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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  I love the smell of cedar in my workshop! A friend gave me a couple of freshly cut cedar logs recently. The logs were fairly small diameter, about 5″ and the pith was offset quite a bit to one side. I cut the logs into 2′ lengths using my chainsaw, but did not want  Sometimes it’s the small things that seem to make a big difference. I have a bad habit of placing things, chuck handles, pen bushings, faceplate screws, pencils etc, on the headstock of my lathe. Most of the time it is not a problem, but then I’ll lean over the headstock with my left arm  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  For the longest of time I’ve been working on the ground when processing my logs with a chainsaw. I had a wooden pallet and I would position the logs on it and then cut them. It worked OK. Often I had trouble securing the logs so they didn’t move while I was cutting them,  I spent some time this weekend organizing my workshop. It often feels like I spend more time organizing my workshop than I do working on stuff. A big part of the problem is I keep on buying stuff and then I have to find a home for it in an already crowded space. A Every now and then I buy a tool/gadget that takes a time consuming process and just simplifies it. Yesterday I picked up a chuck reversing adapter from my local Woodcraft, and is it going to make life easy! A chuck reversing adapter is used to take a turning that is mounted in a chuck I was getting tired of reaching for my calipers and setting them to my chuck diameter every time I needed to turn a tenon. The alternative was trying to “guesstimate” the diameter needed and very often I would turn the tenon to small. So I made a spindle and tenon gauge. I have |
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