scott made his own spinning spoon and worked in both aluminum and pewter. Ed Taylor told us that the charity project this year would be “Angels & Snowmen” and showed us some examples. He will put the instructions on the website.
Bob Hunt reported that the AAW charity project this year is “Tops for Kids” and challenged us to make hundreds of them. To help you out we have some excellent top making resources in our library. Among the best are the following videos:
1. Alan Lacer - Son of Skew 2. Richard Raffan - Turning projects 3. Woodturning Workshop – Vol 1
Greg Eads also reported on a number of new additions to our library. He’s added videos of our last three club demos, several Shopsmith vids as well as Lathe, Finishing basics, Marquetry and Inlay and three DVD containing twelve episodes of Tim Yoder’s Woodturning Workshop.
Greg also noted that several people had library materials out for several months and asked that they please bring them back.
FREE WOOD NETWORK – Craig Buchanan and I spent a good part of the day with Pam Bernath getting two pickup trucks of camphor.
Both Craig and I were pretty amazed at the high-climber and how he took the tree down one limb at a time using the chainsaw in just one hand. It was also a bit of a sobering moment for us when he took off his shirt to help the guys on the ground.
Pam’s tree provided plenty of wood for the Wood Raffle at the meeting.
Bob Hunt also forwarded some links for sourcing free wood and how to use wax to seal your blanks you’ve cut from this wood:
http://www.woodturningvideosplus.com/free-wood.html
http://www.woodturningvideosplus.com/air-drying.html
Remember, if any of you know of a tree being taken down or see a good sized pile of wood at the side of the road, send me an e-mail at [email protected] or
[email protected] and I will forward to the rest of the club members. If possible send a picture. It would be a shame to let this wood go to waste. With Randy’s demo and our frugal nature -as one new member said “Since I’ve started turning I don’t have any hidden money jars any more” - we all have a desire to make some of our own tools. Here are some good sites for making your own tools.
http://aroundthewoods.com/tools.shtml
This site uses many of the techniques Randy showed us to make a carbide scraper.
http://www.wnywoodturners.com/articles/carbidetool/carbidetool.htm
Our library is a great resource for our Association. There are a ton of great videos and books to help you with your craft.
D3013 - Sculpting Wood - Beyond the Lathe Trent Bosch
85 minute DVD
Trent starts this video with a review of the safety equipment that he routinely uses. He briefly discusses how he tried to visualize forms he may want to carve by using modeling clay or florist foam.
He then reviews the tools in his arsenal. He has lots of tools starting with aggressive tools like angle grinders with aggressive cutting tips. Next are his pneumatic tools which are mostly die grinders with either carbide burrs or various sanding disks. He also uses a pneumatic reciprocating saw. His next group includes power carvers and detailed die grinders. These are used to refine his sculpted designs. Last are the hand tools, such as riffler files and hand carving tools. He also spends a lot of time discussing different methods of holding the pieces for carving. Most are swivel heads that the piece, still in the lathe chuck is mounted to.
Trent then shows how to use some of these tools on two different roughed out hollow forms. On one he creates a relief are with burrs and sanding. On another form he first carves a series of leave along the lip showing how to do this using different tools. On the other side he shows his trademark overlapping leaf motif that extends further down the vessel.
The goal of the DVD is to show you tools that are available for doing work like his and then to spark your own creativity, rather than show you how to complete a specific type of work.
1. Rough turning the outside shape 2. Reversing and mounting on faceplate 3. Finalizing the outside shape 4. Smoothing the outside with shear
scrapers 5. Removing the neck 6. Determining the bottom of the outside of
the vessel and drilling to the bottom of the inside
7. Hollowing the interior 8. Roughing the neck, gluing it back to the
vessel, finalizing the shoulder and carving the shoulder and final shaping of the neck
9. Sanding the top of the vessel, final turning of the foot and sanding the rest of the vessel
10. Reversing and final turning of the bottom
11. Finishing with an oil finish 12. Centering the blank on the lathe
D3010 - Turned Boxes - The Capsule Box
Ray Key
45 min DVD
This is another in the series on box making by Ray Key. Ray is very deadpan in his presentation, but is very clear in his description of what he is doing. He first uses diagrams to show you what steps he will take and then shows these steps on the lathe. In this DVD he makes two boxes; one his classic “capsule” box and the second a more squat “coolie hat” box.
Ray also uses some unique tools. As in his Final Box DVD he again uses his 3/8” parting/beading tool as both a beefy parting tool and as a sort of skew to finish off after he uses a gouge, especially on curves. Another tool is a modified 3/8” spindle gouge. On one side of this gouge is a short (55°) bevel and on the other side is a very long bevel. This bevel extends back about ½ the length of the gouge. He uses this as a skew scraper to clean up the box surface.
1) Greg Eads has a Delta model 46-700 variable speed wood lathe with stand for sale. The unit is 9 years old and in very good condition. Max. bowl diameter is 12" and max spindle length is ~36". Headstock can rotate for outboard turning. Attached is a jpg taken from the owners manual. This is a definite step up for those considering a midi lathe purchase. Asking price: $425. Interested parties can reach at: Email: [email protected] phone: 904-302-0949 Home phone: 904-230-9588 Jacksonville, Fl.
2)Craftsman Radial Arm Saw 10”, rebuilt with new table top $75.00
3) 6” Tool Grinder – 1/2HP, 3400rpm Central Machinery model 46727 Dual rotation - New Condition 10 months old. Cost $125.00, will sell for $75.00
If interested call: Richard Mauro 268-8514
4) Woodcut Bowl Saver – Cliff Leonard contacted Emory that he has this bowl saver to sell.
The bowl saver is in the original box and has never been opened.
Since this bowl saver comes in different sizes, based on toolpost diameter, I’d suggest that you contact Cliff at:
to find out the particulars.
Here’s a link to Woodcut:
www.shop.woodcut-tools.com/section.php?xSec=11
Tipx! Ebuf! Mpdbujpo! Xfctjuf!Hollow Wood Ornamental
Turning – Don Derry
April 14-15 Canyon Studios Copper Canyon, TX
www.canyonstudios.org
Romancing the Curve Through Hollow Forms –
Don Derry
April 16-20 Canyon Studios Copper Canyon, TX
www.canyonstudios.org
Hollow Form Woodturning – Don
Derry
April 21-22 Canyon Studios Copper Canyon, TX
www.canyonstudios.org
Transforming Vision: Bill Hunter
Exhibit
Apr 20 - June 17 Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL
http://www.mobilemuseumofart.com
Connections: International
Turning Exchange 1995 – 2005
April 20 June 17, 2007: Mobile
Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL
http://www.woodturningcenter.org/ITE/2005Retro/about.html
Southern States VII Featuring: Bruce
Bell, Soren Berger, Mike Mahoney, Dale
Nish
April 27-29 Georgia Mountain Center, Gainesville, GA
http://www.southernstates.org
Utah Woodturning Symposium
June 21-23 Brigham Young University Provo, Utah
http://www.utahwoodturning.com/site/page/pg1205-pn_Home.html
Tool Techniques – Jimmy Clewes
May 25-26 Canyon Studios Copper Canyon, TX
www.canyonstudios.org
End Grain Hollowing – Jimmy
Clewes
May 26-28 Canyon Studios Copper Canyon, TX
www.canyonstudios.org
Woodturning with Jimmy Clewes
June 21-23 Atlanta, Georgia http://www.jimmyclewes.com/events.shtml
Turning Southern Style XIII
featuring Stuart Mortimer, Michael
Mocho, and Michael Hosaluk
Sep 14-16 Unicoi State Park Lodge in the mountains of North
Georgia near Helen
http://www.gawoodturner.org
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April 9 Meeting – Tool Sharpening demo by Dan Long
April 14 – Tool Sharpening with Dan Long – at Dan’s home. Details to follow
May 14 Meeting – Thin Stemmed Goblet with Captive Ring demo by Ed Malesky
THE WOODTURNER’S BEST FRIEND – Paraffin wax, sold at grocery stores for canning, makes an excellent lubricant for your tool rest. Break each bar up into small pieces so you have one within easy reach around your lathe. Use paraffin on the tool rest every five or ten minutes. Use it on the lathe bed too. Everything will go better. Paraffin is much more convenient than paste wax from a can. WOLVERINE JIG TIP - Keep the newly sharpened edge sharp on a Wolverine jig – After sharpening a gouge using a Wolverine jig, the gouge is generally just pulled out of the jig. This can allow the metal leaf that tightens down on the top of the gouge to slide down the freshly sharpened edge. Keep this from happening by holding the leaf up with your fingers as you pull out the gouge.
If you have any tips, send an e-mail to [email protected] and they’ll be added to the newsletter.
How Fast Should You Turn? - Lathe speed is very important in woodturning, but not as important as peripheral speed. This is the speed where your tool meets the wood. Peripheral speed is based on the relationship between lathe RPM and the diameter of the piece you are turning. Here is a table from Alan Lacer that shows this relationship:
Alan Lacer has a very good article at: http://www.alanlacer.com/pdf/LatheSpeed.pdf
David Hout recommends using the following formula to set your speed.
To ensure a safe speed, follow the formula of: diameter of the piece x RPMs=6,000 to 9,000. For example a 10” bowl should be turned between 600-900 RPM.
See you at our next meeting on April 9, where Dan Long will be showing us how to sharpen our tools.
