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Various turnings

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Various turningsHere are a few of my recent turnings that keep me occupied in the cold winter weather.The larged bowl is Apple wood as are the two smaller bowl in front of it. The bright bowl in front is maple but the camera flash washed out the color. The two shallow bowls are walnut the boxes above are big leaf maple on the left and on the right apple wood with a Madrone lid. All have walnut oil for the “bling”. The apple bowls have a salad bowl finish and the rest are just polished with a paste wax over the oil. The apple bowl is 10” in diameter.



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Bad Axe Tool Works D8 Handsaws Review

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Tool: D8 Hand Saw Shop Now Manufacturer: Bad Axe Toolworks MSRP:$395+ Making a good handsaw is difficult; making great handsaws at a production level seems darned near impossible. The D8 handsaws (based on the Disston D8 and Simonds Source

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All You Need to Know About Strops, Part 1: Tough Leather from Ukraine

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I use strops all the time to hone our many carving knives, our plane, and chisel blades, not to mention my pocket knife. Strops maintain our edges and gift them with pinnacle sharpness that lasts a long time. If you Source

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(Mildly) Chaotic Cutting Boards

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(Mildly) Chaotic Cutting BoardsThe origin of these is, I'm sure, the same as others: have to find a way to use up some of this scrap material.I still haven't learned how to visualize in 4 dimensions (ala MTM woodworks) to see the pattern I want in the finished board and then know how to glue it up, cut apart, flip and rotate, re glue, recut, etc in order to get it. So mine are more of the variety here's what I have, guess I'll put it together this way, maybe if I cut here and flip these 4 strips and re glue before I repeat the process and look it turned out this way. That's just how I roll.If anyone has cracked the code on this visualization translation as it relates to cutting board design (ie those amazing geometric patters I often see) please pass them along.These 2 are of the smaller variety; the smaller one being more of a cheese board size. Our daughter is my board tester. Every once in a while I'll send her a board or 2 to use (and abuse) so I can see how they hold up and what I can learn to apply to the next build. She has these 2. I've had to touch these up a bit with some re sanding and refinishing but other than that they are holding up well. Her preference, from trial testing different sizes of cutting boards, are smaller ones: easier to store and move around.The larger one here is 13 x 10 and the smaller one is a tad shorter, both are 1 thick. Woods used are oak, maple, cherry, ash and walnut.Appreciate any and all comments/suggestions.Cheers
Bryan



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Napkin holders...Pentagonal

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Napkin holders...PentagonalThis is a fun little project to finish on the lathe. It would be a good one for those folks who have small lathes. They make great gifts. Pictured on the right are Myrtle wood (Calif. Bay Laurel), center apple wood, right plum wood. I made sets of 8 of each.First I made a pentagram template piece so I can mark off the blanks on a board. Then I cut them free with the band saw and sand the 5 flats on a belt sander to remove the saw marks.
I have made them before and struggled with drilling the center holes on the drill press so I came up with another method on the lathe using a jig that mounts on a lathe chuck to hold the blanks and a Forstner drill bit mounted in a chuck in the tail stock. (see picts) Boards that are 3/4” to 1-1/4” thick work well and for a challenge you can try cutting a pentagram shaped column from a thick piece of wood (possibly a tree limb?) and slicing pieces off. The hole is 1-1/2” in diameter and each side measures 1-5/8”...or more if you want larger finished pieces.
After the hole is drilled I mount the rings on the short small diameter jaws of the chuck, round over the each side with a scraper tool and sand as needed. It is best to start the cut from the outside on the tips to reduce chipping and because of the smaller diameter I find a high speed (2000rpm) work well.
These were first coated with processed walnut oil. The Myrtle wood ones looked “flat” so I applied 3 coats of salad bowl finish to bring out the wood color better. The Plum ones the same and the Apple were just oiled and waxed.



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