And The Art of Making Shavings
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During the 2025-03-19 meeting of World Wide Wood Turners, Bob Grinstead showed us his homemade carving station. Here is some information about the station, allowing your to use it to create your own version. Parts needed for assembly Parts list ($26 for parts from Tractor Supply): 1” – 8 bolt various lengths (3) 1” lock Read More …
Using a Steady-Rest can be used to help turning large plates and platters. Most times, turning a flat piece to a very thin thickness (less than a quarter of an inch or 6 mm), such as a disc or platter, is not much of a problem. Especially if it is a small diameter around a Read More …
After being warned about burrs eating fingers. I decided to make a carving vise to use with my Kutzall burrs. I didn’t want a 1" (25mm) burr running up my arm. Sat and had a drink and think session , then went to work. The bottom is my large and heavy Manfrotto #268 ballhead for Read More …
Here is my chainsaw mill for those who haven’t seen it. I folds up into a small package you can put into your car. 4 pieces total. The beauty of this is I only load the logs once, then leave them on my trailer to cut.
In use, I load the logs on my trailer, then with 2 screws, screw the mill to my trailer. Roll a log in place, Clamp the log down with scrap wood at each end, and cut. There is a pulley system to make the cutting easier. Make all cuts down one side, raising the saw for each cut. Usually it takes 3 cuts for each side to get 2) 5″ blanks. Then slide/turn the log around and cut down the other side lowering the saw as you go.
By Robert Edwards This accessory can be constructed in order to determine the thickness of the bottom of a vessel. Using plywood or similar material, cut two pieces approximately 6” long and 4”wide. Assemble at right angles to each other. On the bottom piece, attach a piece of stock that fits between the ways of Read More …
Here is a decorating elf tool I made for embellishing tops and boxes. It uses a standard 1/8” cutter ofany shape. A ball cutter works great. I bought: 1/8” id x 3/8” od x 5/32” bearings (you need two, Amazon). 3/8” x 3/8” rare earth magnet (Amazon). 1/4” x 3” brass nipple (Home Depot). 3/4” Read More …
As shown during the July 3rd meeting of World Wide Woodturners, here is Paul Hannaby’s Morse Taper stand. The stand can be free standing or could be mounted flat on a wall if the protruding corner at the top left was cut off. My version was intended to hang on the end of a cabinet. Read More …
I started with a piece of laminated plywood from an old cabinet. It was only slightly larger than the round piece in the photos. I took a 1-1/2″ x 5″ block of oak and turned it round, making sure both faces were flat and parallel. Then I drilled a 21/32″ hole in the center of Read More …
During the 3/29/2023 meeting of the World Wide Wood Turners, Waukeene explained a jig he created to hold turned eggs for sanding. If you want to create this jig, the following describes the construction. Warning, if you make this jig, remember to drill the holes before you cut the slots … or you may find Read More …
If you would like your own hardcopy of this description, click here Bob Clark put together a great explanation on how to drill a whole in a solid rod, permitting turners to create a endmill gouge that has been discussed multiple times in our meetings. During each discussions, members that have made the gouge have Read More …