============================== Darrell, Thanks for straightening me out! It was Ken Bullock that I was thinking about. He used to post quite frequently about his hot glue blocks and the extra heat he used to get the thing to stick. Since you say the glue gun can be used if additional heating is used I may try that again ..... standing well out of the way this time !! (:-)
Ken Moon Webberville, TX
BTW, How's that big Craftsman lathe holding up?
HA_HEH_HE_HE sorry, mmm couldn't help it
Ken The Craftsman is doing fine. Now if the weather was just a little warmer... I think I am going to have to sacrifice turning time to insulating time for the shop. There was snow on the graound the last couple of mornings and the oil bill could be a beaut this year.
Free advice. I use a pin chuck a lot, which, as you know, isn't much of a hold. In wood like wet aspen, it's my practice to begin rotation by hand before applying power, to reduce starting shock. Might use it if you don't have a soft start.
Isn't Ken an RV type now?
Some I do, turning the finished bowl or platter in a big platechuck with rubber grips, levelling the edges, but leaving my special mark in the center, some I just clean and sand the bottom of the hole in advance, and leave my special mark, some i fill with a plywood round, glue it in, and burn my special mark.
The chuckmarks inside the recess do not show much anyway, and for people who know nothing about turning, some think the recess is an ornamental thing.
Bjarte
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The question "Glue Block vrs. Chuck". Its interesting to know that in 1842 Turners' Cement was used. I was reading a 2001 re-print of the Handbook of Turning first published in
1842. The word chuck is used and its drawing depicts a face plate. To hold the work piece to the face plate they used Turners' Cement. The 1842 recipe for this Turners' Cement is roughly shown as follows: Burgundy pitch, rosin, colophonium, yellow wax and whiting. Melt all except the later in an earthen pot, over a slow fire. Still in 2004 turners are using hot melt glue to hold the work piece on a wooden block fastened to a metal face plate or simply a threaded wooden block."Denis Marier" skrev i melding news:gNvkd.176621$ snipped-for-privacy@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
I believe that if the turners of 1842 had access to a chuck like the Stronghold or the Axminster, the gluepots would have been less frequent:-)
Bjarte
Yes, it would the gluepots would have been less frequent:-) On the other hand, In my area (Coastal Eastern Canada) turners are making use of the glue block more than the modern "Chucks". Why? the replies I got were that the use of the glue block is more convenient that the chucks. It would be interesting to have some statistics on who use the glue blocks and who use the modern chucks.
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What about those of us who use both or neither depending on situation?
Ken Moon Webberville, TX
I have been remiss in offering my thanks for the many many replies to the query. It has been *very* helpful and I now have a better idea of "method of work". I just knocked my first bit of firewood into a cylinder (was mucking with nice prepared smallish square stock before) in prelude to making these; what a rush! Somehow, the g/f doesn't understand the thrill. "It is just a cylinder"; "But I made it from firewood!" "OK. Nice job". Ah well...
PK
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