Doesn't the wood get dizzy from all the turning?

Score one for the troll... Tom

troll trying to get you to respond to newsgroup de.alt.augenoptik

Well of course it gets dizzy, anyone that turns very much wood knows that!

If it gets too dizzy, it blows chunks all over the shop! Of course, it only does this once, because once it blows chunks, you can't put it together again (sort of like Humpty Dumpty).

The real trick to woodturning is stopping when it is merely a little bit dizzy.

I'll preface this with a statement that I did carpentry work for a bunch of years....

I have often said, a carpenter makes sawdust. An artist knows when to stop.

Ed

I've had suicidal wood more than I care to admit! I mean, one minute I'm happily turning away and the next thing I know, the poor little guy just flings himself from my lathe, flies across the garage and thrusts himself upon a perfectly innocent sheetrock wall! I'm starting to believe that certain woods have self esteem issues! ;)

Bob Crawford

In message , Bob Crawford writes

You forget, wood is much like us, if we spin one way we have to unwind or we become unstable, so remember once in a wile, reverse that lathe, to unwind :)

John

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:48:32 -0600, John wrote (in message ):

you know, I actually do this. Well, the lathe keeps turning the only direction it knows how, but I take the object off the right side of the headstock and put it on the left end, so the direction is reversed. (a Shopsmith) Is good for sanding, first one way, and then the other. keeps the wood happy. tom koehler

In message , tom koehler writes

In my case, I am fortunate in a flick of a switch I can go from >6,000RPM one way to >6,000 RPM the other, but I would swear the sanded finish is better.