Returning to Life

[redleg]

Last week I picked up some 6x6 and 6x8 cedar posts from a friend who owns a Woodmizer. He wouldn't let me pay for them so while we were talking I noticed a log carrier and a cant hook hanging from the rafters. Both handles were rotted away years ago when he found them. So I offered to fix them. He dropped them off Sunday with about four times the wood I needed to turn the handles.



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Needed four foot handles

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Cant hook or cant dog but not a peavey.

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[algale]

Really nice work on those handles.

[joedw00]

I like your extension. Do you take the project off and turn it around to get the other end. Nice job on the handles.

[charlese]

Very nice work, redleg!:D Congrats on the handles and also scoring the "payment".

Love to see bartering! Especially the kind that comes with thanks!

[skou]

OK, I want to hear the story on that extension!

Please?:D

(The design for my double-length ER extension is done, I just need to put it together.)

steve

[redleg]

I appreciate the kind words. It's nice to know that there are still people who give expecting nothing in return. The extension is a temporary tool storage stand from the leftover 18 inches of my shorty. I cut out a 3/4 inch piece of plywood to match the base assembly ends and held it together with a ratchet strap. As an added bonus the arm lock knobs on the base assembly screw over the top of the plywood holding it down.

The work piece still has to be flipped end for end to finish the turning. If I were to do long pieces often I think another carriage on the extension stand with a connector between the two lathe tool rests would work.

[camerio]

That extension idea is very interesting, makes me wish I had a shorty.
Nice work on the handles.

[berry]

Well done!

[Ed in Tampa]

Seeing you turning something that long and that big 6x6 brings back memories.
I high school shop class one of the guys had the idea to turn a bat. He didn't want just any bat he wanted a "special" one. Long story short he chucked what I think was a telephone pole in the lathe and turned it on before the shop teacher knew what was going on.

The thing was so off balance and the lathe speed so high that it had the lathe hopping about a foot off the floor. Of course for high school students this was more fun than danger so we watched laughing.

That caught the shop teachers attention and as he rushed to hit the emergency power shut off, the log came out of lathe and hit a bay of windows. If you can remember back in the 50's/60's they built windows with steel frames and a huge section of the window would swing open (before AC) In any case this log cleared about three sections of the windows out before it left the building.

Of course no one was sure who did it or how it happened and after intense questioning by the Shop Teacher and Principal we were all made to go outside under coaches supervision to run laps until we died or fessed up.

Coach was great guy and made us run but as we did we related the story of what happened and before long he was laughing so hard he told us to stop running. He then cited his concern about actually killing us so the Principal rescended his command to run us until we confessed or died.

Never knew what happened next but I remember having shop class with plywood in the three bays of windows for a long time. From then on the shop rules changed and before we turned on any machine for any reason you had to have the shop teacher inspect the setup.

Oh yes the shop teacher made us keep the shop clean enough to eat off the floor. Most of us spent more time sweeping and cleaning than we did building things.

[joshh]

I know this has already been posted somewhere but this thread reminded me of it...

...guy turns a freaking tree on his shopsmith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQbzEz0-7X0 part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dewl3w7X9kc part 2