First wood turning project...

jimthej · Post by **jimthej** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:59 am

Love the reversed video! One of the guys on here has a signature "I cut it twice, and it's still too short." You just showed us how to fix that!:D

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:47 pm

jimthej wrote:Love the reversed video! One of the guys on here has a signature "I cut it twice, and it's still too short." You just showed us how to fix that!:D

Well THAT explains many strange techniques/sequences!:rolleyes: Missed that 'detail'.

nil · Post by **nil** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:42 am

Wood mallet video is up....
http://youtu.be/eh3kPfBeW0M

Two new magic wands up next, and this time i started with the idea to make them from the start.

As a followup, I opened up the bag that I was letting the mallet dry in since i cut it out of very green wood...

You can see the sad, sad result in the blog post here:
http://www.airquotewoodworker.com/2013/ ... y-big.html

nil · Post by **nil** » Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:45 am

My week three video should be encoded and uploaded within the next four hours.

Video will be embedded in the following blog post (which includes the final photos) when it's complete:

http://www.airquotewoodworker.com/2013/ ... wands.html

This is more traditional than the last magic wand in that it starts from the beginning of both and runs forward, first through a quick lathe explosion of cracked wood and then through the two wands.

joshh · Post by **joshh** » Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:36 am

Sad about the mallet, I liked it. At least you got some more turning experience

wa2crk · Post by **wa2crk** » Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:40 pm

There are no mistakes in woodturning. They are called "design opportunities"
Happens all the time!!:D
Bill V

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:07 am

Not being a well experienced 'turner' myself I must ask if the use of a skew as demonstrated in the last video prior to the workpiece being 'round' is either typical or a reasonable thing to do. I usually get it round with a gouge before reaching for a skew.

nil · Post by **nil** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:46 am

JPG40504 wrote:Not being a well experienced 'turner' myself I must ask if the use of a skew as demonstrated in the last video prior to the workpiece being 'round' is either typical or a reasonable thing to do. I usually get it round with a gouge before reaching for a skew.

I used what I saw the majority of wood turners I follow on YouTube use in both tools and techniques, but you can see some clearly bad technique with some of the tools I decided to try just because they were in the eight tool starter set and I hadn't watched enough of on YouTube. I abandoned those tools pretty quickly after bringing them out.

If you watch Carl Jacobson in his most recent wand video on YouTube he does the exact same thing with the skew, just way more expertly than me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NO1FpTIolk

terrydowning · Post by **terrydowning** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:36 am

Nil,

I just watched the mallet turning, you're off to a good start and I can see form later vids that you're learning quickly. Do you understand why the skew caused the Catch on the mallet?

I also saw the photo of the mallet after some drying time. Do you understand what happened there? Hint: Pith.

As for rounding spindles with a skew especially smaller spindles like wands and pens I usually round over with the skew (much easier to keep sharp than the gouges) It just take practice. On a larger diameter, by all means use a big old roughing gouge, that's what it's for.

Nice work on the videos.

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First wood turning project...

two magic wand video is going up now...