Wish I could post some pictures from my phone
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:28 pm
Today I was playing around on my lathe. I had a scrap 4x4 8 inches long
I mounted it up, and started turning.
after a couple of hours I had a ring on a spindle.
I have always watched at the traveling Shop Smith traveling shows
the demonstrators would turn a 2x2 down and make a ring on a spindle.
but all I happen to have was some douglas fir 4x4.
I am happy with the way it turned out if for nothing else I can say I made it.
Another picture I would like to post is one of a SS band saw I was given.
My next door neighbor got divorced a couple of years ago, her ex=husband is a wood worker. I all Jet tools.
Today while I was working on the ring project. She came over and asked me how long I had been working with wood.
I told on and off for the pat 45 years. more off than on. I told her I'm not much of a wood worker I just enjoy making saw dust.
Well she told me her ex- husband left a couple of tools behind when he moved to Texas. they were mine if I wanted them.
I went over and there were a few hand tools, some clamps and the band saw.
it is an older one with a cast iron table, it all moves freely.
so now I have my band saw.
as the title says I wish I could figure out how to post pictures from my phone I could show these things off.
I mounted it up, and started turning.
after a couple of hours I had a ring on a spindle.
I have always watched at the traveling Shop Smith traveling shows
the demonstrators would turn a 2x2 down and make a ring on a spindle.
but all I happen to have was some douglas fir 4x4.
I am happy with the way it turned out if for nothing else I can say I made it.
Another picture I would like to post is one of a SS band saw I was given.
My next door neighbor got divorced a couple of years ago, her ex=husband is a wood worker. I all Jet tools.
Today while I was working on the ring project. She came over and asked me how long I had been working with wood.
I told on and off for the pat 45 years. more off than on. I told her I'm not much of a wood worker I just enjoy making saw dust.
Well she told me her ex- husband left a couple of tools behind when he moved to Texas. they were mine if I wanted them.
I went over and there were a few hand tools, some clamps and the band saw.
it is an older one with a cast iron table, it all moves freely.
so now I have my band saw.
as the title says I wish I could figure out how to post pictures from my phone I could show these things off.