Gorgeous stuff
What did you do in your shop today?
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I met up with Cliff at a Baltimore art show he was selling at. He left tickets at the door for us to get in. His teapots were all there, beautiful and unique art from woods like Honduran Rosewood Burl. He has a collector following. On his way home he stopped at my house and helped me with my first hollow form. I picked up a hollowing rig from him, which I have since traded to @barry richardson for one of his pieces. Bought some very nice wood from Cliff over time. Still have some. His HRB drops made great pens.
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Used some scrap and finished these up for little gifts in about 12 days. Tongs were quick n easy, had fun doing the smokers and trying different styles.
One maple tong, rest oak and black walnut.
One maple tong, rest oak and black walnut.
Started on an East Indian rosewood hollow form
That’s going to be a looker, for sure! Chuck
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Just a little prep to get ready to move the new planer in on Saturday.
I took the dewalt off the flip top cart. My friend that is helping me Saturday is buying my old dewalt.
Then I attached the disc sander to the cart since I destroyed the stand it was on.
Then I took the arbor press off the stand and carried it out to the trash. Scrappers will pick it up.
I'm not upset about the stand, it was just a cheap harbor freight stand.
I took the dewalt off the flip top cart. My friend that is helping me Saturday is buying my old dewalt.
Then I attached the disc sander to the cart since I destroyed the stand it was on.
Then I took the arbor press off the stand and carried it out to the trash. Scrappers will pick it up.
I'm not upset about the stand, it was just a cheap harbor freight stand.
Finished the last pieces for my ornaments, and started a run of acrylic snowmen.
The colored pieces will be some of their top hats.
The colored pieces will be some of their top hats.
I love the super long strings you get when turning acrylic.
Gotta say I’m the opposite. That stuff gets all over everything and wraps itself around the centers.
It does kind of gum up the works but it looks so cool, almost like a stream of liquid flowing off the blank.
That it does. But it’s still a mess and it doesn’t compost like the wood shavings.
The lucite for the clear snowmen isnt too bad compared to some of the pen blanks I've turned. At the speed and aggressiveness I turn these, the strings tend to melt together into small loops. The mess you see on the lathe bed is mostly from a very sharp skew in a peeling cut making tenons for a collet chuck.
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Acrylic pen blanks are the worst offenders.
Turn them in the midst of winter so you can recycle the stringy mess and heat the shop / home at the same time.
Especially Alumilite blanks. I usually run the dust collector when turning pens, and when one of those strands starts feeding into the DC and keeps going...i run the risk of getting mesmerized.
This is what you get when you are rounding a square blank in 26° temps. A mess...
As bad as all the Christmas glitter!
Aaaaaah, Glitter, I hate that insidious stuff. I still see it glistening in places at me in June. It should be outlawed!As bad as all the Christmas glitter!
The birds have all come home to roost.
This years ornaments are done, now just to decide who gets what...
This years ornaments are done, now just to decide who gets what...