1. Home
  2. Woodturning Crafts
  3. First attempts at faceplate turning

First attempts at faceplate turning

Some pics of my first albiet somewhat crude attempts at faceplate turning.

Starting to get better at it, and have a pile of redwood burl blanks and color-streaked hickory blanks, as well as apple, figured maple, zebrawood, walnut, and cherry blanks, cut up and ready to turn.

So far I like turning the hickory the best, except for the shower of hot hot splinters on my hand. I like turning the box elder and the redwood the least, because they are soft and weak, and they keep exploding every time I think I have some great idea.

Here are pics of the first few:

formatting link

Reply to
Juvenal
Loading thread data ...

Change your gouge angles and apply less pressure as you cut, and you can pretty much avoid both hot shavings and exploding turnings. No sense trying to bully the timber, it has a tendency to object strongly to such treatment.

Reply to
George

Reply to
Darrell Feltmate

Hi Timothy

I saw your very beautiful what we call flat work, and also the musical instruments, very nice work. Some of those turnings seem to be also very nice, though the quality of the pic's is not up to par, you'll have to work on that some.

And yes thanks for posting and welcome to the WREC.

Guess I must be lucky, but I have never in all the years that I turn, have had a turning blow up on me, yes hooked a chunk out of them or have some start to come off the lathe and get damaged that way, but never had one blow apart, must be the slower speed I like to turn, I also like turning wet wood, much softer on the hands, only when finish turning is the wood dry and there is than not a lot to turn away, I sure keep the speed down, especially if it gets a little thin.

Those flying shards could seriously hurt one I think.

formatting link
Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Juvenal wrote:

Reply to
l.vanderloo

InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.