Turning Mushrooms Video

All and Sundry (if Sundry still reads this group) I have been playing with a cam corder lately and wonder if anyone in the group is interested in a video on turning mushrooms? It would sell for about $C20.00 and cover from 3" to 14" mushrooms and mushroom displays. I am just feeling around before I move from strictly fun to putting the time into editing and so on.

Ken Moon Webberville, TX

I had a similar problem with smoked salmon. It's said to be a delicacy and it's quite expensive, but it was a bitch to roll and I couldn't keep it lit. I put it in a little baggie and unfortunately it slipped between the seats in my truck until I went through a checkstop a couple of weeks later where a cop found it and now I'm doing time for possession. What a bummer.

Stephen

I'd definitly buy one! You can never have enough turning videos. Just a suggestion...show lots of different shapes, but skip the sanding. I've found that turners can watch shavings fly for hours, but sanding puts them asleep.

Peter Teubel Milford, MA

Ken Have you tried soaking the thing in Polyall 2000 and then fixing the stem to a glue block? Covering the lathe ways with plastic might help the clean up :-)

Darrell, I'm not sure that a video limited to mushrooms goes far enough beyond good website serial pics, but if _you make it I will buy it. If all the repetitive wadding of many current videos: health & safety, equipment, the lathe, autobiography, plugs for this & that, philosophy, and on and on were omitted you could expand the elements of your popular site into a uniquely fresh instructional video. Similar to what Dell Stubb's Video did and still does. Observing you preparing the wood and making and using tools and devices to turn the things we like to turn would have wide appeal, IMHO.

Regards, Sundry

Fortiter,

In Canada? Sheesh, I thought we had that sorted out. You gotta share the salmon, y'know!

I second Arche's comment. I hit your site all the time to see what is new. Some times I think I am more of a virtual turner. I would like to see a video on makeing your tools from begining to end. May be something like your crotched wood series with a comentatyof you thinking outloud on the different possibilities in cutting the log and why you want to do it. I would buy one. it would be good referance material to go over and over again.

Bruce

Arch Thanks. I appreciate the vote of confidence. This video stuff is a whole new learning curve. The stuff that makes sense to someone looking over your shoulder does not make sense to the camera. When I look at a video of turning I like to see shavings fly and know why they do it. Sharpening is for a sharpening video. It takes a few seconds to sharpen and that is long enough for any turning video. Mushrooms fit a lot of my thoughts on turning. People like them. They are made from found or cheap wood. No one can tell you they do not look like a mushroom of some kind so a beginner has a poor chance of making a bad one. They are fun. They also, as you run through the gamut of sizes, incorporate a wide variety of tools; roughing gouge, parting tool, spindle gouge, skew, Oland tool from 3/16" to 1/2". Plus, they do not require sanding which is the most boring part of a turning video to me. On the other hand, I can see incorporating some of the other stuff from the site. Arch, I need time, time, time. Have a good one, buddy.

Bruce, Thank you for that vote of confidence. I like the idea of the crotch wood video. It would give me a chance to ramble and justify it. The trick for me would be to turn a lot while talking about why. Just staring at a hunk of wood while talk goes on can be boring, especially the second or third time around. On the other hand, if I justify the expense to go digital, it would be a good topic for a video cd because you could easily jump from spot to spot. There are not enough days in the week.

This explains why so much of what I've been attempting looks like mushrooms, despite that I was intending to do table legs, lidded boxes, etc. :-)

Max

Reminds me of Bill Cosby's routine about shop class- where everything he makes turns out to be a shoeshine box.

On the other hand- Ruth has some really nice mushrooms she makes as toothpick holders, so I suppose they can be something other than decorative.

vic

"if I can justify the expense to go digital,"

Hi Darrel, I visit your site often looking for updates, if there are none then I re-read something else, There is plenty of material there to make several Videos. May I suggest you consider deeply the option you mentioned... Digital ...put it onto CD or DVD and I will buy one of everything you make, Software conversion of US DVD to UK DVD versions are no problems but the video conversion is a pain (No thanks I don't want a US video player, even if it has only done 30,000 miles) I am sure most folks would not object to a small premium on each disc to assist you in the initial cost.

I read loads but as the old adage goes 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' When there is an informative commentary to go with it, well Robert is your aunties brother ...

Regards The WobblyBootie

aka Tim

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yes they can and do:) suggestion for the talking, film you going at it, then you watch it and write what you are going to say, then record that track I think this is what richard raffan does, because in his videos there is no noise of tools or lathe often.

Tim Would not a CD for windows work in any computer regardless of whether it is made in Canada or the UK?

Tim A hundred times is not necessary. There seems to be so many ways to spell Darrell that I do not notice when it is spelled wrong. By the way, thanks for the kind words on the web site.

Reyd I think that is a good idea but I like the sound of the lathe when I turn or watch turning videos. It says a lot about the cut. Maybe I could keep my mouth shut while I turn (gagged?) and then overdub the voice as necessary. I like the old videos that Dennis White made where the voice was only as necessary and mostly you got to watch turning.

================================ Darrell, The computer Windows CD should work, but a CD intended for playback on a TV would require reformatting to European sync,scan, etc.

Ken Moon Webberville,TX