Today is just starting, and I vegetated yesterday. So, I'm reporting on what I did Saturday. Woodcraft Tucson had a swap meet and demos all day. Of course, the swap meet was outdoors, and it rained a good potion of the morning.
I was tasked with demoing my Chuck Plate. My plan was to mount a gnarly piece, turn a tenon and rough shape if possible, set it aside and do another. I did three pieces. The first was a pretty easy set up even though it had only one screw actually penetrating the wood. All the other seven outer ring screws were touching on the inside of the rotted out cavity, just adding friction support. I only took pictures of the second piece because of the challenge it presented.
The pictures below is a piece of some type of Conifer. The woodcraft store owner Randy says it Juniper, but it smells to me like it's pine. This one only had 3 consecutive screws actually touching the wood. I kept my speed down, and managed to get a tenon turned. I don't know if it will fit my jaws as it might be too small for 100mm, and too large for 75 mm. I'll cross that bridge when I get there, I suppose.
What it is going to be when done is a flared vase.This picture was taken before I made the tenon. That was all that was done to it. Even I was little apprehensive on this one. You can see the nose ring in use also. I managed to get the tenon done without any movement whatsoever. Normally when doing something like this, I get wobble from all the intermittent cutting.
This wood belongs to Randy, so I left it at his store. I'll get back there and finish turning them one of these days. In the meantime, the first one I did is my wood, and will take a couple pictures today, and try to post them without the ordeal. ............. Jerry (in Tucson)
I was tasked with demoing my Chuck Plate. My plan was to mount a gnarly piece, turn a tenon and rough shape if possible, set it aside and do another. I did three pieces. The first was a pretty easy set up even though it had only one screw actually penetrating the wood. All the other seven outer ring screws were touching on the inside of the rotted out cavity, just adding friction support. I only took pictures of the second piece because of the challenge it presented.
The pictures below is a piece of some type of Conifer. The woodcraft store owner Randy says it Juniper, but it smells to me like it's pine. This one only had 3 consecutive screws actually touching the wood. I kept my speed down, and managed to get a tenon turned. I don't know if it will fit my jaws as it might be too small for 100mm, and too large for 75 mm. I'll cross that bridge when I get there, I suppose.
What it is going to be when done is a flared vase.This picture was taken before I made the tenon. That was all that was done to it. Even I was little apprehensive on this one. You can see the nose ring in use also. I managed to get the tenon done without any movement whatsoever. Normally when doing something like this, I get wobble from all the intermittent cutting.
This wood belongs to Randy, so I left it at his store. I'll get back there and finish turning them one of these days. In the meantime, the first one I did is my wood, and will take a couple pictures today, and try to post them without the ordeal. ............. Jerry (in Tucson)
