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Preferred hollowing tool(s)
I'm attempting my first hollow vessel. I've completed the outside to my satisfaction and am in the process of hollowing it out. I drilled out the center and used a bowl gouge to get the initial...
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2004 Town and Country 3.3. Engine runs rough and stalls after filling gas tank.
My Town and Country 2004 3.3 misses and sometimes stalls after filling up with gasolene. This happens every time the van is filled with gas for the last severial months. The van runs good the rest of...
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Gloat
Since Christmas I have been cutting bowl blanks. A friend called me that his son had cut a large sweetgum tree. It was large enough that I could cut an 16 inch bowl blank off each side leaving an 8...
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pen turning kits
I've been considering trying my luck at pen turning. I've been looking at the various starter kits and have narrowed it down to the two offered by Craft Supplies USA. The first one ( Pen Turning...
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Magic liquid
Been lurking for a few years out of interest and have now got a lathe. I remember repeated mention of some sort of soaking concoction made from I think dishwashing liquid for green wood. Can somebody...
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insults - let's be creative Re: SPAM
I like that for most of northern countries, but in many equatorial states, at least if we use farenheit, you will have some pretty smart folks - 130 deg F is not at all uncommon even in the USA -...
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Question on sharpening setup
My current grinder for sharpening is a Harbor Freight wet/dry combo - one slow wheel, one fast. There are a lot of things that I don't like about it, but I've stuck with it for quite a while now. But...
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Beginner looking for help with generic (aka "Professional Woodworker") lathe
I have a "Proefssional Woodworker" 4 speed lathe that someone gave to me after the motor capacitor died. I got it replaced and working again and I got the HSS turning set from Harbor Freight. I've...
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15 years ago
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woo! hoo! books and a chuck!
The gift giving season has been good for me! I got "New Masters of Woodturning" (Fox Chapel Publishing) Great images, great ideas, from several turners, showing some of their work, and a bit of...
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15 years ago
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Suggested wood for carving mallets?
A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans. Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided? He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood,...
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Rescued a lathe
A coworker works elsewhere as well, and one of his co-workers there caught a bunch of lathes being dumped from a local high school. The last one had been sitting out in the rain (with a bit of plastic...
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Back in the saddle
Micro Mark at sells a small light box for taking photos of model cars et al.
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segmented vases and humidity
We got a segmented vase as a Christmas present this year. The bowl is beautiful and based on a Ray Allen design. A relative in Seattle made the vase. My wife and I live in the state of Wisconsin where...
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Back In The Saddle - Xmas 08 Presents - And A Light Box
After a few days of shop clean up in preparation for turning Christmas presents it was time to get Back In The Saddle. Now, after several days - literally - of turning I think I've worked out the...
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RE Duplicator
Tom Dougall, I tried a couple of times to send you the information you requested, and it keeps bouncing. One possibility is that the file is too large with both photographs. To determine this, I sent...
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