I am also certain that a religious foundation for an ethics viewpoint (and that, not technique, was the meat of the thread) is every bit as valid as a secular humanist one. Oh well. You were given the authoritative source of my viewpoint as a point of courtesy. Feel free to turn your back on it.
BIll
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Include me out! I was not asking about clerical nor cervical collars. ;)
Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter
A dovetail recess as a design element? Yours must be much more beautiful than mine!
Dovetails in fine handmade furniture may be considered to be design elements. Some carefully disguised dovetail recesses on platter bottoms may be acceptable to leave as is.
But I have seen very few dovetail recesses on bowls that could be considered a design element. (Richard Raffan's, maybe.) If you wanna leave 'em on your bowls, have at it. But please don't try to glorify them!
Barry
Barry
Which is what I try to do... (really bad ASCII art)
bottom rim dove-tail ----- / \ ------ < ------------\ | | __________________ \ / ---- inside of bowl
You're saying what? There's some absolute standard of beauty for the bottom of a bowl? Seems to me that individual expression is in what you don't do as well as what you do. Personally, I find a lot of the attempts to jazz up the bottom of the piece fairly ugly. Even though they try to glorify them. Not to mention all the time and frustration spent in trying to get there.
Care to start a thread on the "ideal bottom," Arch?
Can anyone pass along the height of the headstock above the base?
I have one on order, but want to start preparing the stand I will use
I'm a 3000. The information in the manual seems correct to me.
Spoken like a true turner, Barry... Which is great if you're judging a contest at a turner's club or something..
IMH experience, buyers are really rather dumb.. they don't know anything about how the bowl is made (or how their car is made), they just make uneducated purchases because the like the way it looks.. I've never even seen one whip out a pair of calipers and measure the wall thickness before handing over the cash..... whodathunkit!
mac
Please remove splinters before emailing
I'm assuming two things, one, you haven't received a satisfactory answer to your question and, two, you are asking the height of the spindle center above the base.
In my DVR Instruction manual they show the distance from the base of the lathe to the center of the spindle as 297 mm or 11-11/16"
Hope this helps,
Harry
Thanks Harry
I have to agree with you 100% Mac So far Very few of the items that I have made none of them would be the ideal piece that I would show at a woodturning show but I have received many positive comments on them from people that are not turners.
The beauty of a piece is what the customer is satisfied with.
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