What did you do in your shop today?

Wildthings said:
Gorgeous piece. What's the finish? CA?
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Thanks!
Wipe on poly. It won't stay this shiny looking, I'll knock back with steel wool and lightly buff to a more natural look. Having that wet look is just a good gage that I've got sufficient coats to protect it. 3 in this case.
 
I really wish I had a second dust collector or a larger system. When I expand the building/business (hey, might as well be optimistic right?) I need to either put in a system large enough for the laser and other tools at the same time or a separate exhaust system for the laser. This is what happens when you have to turn without dust collection :sarcastic:

Engraving a ton of boxes for these pens for that customer.

@Tom Smart yours go out to you on Monday. Just making sure the paint is dry.

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Started on the 160 piece order. Did the 20 Gate spindles, these are the fence spindles.
Old growth Cypress. Duplicator tears the wood up so all done free hand.

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Spinartist said:
Started on the 160 piece order. Did the 20 Gate spindles, these are the fence spindles.
Old growth Cypress. Duplicator tears the wood up so all done free hand.

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Freehand duplication sounds and looks easy. For those of you who have never tried it... well it ain't easy.
Lee I'm more that super impressed with these. I freehanded spindles for a crib once that only had 8 spindles or so per side.. I scrapped more cherry on that project by rejecting spindles that any other turning project I've ever done.
 
Spinartist said:
Now... If I only had a custom tool rest to help speed up my turning!!

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Yea yea, I know, kinda had my plate full the last couple of weeks. But I did get some cool flap wheels I want to try out on your rest. It is on my mind and I am working on it............and everything else at the same time...............
 
@Kerry Weeks came by today to visit. Showed him some of my wood stash and talked a good bit. He brought a blank with him I believe he said it was Elm Cedar. He gave me a demo on how to turn a hollow form and proper usage of my bowl gouges. This is what we turn in a few hours.

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First hollow form for me. Plan to head to his place tomorrow!

Thanks Kerry

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Rodney
 
Bigdrowdy1 said:
@Kerry Weeks came by today to visit. Showed him some of my wood stash and talked a good bit. He brought a blank with him I believe he said it was Elm Cedar. He gave me a demo on how to turn a hollow form and proper usage of my bowl gouges. This is what we turn in a few hours.

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First hollow form for me. Plan to head to his place tomorrow!

Thanks Kerry

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Rodney
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That's way cool Rodney! Hopefully we can all meet up soon! Tony
 
@Tony, I talked with Kerry today about you being up this way next month. We're thinking of riding down to see you if schedules work out.
 
Tom Smart said:
Where do you get your boxes, Colin?
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I order these through Woodturningz.com For a mesa style, cigar, etc they work fine. No felt lining, no frills and out of every 100, I usually get a bad one or two but they are fairly inexpensive and the guys have been good about credit/replacement on the bad ones. The single maple box retails at 3.80, they do get cheaper as you order more. The last batch I ordered was 600 of them, at that quantity they have them drop shipped direct form their supplier. of course they don't label who the supplier is so I haven;t been able to figure out how to cut out a step but I do like the guys there, and they are entitled to make a living too so I haven't tried too hard.
 
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