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Considering a Turning Tools Compendium Project

In response to the many questions about Pointy Sticks, I started The Pointy Stick Compendium Project.

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Seems as though there's a need for The Turning Tools Compendium Project - a single place to find the answers to all those questions that keep popping up about turning tools. And a little history of how today's tools evolved over time. Have a look at some of the stuff in The Pointy Stick Compendium Project Table of Content and then suggest some chapter titles. If that works we'll move on to fleshing out the chapters.

With the wealth of knowledge in this group surely we can put together answers to the most often asked questions- and come up with some no one of sound mind would ever think of asking. (skip that last one - any turner who has been turning for more than a year by definition is not of sound mind).

Suggestions, contributions?

charlie b

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charlieb
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I for one have enjoyed all the many hours you have spent not only here, but on the wreck to share you insights, projects, and expertise.

But... I am thinking one pointy stick project is enough. It was silly, it was fun, but I am thinking a redirect to that one site should do it.

On the other hand, if you wanted to build an FAQ compendium, that might work.

Do YOU have any thoughts?

Robert

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nailshooter41

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Pretty broad area - turning tools, lathes, techniques, a billion types of turning, a boatload and then some of gouge/chisel grinds/profiles and twice as many ways to grind them, thickness gauges, chucks, drive centers, face plates, tail centers, steady rests, center supports, eccentric turning, multi-centers turning, . . .

With a table saw you've got choices of blades, rip fences, hold downs, hold ins, push sticks, zero clearance throat plate inserts, dado blade sets, sacrificial fence faces and miter gauges - that's about it. With a router in a table you've got a huge number of router bit profiles. NO OTHER MACHINE in my shop has so many related tools and accessories.

Doing a compendium of turning FAQs seems just a bit daunting, especially since I'm a relatively new newbie to turning. GOOGLE is a great tool - but you have to start with at least some terms to search for.

Think I'll pass on this one.

charlie b

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charlieb

Here, here!

Charlie, A FAQ covering most of the 1,318 (known) ways that you can ask the question "Which tool is best?" would be a real boon for this list.

On the second page you could tackle "Which lathe is best?"

If you survive to complete that second page, you could tackle the final question: "Is this wood poison?"

Bill

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Bill in Detroit

A pass might be in order on that project, especially for you Charlie. Your posts and your pages tend to be detailed, well thought out, and even illustrated!

I for one would really like to see you continue on with individual subjects, as I appreciate the time and effort you obviously put into sharing your work.

I teach a turning little (maybe more in the future) and unlike my flatwork, I learn on occasion from the student(s) when I am turning. The variety of ways to stand, present a tool, which tool to use, how to sharpen it, how to finish it, it just goes on and on. There is no end. And I have run into folks i have helped wih the basics that turn in a manner (quite well, too) that has little to do with my instruction.

I understand completely what you are saying (I think!) about the difference between flatwork and round work. I am soon starting my

37th year as a carpenter/woodworker/contractor, and indeed no other tool in the shop is close to the amount of gemcracks and gewgaws that my lathe has. I probably have about 125 or so cutting tools, but use only 6 on a regular basis. I have a dedicated grinder for sharpening, the appropriate jigs for it, three scroll chucks, some homemade fixtures for the lathe, as well as all the stuff to make a vacuum system, and on and on.

I think if I started an FAQ or compendium, I would feign illness immediately and run away once I started gettnig all the "valuable" information on how to do things.

Nice thought, though.

Robert

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nailshooter41

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