Bought 3 Indian rosewood blanks off Facebook but this one doesn’t look like the other 2. Anyone know what kind of wood this is? I was thinking Purple Heart wood but not sure. It was great to work with. Sanded so nicely.
I have a rare opportunity and am suffering from decision paralysis. I two have small children and a full time job so I only get to turn wood for maybe an hour or two a night if my wife and I have nothing else planned. Because of this I typically only take on projects that can be completed in one sitting and occasionally have projects take more than a day or two.
Tomorrow my wife and kids are going to visit family out of town and will be gone until the following day. This only happens maybe once or twice a year, I’m not going because I work in the morning and am leaving at noon. That’s a solid 12 hours of turning uninterrupted which is exceedingly rare in my house hold.
So what should I make? I have a lot of cool pieces of wood and I might be able to glue something together tonight but it would only have like 18 hours to cure which might be enough. I also live nearby a Rockler. I have too many directions I could go in so help me narrow down some ideas!
This was a dogwood limb that had been left laying on the ground for several years. I almost gave up on it. The plan was to make a scoop. Turned out, there was a bud vase there instead. About 7.75” x 2.75”.
7" tall, 9" dia. I'm really happy with the undercut and wall thickness (5/16").
Some neighbors down the road had a Cherry tree taken down the other day and naturally I yoinked that up. Tree guys were going to throw it in the woods. I've got a 16" and 33" section of trunk and this crotch area where the first branches were cut. Only 2 of the branch cuts look fresh, so I'm guessing the tree was pollarded and that's what killed it. Seems to be a popular thing to do for cherry trees in your front yard in the area.
I'm a little worried about bugs in the old dead limbs so I've cut it into two pieces and placed them in black garbage bags in the sun. It's 95* daily so I hope a few days in the bags should kill most anything.
Anyways any fun recommendations for this crotch? Phrasing intended.
Now my platter has a little sister!
My first “large” bowl. I have had my lathe for a few months now and am slowly gaining some confidence. Need to keep practicing. I am not happy with those visible tool marks on the bottom. Constructive criticism is welcome, my goal is to keep improving.
I am doing a table at a local music festival - New Jersey, NYC suburbs in an artsy town. I am spinning in circles on trying to determine what I should charge. I don’t want to be too cheap (because I think most of my stuff needs work) but also don’t want to be unrealistic. Any thoughts would be great, this is out of my comfort zone for sure.
I'm not a wood worker, but since I made my decision to get the LP1 based on the posts from this sub, thought this might be useful in this sub too.
As you might know, the higher power ones come with a cone shield, this one just comes with glasses. And the separate shield unit was expensive in my opinion.
Made this one with some leftover dual color PLA, so please ignore the layer lines in my prints, it's a color artifact, not print calibration issues. And PLA is fine since diode laser at this power can’t do anything to it, as long as the user is fine not seeing the entire process. The gap in the back to peek thru with the glasses if one must.
The height of the cone is also the focal distance of the laser. So the user wouldn't have to use the ruler anymore.
Anyways, all to say that if there was any interest, I can share the files somewhere so you can download them and make one for yourself.
What the title says. I recently acquired an (at least!) third hand Huvema HU-1000-2 and I've been loving it so far. The only thing it doesn't really do is change speeds fast, it needs V-belt changing underneath a cover that has not one but two awkwardly placed screws holding it in place. The thing was built in 1995.
The motor looks like a pretty standard single phase split phase design with a permanent run capacitor. Would it be worthwhile to try and stick a VFD on it or is the motor too old to be designed for that? Does anyone have experience with conversions of older lathes like this?
Filled in some of the larger splits with copper dust... im happy with how it turned out! Still got all my tootsies but i did were protective glasses for this one.... you know what they say, safety last or something.....
My second attempt (first success) at making a tri-wing bowl by turning a cube between opposing corners. Last time it broke on me; this time I used an appropriate gauge to mark and flatten one corner so I could drill for a worm screw. In hindsight a spur drive center would probably have worked fine. Pretty happy with it. Finished with spray lacquer.
How much should I pay for a used PM 3520a?
You can save money on an expensive chuck by 3D printing it, and you can use the money you save to pay 1/20th of the hospital bill you’ll face when this thing fails.
I thought I'd try inserting some twigs into epoxy as a platter rim detail on this rather lovely piece of painted poplar. I think it was marginally successful, but would have been better if I had removed the bark as it gives the edge around each of the larger 'twig' cross-sections a bit of a fuzzy appearance. There is a bit of blead on the epoxy too, and I should have sealed the end grain before pouring the epoxy. Platter is about 12 inches across.
My first and favorite plate/platter i made out of Ash, Cherry, Padauk, and Walnut.