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Rounding bowl Blanks
Ordinarily I use the bandsaw to cut round blanks for bowls, but large, heavy pieces I do with a small chain saw. I measure the diameter two ways making a center cross mark. Setting a large compass on...
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drilling pencil lead on a lathe
ok he was not using a wood lathe but one could turn wood on this lathe if one wanted to he drilled a hole through a point 7 or point 9 mechanical pencil lead it was a competition and his competitor...
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Wet shear scraping
I was turning a bowl this afternoon from a piece of fruit wood (in the basement for >20 years and species unknown). I shear scraped the outside and got an generally good finish but there were some...
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New (to me) lathe
I had a Jet 1442 for a number of years and, while it was a decent enough la the, it had some limitations I was finding more and more frustrating. I lo oked at a Robust, liked what I saw, but had...
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Re: Missing the good old days.
Web sites are sparkly. Usenet text just lays there. That's what I like about Usenet. I won't use facebook for much, just check what my wife posts. But some of the other sites (lumberjocks, etc.) are...
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Interesting things I've turned
I'm known for turning tops around my close family. Each one has its own personality, some spin fast and in one spot, others will actually spin sideways until their inertia forces them up onto their...
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Bowl Sanding Kits
Peachtree has a special on bowl sanding kits If you are needing new, or additional, sanding mandrels, its not a bad deal. Deb http://www.ptreeusa.com/edirect_102116_bowl_sanding.htm
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american made general
looks like a real nice lathe and really not a bad price what is the thing with all the knobs in the small photo iirc someone mentioned they are made in canada or am i misremembering or maybe they once...
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SuperNova 2 on sale
Having picked up a "new to me" lathe, with a 1 1/4x8 thread on the headstoc k, as opposed to the 1x8 on my old one, I went looking for a new chuck. I got a headstock spindle adapter from PennState...
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Good work PSI!
I called PSI about my chuck with the stuck screws, and found it was still under warranty. They sent me a new set of travelers (the black things that the jaws screw to), a set of screws, and a...
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Barracuda Chuck Screws
I have the PSI Barracuda CSC3000C lathe chuck. The screws strip out really easily, usually the head rounds out. I'm in the process of removing the stripped out screws, but it's going slowly... At any...
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New (to me) lathe
The president of the Alabama Woodturners Assn (of which I was a member and still miss going) put three lathes up for sale - he found a deal on a big O neway. One of the lathes was a Woodfast M910,...
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nice old delta with tooling
seems a bit high on price but looks solidly built
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laguna pinnacle c1
nice looking copy lathe to my eye it looks similar to one of the pattern maker lathes lots of moving parts on this price seems high in this market http://olympic.craigslist.org/tls/5758666028.html
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Apple Root
I pulled the last of an Apple Tree out of the ground today, and have been looking at turning it. I have not cleaned it off yet, so I don't know if the root ball is intact or has rotted out like most...
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