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 Like many people I use either the Wolverine Vari-Grind Jig or the Sharp Fast Sharpening Jig to sharpen my bowl and spindle gouges, and like most people I extend the gouge 2″ beyond the jig before fastening it in position. Up to now I had a block of wood screwed 2″ back from the  Ever made a lampshade out of a bowl? I’ll never admit to it, but I’ve heard of people hollowing right through the bottom of a bowl I recently turned a bowl and the bottom was a lot thinner than I liked and getting dangerously close to becoming a lampshade. So I decided to  For the technically inclined a Morse Taper #2 has a angle of 1° 25′ 50″, as gleaned from the fountain of knowledge, Wikipedia. For the less technically inclined, myself included, turning a wooden morse taper is a quick and easy project that can be done with some simple measurements. The first step  I often hear turners talk about “free wood”. To my mind there is no such thing as “free wood”. Between the time and mileage spent driving to pick up the logs and the time and energy spent processing the logs into blanks, I often feel it would be easier and cheaper to just buy A wooden mallet is very useful in the workshop and I’ve been meaning to make one for a while. To make things a bit more interesting I decided to make one with an oval handle using off center turning. An oval handle is also more comfortable to hold than a circular handle. I made this from cherry, probably not the best of woods to use as it is not the hardest of hardwoods, but it is what I had on hand at the time.
In a recent post I mentioned I had made a Quarto Board Game for a friend of mine. It is made from walnut and oak that he sent me. It was a fun project and was done almost entirely on the lathe. I used a table saw to cut the stave sections for the sides of the box, and a drill press for the inlays on the top. This is an article on how I made the board game. The techniques here could be adapted for a number of different games. You can download a copy of the rules for Quarto here.
Inspiration for this pen came from some of the work of Ed Davidson. You can see more of his work at http://yoyospin.com. One of the fun things about turning a closed end pen is that it frees up more design considerations as you are not restricted by the hardware on the end of the Making a simple lidded box is a fun project.
You can click on any of the images to see a larger version. I started with a piece of spalted sweetgum just over 2″ x 2″ square. I placed it on the lathe between centers and turned it round. I To read Part One click here To read Part Two click here If you are interested in buying one of these tools they can be purchased at Woodchuck Lathe Tools I got a chance to turn the handles today. I mounted the blank between centers, locating a 60 degree live center in the channel |
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