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New DVD - Beyond the Basic Bowl - Shameless Ad

Greetings all

At long last, my new DVD is finally here in quantity! We had a pre-release run done for the national symposium, but the main lot has just arrived. It is closed captioned, for those of you who may have hearing trouble, or just would like to watch it with machines running. It covers advanced bowl turning techniques, including the turning of a natural edged bowl, a winged bowl from a square piece of lumber, a winged bowl from a crotch piece of wood, and coring techniques using a Kel McNaughton coring tool. If you are interested, you can read about it at:

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I also have a few copies left of the first DVD, Turned Bowls Made Easy. ;-) This is actually nothing more than a marketing ploy. I have lots of copies left, because we just reordered it as well. If you are interested in the basics of turning a bowl, this one covers it from start to finish. You can read about it in the same place as the one mentioned above. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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Bill Grumbine
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Damn... good timing, Bill... I just packed all my turning stuff and won't be able to get at it again until we move in October... *sigh*

I ordered it anyway, so I can watch it and suffer turners withdrawal even worse.. Mac

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mac davis

Bill,

I enjoyed your first video. Randy, from one of the manufacturers at IWF, mentioned that your new video featured a different lathe than your first video. Can you elaborate?

Thanks, Bob Stroman

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Bob S

Just think of all the ideas you will have though, by the time you get your lathe back up and running. We moved twice in one year, from our old house to temporary quarters, and then to our present place, and the lathe was always one of the first things to go! Good luck with the move Mac!

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Bill Grumbine

Hi Bob

That would be Randy from Vega, and yes, I used one of their bowl lathes for the second video. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to use a different lathe was all the people who wrote me asking me where they could get a Poolewood just like mine. I would have loved to be able to send them somewhere, but Poolewood was dropping the model because of trouble with their manufacturer. I still have it and love it, and use it frequently, but now it is a collector's item.

In the second video I wanted to use a current production lathe. I also needed another machine for the shop to accomodate students. I can take three now, and that is going to be my max for a very long time. I looked at a bunch of lathes based on size and price, and ended up with the Vega, being that it is very compact, very powerful, and capable of turning bowls up to

26" in diameter. It is a dedicated bowl machine, although you can turn short spindles up to 17" long on it. So I bought one from Vega - and I would like to make that clear for anyone else reading this, I bought it from them. No one gave me a lathe.

But, it is a great machine, and is very nice for turning bowls and hollow forms. I have some articles I wrote on it that were posted on different woodturning forums, but I need to get them on my website as well. But if you want to see it in action, there is a way. ;-) Besides the DVD, a number of people have used the machine as students, or just come on by to spin a piece of wood and give it a try before buying.

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Bill Grumbine

For sure... It's just a bitch that we have to be packed and inventoried in English & Spanish a month before we move... Sort of like sanding a bowl before you turn it... *sigh*

The little lathe will get set up in the carport the day we get there.. after that, it's how many times I unpack and rearrange the shop before I can make shavings..

It would of been easier to swim the river, but that's tough with a shop on your back.. *g*

Mac

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mac davis

When will you be releasing your new DVD, Mac: "One thousand and one things that can be turned from Manzanita"?

Max

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Maxprop

When I FIND some, Max! Haven't seen any at all yet, just cactus and occitillo...

The 4x4 group says that there's a "ton" of iron wood laying around in the mountains... sure hope so because they're talking about charging duty on the logs that I'm bringing down! Mac

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mac davis

Mac, Check regulations down there regarding harvesting of desert ironwood. In some areas the living ironwood is a protected species. Local turners are limited to downed timber to do their tourists goodies. There's a pretty hefty fine for being caught with fresh cut ironwood. FWIW

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

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Ken Moon

Everything is protected there, we're in a preserve kind of area.... that's why I mentioned the ironwood "laying around"... you're not allowed to cut ANYTHING, including cactus and such...

They even have to transplant any desert vegetation that will be disturbed when they build a house, so if it isn't dead on the ground, you don't pick it up and drag it to the shop.. *g*

Mac

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mac davis

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