The Woodshop Shed

Tool Madness: Round 1, Part 3

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Next up: Router vs Lathe and Spokeshave vs Shoulder Plane. There's no wrong way to vote, just make sure you keep coming back! …Source

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Making Tops with 10 guys!

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Hi fellas,Check out this latest video where the NJ Woodturners got together at a members shop with 5 lathes. We had a great time turning tops for donations to the Childrens Specialized Hospital of NJ.Check out Gil's awesome shop also.https://youtu.be/HzUgApeMzGEBob

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Carrying Trivets for Corningware dishes

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This seemed like an easy project. I even had my mother in law's vintage 1960's wood trivet by corningware to copy. Over the years corningware switched to steel trivets and dropped the wood ones. They also changed the sizes of their dishes and started making round dishes. I should have just started from scratch. After several fails and lots of leg modifications I finished them. Never again.The tricky part was making the legs a close enough fit to the sloped walls of the dish to keep it in and not let it slip out the side. These are made to carry the hot dish from the kitchen to the table. I switched out the original design's brass pins for dowel joints and brass screws. I also made the handles larger. I have burned myself numerous times on the original carrying hot dishes to the table.Cherry and maple with garnet shellac finish.PS My wife just gave me a history lesson. The trivet I copied is from Pyrex circa 1970. Corningware made mostly steel trivets.

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Pill Bottle (Small)

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A small Pill Bottle, 4” x 7/8” Dia, Leppordwood finished with a friction polish.My better half uses a small plastic baggie to keep one of her meds in her purse. So I came up with this as one birthday present next month.I had recently picked up some Leppordwood turning blanks, milled this down to 1” square x 6” and started with the turning. After I obtained a cylinder (between centers). I sat back looking at the grain and figured out how to finish this thing. I laid out a tennon on each end and where to create the cap. (Which is a friction fit). Back to turning to finish the outside.After cutting the cap off I placed it in the chuck and used a 3/4” fostner bit to create the lip, then a 5/8” fostner bit to make the cap a bit deeper, and softened the edge. Then chucked up the bottom and used a 1/2” fostner bit to clear out the inside. Then softened the cut and sneeked up on the fit for the cap.While I still had the tennons on I pushed it together and sanded to 220 grit, stopping after each grit and sanding with the grain. Then finished with BLO and Shellac for a friction finish (thanks Dave P).From there separated the two halfs and chucked each one up, cut off the tennon, sanded and finished the ends.Fun little project, while turning a couple of other things. And I managed to get a good friction fit for the cap. This could also be used for a tooth pick holder, (not those Texas sized ones),since you don't see tooth picks in restaurants anymore.Still learning how to turn, getting better controll of the tools and better at sharpening them too.Thanks for looking.

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