tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35736436790494917652024-02-21T21:18:53.608-06:00WDDSr Fine WoodworksA place for my general ramblings about my woodworking hobby. Also, those who wish can keep up with all my latest projects. There are links to the right, below my profile for those wanting to purchase my projects.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-41211361694695669702014-07-28T20:17:00.000-05:002014-07-28T20:32:49.353-05:00Bedroom Furniture Refurb<div style="text-align: center;">
I guess there are always jobs that some of us hate. Actually, I bet all of us hate some job or the other. I also would venture to say that we have to do it anyway to grow as wood workers, or any other kind of work for that matter.</div>
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For example, I hate refinishing. So why do I take on a refinishing job? That is a very good question. One day I will figure that one out and get back to you with an answer.</div>
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When this dresser and chest of drawers set came into my shop it was a mess. I originally thought the stain or whatever kind of wood this was just simply needed a little tender loving care and it would be no big deal. Boy was I wrong.</div>
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The surface I was looking at, I should have used a light and took a closer look before I agreed to the job. However, by the time I realized this, I had already told the lady I would do it, and I am a man of my word. So the sanding began.</div>
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First though, let me show you how bad it really was so you can see why I kicked myself throughout this job.</div>
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The tops were bad enough. This part really didn't worry me and it is mainly what I looked at. It appeared to be some sort of stain on a lighter wood. Like I said, no big deal, right?</div>
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Then I started disassembling everything.</div>
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I don't know if you can see it well enough in this photo. I know it's there because I seen it up close. This was where I realized what the finish really was. It is that gunk stuff you get if you try too hard to get every last drop out of a rattle style spray can. Someone actually spray painted this.</div>
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That isn't even starting into all the runs I found that made me think that whoever did spray paint this should have their painting privileges revoked. </div>
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So, it wound up taking a lot (<b>A LOT</b>) more sanding than I originally thought. As I got further into this project, my heart sank a little bit. I am not positive on the wood, but this looks to be light cherry. It is beautiful wood. I would have loved to sand this all the way out and clear coat it, showcasing the beauty of this wood. This proved to be a problem though. About two days of trying and too ruined sanding attachments later as the paint in the carved details gunked up and turned to a nightmare, I realized that it was simply going to be too large a job based on my time frame to remove everything.So this is where I had to stop on the sanding. </div>
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I stained it with Minwax dark walnut stain so I could blend everything as best I could with the paint that was left in the recesses of the carved areas. </div>
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Then after five coats of polyurethane, I put all the original hardware back on. </div>
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While I was a little disappointed that I couldn't get it down to the bare wood, I am pleased at the end result. </div>
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I just don't think I wish to take on any more furniture refurbishing projects any time soon. Every single time I do, it always turns into a lot bigger headache than I ever imagined. For the business side of this equation, I always wind up giving a price way too low. Then, since I stick to my word, I am severely underpaid for this type of nightmare. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-3504454418117929512014-07-19T11:11:00.000-05:002014-07-19T11:11:10.635-05:00Decorated Media Cabinet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I am a music lover.</div>
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Should I say, I am a music connoisseur?</div>
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I will be a tad more honest and say that, when it comes to music, I am a hoarder.</div>
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I've always loved music. I don't just enjoy listening to the radio though. I like having music. I don't want to listen to whatever the disc jockey decides to play. I want a collection to choose from to listen to what I want to listen to when I want to listen to it. </div>
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Remembering way back, I remember borrowing a tape recorder much like the one shown in this photo from my grandmother. I would sit it on the floor in the bedroom between two speakers attached to an old console stereo to record the weekly top forty countdown. </div>
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During high school, I made payments on a huge, loud, and at the time over priced, Fisher stereo system. It has stereo, record turn table, and a CD player. Soon after that, although I had hundreds of cassette tapes, I bought my first CD. I still have that CD in my collection. If you take care of them, they last. </div>
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Fast forward to today. The town I live in does not even have a music store. Most of my music is bought online and downloaded. It is cheaper this way, but I still like having the actual physical CD. So in my collection are many store bought CDs, but also a lot of burned CDs. </div>
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Some time back I built a new chest type CD case to go along with a similar one I already had. You can read more about that project <a href="http://wddsrfinewoodworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/compact-disk-storage.html">here</a> if you'd like. </div>
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As it goes with a music hoarder though, I recently realized I had outgrown this chest type storage for my CDs. Actually I had outgrown it by about five smaller store bought CD boxes and one box that a ceiling fan came in that were all completely full. </div>
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So it was time to build something different. To be honest, I've been thinking about this project for over a year now. I just finally made up my mind how I wanted to do it and got everything I needed to decorate it gathered. </div>
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For the base of the cabinet, I wanted my stereo in it. On the left is my stereo unit and the right is my five disc CD player. The middle holds accessories that I use, such as my IPod that I listen to often and the charger for my phone and IPod. </div>
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Yes, I know they make smaller and more modern stereo units. I like my old system though. The one I bought back in high school finally burned out and quit working about a year and a half ago. So I found this one at a yard sale for ten dollars. </div>
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I started this build and was about to start making legs to get it up higher than the floor. Then I thought about it and decided to build it atop this desk in my shop. This is a very old, very sturdy, desk that sits in my shop. It was given to me. It was once in the First National Bank here in Vicksburg. I guess they just threw stuff out when it was shut down. When I got it I cleaned out papers that has stationary of the bank's president. </div>
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Anyway, moving on.</div>
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Above the stereo compartment I started building the CD compartment. Since it was thinner than the bottom section, I decided to move it forward for easier reach. This leaves space behind the top part. I made holes in the back of the top on the stereo section. This allows all wires to be hidden behind the upper section without hanging down to create an ugly mess or interfering with the desk sitting close to the wall. </div>
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The top of the CD compartment and the doors is decorated with old musical instruments. The trombone is attached to the top of the cabinet. The guitar and banjo are attached to the doors.</div>
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Then I scattered old eight track tapes all over the doors. </div>
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In my opinion, these decorative items is what makes it more than just a simple media cabinet and sets it apart, which is exactly what I was trying to do. </div>
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I was sure to leave enough space inside the cabinet for further growth of my music collection, because I know I can't stop my obsession. </div>
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For any of you fellow wood workers out there, do we ever stop changing our shops? I know mine is an ever evolving project that just keeps going and going. Every time I move something here, change something there, I immediately start thinking of ways I'd like things different than how I just put them. And don't even get me started on upgrading or acquiring new toys, uh, tools. This usually instantly turns into yet another opportunity to move things around a bit. </div>
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Anyway, I was looking a few days ago at the last time I posted photos of my shop and realized that it has changed a few times since then, and thought some of my readers may be interested in some of the changes I've made.</div>
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I usually start my online shop tours by walking into the front door of the shop.</div>
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This time is different. </div>
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We are starting near the back of the shop because something I've been doing lately is trying to streamline the operations of how I do things. </div>
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It occurred to me that I was hurting myself moving wood from one side of the shop, to the other side to rip down, back to the other side if it needed planed. Things simply weren't in a very efficient layout. </div>
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Anyway, here at the back of the shop is where I store most of my usable wood. The other side there, where you can't see in this photo, is saw horses I leave out. I can pull wood off the stacks to the saw horses and cut it down with a circular saw to a more usable size for whatever I may be making at the time. </div>
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From the saw horse, if needed, I can move the wood to these nearby tools, the jointer and planer, and prep it to be worked with. </div>
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By the way, these two tools are upgrades from what I had before. </div>
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I didn't even have a jointer before and thought I did not need one. Since getting it though, I have really seen the great advantages to owning one.</div>
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The planer is a huge upgrade. My lovely wife bought it used. This one though is one of those tools that were made back when a man could fix it himself should anything go wrong with it. That is a huge improvement over the planer I had before that spent a month in the shop under warranty while they waited a full month for parts to come it.</div>
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This planer is a Grizzly fifteen inch. It has a two horse motor and runs on 220. I had to get help running new power lines for it, but I am thrilled to now have something that will hog through the work without bogging down.</div>
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Moving back towards the front of the shop is my ever changing sanding station.</div>
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My son got me a second Ridgid spindle/belt sander. I'd had one for a couple of years and loved it. If you only use one or the other, having both a spindle and belt sander on the same tool is a great concept. However, for a lot of the projects I do, I often need both and it was a pain switching back and forth several times in a short amount of time. He let me pick it out, so I could have gotten a dedicated tool, but I liked my first one so much that I decided I wanted the same. </div>
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On the other side of that work station is my work table. </div>
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Some of you may remember I built a work bench. I love my work bench. There are dirty jobs that are done though that would just destroy the looks of a nice bench. That is where my work table comes in. </div>
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You may notice at the back of the table is my clamp rack. A wood worker can never have enough clamps. I used to laugh at that statement, until I find myself at times waiting on glue to dry so I can free up clamps to start on another part or assembly. For you who don't work wood, watching glue dry is just like watching paint dry or grass grow.</div>
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At the other end of the table you can see another ongoing project of mine, the old Craftsman band saw. That is a 1950 eighteen inch Craftsman saw. When done, I have hopes of it being my main re-sawing tool.</div>
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Behind the work table is where a majority of the work goes on. The table saw is the centerpiece, with my shop made band saw to the right and my work bench to the left. </div>
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Here you can see the workbench.</div>
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Also note that I've added more shelf space under my table saw. I have wanted to move my routers and accessories closer to the saw for some time. </div>
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Go around the workbench and this is right next to my lathe and lathe station where I do most of my turning work. When possible I spend a lot of time here. </div>
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This is looking back at the lathe area. Just to the left of this photo is the workbench you were just looking at in the last photo. </div>
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You may notice that I have two grinders set up here. The lower one is set up with course stones that I use for shaping and making a lot of my own turning tools, something I've really started to enjoy doing. The higher one is finer grits that I use for sharpening turning tools. </div>
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I recently, after a long and patient hunt, acquired my dream saw. This is a twenty inch RBI Hawk. If you've seen my scroll work, all that I've done on a small Delta, something that is really what some would consider a "beginner" saw. It always done the work I needed it to, but I have long dreamed of a good quality saw. It was a good deal though and a testament of what you can find on Craiglist if you're patient. New, this is a twelve hundred dollar saw. We found this one for a hundred and seventy five dollars.</div>
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When I seen this saw on Craiglist, I was in a fit. This is the third one I have seen on there in as many years. Every time I see one for a good deal though, I just don't have the money. I decided when I seen this one to bite the bullet and get it. After getting it home though and fretting over how I was going to cover the cost, my daughter and son in law came to me explaining that they had no idea what to get me for Father's Day and wanted to cover the cost of it. </div>
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This whole area here I have rearranged to create a more open area than before. I decided I did not like going all the way around the back of the work bench to get to the lathes. Now when I want to get right to the lathe I can come in the front door and go right to it.</div>
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Then in front of my work area is the usual collection of completed projects that collect so much dust. </div>
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I hope you enjoyed seeing my shop in its current state, because you never know, I may change it up again before you see too much of it.</div>
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If any of my readers and wood working friends are ever in my area, contact me and come visit my shop. I always enjoy shop visitors. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-51352774334788520012014-07-02T19:37:00.001-05:002014-07-02T19:40:29.083-05:00Persimmon<div style="text-align: center;">
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Recently a good wood working buddy named Candy gave me some of the ugliest wood you've ever seen. As some of you know, I love ugly wood though. The ugliest wood usually yields the prettiest pieces.</div>
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This is different views of the same piece.</div>
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This is persimmon. You may can tell that is has a lot of what looks to me like beetle or termite tracks. It created though a very interesting maze of crack, holes and voids. </div>
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This is only a small piece. I have a couple of larger pieces she gave me to do some bowls with later. I only had a little time today to mess with it and wanted to see how it would turn out. It is only about two and three quarters inches in diameter and about four inches tall.</div>
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It is finished with boiled linseed oil. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-29787557623155975952014-07-01T19:04:00.001-05:002014-07-01T19:04:45.746-05:00Dog Days Of Summer<div style="text-align: center;">
I have been absent from posting for some time. I wound up getting a virus on my computer. Through a lot of research and frustration, I finally got rid of the virus, I think. It apparently though fried parts of certain programs on the computer. I have been unable to post photos online. </div>
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Anyway, to make this long story shorter, I now have a computer again and hope to be posting more regularly for a long time to come.</div>
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Now that I've explained all that, I still haven't been able to get as much done lately as I'd like. I tackled a project larger than I normally do. On top of that, I don't seem to be handling the heat of these dog days of summer very well.</div>
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And yes, the title ties directly into the project.</div>
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It is not the first time I've been asked to do a dog cage of some type. It is however the first time I've said yes. What started as a simple project though turned into something much larger and time consuming than I originally thought. </div>
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Everything but the top is made of cotton wood and stained with Minwax gloss pecan polyshades.</div>
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The top is made of pecan.</div>
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It is actually built in two sections to make it easier to move. The top section separates from the bottom. </div>
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The bottom has two doors that opens up to two seperate dog cages.</div>
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When put together, the whole thing is bar stool height.</div>
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The top part also has a large drawer in it to store such things as leashes, extra collars, or whatever else the man who this was built for desires.</div>
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The top is router carved with a bulldog emblem and the man's business name. </div>
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The carving is about a quarter inch deep and then the recesses were painted black. Afterwards, the whole thing was finished with Minwax polyurethane.</div>
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The man plans on putting a large pieces of glass on top of this so he can serve guests on it. The idea behind this project was something he could put his dogs in when he has a cookout and still use the space above the dog cage to serve friends on.</div>
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I'm including an extra photo of the bulldog emblem because I've had a lot of friends already ask about it.</div>
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I do not know where the emblem came from. The man who I built it for provided the photo. I only enlarged it and went to work on the wood with it.</div>
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Before I go, I did wish to show one more project I recently done.</div>
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The desk furthest away in this photo was brought to me. A man bought it at a flea market. When he got it home though, his two daughters both liked it. This left him in need of another. So he brought it to me to see if I could build him a replica. I gave it my best shot.</div>
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Here is another view of the one I built.</div>
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I wish I had more to show you at the moment. </div>
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In between all this, I have also been doing a lot of shop improvements and rearranging as of late. If I don't do anything else soon, I know I'll soon be ready to show you all a new shop update. </div>
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The lowly work bench. </div>
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To a lot of people, including myself I must admit, we don't think much about our work bench. We toil away on whatever surface we can convince ourselves is flat and stable enough to work on. </div>
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At one time I had a worse work bench than the one above, an old door on two saw horses. </div>
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Then one day I was going down the road and seen an old kitchen table someone had thrown out. So I picked it up from the curb and carried it back to the shop, fixed a leg on it, and had a nicer work bench. As time went on I banged it up so bad that the top was terrible. So I screwed some plywood on top. As that plywood got banged up, I added another layer. </div>
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Somewhere along the way I threw together shelving under all that plywood. Then I added the pipe clamp vice on one end. It is a nice work bench. It did it's job. Let's face it though. It really is just an old kitchen table that I've built up around.</div>
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Please do not misunderstand it. This is a fine work bench. I am not at all making fun of it. It has served it's purpose well. I've always liked it because I can abuse it day in and day out, cut on it, finish on it, write measurements on it, and if it gets bad, add more plywood. This bench will probably be in my shop for years to come. It is my go to surface finishing. You may notice on the top where I have gotten stain all over the top. </div>
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Yes I am getting to a point.</div>
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For a couple of years now I have been thinking that maybe, just maybe, I'd like to have myself a proper, nicely built, solid work bench. </div>
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I've seen other's work benches. I've drooled over a few in various wood working magazines. It came to my mind a while back that the whole time I've been admiring all these benches, I was also making mental notes of what I might want in my own work bench, just in case I ever decided to take the time to build one.</div>
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Well, that day has come.</div>
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A couple of the obvious things I wanted in my bench were for it to be solid, and I wanted to use up wood that wasn't good for much else, just so I could say I did not waste expenses on it. </div>
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So I have had a pile of broken cotton wood planks in my shop for what seems like forever. I made it out of that. I ripped those broken planks into widths, working around cracks and bad imperfections, to get all the usable wood I could out of it. Then for the solid pieces I used Titebond III glue and screws to assure that it all held together good. Actually, I used way more screws than needed because I want it to hold together long after I'm gone from this world. I figure one of my kids will one day have a nice bench, or they can all get together and have one helluva wiener roast with it.</div>
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I wanted a wide bench. I wound up making it thirty inches wide and five feet long. I've looked at wide benches and like the split top design. This allows one to use clamps in the middle of the bench if you need to for clamping down items. </div>
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For each slab I glued up cotton wood to make them twelve inches wide, five feet long, and five inches thick. </div>
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On one end of the slabs I mounted a vice. In that vice I attached a block with double holes in it. This allows clamping straight in the vice, or placing dogs in the holes to make use of the corresponding double row of dog holes that run the length of the table for clamping long materials.</div>
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On the side of the other slab is another vice for clamping small items. </div>
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Both of these vices did not add to the cost of the bench. The one on the end was given to me by a friend who upgraded to a larger vice. The one on the side if a Record vice that my Dad brought to me from Georgia where he picked it up at a yard sale. </div>
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For sturdiness of the base, I set out to make it as beefy as the top. </div>
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The feet and the stretchers for the split top are five inches tall and four and a half inches thick. The legs are five inches wide and three inches thick. All of this was built in layers, with two of the three leg layers passing all the way through the feet and stretchers, and everything glued and screwed together. </div>
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Between the foot and leg assemblies I wanted to put drawers for storage. So instead of a simple stretch, I rabbited, glued and screwed two horizontal board and one vertical board up the middle. This created space for drawers on each side. </div>
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Then both slabs for the split top were rabbited a quarter inch to match the base. Then they were glued down and held firmly in place with seven inch long lag bolts. </div>
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At that point, I stopped and stained everything done so far with Minwax dark walnut stain and saturated it all with boiled linseed oil. </div>
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The drawers on each side are made of cottonwood and ride on three quarter inch runners that are glued and screwed to the inside of the base assembly. I used box, or finger joints as some people call them, to assembly the drawers. </div>
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I left the drawers light colored to contrast the bench, then added dark handles to contrast the drawers. I was actually torn on how I wanted to finish these until I got it all done. Then I stood back and looked at it and couldn't have been more happy with the result. So I went ahead and finished the drawers with boiled linseed oil.</div>
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You may have noticed that one side has four drawers while the other side has six.</div>
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This is because on the side with the dog holes I wanted two deep drawers for hand planes.</div>
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I have started making dividers for the drawers to hold different tools I want to store in them. None of this is glued or attached in any kind of way because I may change these layouts several times before I am happy with them.</div>
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So here it is again. I am extremely happy with it. I have pushed myself to the limit working hard on it. I think I have a bench that will, short of some natural disaster, out live me though. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-70601226328727309002014-03-19T18:48:00.002-05:002014-03-19T18:52:31.613-05:00Sanding And Sharpening<div align="center">
Anyone who reads my blog posts know I enjoy making my own tools and accessories whenever possible. This sometimes puts me at odds with some people. I get emails from time to time telling me to try this brand of this, or this brand of that, and that I'll see how much better it is than what I made. I will be the first to admit that sometimes the people who tell me this are absolutely correct. Other times, well, not so much.</div>
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When I get a chance to do so though, I do try to give some of these suggestions a chance. It all comes down to if and when I can get the items at a reasonable cost and if that cost is worth it to me to take a chance on it.</div>
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That will be the subject of the first part of my blog.</div>
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Here is the sander I made a while back besides the Robert Sorby Sandmaster that I recently caught on sale. </div>
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This is one of those times that the suggestion made to me was correct, well, mostly.</div>
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The sander I made does do the job it was intended to do. There is nothing at all wrong with it. However, I also have to give the Sorby brand Sandmaster due credit. It does the same job, but it seems to do it faster and smoother.</div>
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Here is the first bowl, made of rose wood, that I sanded with the Robert Sorby Sandmaster.</div>
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The sale that was going on when I bought the Sorby tool has now passed. They do have them on Amazon last time I checked though if you'd like to search for them there. Also, the Sandmaster is available from several other well known suppliers. </div>
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Next up is the lathe tool sharpening jig. </div>
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This is the Complete 4pc Precision Sharpening System from Penn State Industries. You can find it <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LCGRIND4.html?prodpage=1LC">here</a> if you are interested.</div>
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I do like this system. I do not regret buying it. is easier to set up than my shop made system. However, besides being a little more convenient, I do not see the difference at all between the grind quality off this jig compared to my shop made one. I mention this because I got three different emails telling me that this jig would create a more repeatable, and "better" grind. I have to completely disagree with that statement. I can grind two tools, one on the Penn State version, and one on my shop made version, and you cannot tell the difference in them. </div>
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All that being said, I do recommend this system to anyone who can afford it. You do get a lot for the $129.95 price tag compared to similar systems. For me personally, the better flat rest, compared to the crappy ones I've been using that came with my grinder, made it worth the price of admission. </div>
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Since I was improving sharpening devices in the shop, I decided to finally get around to remaking my oil stone holder. </div>
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This is my old holder. It is something I had thrown together in less than an hour. It served it's purpose, but I had grown tired of it. It is hard to tell from the photo, but the stones are in their plastic containers that they come in. These containers allow the stones to move a bit and gets aggravating when trying to sharpen some tools. It was time to upgrade it.</div>
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I wanted something that held the stones more firmly. However, I still needed to be able to cover the stones to keep saw dust out of them.</div>
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This is my roll around cart with all my sanders and such. I wanted the sharpening station on this cart. However, I needed it to be movable so that those rare occasions when I'm running out of room on my work bench and piling things up here on the cart it can be moved.</div>
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So I sat down and thought about how I wanted to do all this. It was one of those rare occasions that I actually drew up a plan on paper before beginning. Maybe I ought to do this more instead of just making it up as I go along.</div>
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Here is what I came up with.</div>
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It is a simple box that sits on the sanding bench. The latch in the from keeps the lid secure in the front. The plywood is attached to the front board and slides into slots in the side boards and the back.</div>
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When I need to move it, the whole thing just pulls up and can be sat aside. There is four dowels glued into the bottom of the sharpening station that set into corresponding holes in the bench top.</div>
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This is what it looks like with the top removed.</div>
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I like this much better than my older design. I saved the plastic containers in case I need them in the future. Under the cover, the two diamond plates on the right end still retain their plastic covers. I use only water on them and I didn't want oil from the stones to get on them since oil and water doesn't mix well. Also, I seldom use the diamond plates. I like my oil stones better. The only time the diamond plates get used is when I have a badly damage or new tool that I need to change the bevel on quickly. After they leave the diamond plates, they get actually sharpened on the oil stones.</div>
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I have been wanting for such a long while to do some truly higher end pens, made with some higher quality kits. I have neglected doing so purely for financial reasons. These kits are not cheap, and there is no guarantee I'll be able to sell them for enough to make it feasible to even be making them. I wanted to so badly though. So I've been getting a little here and a little there, working up to making just such presentation as I hope to show you today.</div>
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For each of my pens, I'd like to first quote what the site that sells the kits says about each pen style.</div>
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"The Tycoon is simply a great looking pen. This kit features ultra smooth and durable threading, a regal design and striking facets on the rollerball nib. Plus the 24kt gold plating offers a bright pure gold plating that will give your pen a rich and luxurious look. Our 24kt gold uses a "premium rack plating" process and is covered with an epoxy coating for extreme durability. We guarantee it's beauty and durability with a lifetime guarantee."</div>
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This Tycoon pen is made of cherry burl with coffee grounds inlaid into the voids.</div>
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I find myself more and more wishing to take the worst of the ugly pieces of woods and make them interesting, if not beautiful. This pen is a perfect example of that. </div>
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For each half of the pen I used two pieces of end scraps off a block of cherry burl. I carefully glued them to each end of the pen tubes and allowed them to dry. Next I turned the blanks down to about an eighth of an inch over final size. Then I started taking a tiny bit of coffee grounds at a time and gluing them into the space between the two pieces until I built the coffee grounds up above the point where it was turned to. Then I allowed that to cure completely and finished turning, sanding, and finishing the pen. </div>
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All the pens in this post are finished with ten coats of boiled linseed oil and cyanoacrylate glue, buffed up to twelve thousand grit micro mesh, buffed with plastic polish, and then given two coats of Johnson's Paste Wax.</div>
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This Tycoon pen is made of live oak burl with the voids filled with grits.</div>
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I love burls in general. I have yet to find one I don't like the look of. Oak burl has to be my favorite though. It was when my supply of it got low enough that I had to start using pieces with voids in them though that I realized the beauty that adding contrast to the material could do to it. I was originally afraid it would take away from the interesting and twisting grain of the oak burl. Instead though, it only added to the intricity of it.</div>
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The Apollo Infinity</div>
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"Introducing the elegant Apollo Infinity™ Gold Titanium Gel Rollerball Pen Kit - the next generation of pen from the Apollo Elite™ group. This pen features the "infinity" band - a revolutionary 3-D band style exclusive to the Apollo Infinity™. The pen keeps the same elegant rounded profile of the original Apollo Elite™. Includes smooth writing Black Gel ink. The Gold Titanium (TN) plating looks just like gold and is absolutely permanent. It will even outlast our guaranteed standard gold finishes. All TN kits are stamped with a "TN" indicated on the pen clip to authenticate it’s Titanium status."</div>
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This Apollo Infinity pen is made of oak burl with coffee grounds for the inlay.</div>
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I couldn't help myself. After seeing how the last oak burl and coffee pen turned out, I had to create the look again for the Apollo pen. </div>
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This Apollo Infinity pen is made with box elder burl. The void is inlaid with salt.</div>
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The Majestic</div>
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"The magnificent Rollerball Pen Kit will inspire your creative talents and will delight your recipient a hand made pen that will exceed even the most discriminating collector's expectations. The Majestic Pen includes many remarkable features including: A rhodium-plated clip that includes a sparkling Swarovski clear crystal; All exposed accent rings, bands and caps include elegant custom hand-carved 3 dimensional designs; Components are cast, polished then plated with extremely durable Black Titanium plating; Its regal profile is accented with brilliant rhodium-plating on all components and has a flawless fit and finish; The rollerball assembly includes a rhodium-plated pen nib with a premium Schmidt steel cartridge refill with a ceramic point; The finished project is complimented with superb balance, superior writing characteristics and an overall stylish, polished & elegant appearance."</div>
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This Majestic pen is made with walnut burl.</div>
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I only had enough walnut burl to do one more pen. Since this was my favorite design of all the premium pen kits I'd ordered, I decided to use that burl to make the Majestic.</div>
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The Broadwell Art Deco</div>
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"Penn State Industries is proud to team up again with accomplished pen designer David Broadwell to bring you this exquisitely original Art Deco Rhodium & 22kt Gold Fountain Pen Kit. Art Deco was an opulent and lavish art form that spanned the 1920's and 1930's. The art form influenced architecture, industrial design, interior design, fashion, and film of the period."</div>
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The Art Deco Pen features:</div>
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Includes spires and star bursts that characterize the Art Deco period.</div>
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Pen clip features unique Art Deco design and a radiant Swarovski Crystal.</div>
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Easily posts with threads on the end cap.</div>
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The cap is 3-D cast with intricate Art Deco detail.</div>
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The Pen Band is cast and gold plated with Art Deco detail.</div>
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Medium Schmidt™ gold and Iridium nib plus an ink pump and ink cartridge.</div>
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This Art Deco pen is made with cherry burl and coffee grounds.</div>
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I removed the pen kit from the packaging and was studying on what I would like to use for the wood. It just happened that I laid the parts out to get a better feel for them and they were right beside the pen I'd done earlier with cherry burl and coffee ground. I realized that, although I'd done it earlier, it would also look great on this pen. </div>
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The Broadwell Nouveau Sceptre</div>
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This is another kit designed for Penn State by David Broadwell, and features:</div>
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All exposed accent rings, bands and caps include elegant custom casted three dimensional Art Nouveau designs. </div>
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Components are cast, polished and plated with a durable 2 micron 22kt gold plate and Rhodium. </div>
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This Nouveau Sceptre is made of zebra wood.</div>
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Sometimes I am unsure what to make a pen out of until I open the package and look to get a "feel" for what will look good on it. Some pens just scream "I need some flare!" So it was with the Nouveau Sceptre. So I searched through my blanks. I thought about using burl and filling in voids for much the same kind of look I'd given most of my pens lately. This pen though, to me, demanded not to be presented with patched in beauty, but a hard wood that had flowing lines, much like the design elements of the hardware. So I thought about the diagonal cut zebra wood. </div>
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I may never find a buyer for these pens. If they sit in my showcase forever though, it was worth it, because I sure had a good time making them.</div>
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I've been back to doing a lot of pens at once lately. This will be the first of two posts just showing a lot of what I've been up to. </div>
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I am going to separate the ones in this post according to style.</div>
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Tec-Pens</div>
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This is a bolt action tec-pen. I've been wanting to do some of these. I've had several people who loved the bolt action click mechanism in the regular bolt action pens. However, due to their jobs and such, they did not want to have a pen with a bullet for a tip or a rifle clip. So these pens have the same mechanism, but without the otherwise unwanted accessories.</div>
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This one is done in blood wood.</div>
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This bolt action tec-pen is done in black palm.</div>
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This one is box elder burl.</div>
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The last one is done in hedge apple. </div>
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I purposely picked a piece of wood though with a void so I could fill it with coffee grounds. I find myself doing that more and more lately. I love the inlaid look of different materials and experimenting with it all.</div>
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Executive Pens</div>
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These pens are called executive pens. I seen them in the catalogue and thought they were nice looking pens. So I ordered a starter set of six pens.</div>
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This first one is done in something called canxon negro burl.</div>
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Spalted pecan.</div>
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I love working with burls and other woods with unusual characteristics that set them apart. This spalted pecan starts out with almost the consistency of a sponge. You have to keep soaking it in glue as you turn it down to keep it from tearing apart. It makes a nice pen in my opinion though.</div>
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This one is spalted maple.</div>
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Walnut burl.</div>
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Box elder burl.</div>
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The void on this one is inlaid with black pepper.</div>
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Buckeye burl.</div>
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The void is inlaid with grits.</div>
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These pens I've been wanting to do for some time. Every time I wish to order them though, they have been out of stock. They were finally available.</div>
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This first one is hedge apple with a Celtic cross inlaid with walnut. </div>
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I like the look of the Celtic cross on these pens, but didn't think the yellow went well with the pewter finish, so I went with different materials on this one.</div>
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This is walnut with box elder inlay.</div>
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The last one I decided to do in live oak burl.</div>
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The crack void is inlaid with salt.</div>
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I have never met a burl I didn't like, but I must admit that oak burl has by far been may favorite to date. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-23496702963344455292014-02-28T17:28:00.000-06:002014-02-28T17:28:14.698-06:0034706 Maintenance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my <a href="http://www.harborfreight.com/12-inch-x-33-3-8-eighth-inch-wood-lathe-with-reversible-head-34706.html">Central Machinery 34706 Lathe</a>.</div>
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Go ahead and click the blue wordings if you wish to go see it on the Harbour Freight website.</div>
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Anyway, it is time to do maintenance on it. I have promised at least two people that next time I done this, I would snap some photos and do a blog entry about general maintenance and such on this lathe. </div>
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So here goes.</div>
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First of all, I wish to talk briefly about this lathe. </div>
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It came from Harbour Freight. It was less than three hundred dollars after taking off for a twenty percent coupon and then adding back for the two year extended warranty. Now, one can very well go spend much, MUCH more for a lathe. I won't sit here and argue if one lathe is better than another lathe. I know there are better, and more expensive lathes, that I would love to have. Since some of us don't have huge budgets though, I feel this is one of the best lathes out there for someone without a bank roll of cash.</div>
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One of the first things that should come to mind when you talk about maintenance on any lathe is your bed. It doesn't matter if you have a pipe bed lathe, a flat bed lathe, or whatever. Your bed needs to be clean and all parts moving freely. This involves sometimes removing rust and waxing it. If you do find rust, maybe you need to consider waxing it more often. As a matter of fact, I think it would be quite difficult to wax your lathe bed too often. Waxing it is what keeps things moving on it freely.</div>
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Speaking of things moving on the lathe bed, let's look at how things are held secure on the 34706. </div>
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Here are the parts to the tool rest holder. The tail stock parts are exactly the same underneath. It operates on a draw bar concept. You have a handle that turns a bent shaft. That bend, when turned upwards away from the bottom, pulls a draw bar tight to clamp the accessory to the bed securely. This is adjustable by tightening or loosening the nut on the draw bar.</div>
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I recommend getting familiar with how this works. There is a fine line between tightening the nut enough to have it clamp with no chance of movement while still having it loose enough to allow free movement when the handle is turned to move the accessory.</div>
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The next thing I like to pay attention to is the motor. The motor is a fan cooled unit. If too much crud and dust gets around the fan, it cannot properly keep the motor cool. If you don't believe this makes a difference, clean any dirty fan blades, even on a shop fan, and feel what difference clean blades make.</div>
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I have seen some terrific filter systems made for this machine by different people. I think they are a great idea. I do not use one. I do have my reasons. When I am feeling well, my lathe sometimes goes for hours on end without being shut off. I have felt the motor on this lathe after turning a large bowl. It gets hot enough to fry an egg on. While the filter idea may work wonderfully for some, I simply don't want to make the trade off by restricting air flow on my machine.</div>
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So while doing maintenance, and more often if I feel it's needed, I remove the fan cover by taking out three philips head screws, and blow the excess dust out around and off of the fan on the motor.</div>
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Next we need to oil the belt drive system.</div>
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There is one screw on top of the belt cover, two on the side, and </div>
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Then there's one underneath it that is hard to see until you get down there looking for it.</div>
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Remove all four screws and remove the cover.</div>
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This is the Reeves Drive system. It is the belt drive system that allows quick changing of the speeds on this machine. </div>
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I have heard a lot of good and bad about these systems. My opinion of it is that it works, and does what it is supposed to do. The few people I have talked to personally who have had issues with the Reeves Drive System all had one thing in common; they never oiled it. This is a mechanically controlled system. Unlike the much higher priced electronically controlled systems, anything mechanical requires routine maintenance and oiling. </div>
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I oil mine about every three months. </div>
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The first thing you need to do is to look at the condition of the belt. Is it frayed? Does it look torn or worn underneath it? They put some pretty crappy belts on these machines at the factory. That is nothing against the machine. A lot of manufacturers skimp on things like belt quality.</div>
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I'm sure there is a belt size in just about any brand you have at your local parts house. Just take off the old belt and take it with you. It is easy to figure out how to take it off. Simply push against the springs until you have enough play to wiggle the belt off.</div>
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This photo shows the NAPA part number for the belt I have on mine.</div>
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While talking parts, let me discuss what I oil mine with. I like Marvel Mystery Oil. It is a brand name, but it is simply a light machine oil. You can also use household 3-N-1 oil. I have heard of people using grease. I would NEVER put grease on this machine. From my experience, grease and anything that puts out a lot of chips or sawdust simply do not mix. When it is mixed, it simply creates a gunky mess that will need to be cleaned off later. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm only saying I would never do it.</div>
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Next, turn the machine on and set it at it's lowest speed and the belt system will look like it does in this photo when you turn it off.</div>
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Turn it off, go back around to the back side of the machine and put a few drops of machine oil on the pulley shaft for the side closest to the front of the lathe. </div>
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In this photo, look near the top of the photo and you'll see a spring. Just below that spring you see a clean spot on the shaft. This is where that pulley slides back and forth on the shaft. Put a few drops of oil right there. </div>
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It is important that you get oil only on the shaft while doing all of this. Anywhere else and you chance oil on your belt and you will have belt slippage.</div>
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Now turn the machine on and turn the dial up to it's highest speed and shut it off again and it'll look like this photo. </div>
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Notice the pulley driving the headstock moved out and allowed a smaller turning diameter, while the drive pulley moved closer together forcing a larger drive pulley.</div>
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Now, put a few drops of oil right there on the shaft under the spring where the pulley half slides back and forth.</div>
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Now, at this time I like to work the speed up and down a few times and watch the pulleys as they move in and out just for my own piece of mind. It allows me to look for any potential problems while the cover is off and giving me a clear view of everything.</div>
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After that, reinstall your belt cover.</div>
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Now I want to talk about aligning the points of the lathe. </div>
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Install something with a center point into your headstock and tail stock. Now bring them together and lock down the tail stock and see how well they line up. </div>
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Let me stop there. I know there are arguments about how important it is for the two points to be perfectly aligned. I have read about folks in the opinion that it doesn't matter much. If that is so in your opinion, that is fine. I though am a little picky about my tools and insist on mine being aligned. Besides, I like to reverse chuck my bowls without any issues. This is only done successfully (again, in my opinion only) with properly aligned center points.</div>
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So, back to those points.</div>
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Are they aligned both up and down and side to side?</div>
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If they are off side to side, just remember that this lathe has a rotating head. Play with it until you get the head tightened down into a position where it is aligned.</div>
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Now if they are off alignment up and down, well that is a bigger issues.</div>
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I have talked with several people who own this lathe and no one had ever had issue with the points being out of align up and down......</div>
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Except mine.</div>
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I think I am just unlucky like that.</div>
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If the headstock is higher than the tail stock, I suggest either learning to live with it or returning it for an exchange if you bought it new. I have several ideas on how to attack that issue, but none simple enough to explain here. </div>
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If the tail stock is higher than the headstock, then the headstock needs to be raised. This is what I had to do to mine.</div>
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The first step is to loosen the hold down handle that holds the headstock into position.</div>
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Next, you'll have to get down low under the back of the headstock and remove two lock nuts.</div>
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Then you keep unscrewing the lock down handle until the back hold down block comes off the threaded rod. Remove the front hold down block from the front and this is what you are left with. This is the hold down assembly that holds the head of the lathe down.</div>
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With that removed, you can lift and move the head completely off the lathe, and out of the way.</div>
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This shows the orientation of the hold down bolt on the rotator ring below the head. The angles inside edges hold the ring while tabs above that grip the head. You need to see how that works in order to be able to reinstall the head unit.</div>
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With the head removed, this is the rotator ring. It is held down with three allen head screws and kept aligned correctly with two pins that protrude from the bottom of the ring and go into holes on the lathe bed.</div>
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I am not removing mine at this time because I already have it shimmed perfectly for my lathe. I only took it this far apart to show the process. </div>
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You can see three tabs sticking out from under my rotator ring in this photos. Those are slices of a Coca-Cola can folded in half that I used for shims. You can use pretty much anything for a shim as long as it is a material that will not compress upon itself in time. For minute adjustments, I've always found that soda cans work well.</div>
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And installation is reverse of the removal. </div>
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Don't be surprised if you do not get the points aligned perfectly on the first attempt. The problem is that you cannot be sure until you completely reassemble it and tighten down the head unit onto the bed and check it. If it is still too low, you have to disassemble again and add more shims. If it is now too high, you have to disassemble and use less shim material. </div>
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It can be frustrating. Some may say this is the fault of a cheap machine. I counter though that I have heard of the same sort of issues on machines that cost five times as much. Luckily, once you get it right, it is right from now on. </div>
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And that is all there is to maintenance on this lathe. I think I covered all that could come up with basic maintenance. If there is anything I left out, or questions, please do not hesitate to leave a comment or contact me via email.</div>
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HAPPY TURNING!!!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-32021687707442406602014-02-28T16:20:00.001-06:002014-02-28T16:20:49.595-06:00Odd Jobs<div align="center">
I have gotten very little done lately. I have had several odd jobs come into the shop. These odd jobs seem so mind numbing to me to do. So by the time I finish with them each day, I don't feel much like getting online. </div>
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You know what they so though, sometimes we do the things we don't like to do in order to be able to afford to do the things we do like to do. </div>
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This is a rocking chair that came in. It wasn't much to it. It just needed some screws tightened up and some glue joints reglued.</div>
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This doll cradle project made me sick. </div>
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This little gem was once a well made piece of toy furniture for some little girl. When it came into the shop, I scraped off some paint and realized that there was some real nice oak under about five layers of paint. So I had hopes of bringing it back down to bare wood and putting a clear finish on it. That would have really made this piece shine.</div>
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Unfortunately though, the further I got into the project, the less promising it looked. </div>
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First, several deep scars in the wood were bad enough before someone used paint almost like wood putty and filled the holes with it.</div>
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To make matters worse, the large flat piece on the headboard has been replaced somewhere along the way with a piece of plywood. </div>
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In the end, about all I can do with this is to brush off the loose paint as best as I can and repaint it white. I also need to make a bottom for it. This is currently still on my work bench drying. I hope to finish it up in the next few days.</div>
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Next up, someone needed a small children's pic-nic table for a birthday present. These are easy to build, but use enough lumber to make them expensive for what they are. So I stopped trying to keep them around because everyone loves them but doesn't like paying the price for them. I still make them though for special orders.</div>
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The last project I have to show you today is my favorite. I actually enjoy doing projects like this one. </div>
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This is an old Coca-Cola bench. The man that brought it in picked it up at a flea market. I have no idea about the history of this bench. According to the information I was able to find, I think they were sold by Wal-Mart in the early 90s.</div>
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The wood was in pretty horrible shape. Luckily though, everything but the wooden slats is made of decent quality cast iron. So it was no problem saving this piece and even making it nicer.</div>
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The customer understood up front that it would cost more for cypress wood, but wanted to go that way anyhow. I am so glad he did. Cypress will grey with age, but will not rot out as easily as the wood that was on it before.</div>
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Also, I redesigned the slats a tad.</div>
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Originally, the assembly for the bench back was held together with dowels. In my opinion, this just would not be strong enough for a bench. So I redone the back using mortise and tenon joints.</div>
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And that's what I've been up to lately, when I've been able to get anything done. The crazy weather we've had lately has been wreaking havoc on my health. We've had forty degree temperature swings on some days. Those kind of changes are pure hell on chronic pain sufferers. </div>
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Spring is right around the corner though, and I hope to be able to do a lot more in the shop in the very near future.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-83462989983668299132014-02-09T12:29:00.001-06:002014-02-09T12:29:31.023-06:00Making Bowls - Part 3<div align="center">
I made a bowl in the last installment. You can see it <a href="http://wddsrfinewoodworks.blogspot.com/2014/02/making-bowls-part-2.html">here</a> if you haven't read it.</div>
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In this installment, I will show another option for mounting the bowl and getting the same job done.</div>
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I'll start just like I done the other bowl, marking center and marking a circle. Again, the circle, and cutting off corners is not absolutely necessary. It is a step I do though. I just prefer to start with a somewhat round blank at the lathe. </div>
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Also, especially for certain wood like this box elder I'm using for this bowl, I save the cut off corners for inlay pieces on pens at a later date.</div>
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I also need to point out that on this one I am marking all this on the top of the bowl instead of the bottom.</div>
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Next, I drill a hole with a forstner bit in the blank. I will use this hole to mount it on my chuck. However, if you do not have a forstner bit or drill press, this step allows another option. At this time, if you like, you can center a face plate and screw it to the blank. If you are using a face plate, you skip this and screw the face plate, with the blank attached to it, onto your lathe.</div>
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Whether using a chuck with the hole drilled, or a faceplate, with the blank on your lathe, round it and get it balanced the best you can.</div>
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After getting it round, you can go ahead at this time and shape the outside of your bowl. Notice that when doing it this way, the bottom of the bowl is pointed towards your tailstock instead of the headstock.</div>
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Next, you need to measure what size your chuck can accommodate and mark where the jaws will have to go at. You can do this with a tape measure if you need. I simply use my forstner bit that I usually drill holes with for my chuck. I put the center point of the forstner bit into the hole the tailstock center made before, and make a pencil mark on the outer edges of the forstner bit. This tells me where my chuck jaws will be able to go into.</div>
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Then, on the mark I made with the pencil, I'll make a cut into the bottom of the bowl, or in this case, my waste block. There is a variety of ways to cut this. You can use a small scraper, a diamond shaped parting tool, or I've even seen it done by making repeated cuts with a thin parting tool and another guy I seen who was real good done it with a quarter inch bowl gouge. I like to use a straight bit in my oland tool.</div>
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Then I reverse the bowl, using the groove I just cut, I mount the bowl onto my chuck.</div>
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And hollow the bowl.</div>
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You may notice I did not use a depth gauge to make a hole to depth on this bowl like I done the other one.</div>
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I wanted to show another way to measure it if you don't have or don't want to use, a depth gauge.</div>
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I have this little tool I use for this purpose, but you can use a second straight rule, or even a tape measure. Simply lay a straight edge across the top of the bowl and use a secondary measuring tool to stick to the bottom of the inside of the bowl and you can easily see how deep it is. Compare this to the overall thickness of your original blank and you can tell how thick your bottom is. When you start getting close to the final depth, stop and measure often, or you can easily turn through the bottom and turn a real pretty bowl into a real pretty funnel.</div>
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Sand and finish.</div>
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Flip the bowl into the flat jaws just like we done the other bowl.</div>
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And that makes a bowl too.</div>
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This bowl, if you use a faceplate, eliminates the need for a forstner bit or drill press. Then while turning, we eliminated the need for a depth gauge.</div>
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The point of this part was to demonstrate that, with a little thought, you can get by without having certain things. I'm making it easy on myself because I love me chucks. However, if you don't have a chuck, there are even tutorials online to turn bowls without that. If you're good at using a parting tool, you can mount a waste block thick enough to accommodate screw length, turn a bowl completely on a face plate, and then part it off and sand the bottom clean on a table. </div>
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Anything is possible. You are only limited by your imagination.</div>
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Just a couple more things.</div>
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Whatever tools and accessories you do have at your disposal, use them to your full advantage.</div>
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Here, the curved tool rests are not just for getting at those insides of bowls. They are really beneficial at making sharper curved on the outsides of bowls.</div>
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This is just one more way of giving a bowl more shape. If this was used on a tall vessel, you could reverse the curved rest halfway up and create an S-shaped profile. As I keep saying, possibilities are only limited by your imagination.</div>
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Also, once you start getting techniques down, have fun and experiment with your materials. You'll be surprised at what you can some up with.</div>
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In the left stack, you see that piece of rose wood on top? It's missing a corner on the top and it is unevenly cut. We could mount this up and turn it down till that corner, where bark once was, is gone, </div>
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Or.........</div>
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We can leave it as is and just turn an interesting bowl.</div>
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Just be careful when turning something like this and take light passes. You have to realize that you are turning air for part of the upper sidewalls. That means that for every revolution your lathe makes, your tool has to pass through open air while not touching anything as it goes across that missing patch of wood. It can be done. It just take practice and patience.</div>
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I hope I've helped someone with this blog series. It is hard to explain some of it with only photos. I encourage anyone who has the opportunity to take a class or get some one on one tutoring from another experienced wood turner. I did not have that option, so I understand if you can't either. In that case, watch some videos. You can see little things in videos that photos and words just can't explain. </div>
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Until next time my friends, happy turning!!!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-78822452215764473782014-02-09T11:49:00.000-06:002014-02-09T11:49:07.229-06:00Making Bowls - Part 2<div align="center">
If you are just tuning in, here is <a href="http://wddsrfinewoodworks.blogspot.com/2014/02/making-bowls-part-1.html">part 1</a> if you wish to catch up.</div>
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So let's turn a bowl!</div>
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I decided to start with something simple.</div>
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This is a sapelle block. It is five inches square, less than two inches thick and has a piece of three quarter inch thick cottonwood glued to it for a waste block.</div>
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I start by finding the center. There are many ways to accomplish this, but for a square block, I find it easiest just to take a steel rule and mark a line across the corners.</div>
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Next I use a compass and mark a circle as big as I can, or smaller if I don't wish to use as much of the block as possible, around the block. For this bowl I am marking all this on the waste block, which will later be the bottom of the bowl. Later I will be showing another method. This is but one way to do it.</div>
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There is a variety of ways to make a hole to mount the wood to the chuck. I use this two and one eighth forstner bit in a drill press. I will tell you a way in the next installment to do all this if you don't have a drill press. As I've said, there are many ways of doing all this. You can follow along and use a combination of things to get the job done. Turning can be fun. Use your imagination and anything is possible.</div>
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Next, I like to, when possible, round the blank on my band saw. If you don't have a band saw, this step is not even completely necessary. It reduces the roughing out stage and makes the blank more balanced when you first start turning. You can absolutely though mount the square block and simply start turning until you make it round.</div>
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Also, the band saw is not the only way to take the square corners off. There are many, many ways. I even seen one guy on the internet that takes the corners off of something like this with an chainsaw or hatchet.</div>
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Now you mount it on the lathe. As you can see, for this example, the bottom of the bowl, or waste block, is mounted to the chuck. The tailstock is brought up to support the wood. ALWAYS use your tailstock until the wood is balanced well and turning until you are absolutely comfortable with turning it with no support. I have had some knotty pieces of wood that I even done most of my hollowing with the tailstock in place. </div>
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I repeat, DO NOT turn without the tailstock supporting your work until you KNOW that you are comfortable to do otherwise. Off balance pieces of wood, or pieces during a bad can, can and will leave the lathe at high speed. The tailstock will keep it from doing so.</div>
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There are differing opinions here, but I like my tool rest to be at about the center line when truing up the outside of a bowl. That puts me tool edge just above center. </div>
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I will be specific about this point as I go because I used to have a little confusion when learning how to turn bowls. Some people will say bring the rest to center when what they mean it tool edge to center. Because of the way we hold the tools, your tool edge is not going to always be necessarily at the same height as your tool rest. It will be a little above or below it. </div>
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Now you're ready to turn! </div>
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Right?</div>
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<strong>STOP!!!</strong></div>
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Remember what I said about the full face shield. I do not recommend anyone EVER turning on the lathe to turn a bowl without a face shield on. </div>
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Have I ever turned a bowl without a face shield? </div>
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Yes.</div>
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Have I ever been hit in the face with a piece of wood?</div>
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Yes.</div>
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Do I know better now?</div>
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Yes.</div>
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Should you always wear a face shield when turning bowls?</div>
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Yes.</div>
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Yes.</div>
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And Yes.</div>
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With the tool rest as close as I can get it without coming into contact with the wood, I take my gouge and make the blank and waste block round.</div>
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I use my gouge, put the tip above the cut line so the bevel is riding on the piece of wood. Slowly bring your tool handle up and the cutting edge down until your edge starts cutting. Then, with your hand supporting the shaft on the tool rest, move it across the rest in one steady line. Keep doing this until your piece is round. </div>
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In time, with enough practice, you'll be able to just stick the edge to the wood in a split second without all that lowering your tool slowly and all. You'll just get a feel for where the good cutting starts. Just remember that a gouge cuts if the bevel is rubbing and the edge is shaving. That same gouge though can make rough scrapings if you lower the edge enough that the edge can't cut. You can still turn that way, but it just won't be as clean and you'll have to do extra sanding to make it look good later. </div>
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I am explaining this as best I can. I do not have good enough video equipment to truly show how to do all this. If in doubt though, the internet is your friend. There are many many videos on YouTube that will show you the basics of bowl turning if you're unsure of any of the technique I am explaining. </div>
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One of my favorites is Cap'n Eddie Castelin. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/capneddie/videos">Here</a> is a link to Cap'n Eddie's YouTube page. Take a while, a few days if you need, and watch his videos. I have learned more from watching his videos than anything else besides practice.</div>
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Anyway, after the blank is round, I shape the outside of the bowl. Notice that if any of the waste block interferes with the shape of the bowl, turn it away. It is a waste block after all. You will be wasting it in the end. As long as you leave enough material for the chuck to hold it, you're fine. Just turn away anything that is in the way of getting the result you want.</div>
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Next thing I like to do is to face the front of the bowl, or what will be the top. </div>
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To face a bowl, I use my gouge, take very light passes from the outer edge working towards the center, and shave off material until the face is flat. </div>
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Let me stop here and answer a question I am asked often.</div>
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If you look at this photo, the grain runs across the bowl. This is how a bowl is usually turned. You work a bowl like this from the outer edge to the center. </div>
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When I first started turning a bowl for the first time, I had the grain running with the lathe bed. Somehow it just made since to me that since a tree is round, and a bowl is round, then that was the way it should be oriented. </div>
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Now, you can orient the grain the way I described, running the direction of the lathe bed. That is called an end grain turning. It is done, but it is even harder than turning a regular bowl. I do not recommend beginners attempting end grain turnings. End grain turnings you hollow by working from the center towards the outer edge. They are harder to work with than a regular bowl. They take more practice in my opinion. Also, the end grain is harder on tool edges, requiring you to have to sharpen more. Since sharpening is something that I think most beginners are still trying to learn as well, I don't thing something that make even more sharpening needed, like end grain turning, is something that needs to be tackled at this time. Let's just stick with regular bowls for now.</div>
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Now, do you remember my depth gauge from my first post?</div>
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This is nothing more than a long drill bit that I turned a handle for and epoxied the drill bit into. </div>
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Then I rummaged through my junk drawer and found a large rubber washer to go over it snugly.</div>
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Now I will show you how I use the depth gauge.</div>
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Measure how thick the bowl blank is. This one is one and three quarters inch thick. So if I want a quarter inch thick bottom, I need to hollow out about an inch and a half deep.</div>
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So I remove the center point from my tailstock and run the depth gauge through the tailstock. This is the reason I used such a long drill bit. This gives the bit support and the tailstock helps assure that I am at least near center when I start drilling.</div>
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I measure and place the rubber bushing an inch and a half from the tip of the drill bit. This is how deep I want my bowl. I usually go just shy of what I want my bowl to be. This allows me extra material at the bottom should I need it for cleaning up my cutting marks and such.</div>
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Next, with the lathe on at it's slowest speed, advance the end of the bit into the bowl blank. </div>
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Go slow and back it out often to eject the chips out that the bit has cut. If the bit happens to catch and hang up inside the bowl blank, let go of the handle. The tailstock will support if while you reach for the shut off switch. Worst case scenario, it is better to ruin a three dollar drill bit than to take a chance on hurting your hand trying to hold it. </div>
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I've only had the bit bind once in all the time I've used it (about a year now) and it did not damage the bit. I just had to shut the lathe off and slowly work the bit out of the blank before I could continue.</div>
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After you have drill with the depth gauge till the rubber washer is up to the bowl blank, remove it, move your tailstock out of the way, and start hollowing. </div>
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Work slowly. In time, you'll find that groove where you know how much material you're comfortable taking at one time. For me, I am comfortable taking huge swipes of wood. I have burned one lathe up that way though. So for the sake of your lathe, unless you are lucky to have one of those huge beasts of a lathe, take small cuts. </div>
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Work from the outside in. Use the edge of your tool to "catch" where you want to start, ride the bevel to the center, and keep working it like that until you hollow out the entire bowl. As I said earlier, there are many videos online showing the proper technique to do this. </div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83TnWQJgPZM">Here</a> is a video by Cap'n Eddie. At about the ten minute mark he started facing and hollowing the bowl. The angle of the camera I think shows real well in that video how to hollow.</div>
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Now, as with a lot of things in turning, different people have different techniques they like or dislike. Some people at this time would work a little at a time starting at the center and working out. Some people will cut into the bowl exactly where they want the inside edge of their sides to be and go from there. I like to take wide paths out from near the edge to the center and just keep working deeper and deeper. I leave the sidewalls thick until I am almost through hollowing. Then I pick up the sides and work them down as thin as I want them as I clean up the bottom. </div>
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As I work deeper, the deeper I go, the smaller the cuts I'll make. If I try to take too much at once while working more than about an inch past the tool rest, I get a lot of chatter. Chatter is the tool "bouncing" on the rest. With chatter, crazy things can happen, the least of which is a messy looking cut that will be hard to clean up later. So, the further you go over the rest, the more you need to slow down. </div>
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Actually, you could get a curved rest into this bowl. That would get you closer to the work and you could take more material at a time. Often though with shallow bowls, I don't bother. I'm not in a hurry and just take small cuts and enjoy myself.</div>
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When you can no longer see a recessed dimple in the center where you drilled the hole earlier, you are at the bottom of the bowl. Now you need to be careful or you'll turn right through the bottom. I have done that more times than I care to admit.</div>
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If you notice on this bowl, I was so busy trying to get good pictures that, if you notice the outer edge of the bottom, I turned through the bottom of the bowl on this one. </div>
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All is not lost though. Always look and see what can be done. Remember that a lot of things can be fixed when turning. I have even taken bowls off the lathe, sanded and added new bottoms to save an otherwise ruined bowl.</div>
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In this case, using a waste block saved me.</div>
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I just turned through the sapelle to the waste block. This left me with a sapelle bowl with a light colored cottonwood bottom.</div>
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Next you sand the bowl, everything that you can get to. This will be the sides, and inside. I am not getting into sanding techniques here because at this time I am not even happy with the results of my own sanding techniques on a regular basis. That is a work in progress that I may blog on in the future when I find something I am happy with.</div>
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After sanding, you finish what you can get to. There is any variety of finished you can use, varnish, oils, or some food safe finishes such as salad bowl finishes.</div>
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For this bowl, I plan on it being just a simple dish my wife likes to put in various places around the house to hold small items. For these, I use Johnson's Paste Wax.</div>
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After the finish is applied and buffed out, or dried if you use a finish that needs drying, remove the bowl from the chuck, and put on your flat jaws. I am lucky enough that I have two chucks so I can leave flat jaws on one of them just for this purpose. If you have only one chuck, you'll have to remove your regular jaws and put on your flat jaws.</div>
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Then you hold the bowl in the flat jaws upside down. </div>
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Be careful here and practice. Realize that the rubber on the jaws will hold bowls better than you think. Long ago, I cracked several bowls by clamping down too tight with the flat jaws. The thinner your sides, the less force you'll be able to apply without cracking your bowl.</div>
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However, the flat jaws do not hold a bowl as sturdy as your regular chuck. So take your time, take tiny cuts at a time, using the same method as you did earlier when you faced the top of the bowl, remove the waste block.</div>
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On this bowl, remember because of my mess up, I am leaving a bit of the waste block.</div>
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You can remove the waste block and make it flat. You can leave a ridge around the bottom to allow the bowl to appear to "float" on the table, or pretty much anything else you can imagine.</div>
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After getting it where you are happy with it, sand and finish the bottom.</div>
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And that is a completed bowl.</div>
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Next, I'll show another method of making a similar bowl.</div>
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I have been asked to write a blog series about turning bowls. A reader sent me an email asking several questions about bowls. He knew I had turned some bowls. I tried directing him towards some of my posts dealing with bowl turning. I came to the realization though that bowl turning has become such a long journey for me, that the information is spread all over the place. One would have to read for days to try and pick up on something useful from all my rambling. So my reader eventually asked why I don't just do a blog series about bowl turning. </div>
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Next, I tried directing my reader towards videos and such I know about elsewhere on the web made by people way more experienced than me. I still consider myself a beginner at bowl turning, and turning in general. I am learning though.</div>
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My reader pushed on.</div>
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Now, let me admit something here. I do not know how much help I will be to anyone with this series. I think the reader's request is blatant flattery. Apparently it was successful flattery nonetheless though, because here I am.</div>
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I want to say up front that my way of doing things here is by no means the only way. Something I learned through my journey to turning a bowl is that there are no rules set in stone. There are things here and there that one should do to prevent injury. However, for every "rule" I have learned in turning, there are exceptions, which sort of make the rule not so much a definite rule at all. So my philosophy in turning has become, if something works for you and is safe, do it until you find something that works better.</div>
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So here we go.</div>
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For the sake of this blog, I pulled out some material that was big enough to turn some bowls with. I stuck with shallow bowls because I strongly suggest anyone starting out to start with shallow bowls. Learn the techniques and find your groove before doing anything deeper. Deeper hollow turnings create their own set of problems. You need to learn techniques before you learn to deal with larger and deeper things. Trust me, I have had a few deeper bowls fly off the lathe and hit my head. Now I have a very hard head, but I don't want anyone else getting hurt.</div>
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I have here two pieces of sapelle, a piece of box elder, and two pieces of rosewood. On each of these pieces I have glued on a waste block. I use waste blocks on thinner bowl blanks. The reason for this is you need a way to attach the blank to the lathe. You can use a chuck or a faceplate. I use a chuck. To use the chuck though, you need a tenon or recessed hole for the chuck to grab the blank. For deeper turnings, I'll sometime simply make that onto the blank itself and sacrifice that bit of depth from the overall turning. For thinner material though, I don't want to give up that depth. So if you add a waste block it is just that, something you can waste by turning off later, leaving only your material you started with.</div>
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You can also glue up material for thicker bowls. Also, you can use larger pieces of material for a larger bowl to start with. The firewood pile provides a lot of turning practice material. I am sticking with thinner, square blocks for the purpose of demonstrating my ways though. </div>
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There are various ways of attaching a waste block. Some people use two sided tape. I have done that in the past. After a particular scary incident though, I am scared of the tape method. I stick with what I know will hold the waste block on. I use Titebond III glue and always let it cure at least twenty four hours before turning.</div>
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There is also a variety of ways to clamp bowl blanks or waste blocks onto bowl blanks. I have a bowl press that I sometimes use if I am only gluing up one blank. You can work with what you have though. I once glued up a layered bowl blank by jacking up my truck and placing the glued up layers under the tire, letting the truck down, and leaving it to dry overnight. </div>
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If I'm gluing up multiple blanks at once, I prefer to just use a bunch of clamps. You can use bar clamps, C-clamps, or anything you might have. Any wood worker can never have enough clamps. I watch for them at yard sales and flea markets. I have less than a hundred dollars in all the clamps you see in this photo. So keep your eyes open for deals on clamps if you plan on gluing up multiple blanks at a time. They are invaluable.</div>
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If you don't have clamps, like I said, use what you have. If you have a car you can clamp at least four blanks at a time up, as long as you don't need to go anywhere.</div>
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If you drive a motorcycle, only two.</div>
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Now for safety. This is the most important piece of safety equipment you can buy for turning bowls. I admit it, I sometimes turn things such as pens without even wearing safety glasses. Even I wear a full face shield though when turning bowls. I have a hard head that has caught several flying mistakes, but my eyes aren't so tough. Wear a face shield.</div>
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The other biggest piece of safety equipment you can have is your brain. If something doesn't feel right, STOP. Figure out what is going on. Turning is about as safe as any other form of wood working. You have a tool in your hand that can hurt you. You have a chunk of wood spinning in front of you very fast. Usually, if something even feels unsafe, it is. You may be using the wrong technique. You may be using the wrong tool. You may be drinking too much alcohol. Whatever it is, figure out the problem and correct it. </div>
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There are plenty of wood turners who are usually happy to help. There are tons of videos on the internet. There are a ton of books on turning in the library. If in doubt, please consult one, or some, of these sources and work safely.</div>
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On the subject of safety, most of the accidents I've heard about on a lathe come from the same few sources usually.</div>
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1. Not wearing face shield. That spinning chunk of wood can be thrown at you, or a part can break off and fly at you. We are talking about wood here folks. It splits, crack, has knots. Things happen. Wear that face shield.</div>
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2. Having the tool rest too far away from the work. You rest should be as close to your work as you can get it without the spinning wood hitting the rest. Set the rest and spin the wood by hand before hitting the on switch. If it hits, adjust your rest. There are cases where you may have to work with the rest a ways from your work. Those cases should come later though after you've learned enough to know how to do it safely. For now, keep that rest CLOSE to your work. The more tool you have hanging over the business end of the rest, the more apt you are to get hurt.</div>
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3. Long hair or hanging clothes (or jewelry). Look at your clothing. Think of anything, hair, sleeves, earrings, ANYTHING, that can hang down and wrap into the lathe. I wear no jewelry besides my wedding ring (and it is a simple band). My shirt is a long sleeve button up shirt that fits close to my body. I do suggest something that has long sleeves and buttons all the way up to your neck. Those wood chips in our shirt are itchy. Make sure nothing can hang down though. Women (or long haired men) need to tie their hair up in a bun or something, not just in a pony tail.</div>
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4. No cloth rag should EVER be at your lathe. The ugliest thing I've seen on the lathe was a guy who had his finger snatched clean off by a rag that wrapped around a work piece. Cloth is strong enough to wrap around your finger and break or detach it. On the other hand, paper towels will tear if they wrap around the work piece. They will scare you, but will tear and leave you with all ten fingers still intact. </div>
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5. Finally, and this is how I've gotten hurt a few times (luckily nothing serious). Know your tools. If you've got a small lathe with a low speed of several hundred RPMs, you cannot turn huge, off balance pieces like you see on YouTube. Yes, I am guilty of this. I ruined a cheap lathe and luckily escaped without a hospital visit, but huge off balance pieces require very slow speeds to get them balanced before turning fast. I hope to have a lathe that can do this one day, but not now. This is but one example, but know your tools and do not do anything with them that you do not feel is safe to do with them. </div>
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Now let's talk about tools.</div>
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So you want to turn bowls? Get some curved tool rests. This is not the only way, but the cheapest way I have found so far, to get your tool rest close to your work. The bowls I am turning with this blog series can safely be turned with only a straight rest. However, as soon as you start getting into deeper bowls, some will leave you with no way possible to use a straight rest and still keep your tool close enough to where you're cutting.</div>
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I done something I knew better than to do. I tried turning a ten inch deep bowl with nothing but a straight rest once. The bowl's size allowed me no way to get down into it with a straight rest besides hanging my tool almost eight inches over my rest. Since the constant chatter didn't tell me to stop and rethink this, all of a sudden I had a catch, the bowl took the gouge immediately from my hands, slung it around a few times inside the bowl, hitting the rest and the lathe bed, and threw it at high speed about twenty five feet across the shop. </div>
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Curved rests, angled rests and a variety of custom and commercially available rest, will allow you to get close enough to your work. If you cannot get it done safely, there are millions of other turning ideas you can do instead. Just don't do it.</div>
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The rests you see in the photo can be bought <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/CLTSET1.html?prodpage=1CL">here</a>. They also have them a variety of other sized posts. The one inch is just what fits my lathe.</div>
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Here is the basic tools I use normally for turning bowls. I say normally because there are exceptions. Most times I only use one gouge for turning a whole bowl though. </div>
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The first four tools are gouges. The first three are part of <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LX298.html?prodpage=1LX">this</a> three piece set from Penn State. </div>
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The five eighths gouge I thought I would love. Unfortunately, it takes such a big bite that the little three quarter horse motor on my lathe bogs down. This gouge usually collects dust mostly. </div>
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The half inch gouge is still a little larger than I like for my lathe. I use it more than anything else for roughing out the outside of bowls. </div>
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The three eighths gouge I use for cleaning up the outside of bowls and hollowing a bowl if it is soft enough material for me to take this big of a bite. Now of course I can adjust and take smaller bites with any of these gouges. For me though, smaller bites seems to allow me better control if I'm able to use a smaller gouge to do so.</div>
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Then the fourth tool is my quarter inch gouge. This is my smallest gouge, my favorite gouge, and my most used. Using it as deep as it will dig it works just as a gouge should, yet is small enough for me to get into those tight places and do details. Often I will turn a bowl from start to finish using only my quarter inch gouge.</div>
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The next two tools are scrapers. I seldom use these. Every now and then I'll come across a material that, due to knots or crazy grain, I just can't seem to get it smoothed good with a gouge. I'll lightly kiss across it with a scraper to clean it up. That's the only time I use my scrapers on bowls. I do use them a lot in spindle turning. These are part of a four piece set that you can find <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LX189.html?prodpage=1LX">here</a>. The larger two scrapers in the set I never use. They collect dust. They are just too big for my taste.</div>
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The next tool is called an oland tool. <a href="http://aroundthewoods.com/oland.shtml">Here</a> is a good article about oland tools, and where I first read about them. I made mine, and most people have everything they need besides a few locally available materials to make their own. An oland tool, where it shines, is those times working in deep hollow forms with the tool way over the tool rest. I can hollow a ten inch deep bowl using this tool with only a straight tool rest. </div>
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The last tool I call a depth gauge. It is only a long drill bit epoxied into a handle I turned. If you follow this blog series, you'll see how I use it in the next installment.</div>
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I am not getting deep into sharpening because many people have differing opinions on sharpening methods, bevel angles, and such. I will only show about my bowl gouges because that was the hardest part for me when I started learning to turn bowls. </div>
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In the photo, on the left is one of my spindle gouges. The gouge on the right is one of my bowl gouges. If you look, the spindle gouge has a much longer bevel than the bowl gouge. </div>
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I find that each person has to find their own angle for a bowl gouge. The steeper the angle, the less sharp it seems by look, but there is a fine line you have to walk here. If I am explaining this correctly, a sharper tools, as what I think of as sharp, would be the spindle gouge in the photo above. If you see what I'm talking about, then I will try to explain my opinion on the much disputed bowl gouge bevel angle. The more "sharp" the gouge is, the more likely it is to catch and dig in while hollowing. The less sharp it is, it does better till you get back to a point of less sharp that it just doesn't work anymore. So you have to find that line that you are comfortable with that doesn't catch and dig in, but is still sharp enough to hollow any bowl you try to do.</div>
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Now, if that makes sense, there are other trade offs. The sharper the tool is, the easier it cuts, but besides catching, it also dulls quicker. However, the more you go in the other direction, the less clean your cut will be, and the more sanding you'll have to do to get your bowl looking nice. I try to balance my comfort level with no catches with how much time am I willing to put into sanding. You can take the crappiest looking bowl and sand it smooth as a baby's bottom, but if you have a bad cut, it may take hours or days to do it.</div>
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As I've said, different people like different angled grinds on their tools. There are some who may tell you my grind on my bowl gouge is wrong. I'm fine with that. They are right and I am wrong. This grind works for me though and I'm sticking with it unless I find something that works better, and I may one day.</div>
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The grind on my bowl gouges are roughly thirty five to forty degrees.</div>
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What does that mean though? For some reason, this was hard for me to get when I started learning.</div>
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This is what I mean. If I hold this angle gauge up to my gouge, depending on which way I read it, it says thirty eight degrees, or fifty two degrees. </div>
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I hope that makes sense. I had the hardest time figuring out sharpening angles once upon a time. </div>
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That's it for this entry.</div>
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I had planned on putting up one long post about turning bowls.</div>
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Halfway through this though, I realized, HOLY CRAP! I am going to have to break this down into sections. If I don't, someone is going to slip into a coma trying to read all my rambling.</div>
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So in the next installment, maybe we can actually turn a bowl.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-81157592062008996662014-02-04T17:29:00.000-06:002014-02-04T17:29:15.133-06:00Suggestions<div align="center">
I often make the comment that I will try to turn anything once. That statement sometimes brings me suggestions on things to try. Some are obvious good suggestions, and some may make some scratch their heads. Sometimes I like to explore some of these suggestions further though. You never know what may or may not be possible if you don't try.</div>
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Recently, while looking at one of the deer antler pens I have made, a friend made the comment, "wouldn't it be neat if you could make a flashlight with deer antler on it".</div>
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As soon as the comment was made, I remembered seeing <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKPLIX1.html?prodpage=1PK">these</a> kits in the Penn State catalogue. </div>
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So I ordered two kits. It was a puzzle cutting and drilling the antler so it would be big enough without blowouts to get the job done, but I think they turned out alright.</div>
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Some of you may remember some of the pens I've made with defects in the wood. I filled the voids with saw dust and a good soaking of CA glue. </div>
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Well a friend suggested a similar technique, but using a completely different ingredient for the solid part of the mixture, coffee grounds.</div>
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Now I love coffee. So, ever since this idea was first suggested to me, I decided that next time I had a small blowout that caused such a void, that I would try the coffee ground idea. The problem is, since then, I have not had such a blowout.</div>
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So I decided to not wait any longer. Instead, I used one of the ugliest pieces of cherry burl I had. I did not have to wait for a blowout on this piece. It already looked like it had been a huge blowout before doing anything.</div>
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So I started filling those voids with thin layers of coffee grounds, slowly building it up till it was thick as the wood.</div>
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By the time I was ready to turn it, I must say, it was even uglier than it was before I started gluing in the coffee grounds.</div>
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After turning, sanding, and finishing though, it didn't look too bad. I don't exactly know what words to use for it though besides, interesting.</div>
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So, since the cherry burl and coffee ground pen was successful, I started rummaging around the kitchen to see what else I could fill voids with to turn. By this time, it was starting to seem more like a weird science experiment.</div>
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I came up with several possibilities. One that stuck in my mind though was grits. I hate grits, mostly because I eat so many of them growing up. They might make an interesting medium for this though. By this time I had stopped asking why, and going with, why not!</div>
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Now, some of you from the north may not know what grits are. No, I am not trying to make fun of anyone. My Dad is from the north though, and from him, I know some of you may have to google grits now. In my own personal opinion, you are not missing much, some people, like my kids, love them though.</div>
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I started with a piece of oak burl. Oak burl is my favorite of them all. I'm running low on it though, and this may just very well give me the option of using all those little pieces that aren't good for much because they are in such bad shape. </div>
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As a matter of fact, this one didn't even make it off the drill press before it broke completely in two. I figured it was time to go for broke. So I finished drilling the piece, which was now two pieces, and glued a piece on each end of the pen tube. Then I started slowly filling the missing area with grits until I got it built up enough to turn.</div>
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So here is what an oak burl and grits pen looks like. Actually, I like the way this one turned out better than the coffee. </div>
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Today is a continuation of making the Oland tools. If you read yesterday's blog, I was ready to drill and tap holes for set screws today.</div>
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My first order of business though was going to be to run to town to pick up some set screws. I usually keep quarter inch set screws in the shop. It is an often used size and you never know when you'll need a spare. They strip out. They fall out and get lost. I find myself needing them often. I had somehow though allowed myself to get down to one, and I need three for this project.</div>
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The thing is, I try not to drive in snow unless it's an emergency. I just didn't feel that set screws was enough of an emergency to require me to get out on the roads today. I could do everything else and pick up the set screws when the weather is better.</div>
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So, to the drill press. The size drill bit and tap will depend on the size set screw you plan to use. If in doubt, talk to someone at a good hardware store if you have one in town and they can usually set you up with a hand full of set screws, a drill bit, and a tap, for less than ten bucks. </div>
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Before drilling your hole, take the time to make absolutely sure that you put a center punch dimple exactly center of your hole that the bit will go into. Try to get it centered between where the hole exits both sides of the shaft as well. If you're a tad off on that though, it will still pinch the bit in the hole and hold it fast. Centering it over the hole though is important so the tap will go through without binding against one side of the hole or the other.</div>
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Here is my only set screw, until I can get to town, the tap to make the threads for the set screw, and an adjustable wrench to turn the tap with. </div>
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The reason I show this photo is to tell you that there is a tool made specifically for holding and turning taps. I had that tool once upon a time. It is somehow lost in my shop though like so many other things. If you are careful though, you can do the same job with an adjustable wrench.</div>
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I find the most important things about tapping threads in a hole are to make sure the tap goes in straight, keep the threads of the tap lubricated, and be sure to back out often to clean the metal off the threads. </div>
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The straight tool is good for general hollowing of bowls and other vessels. I have also used it a few times, just to see how well it worked for it, on spindle turnings. </div>
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The ninety degree tool is good at getting at the sidewalls of bowls and hollow vessels.</div>
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Now here I need to talk about the forty five degree tool. I made a change on this set of tools from the set that I have. I have two forty five degree tools. I have one like the one you see above, and one like you'll see in the next photo. I had an idea though.</div>
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I drilled and tapped the hole for the set screw all the way through on both sides of the bit hole. This allows you to use the tools as you see it above, with the bit at a forward forty five degree angle. This works great at sidewalls of bowls that are too small to use the ninety degree tool in without hitting the rim of the bowl or vessel. Also, it is ideal to cut into a sharp corner in bowls or turned boxes.</div>
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Or you can flip the tool over, put the bit in the other way and put the set screw in this side to give you a raked back forty five degree tool. </div>
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This tool is ideal for cutting upwards in a bowl or hollow vessel, especially if you're trying to put a lip on it with an undercut.</div>
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Next thing to do was to soften edges. If you notice in the photos before this one, there are sharp corners on the ends of the shafts. You can use a file, grinder, or many other options, but the edges around the business end of the tool need to be rounded off to a softer profile. If you leave the edges sharp, there is a chance of it touching wood while turning and creating a cutting action of it's own. With the softer edges, it will only rub the wood if it contacts it. It may create a burnishing effect, but that can be easily sanded out.</div>
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The next thing to do is to make bits. You can use any variety of materials to make bits. I've seen bits made from old cheap steel drill bits, nails, old files, bought cobalt and carbide shafts, and many other things. My bits of choice are made from high speed steel drill bits. </div>
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I like these Mibro brand aircraft quality drill bits. They are good steel that holds an edge a long time, and I can buy them locally for a reasonable price.</div>
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You can make bits longer or shorter. Myself, there is eight inches of round shank on these long drill bits I mentioned before. So for around six bucks I get four two inch long bits. </div>
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I just clamp the drill bit in a vise, measure, and use a hack saw to cut off the bits.</div>
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A grinder is the tool of choice to shape and sharpen these bits. Just like any high speed steel, the trick is to not let the bits get too hot to ruin the temper. The thing is, when shaping these small bits, they get hot fast. I hold them with a pair of locking pliers and keep a can of water right there. Touch the stone, dip, touch the stone, dip. Dip often and keep the bit cool.</div>
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You can follow other people's styles and see if you like them, or get some cheap bits and play around with different profiles to see what works for you. I grind all my bits on a forty five degree angle in different profiles. </div>
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This is what I'll be shipping with the tools to my friend. </div>
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I took the privilege of grinding the four bits from the drill bit to some of my favorite profiles. If my friend doesn't like these, or has other ideas, he can easily change them. With two inch long bits, there is plenty of usable steel to regrind on. When that is used up, just buy and cut up some more drill bits, or as I was talking about earlier, use your imagination.</div>
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From left to right is:</div>
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1. Simple forty five degree grind. You do nothing but just stick the round bit to the stone and go at it till you take away enough material for an edge. This one I find good for hollowing.</div>
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2. Flat straight bit. This one is sharpened similar to the first one, except you flatten the top first. This one is good at hollowing as well, but really shines at flattening the bottom of a bowl or vessel.</div>
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3. Similar to the second one, except it has a grind at an attack angle from both sides close to forty five degrees. This one is more of a general purpose bit, but I find it works great in that transition area between the bottom and the side wall of bowls or vessels.</div>
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4. This one is a swept back forty five. When placed in the ninety or the forty five tool, it easily brings a flat edge that can comfortable be drawn straight up the side of a bowl or vessel. With practice, you can use this tool to gently trim a bowl side until it is thinner than I'm comfortable doing with a regular bowl gouge.</div>
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5. This is the allen head wrench that fits the set screws that will be in the tools.</div>
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All that's left is handles. After doing some measuring, I decided on sizes I thought my friend would find acceptable. I'm making handles eleven inches long. I need the hole for the shafts to be at or close to seven inches deep. Since the only five eighths bit I have in the whole shop that will get anywhere near that is a spade bit, that is what I'm using.</div>
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I like to clamp the bottom of the handle stock in a wooden vise to drill. This gives me something to hold to should the bit catch inside of the deep hole.</div>
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Several problems present themselves drilling this deep of a hole. </div>
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My spade bit is only five inches long. With some of that length inside the chuck, this only allows about four inches of usable length. So I have to use an extension after I go as deep as the spade bit allows. </div>
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The next problem is the three and a half to four inch of quill travel on my drill press. </div>
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To solve the quill travel problem, I have to get creative. I drill as deep as the quill allows. Then I back the bit out, raised the table until the bit is inside the hole a certain depth, then turn the motor on and go at it some more.</div>
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You can see in this photo that, by the time I get to my last pass with the drill press, the spade bit is already almost completely inside the hole before I even turn the drill press on.</div>
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The trick here is to take it slow. Also, lower the table, remove the handle blank, and dump the shavings out often. This helps prevent them from staying in the blind hole and causing the bit to eventually bind. That could cause a dangerous situation.</div>
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I know someone may already be looking at this and thinking there has to be a safer way. There probably is. I am working with what I have available though.</div>
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After the hole is drilled, all you do is put it on the lathe and turn your handle of choice.</div>
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I decided to not take a huge about of time on handles. This decision is mainly because I don't know if my friend is even going to like these handles enough to keep them. I know that I commonly put new handles on tools when I get them to make them more to my liking. </div>
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So for the handles, I done them quickly. I just turned them, made a few burn lines (something I do on all handles I turn) and put a coat of Johnson's Paste Wax on them.</div>
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The handle you see is a handle style I like. I do not use ferrules. I know that some say they are necessary, and there must be a reason for them, since most manufactured tools have them. However, I've never had a problem yet with my handles with no ferrules.</div>
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After making the handle, the shaft has to be inserted into it. </div>
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This is the way I attach the handle. The shaft has to be driven in with a rubber mallet. I purposely make the holes a tight fit. Most of the tools I have myself don't even have glue or epoxy in them. Either way, the shaft has to be driven in. Keep this in mind if you do it like this and use a fast setting glue.</div>
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To drive the shaft in, I put the butt of the handle on the floor, stand the shaft up in the hole, and drive it with a rubber mallet until I hear that solid lick, telling me that the shaft has bottomed out in the hole.</div>
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These handles do not have glue of any kind in them. I wanted to leave them so that if my friend does wish to make his own handles, he can easily use a chisel to break the break the handles off of the shafts and use his own handles.</div>
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If he does like them, he is also welcome to keep them on. I've only had one handle without glue ever to come loose. However, if these do come loose at any time in the future, it is easy to put some glue or epoxy in and drive the shafts back in.</div>
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So here are the three Oland tools that I plan on shipping out to my friend early next month.</div>
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I noticed as I was moving the tools after the last photo that something was definitely wrong with one of them. The shaft just did not seem to look right. Upon closer inspection, I found this.</div>
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Did I turn it too thin? Did I get my hole drilled crooked somehow?</div>
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Since the handle was trash anyway, there was only one way to find out.</div>
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Somehow the hole was not drilled straight. This created a scenario where it became turned too thin on one side of the handle. This in turn made the handle crack when I drove the shaft in.</div>
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So, I will have to turn another handle before I can ship them.</div>
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I won't bore you all with me turning one more handle. I think this two part blog showed the process of making these tools pretty well. I will be happy to answer any other questions anyone may have though.</div>
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This post is about making tools. It will be several parts to it. With cold fronts moving through the area, I simply am not able to get out to the shop to do as much as I'd like. </div>
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First, this is what I've been using to insert tubes into pens that I make. It is the nozzle that comes with certain tubes, such as automotive silicone. It has worked well, but I've been wanting something better. Mostly, I just wanted something with a handle to make it easier to hold. </div>
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I seen <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKTINT2.html?prodpage=1PK">this</a> tool in the Penn State catalogue. If you read my blog regularly though, you know I hate buying a tool, no matter what the cost, if I can make it myself.</div>
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So I chucked a piece of half inch steel rod in my chuck on the lathe. Some time with a file, and I had a tool that seems to work well on all the tubes I had available on hand to check it on. </div>
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Then I used a piece of cocobola I had to make a nice handle for it.</div>
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Some of you may remember the Oland style tools I made a while back. Well, I have gotten a few questions in my email from time to time about them. There are several articles online that I've been directing people to. Well I was recently contacted by a far away friend who wants some of these tools but does not have a fully equipped shop in order to make them. This helps me out because I can help a friend and, since I did not take photos while making my set, can take lots of photos to be able to show people how I made mine. </div>
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So if you're interested in making some of these, follow along in the next few installments while I make a set for my friend.</div>
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First thing is to cut some steel rod to length. The length is a matter of preference. There are a couple of factors to consider. Take your favorite tool. Measure the length of the over all tool. Then measure the shaft length that sticks out of that tool. Now, through trial and error, or simply an educated guess, figure out how far into a handle you can drill a hole the proper size for your shafts. Add the shaft length to that depth, and you have your overall shaft length. </div>
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I'll need three shafts. My set is a four piece set. I have an idea though to turn the two forty five degree tools into one single tool. I will get to that in a later installment. If it works, great. If not, I'll have to cut the end off and make another one. For now though, I just need three shafts.</div>
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The shafts I cut are fourteen inches long. I may have to shorten these a bit later for my handle to make them so I know my friend will be happy. For now though, I'd rather have them long than short. I can remove some length later, but I won't be able to add any. </div>
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Let me stop right there and say this. Every step you see me do with making these tools are only the way that I do it. There are endless ways you could do the exact things I am going to do and still get the job done. </div>
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To cut the shafts to length, I simply clamp a five eighths thick cold rolled steel rod into a vise. Then I used a hacksaw and tape measure and went at it.</div>
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I'm starting with the ninety degree tool, because it is easiest to drill the hole. It simple goes through the side. </div>
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The first thing I have to do is make a jig to hold the rod. It is simply a block of wood cut on the table saw to allow the rod to lie in. They make drill press vices that would make this jig unnecessary. My drill press vise stays set up to drill pen blanks though. It is quicker to me just to cut a temporary jig.</div>
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The next thing I'll need is oil. Anytime you cut metal with a drill bit, you need oil. You can drill it without oil, but you'll burn up your bit quickly. </div>
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They actually make special cutting oils for drilling. I've used other oils though through the years. Anything that keeps the bit lubricated and cooled will work. My preference is Marvel Mystery Oil. Why? Because I've used it a lot in the past and it works. </div>
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I have an old small bottle that had 3-In-One oil in it that I keep refilling with the Marvel Oil.</div>
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The next thing I use is a center punch. I suggest always making a divit with a center punch when drilling through anything that is not flat, such as this rod. If you don't, there is a good chance your bit will "walk" when you start drilling. This can cause your bit to break.</div>
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When drilling, keep your hole filled with oil. Just back your bit out often and put a few drops down the hole. Drill slowly. Using this method, I usually wind up somehow breaking my smaller bits, like this quarter inch I'm using here, before I dull a bit.</div>
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There's still more to do to this, and all the shafts I'll be drilling today. I'm just trying to get my quarter inch holes done today though. The more will come later. So I'll clean the oil off of it and set this shaft aside for now.</div>
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This one is a little harder to drill. It is harder simply because the hole is drill at forty five degrees. The bit will have a tendency to skate down the shaft before cutting. It has to go further through the metal to make the hole all the way through. Then it has to come through the other side. This sometimes causes issues as the bit is free on one side of the cutting area while still grabbing on the other side of it.</div>
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The first thing I do is clamp the shaft in the vise. I use an angle grinder to flatten a small area at a forty five degree angle. It doesn't have to be a lot of material removed, only enough to give the bit enough flat surface to start on so it doesn't skate down the shaft. Once it starts, the hole itself will keep it going the direction it needs to go.</div>
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Again, you can use a drill press vise for this operation if you have one. I just added forty five degree blocks under the temporary jig I made before. Then I use a C-clamp to hold the shaft to the jig so it doesn't try to slide downward as I'm drilling. </div>
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Remember what I said earlier about the bit grabbing on one side and not the other as it exits the forty five degree hole? Well sometimes it may grab enough to snap the bit right off like this one did. </div>
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So I had to make a hardware store run for a new bit before continuing. I picked up three bits though. I keep extra bits around for common sizes such as this quarter inch. The one I snapped off just happened to be the last one I had on hand at the time.</div>
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Next up is the straight bit tool. I have been thinking about this one for several days now. The one I have is from another source. I did not make it. So I had to figure out a way to drill it. My drill press would drill it. I really did not wish though to remove my cabinet that is attached to my table that holds bits and such. It would simply be too much of a pain.</div>
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So I called a local machine shop. I figured it may just be easier for me to carry it somewhere and get them to drill a simple hole for me.</div>
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So I called them, explained what I wanted, and asked for a ball park figure on what it would cost me.</div>
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<em>Forty to sixty dollars.</em></div>
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What!? To drill a one inch deep hole in a shaft?</div>
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<em>Yes sir. We have to crank up a highly specialized machine to perform that operation.</em></div>
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Specialized machine? It's a hole.</div>
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<em>Yes sir. It's a hole in the end of a shaft though. The only way we have to do that is a horizontal boring machine.</em></div>
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Ok. Well thank you anyway, but I can't afford that.</div>
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So I hung up the phone a little frustrated. What in the world is a horizontal boring machine? And what is so specialized about it that it costs that much to drill a hole?</div>
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So I went online to find out what this highly specialized machine called a horizontal boring machine was. Guess what I found?</div>
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It looked like a fancy metal lathe.</div>
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I don't have a horizontal boring machine, or even a not so fancy metal lathe. I do have a lathe though. I also have a drill chuck insert for my tail stock. Then I have a chuck to hold the shaft at the headstock end. I figured I could make a go of this.</div>
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The problem I ran into was that a five eighths rod will not go all the way through my headstock spindle. So I had to just chuck it into the chuck, leaving a lot overhanging the bed. This left so much unsupported weight out there that it was just too much wobble to be drilled successfully.</div>
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So do you remember the steady rests I made a while back?</div>
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What to do with too much unsupported shaft? Set the steady rest close to the chuck end. Then slide it outwards and support the rod.</div>
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Now we are cooking with grease.</div>
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Everything was going nicely. About halfway through the one inch deep hole though, I started noticing a lot of smoke from my bit every time I'd retract it to clear the shavings. So I decided it was time to take a coffee break and allow my bit to cool completely before continuing.</div>
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All went well from there and I got the hole bored, and without a horizontal boring machine.</div>
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I hope to run to town in the morning to pick up the set screws I forgot to get today. Then I will drill and tap holes for those.</div>
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So if you're interested, stay tuned. I will continue posting the progress as I get it done. This, I hope, will answer any questions anyone has. At the very least it will give me somewhere to direct people people when they do have questions.</div>
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This post is supposed to be about lathe tools. I will start off a tiny bit sidetracked though, if for no other reason but to get the admission of my addiction out in the open beforehand.</div>
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I don't use them as much as I'd like to, but I do have a thing for hand planes. This is funny, since I used to poke fun at a few of my friends about their own hand plane addiction tendencies. These days, I cannot force myself to pass up a flea market booth or yard sale if my eyes a glimpse of rusty gold. I have a few, and am always looking for good deals, or simply one I don't already have. I do wish to point out though, I do not buy wall hangers. If I see a plane that is so far gone that it cannot be brought back to working order, or I can't get it cheap enough to make it valuable in parts, then I leave it where it lies. </div>
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I am a man who once said he hated hand planes. Now, although I mostly work on the lathe these days, some of you may remember from some time back that I do work on things not related to turning. All that being said, although I don't claim to be a strictly hand tool kind of guy, I do find a certain relaxation, an almost zen like appeal, to turning off the electron killers from time to time and simply listening to the whisping noise that a well tuned plane makes as it does its work on a piece of wood. </div>
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Here is my latest acquisition. My son brought it too me this past Saturday. It is an old number eight, or so I am told. I have not had time yet to break it down to do any research on it or sharpen it. Just the way I received it though, it created a six foot long paper thin ribbon as wide as the blade on a scrap piece of cottonwood. I look forward to seeing what it can do once I get time to give it a little tender loving care. </div>
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Speaking of sharpening, I gave up on the stone racks I made to clamp in vices and finally just screwed them to the edge of one of my benches. This will eliminate the time it usually takes me to set everything up just so I can begin sharpening tools. I came to this decision one day while I thought about the time it was going to take me to set them up for sharpening my skew chisel for my lathe. Most lathe tools are sharpened on a grinder. There are a few though, like the skew, that I like to put a fine polished edge on. </div>
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The need for these will also be explained a little later in a tool review.</div>
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Now back to the lathe. </div>
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Did I say I had a tool addiction? Nah! I did actually need some new tools for the lathe.</div>
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I consider myself still a beginner at the lathe, but I am always learning more. In that learning process, I have worn away quite a bit of material from my gouges while learning to properly sharpen them, and while finding that perfect bevel angle for my liking. It was getting to a point that I was choking the jig up mighty close to the handle while sharpening, so it was time for some replacements of my most used spindle gouges. </div>
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The first two tools to the left are replacements for my old Craftsman half inch and three eighths spindle gouges. I bought the Benjamin's Best gouges from Penn State. I sharpened them up and took them for a test drive. I am quite happy that they will perform fine for me. Time will tell, but I may even venture to say that they are better than my old Craftsmans. </div>
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If you need links, <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LX330.html?prodpage=1LX">here</a> is the half inch, and <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LX320.html?prodpage=1LX">here</a> is the three eighths.</div>
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The third tool is a quarter inch gouge from Hurricane tools. I have been thinking of getting a quarter inch gouge for some time My old Craftsman set came with the two gouges I mentioned earlier, and a three quarter inch. The thing is, the largest of the set mostly collects dust, while I often find myself wishing I had something smaller than the smallest of the set. So a quarter inch model was the obvious next step.</div>
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Since the quarter inch gouge at Penn State has been out of stock for some time, I decided to look elsewhere to find one. I ordered the Hurricane <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Woodturning-Spindle-Gouge-Speed/dp/B008B86CGY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390481942&sr=8-1&keywords=1%2F4%22+spindle+gouge">here</a> from Amazon.</div>
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The fourth tool is a quarter inch bowl gouge. I have had the same issue discussed earlier with bowls, I wanted a smaller gouge. So I figured that, while I was ordering tools, I may as well let it get out of hand and go for the bowl gouge as well.</div>
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Again, the quarter inch bowl gouge at Penn State was out of stock, so I ordered the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crown-240-4-Inch-6-mm-Gouge/dp/B001V9KP04/ref=sr_1_1?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1390482375&sr=1-1&keywords=1%2F4%22+bowl+gouge">this</a> Crown brand from Amazon.</div>
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The next three tools are Versa-Chisels, which I will discuss after the next photo.</div>
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This is the three piece set of Versa-Chisels. They can be found <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LCVERSA3.html?prodpage=1LC">here</a>. </div>
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I hate to describe it as "many", but I have lost track of the times I have been asked about these, the Sorby Spindlemaster, or other similar tools. So I started doing some reading up on them. From what I read, I realized that the best opinions of these types tools were related to the Sorby brand. </div>
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I do not wish to talk bad about Sorby tools, because I have never as much as touched one of their tools. The simple fact of the matter is that I am on a tight budget and simply cannot afford their fine tools. </div>
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So I read a little deeper, trying top find out if there really was a difference between Sorby's brand and others like it. The big difference I read about was the out of the box condition of them. The Sorby brand, from what I read, comes from the box ready to be put to wood. It is sharpened and polished. To sharpen it, you only hit the top, flat edge on a diamond stone to represent a fresh cutting edge. As a matter of fact, it is suggested that you never touch the bevel on a Sorby Spindlemaster. If the bevel needs sharpened, such as if it was dropped, you are supposed to send it back to Sorby to be repaired. Other tools though, not so much.</div>
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Anyway, I went with the Penn State version called the Versa-Chisel. I bought the three piece set so I could get a good idea of the overall usefulness of the tool style. </div>
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Out of the box, with the reading and understanding of this tool that I have done, it was my opinion that the finish on the Versa-Chisel is indeed unusable. To test this theory, I tried it right out of the box. It was a scraper. That is the best way I know to describe it. I just simply could not get it to perform the way I believed this tool was supposed to.</div>
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Next, and this explains the use of my sharpening stones I showed earlier, I decided I was going to need a similar angle (thirty degrees) and polishing, like the Spindlemaster.</div>
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In the above photo, the left Versa-Chisel is how it looks out of the box. The right one is one after I spent about an hour sharpening and polishing it. </div>
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Now I must stop here and tell you, I was told that it was impossible to polish these up to a usable state. So everything I say from this point forward may be completely wrong. If you believe that to be the case, please recognize this as my own opinion and stop reading now. While I am not saying my now doctored tools is as good or even comparable to the more expensive Sorby brand tool, I am saying that I believe some time working the edge has brought it to a point that I can honestly give my opinion of the usefulness of this style tool, and that is all I am really trying to do here. </div>
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So after spending several hours working the edge of the three Versa-Chisels, I put a piece of scrap wood between centers and went for a new test drive.</div>
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Here is where my opinion of this style tool gets kind of shady. Please let me explain.</div>
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This tool has been explained to me many times as a tool that magically gives some people the power to no longer have the need to learn to use an actual skew chisel. So let me start there and give you my opinion of a skew chisel. </div>
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The skew chisel, in my opinion and the opinion of just about every piece of literature I've ever read on the subject, is the hardest of the lathe tools to learn. The one and only trick to it is practice, practice, practice, and then when you think you have, practice some more. It is an essential tool at my lathe, but one that will only you will only learn the usefulness of when you learn to use it properly. Until you learn to use it properly, it will aggravate you. I like a challenge though. I went through a phase where I decided I did not need a skew. Then one day I made up my mind that a tool was not going to beat me, and set my mind to learning it. I suggest anyone who wants to turn much to do the same.</div>
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The Versa-Chisel is advertised to perform as a chisel, a gouge, and a scraper, all in one tool. While it does do all of that, it does none of them (again, in my opinion) as well as an actual chisel, gouge or scraper. Yes, it is a good tool to have in your arsenal of options to do projects with. I do not ever though see it replacing my favorite gouge, scraper, or especially, my skew chisel. </div>
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If you are interested in this type tool, I absolutely think they are worth buying. It is an interesting concept. You could, if you wish, grab one tool and make whatever spindle turning you wish with that one tool. That is where it gets grey for me. While I think it is a great tool, I do not think it is as great or magical as I have been told. I still do not see myself ever doing anything with just this one tool. If I want rough and quick rounding, I'll get my gouge. If I want to gently scrap off a tiny amount of a surface, I'll grab my scraper. If I want a fine cut, I'll grab my freshly sharpened skew. </div>
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Now, about that idea of this replacing the skew for people who have trouble with the skew. I can see where that idea comes from. It does not seem to grab quite as badly or as quickly as a skew would if you roll it too much one way or the other. However, to get a good clean cut, I needed to execute my technique just as I would a skew. If anyone can get a clean cut with a Versa-Chisel, then I believe they are well on their way to knowing how to use a skew. </div>
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So, in reviewing my long winded rambling way of telling things, my review of the Versa-Chisels are mixed. It is a good tool to have. I would absolutely recommend it to some people, especially beginners who don't have a wide variety of tools or experience with those tools. Would I say it is a replacement for other tools and proper techniques? I don't think there is a such thing as replacement for proper tools and techniques. </div>
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Until next time my friends, happy turning!!!</div>
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I don't have nearly as many readers of my ramblings as I would like, but I do think I have some of the best readers in the world. I received an email a couple of days ago reminding me that I haven't posted anything in a few weeks. So I decided that the first thing I had to place on the agenda today was to make a post or two showing that I have been active at something.</div>
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I've had a lot going on, both in wood working, and personally. Between all that, I have turned a few pens. The problem with that is that some of them have been flying out the door before I can get a chance to snap photos of them. So let me show you the ones I do have photos of. </div>
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I had not planned on doing anything in deer antler after Christmas for a while. However, immediately after making that statement, several people started asking about when I'd be making more deer antler pens. Well, as I heard someone say once, sometimes we do the things we don't want to do, in order to be able to do the things we don't want to do. So, since some people are still wanting deer antler, I got busy turning deer antler.</div>
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These six bolt action pens are about half of what I turned. The rest seemed to just disappear off the table before I could make boxes for them, or snap photos.</div>
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I had two fifty caliber kits left and decided to do those in antler too. I had several short cutoffs of antler left that were perfect sized for these pens, but not much else. So the popularity of the antler created a means for not allowing those pieces to go to waste.</div>
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If any of you remember the story behind the enormous over and shotgun pen I done a while back in deer antler, the one I was told couldn't be done? Well I done two more of them. I made these just to see if I could, or if that first one was just a lucky shot. </div>
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These are Compson click pens. They are actually two of a six piece starter package from Penn State. These are the only two I got photos of before they disappeared though. So I guess I need to order more of these when I can. </div>
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These two are done in zebra wood cut at a forty five degree angle, and walnut burl. </div>
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Here are the last two of the credit card stylus pens I had left two make. These also seem to be popular pens. These are done in cherry burl and oak burl.</div>
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I made three more of the buffalo pencils. I liked the ones I've made of these before in burls, so I wanted to go with that. The fact that I love burl so much helped with that decision a tad as well I believe.</div>
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These are done in cherry burl, oak burl, and buckeye burl. </div>
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That's what I have to show you in pens. I had a few real nice ones that I wish I had taken photos of before they left. I guess I need to start keeping the camera closer so I can be sure to do that.</div>
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I also want to thank all my readers. The emails and messages I get from you all keep me motivated to keep going. </div>
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Remember, any of you can always leave a comment below or contact me at <a href="mailto:wdwoodworks@yahoo.com">wdwoodworks@yahoo.com</a> </div>
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Since I finally moved into the modern world and got a smart phone, I check my emails daily. </div>
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I hope every one of you had a great Christmas. It is now a new year and I am running here and there trying to catch up enough just so I can get back to actually making something. </div>
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Let's start by showing a couple of things that I was not able to get into my last blog entry before Christmas.</div>
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This is an example of the new boxes I started making during the Christmas season. My old design, with the hinges and magnets, were costing me several dollars per box. That doesn't sound like a lot. If you sell enough pens though, and a lot of people want you to throw the box in with the price of a pen, that can eat into any potential profits pretty badly. These cost me little more than time. I always have some small blocks of wood around. It has a plexi-glass cover. I usually have cutoffs of plexi-glass around from other projects. Even if I have to buy a sheet though, it will still come out a lot cheaper than the previous boxes.</div>
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You can see in these other photos how the clear lid slides out to allow the pen to be removed from the boxes.</div>
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These are chain pulls I made for a friend to be given out as Christmas gifts. </div>
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Starting at the top, they are in two piece sets of purple heart, blood wood, and sapelle.</div>
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These are bottle stoppers I made for the same friend to give out as gifts. </div>
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The top one is sapelle and the bottom one is rosewood.</div>
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I've seen several people make the wooden handled multi-bit screwdrivers. Some are made from kits and some are made from cheap hardware store screwdrivers. This one was made using the cheaper version.</div>
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I bought a three dollar screwdriver from Home Depot. I used an old chisel to break the plastic handle off of it. Then I turned a handle for it and glued the little metal piece in that holds the reversible bit holder. </div>
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The handle is made from eucalyptus.</div>
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That was all I got done leading up to Christmas. Since then, I have been playing catchup. For starters, with all the pens I made leading up to the holiday, and wrapping, and a number of other going ons, my shop was a mess. I took a couple of days just doing a major shop cleaning. </div>
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Then I had to get to the Christmas present dance after Christmas. For any of you out there who do not yet have kids, or your kids are still babies, I'll let you in on a little secret that you learn the hard way as a parent.</div>
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When buying presents for kids, there are some phrases written on boxes that you need to pay close attention to. Two of these phrases that are quite common on toys will take a lot of time away from your happy life. </div>
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<em><strong>BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED</strong></em></div>
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Batteries not included can and will give you a headache. There is nothing like having your child unwrap that special present you bought, that you know they will love and you can't wait to see the joy in their eyes when they play with, only to realize that batteries are not included and you did not notice it. Then there is that crazy mad dash to the closest place to buy some batteries. The problem is that it is Christmas. There is nowhere open except convenience stores. Convenience store batteries are overpriced. Then there is the fact that, because they are overpriced, they have sat there on that shelf for a year and may or may not have enough juice left in them to actually run the toy. Add to all this the fact that even the convenience store batteries are getting scarce because of all the other caring fathers who also did not pay attention to the batteries not included printing on the toy package. </div>
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Some assembly required is the worst of the worst of the most aggravating worst though.</div>
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Some assembly required is actually translated exactly to:</div>
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"we have provided a poorly written manual to assist you a half a percent in putting together this overcomplicated piece of childhood toy and father torture device that will drive you absolutely insane and pull your hair out in frustration while we sit and laugh at the thought of how we, collectively holding the power to stop Christmas all over the world in one fell swoop of a poor design, have made life a living hell for millions of people all over the world assembling this piece of plastic that will be torn up within forty eight hours anyway"</div>
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Who writes these manuals? Who designs these things? These holes go this way. However, we have added some other holes on the other end that actually are there for no other reason but to confuse you because, if you use these holes, something else will not line up correctly in a later step. So flip a coin and we hope you the best of luck. You read english? Good. Then we'll intermix the english text with other text in chinese, french, german, spanish and russian to make it more interesting for you. We know you have nothing better to do on Christmas. </div>
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Seriously folks. Next year I think I am going to do something I done a few years ago and make all my kid's presents. It was easier and a lot more enjoyable. </div>
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Anyway, I survived the mad dash for batteries and the assembly from hell. Honestly, I only had one present to assembly this year, because I learned my lesson years ago, but who knew they could make a basketball goal so complicated to assemble?</div>
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With all the fun and festivities going on, I have just started trying to get back into the shop in the last few days. Before diving back into any projects though, I decided to take this time to do a couple of tasks that have been on my mind. Besides that, a couple of my boys who have been out of school for the holidays just love helping Dad. These side projects are easier for me to keep them busy helping on than my normal projects.</div>
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For some time there has been a shelf on my lathe stand that I put odd and end things on. The problem is that, when I installed it, I did not think about the fact that it would fill up quickly and often with shavings and chips from turning. Anytime I needed something from the shelf, I had to sift through fifty pounds of wood chips to find it, all the while making sure I didn't throw out the exact thing I was looking for while moving the chips. </div>
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So I boxed it in and put a door on the front so I can access things there easily, while keeping the chips and such out.</div>
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When the door is closed and latched, it is completely enclosed so all the unwanted stuff stays out.</div>
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There has been several occasions that I needed a steady rest. I've seen many designs online, both for commercially available designs and shop built ones. I took what I've seen, gathered materials that I thought would work well, and started building.</div>
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This was the first design. I like the design I came up with. The problem is that, when I started, I had less aluminum channel that I thought I did. I had cut the plywood ring to a size that this, with the aluminum channel, did not allow it to be adjusted down to a size for really small diameter turnings, which is something I will be needing it for in the future.</div>
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The base for the ring I made out of two blocks of wood that are cut to run along the ways on the lathe bed and be clamped tight to hold in place.</div>
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This photo, with it off the lathe, makes it easier to see. I made a wooden handle to hold the nut that gets screwed onto a bolt that runs through it all so you can tighten it down, sandwiching the two blocks tightly on the lathe bed.</div>
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I thought about scrapping the first design until I could order some longer channel. I decided I would keep it though for larger things I may need it for. My thinking was that I may have a need on an odd weighted bowl or vessel one day. So I would keep that one and make another one for smaller turnings.</div>
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So I made a smaller version for smaller turnings. </div>
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The aluminum channel easily transfers from one ring to the other, depending on what size steady rest you need. I also figured I only need the one handle since I won't be using but one at a time. </div>
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This will allow me to use the stead rest for turnings from an eight of an inch in diameter all the way up to twelve inches, the maximum my lather will turn anyway. </div>
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On both rings, the aluminum channel is held in place in slots cut into the rings. When you tighten the black knobs, it pulls the channels tight into these slots, holding them rigid in position. On the other end of the aluminum channel is skate board bearings. </div>
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I now have these completed and hung on the wall near the lathe for next time I have one of those pieces that wants to chatter and vibrate so bad that I can hardly turn it. I will let you all know when I use them, but I think they'll do just fine for taming those bad vibrations.</div>
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Until next time my friends, happy turning!</div>
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I have been staying busy, busy, busy. </div>
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I have been so busy that I haven't felt like posting when I finish each day. So for this post I am going to just do a run down of much of what I've been turning lately. Unfortunately, I may miss some because I am feeling run down as well. So "The Run Down" seemed like a very appropriate title for this blog entry.</div>
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I decided to try the bolt action pens I've seen so much of. They are some very nice kits. Since deer hunting is so big in this area, I made the first one with deer antler. This started something. You'll see more about that later.</div>
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These pens feature a rifle clip, bolt action retracting mechanism, and a thirty caliber bullet tip.</div>
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This one is done with deer antler and twenty four carat hardware.</div>
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The starter set for this pen came with two kits. Since I done the first one in tulip wood, which I felt would look nice for the ladies, I done this one in padauk, something I felt would look good for men or women.</div>
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The care package from Ms. Clause a while back contained this kit for an over and under shotgun pen. This one is a fountain pen. I made it with african blackwood and lignum vitae.</div>
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Here is another flip stylus pen.</div>
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This one is done with cherry burl. If you'll notice the lighter spot towards the cap end, that was where I had a major blowout that left a hole all the way to the brass tube. Sometimes these unfortunate events allow you to make something even more interesting. I filled the hole using saw dust and CA glue.</div>
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This is a credit card stylus pen.</div>
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It is done with lignum vitae and walnut. The lines were done by trying to work on a pattern I seen somewhere online.</div>
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I liked the design enough that I decided to go overboard with it and do it at regular spaces down the length of this flip stylus pen.</div>
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Again, I had a blowout and decided to think of a way to fix it, and add interest. So I parted off the blown out area and glued on a short section of vera wood. I like how this turned out and may even do this on purpose from time to time.</div>
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Here is a credit card stylus pen in walnut burl.</div>
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Here's two more credit card stylus pens. Some of you know I have a liking for the Celtic knots. So I had to do a couple of them on some of these.</div>
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The top one is mulberry and walnut. The bottom one is ziricote and box elder.</div>
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This is called a buffalo pencil. I was intrigue by them when I seen them in the parts catalogue and decided to order a few. </div>
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This one is done in buckeye burl. </div>
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About this time the Christmas gift requests had started rolling in.</div>
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These are dyed maple pens. These were requested and I thought it was a good time to experiment with a couple of different techniques I've read about online for dying pen blanks.</div>
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I had no luck at all getting satisfactory results with diluted acrylic paints like I read in several articles. These were dyed using RIT clothes dye. </div>
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If anyone is interested in the process, let me know and I'll be glad to sit down sometimes and write a post dedicated to this subject.</div>
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I made multiple .45-70 deer antler pens. You may remember me mentioning earlier that the use of antler started something? Antler seems to be a very popular request this year. Since you'll get tired of it pretty quickly, I'll try not to show every antler pen I have turned lately. </div>
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I made several of these in .45-70, and we'll leave it at that.</div>
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Did I mention that antler has become a popular request?</div>
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I've done a lot of these lately, all in antler.</div>
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The hardware, starting from the left in pairs, is antique brass, chrome, 24k, and gun metal.</div>
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My next door neighbor is a teacher. So a teacher's pen is a very good gift for her.</div>
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I had this short piece of zebra wood. It was too short for much, and I remembered that I wanted to try adding accents like I done earlier to fix a mistake. So here is is with ziricote on the end on a flip stylus pen.</div>
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These chain pulls are all three made the same, so I'm only showing one of each type of wood.</div>
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The top one is blood wood and the bottom one is purple heart.</div>
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A friend wanted this set. This is a gun metal Vertex pen and pencil set done in blood wood with an african blackwood accent ring on each.</div>
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Here is another over and under shotgun pen. The body is blood wood and the cap is walnut burl done with a gun metal kit.</div>
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This pen was a challenge. It is the over and under shotgun pen done completely in deer antler. I was talking to a fellow about doing this very thing. He told me that it couldn't be done because the cap piece is so thin on this pen. The cap uses a blank that has a 9/16" hole drilled through the middle. I will admit that I blew out three pieces of antler before successfully drilling one. Then I was sweating bullets while turning it so thin on the lathe.</div>
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Ok, I actually uploaded a few more photos. The Internet is acting pretty nutty though if I try to add anymore to this post.</div>
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Does that mean that I broke the Internet with so many photos? Anyway, I may have overloaded a few readers too. So I guess I'll end this post here.</div>
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I guess you can see why I am feeling run down?</div>
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Until next time my friends, happy turning! </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-2726664626267585442013-12-11T21:43:00.001-06:002013-12-11T21:43:11.831-06:00Helping A Friend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Since I first got into working with wood, I have found fellow wood workers to be the most generous lot of folks. So many have helped me along the path to what I am able to do today in so many different ways. Because of this, I feel honored whenever I can help one of those fellow wood workers in any way that I am able.</div>
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All that being said, I was recently contacted by a friend and fellow wood worker about a project he needed help with. </div>
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Some of you may remember the box joint machine from way back. Well it has cut many joints for me. My friend has a project that he needed box joints cut for. With time of the essence, he just doesn't have the proper tool for the job. So I was hoping I could help him. The plan was for him to ship me the pieces of wood, because the specific pieces of wood are important to this particular project, and I would cut box joints and ship them back to him.</div>
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I cut the dark wood first, walnut I believe, and I am glad I did. It showed a problem right away. I have never had tear out with the box joint machine as long as I use a scrap piece of wood to back up the material being cut. I done that here, but still got tear out. I simply cannot explain it. The only explanation I can possibly think of is that, as I understand it, this wood is very old. I know that sometimes old wood can be extremely dry. With walnut being a somewhat brittle wood to start with, this overly dry condition may be causing the problem.</div>
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Again, this specific wood is important to this project. I could not cut any off and try again. Besides, I'm not sure trying again would yield different results. I tried with a fresh piece of walnut and did not have this issue. So it has to be this particular wood. So I thought for a bit for a solution.</div>
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This is what I came up with. </div>
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When you cut box joints, you sometimes come up with your last finger on each end of the board being cut a tad narrower on one side. This is due to the adding up of the many fingers not working out to be exactly the same as the width of the board. </div>
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Ordinarily, I would flip the board end to end and have this thinner finger on the same side of each board. As I was thinking though, this would put any potential tear out on the walnut board on the inside on some boards, and on the outside on other boards. However, if I flipped the boards around, this would make it possible to put any and all tear out on the inside of the box. The issue is that this would make the boxes only able to go together one way, and one way only.</div>
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With all that being said, I wanted to be sure to avoid any confusion of my friend reassembling the pieces once they arrive back to him.</div>
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So on the inside of each corner, on each board, I marked corresponding marks to go back together. </div>
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One box is labeled on both side of each corner, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D.</div>
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The other is 2A, 2B, 2C, and 2D.</div>
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This makes it possible to easily reassemble everything without problems. All my friend has to do is match corresponding numbers and then lightly sand off the lightly marked pencil marks.</div>
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Of course, as with all thin material box joints I've ever had the pleasure of making, it'll probably be necessary to do some creative gluing and clamping to pull the joints up tight upon assembly. Other than that, they'll just require a little finish sanding to pretty them up.</div>
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I want to offer my sincerest apologies to my friend that I was not able to get this project done without having some tear out. I tried my best. I done all this though so the tear out is on the inside of the box. With some creative sanding, I honestly believe you can still complete this so that no one will ever notice the tear out without looking for it. </div>
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Here are the two boxes assembled.</div>
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I will get them disassembled and packaged up. Then I will drop them back in the mail tomorrow if I can beat the mail lady to the box. If not, they will be going out first thing Friday. </div>
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If you remember the stylus flip pens I made several days ago, I needed to make a couple of more for a friend, and he likes the Celtic knots I have glued up in the past. So that was the plan. However, there is a lot of waiting when gluing up the Celtic knots. So I always try to stay busy on something else while waiting on glue to set. </div>
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I love my economy chuck from Penn State. I love it so much that I have it on good authority (since I'm the one who placed the order) that I'll be getting another one for Christmas. The reason I want another one is that, when doing bowls, it is a pain to have to remove the jaws to put on the flat jaws so I can remove the tenon and finish the bottom. I have been thinking for a while how nice it would be to have a second chuck to just spin on quickly. </div>
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<a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/CUG3418CCX.html">Here</a> is the link to the one I just ordered. </div>
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Anyway, back to what I was working on in between gluing strips in for Celtic knots.</div>
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Here is my flat jaws. They do the job, but do have their limitations. The maximum diameter bowl that can be held with them is about eight inches. I knew there had to be a way to hold larger bowls. So I done some searching and found <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/CRJA.html">this</a>. If you click on the link, you'll see it is an extension for the flat jaws that allows you to hold larger items. </div>
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It looks like a great idea. There was just one problem. I was just about to submit my order for the extensions when I noticed in the description that they are made of plastic. I'm not saying anything is wrong with the product. Personally though, seeing as how I love making my own stuff anyway, I just cannot bring myself to spend forty bucks on something like that made of plastic if I think I can make it myself. It is just plastic with some holes in it, right?</div>
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Also, since I have decided to make it myself anyway, I thought about correcting another little issue I've always disliked about my jaws, and pretty much every other set of jaws I've seen on the market. With these straight, rather stiff, rubber mounting pins you have to have a pretty good grip on bowls if you don't want them to go flying. As a matter of fact, I have cracked two bowls that I can remember by having to tighten down on them too hard. There had to be a better way. So I made a trip to town to see what concoctions I could come up with.</div>
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So, here is the plastic jaw extensions I made. They are made of three eighths inch thick plexi-glass. I know, some of you are already thinking I am crazy. It is well balanced though and these will only be ran on the slowest speed setting. All you use these for is to finish off the bottom of bowls after you have done everything else. </div>
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If I have any issues with them down the road, I'll be sure to let you all know so you'll know not to go this route. Until then though, I don't foresee any problems with this setup.</div>
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For the mounting pin solution, I found some rubber stopper plugs in the specialty drawers at Home Depot. I drilled quarter inch holes through the middle of them. Then I threaded bolts through them, then through the plastic plates, and hold them on with nuts on the back side. </div>
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I like these enough that I am going to buy more, and find out the thread size, so I can add the same thing to my regular jaws without the extensions. These are longer. They have an angle to them that can be adapted to accept any shaped bowl you decide to make. Also, while firm, they are soft enough (softer than the factory pins) that you can tighten the nuts if you need to make them bulge more to hold the bowl more firmly instead of putting the brute force of the chuck into play. </div>
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I made my Celtic knot glue ups for two pen blanks while I was doing all this. Then I started drilling to make pens. This photo shows the biggest drawback to making such glue ups. You never know how well, or how bad, things will turn out. This one didn't even make it off the drill press before blowing out. </div>
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It's a good thing I don't give up that easily though. I had to glue up another one.</div>
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I made one with ziricote and box elder.</div>
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And another one with hedge apple and walnut.</div>
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Next up.</div>
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Some of you may remember the spinning top kit that was in the Ms. Clause care package from a while back. I turned the top you see in the far left of the above photo out of rosewood. Well that started something.</div>
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Ever since I turned that turner, my kids have to look at it everyday. They get me to give it a spin on the table any chance they get. So this set my planning wheels into full spin. </div>
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My kids all want one of these tops. I told them they can't have one though. My excuse? I told them about how the hardware for this nifty little kit is plated with gold. Now why would you give a kid a top with gold plated hardware to play with? No. This is a man's toy. It is something you put on a desk at work as a conversation piece. That's what I tell them. </div>
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So here is where I am at. Each of my kids are going to get a spinning top for Christmas. What can make it better though? What about this? I turn them all, set them out in plain site, tell them they are "for sale", and then come over to wrap them on Christmas eve after they've gone to bed. I think they are going to love these, but also hate me a little for putting them through this.</div>
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Now for the details of the other three tops.</div>
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This one is beech between two layers of purple heart.</div>
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This one is beech between two layers of lace wood.</div>
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By the time I got to turning this one, I had given up on any resemblance of design and just started having fun with the turning; sort of making it up as I went along.</div>
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This last one is two strips of cherry with zebra wood between them, then blood wood on both sides of that. </div>
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I called this one rolling low. As I was making it up as I went, I didn't realize until I finished it and made a test spin just how low this one would look while spinning. I think I like this one the best.</div>
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When I made the civil war pen a while back, everyone liked it. If you remember it, you'll remember that I used box elder burl on it. So on this one, with the same chrome plating on the hardware, I decided to use another piece of box elder that I had. This one isn't burl, but it had something else I liked about it.</div>
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This piece looks kind of plain looking at one side of the pen. As you roll it around though, a pretty pink hue presents itself on the other side of the wood.</div>
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That left me with only the gun metal hardware civil war pen. I was thinking about what wood would go well with it. I decided to use one of my personal favorites for it, oak burl. </div>
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Well that is several of my days I've shown you at once here. My regular readers just have to bare with me this time of year though. With Christmas fast approaching, I stay as busy as I can. Between trying to make things that will sell and making a few gift items for family and friends, I can never seem to catch my breath during the holidays. I will post when I can.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-63087384753524076842013-11-26T20:06:00.000-06:002013-11-26T20:06:08.731-06:002013 Holidays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The following post contains multiple references to my religious beliefs and my savior, God. If that offends you, please skip this post. You have been warned.</div>
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It is that time of year again. The holidays are upon us. It is time to show our holiday cheer by shopping till we drop! </div>
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No, if you are a regular reader of my blog, you probably already know that last line was meant to be tongue in cheek. Thanksgiving is in a couple of days. It is this time of year that, sadly, I have to laugh at a lot of what I see in these troubling times. I actually spoke to a young lady in the store a while back who was all excited about Thanksgiving, while also proclaiming that she doesn't believe in God. It amazes me that someone could be that dim. If she doesn't believe in God, what or who is she giving thanks to?</div>
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The cookie monster?</div>
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The television?</div>
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Her job or her government?</div>
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Seriously. The entire idea of Thanksgiving was founded on giving thanks to God for the blessings that have been bestowed upon us. So, that being said, I personally have many things to be thankful for this year. Fist, I am above ground. Yes, I think life itself is a blessing. Also, there is my wife, my kids, and so many other things that I could go on for hours and bore the bejeebies out of all my readers. The point is though, I thank God for all of this.</div>
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Lord.</div>
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Jesus.</div>
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My Savior.</div>
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The Almighty.</div>
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If that offends anyone, I am not sorry one tiny bit. I am not offended by your beliefs or lack thereof. So my beliefs, by default, should not offend anyone else since I do not force them upon anyone. </div>
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That being said, past Thanksgiving we get into the next holiday that always puts me in a bad mood. Why does it? Well I will go into that and then explain why I refuse to get in a bad mood this year. I am going to play the game.</div>
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What gets my goat this time of year is the modern idea that we should celebrate this religious holiday but yet take God and any mention of him out of the equation. It has gotten to the point that Xmas wasn't even good enough. People these days are so afraid that Christ may actually be put into it that they won't even say Merry Christmas anymore. They say, "Happy Holidays". </div>
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I have always gotten aggrevated with this whole scenerio. Christmas, whether you believe it to be the celebration of the birst of Christ or not, was started many moons ago on the basis of that one belief. The act of giving presents is even based in the tales of the wise men bringing presents to the newborn baby Jesus. </div>
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Let me back up and tell you about the most obsurd conversation I've ever had in my life on this subject. Last year I met a self proclaimed athiest. He said that the story of Jesus was the biggest fairy tale ever told. So the conversation went like this:</div>
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<em>So you don't believe in Jesus?</em></div>
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<strong>No.</strong></div>
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<strong>No. I celebrate the holidays.</strong></div>
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<em>So where do you get the idea to give presents on this holiday?</em></div>
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<strong>Well when you're young it is Santa Clause.</strong></div>
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<strong>No. That's just where it starts. You learn better when you are older, but still enjoy the ritual of giving and recieving presents.</strong></div>
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So there you have it folks. According to the athiest that I spoke to, Christmas, or holidays if you wish, and the very thing that most people like most about it, the presents, whether you believe the story or not, started with what?</div>
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So this year I am making a vow here and now. I refuse to get upset this year about the almost criminal theft of a religious holiday only to turn it into a commercialized excuse to sell more crap by a society that is so wrapped up in itself to stop and consider for even one second that the reason for the season is not at all about sales, but about Jesus. So if anyone would consider this and how this holiday got started, they shouldn't have any issue whatsoever if they tell me happy holidays and I look at them with a smile and say, <strong>MERRY CHRISTMAS!</strong></div>
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I want to wish you all right now, before it gets away from me (because as I get older time does get away from me way too quickly), <strong>HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND MAY THE LORD B E WITH YOU AND YOURS INTO THE NEW YEAR!</strong></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10801978680865536608noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573643679049491765.post-44956728709688005092013-11-26T19:24:00.001-06:002013-11-26T19:24:57.453-06:00Higher End<div align="center">
As most of you know, I am hooked on turning pens. It is more than an enjoyment factor for me. It is the one thing I have found that bothers me the least when I am hurting in my back. Even on my worst days, I can set a stool at my lathe and still turn a pen or two. So it is the perfect hobby for someone with my health issues.</div>
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Since I started turning though, I look at the <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/">Penn State website</a> on a regular basis and lust after the nicer pen kits. Now, I do not want anyone to think I am saying that a nice pen kit alone makes for a nice pen. I've seen some beautiful pens that others have made with the cheapest kits available. Then again, I have seen some ugly pens made with some extremely expensive kits. </div>
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All that being said, I still knew that if I ever got the opportunity, it would still be nice to turn some pens using nicer kits than the slim line kits I normally use. The pens I turned today are from some nicer kits. They aren't necessarily the most expensive in that Penn State catalogue, but nicer than I am used to. Yes, I will still be turning mostly the cheap slim lines. It is what my budget allows unless I can make a lot more sales than I have been. It sure was a treat to turn a little higher end than usual though.</div>
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This is the <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKCP6000.html">over and under shotgun kit</a>.</div>
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I used ziricote for the upper barrel and lignum vitae for the lower barrel. This pen is massive in size. It's massive size though may fool you in the delicate touch you had better have while turning it. That upper barrel is so thin that I believe I could have written a secret message on the brass sleeve inside the wood. You could probably read it under a bright enough light. I normally rough my pen blanks out with a three eighths gouge and then finish it up with light touches with a quarter inch detail gouge or skew chisel. On this pen, the roughing gouge never got used. You just go straight for the detail tools.</div>
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Other than using a light touch at the lathe, the pen was not hard to make after I ruined three ziricote blanks trying to drill for the huge nine sixteenth sleeve on the upper barrel. After drilling, the blank would be left so thin that the vice on my drill press would distort, or in one case just crush, the remaining wood. The way I wound up doing it was to sneak up on it. First I used a piece of blank way longer than I needed so that the part I was drilling was left sitting above the pen vice. This kept the jaws from adding sidewards pressure. Then I drilled it in three steps, working up to the final hole size. </div>
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I think the extra effort was worth it. In my opinion it is a very nice pen.</div>
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This one is the <a href="http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKOL2RB24.html">Olympian Elite kit</a>.</div>
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I decided to use a wood I'd never turned before on this one. The wood is called tulip wood. I think I made a good choice. In my opinion it went well with the gold and black of the pen hardware. I may be a little biased though.</div>
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The wood on this one is quite thin as well. I had no issues though. I think think that was because I learned my lesson with these big barreled pen on the first pen I showed you above. This one is a real nice looking pen. My only complaint with this one is the plastic. While all the pens have some plastic parts here and there, all the parts in this one are completely plastic. They are nice looking and done tastefully. I just really don't care for that much of the stuff. Metal makes me feel much more comfortable. All this concerned me when it came time to press everything together. I could just see in the back of my mind plastic parts shattering and ending all the work I had put into it. Everything went together just fine though. So I guess I was worried for nothing.</div>
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That was all I got done today. I spent a lot of today hugging my wood burning stove in the shop. My joints don't like cold air. So on days like today, even with the shop at a comfortable temperature, I simply hurt less sitting as close to the heater as I can stand.</div>
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