The more it changes...

Try my site. Not many bowls!

The grizzly was pretty darn good. Was that you that fought it for the fish?

Oh... nice columns too... LOL

Why do we see only bowls on the web sites?

Why no chairs like the fabulous turned chair I saw at the Royal Ontario Museum?

Because a chair is normally considered furniture, though some I've seen would leave you hard-pressed to determine which end was designed for your butt. Makes it art.

Making chairs involves a lot of work and require high prices that put them in the affordability range of very few people. Unless you have a factory...

The change in demand between a $50 bowl and a $150 bowl is some indication of this price point effect. I wouldn't want to sell chairs for much under $1000 dollars. They would take a multitude of jigs, tools, space and technology to make.

Well what about candlesticks, lamp stems, tools, handles and all those other things?

Spindles for headboards, Spindles for supports in cupboards and shelving

- stuff like that?

Why does nobody display that work?

Check out Ken Vaughn's site..

He shows a lot of his tool handles, jigs, etc...

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Ken does indeed make some nice stuff.

But now I am tempted to copy it and the turning gods will probably have me imprisoned for plagiarism... sigh. Hope they serve good food in the cells...

Too busy making and selling it?

That is my suspicion -- it seems more more more -- gee I dunno -- the kinda-stuff-you'd-make-to-sell?

You may be onta sumpin' here... LOL

You get my vote! Unless I hear different...

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If I was onta sumpin', I wouldn't be here. :o)

yep.. I've copied so many of Ken's ideas that the print outs must be an inch thick... sanding box, ring clamp, biscuit jointer jig, etc., etc., etc...

mac

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Perhaps we can share a cell????

ROTFLMAO.

Ken has encouraged me to go through the entire shop looking for ways to make things easier.

Now I have bench dogs -- turned on the lathe of course... :-)

I have fixed the fence up properly on the table saw.

I got myself a Jacobs chuck last night a Lee Valley so I can finish the tool handles that I need so desperately for everything from files to new turning tools. (Drilling them on a drill press did NOT work...)

I got a small compression/screw chuck for a few dollars so I can make small fixtures (and a maybe some small bowls...)

Today I finished the bench dogs and the bench re-configuration...

Now I will start on the bench vise... So it can work with the dogs (and maybe the cats too :-)) ) So I have to change the wooden faces I put in the vise and allow room for the bench dogs... and drill the holes.

Then I can start of the real stuff.

And of course there are the tips on Darrell Feltmates sites and the Three Point tool I got the tool steel for... And I have to make a skewed scraper -- but this time it will point "the other way"...

Guys like Ken and Darrell otta be banned I tell yah! LOL

They set an extremely unfortunate good example. :-)

I'll have to get a picture of that tomorrow. Anyone else going to be there this weekend?

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Ken and Darrell have been a HUGE to my re-learning wood & turning... both have been very helpful and responsive to questions, etc.. I'm almost ready to graduate to Bill Grumbine's site... the more I learn, the more I sort of understand on Bill's site.. *g*

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Feel free to provide a link to that site as well. :-)

Helped my wife with her intarsia piece this morning. She was grumbling Thursday about buying a Jacobs chuck, we put her inflatable sander in the lathe using the Jacobs chuck, supported the wood pieces on the tool rest and had the fit of the pieces fixed up in a few minutes. Most of the fixes could be done by hand rotation of the sander to minimize wood removal. Worked like a charm! No more grumbling now -- I hope...

Today I will spend more time on those sites planning the next set of jigs and fixtures. They have a truly amazing set of fixtures -- all at relatively low cost... Good thing too or I would be adding nothing....

We also got the 1 3/8 inch expanding chuck at Lee Valley -- we can use that for small pieces now as well... So now I can do the clock pieces I have put off forever... And it can be used as a screw chuck for small bowls -- funny thing that. :-)

I think I have he base pieces now so I can actually use the info on their sites.

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Sorry, I should of done that! His personal page, "he's truly outstanding in his field" *g*

mac

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