Hacksaw007's Blog at LumberJocks.com http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:38:49 GMT 150 horse power wood lathe http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/29477 Check out this odd wood lathe made from a van. Just when you think you have seen it all, something like this comes out. NOT suggested to try, I will stick with my smaller wood lathes thank you.

-Mike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4qB6n1cm04&feature=b-vrec

]]> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:38:49 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/29477 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 Amazing Lathe Work http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/28394 Check out this video, can’t believe that he did that without it blowing up!

http://www.youtube.com/user/rikkitikkiberger/videos

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:18:16 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/28394 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 Check out this Wood Lathe, might have been Scrappy before he got his Jet? http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/26168 Check out this link to see just how bad we have it with our wood lathes? Sorry Scrappy, just thought of you when I saw this!

-Mike

http://www.wimp.com/chesspieces/

]]> Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:07:26 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/26168 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 Ouch! Lathe Lessons to Remember! http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/25326

Well it happens. I was turning a piece of colorwood and was using a small parting tool to set my thickness. the problem was that I had a chuck on my headstock and the piece was short. The tailstock is about 1 1/4 inch thick, and my 6 inch tool rest would not fit into the opening like you would want it to, I had set it to the tailstock so I was about an inch away from the wood.

All of the parting tools that I have ever used, you should take a little wider groove, than just the width of the tool because they can be pinched in the turning wood. That is what happened to me, the tool pinched and was able to be pulled thru my hand, over the tool rest and under the turning wood. As you can see, the tool was firmly pinched in the wood, it stalled my 3/4 horse lathe, and shocked me with how fast it happened.

Pulling the tool also pinched my finger between the tool rest and the tool, it took a chunck of meat with it, and it hurts today. I am looking for a shorter tool rest, or I believe I will have one made so that this doesn’t happen. Also, it is a poor policy to use the small or micro lathe tools and have them not right up against the tool rest and close to the wood.

]]> Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:41:34 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/25326 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 Fletcher automated Capstan Table http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/24375 I have seen this table before but this is the best movie yet for it. If you have never seen this table, you should check it out. Amazing is all that I can say!

http://www.wimp.com/capstantable/

]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:51:38 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/24375 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 361 posts on 361 days!? http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/17689 Wow, it has almost been a year for me on Lumberjocks! What would the odds be for 361 posts on 361 days! Amazing! I have loved every minute on this site, met a lot of new friends. But wait! If I post this blog than it won’t be 361 posts anymore…..... What to do…..... her goes. Waiting for 365 days in just 4 days. I am not sure I can take the stress!

Hacksaw007 (Mike)

]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:15:02 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/17689 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 Have a Wooden Heart..... http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/15750 Check out this wooden gear driven heart, it moves and must have been a task to make…...

http://www.wimp.com/gearheart/

]]> Mon, 17 May 2010 02:56:15 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/15750 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 Wood Gloat http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/15116 Thought that since I read all of the wood gloats in here and wish it would happen to me. Well I got a nice suprize yesterday. A fellow woodworked who is not a Lumberjock’s guy (yet) contacted me to buy some laminated wood that we have from our making rifle stocks. After he purshased his wood, he went to his truck and brought out a nice bundle of 1 inch square, 5 foot long Rosewood. All dry and old. He at one time bought out a large amound of this wood and after I shared with him about making pens he brought up around 12 sticks of it for me. I have never turned Rosewood, but I can’t wait till the weekend to do so. It looks like a very nice and complicated wood. That is my wood gloat!

]]> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:00:31 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/15116 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 A wonderful thing to do with your wood lathe other than wood?!?! http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/11977 Found this very funny and tasty video on U-tube. Shows a guy making string potatoes with his lathe! Then he cooks them and eats them….. I have to go, I am getting hungry…

Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XMBbYM11I8

]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:44:08 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/11977 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007 How to take better pictures of your work? http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/11721 I was wondering if anyone on Lumberjocks would share their knoledge on how to take good pictures of our projects. I just have not got to the point where they look very good. Most of my projects are smaller, and require more detail to see what is going on. I have a camera but lack the right stuff or finances to buy great lighting. Just wondering…....

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:53:09 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/Hacksaw007/blog/11721 Hacksaw007 Hacksaw007