330 days ago
by Chessnut |
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Welcome to another installment of the chess corner. Today’s topic is turning queens on the lathe.A queen’s base diameter is usually around 1 3/4” and the height around 3 3/4”. I use a caliper to measure while turning and turn everything gradually usually in three parts. The base, the stem of the piece and the crown and bring a pencil to the workpiece while it’s still turning after it has been turned round to mark the three segments and the decorative rings. This ...
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322 days ago
by Chessnut |
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Hello again and welcome back to the chess corner! Today’s topic is turning kings for a chess set.The height and base diameter of the king is the cornerstone for the rest of the pieces. All pieces get smaller both in height and base diameter than the king. I might do another installment on this topic and show the flow of the chess pieces in relation to one another and how to create the “feeling” this is a set and that they belong next to each other. Kings typ...
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525 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
23 comments »
(continued from Lee Valley Interview, part I)
Following my interview with Robin Lee, President of Lee Valley, I took my Canadian Film Crew with me as I headed to my “local” Lee Valley Store, which is just an hour away, for my very first public appearance as MsDebbieP, the Canadian LumberJock.
The weather was the hottest that we’ve had all summer and, boy oh boy, was the hat and coat ever hot!
Inside, Don Riley, the store manager, gave me a tour, starting with the warehouse area i...
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332 days ago
by Chessnut |
5 comments »
Hi there welcome back for another installment of the chess corner. Today’s topic is turning bishops for a chess set. It’s very satisfying to be able to be in a position when creating your own chess set to put your own style on the pieces. For instance let’s look at a few bishops I cooked up in the chess corner. These look very close to a standard bishop except for the very top. Instead of the tiny little tip on most I flared it to give it a little bit of a different look bu...
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336 days ago
by Chessnut |
7 comments »
Welcome to another installment of the Chess Corner! Today’s topic is turning rooks or aka castles.The large looking one on the left was a first try out of some sort of mahogany pallet scrap and after turning it round realized how open-grained it was, not a desirable trait when wanting to work with small details. So I found a more close-grained wood such as maple that I laminated out of offcuts from a local cabinet shop. This one “turned” out pretty good, pun intended! The la...
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546 days ago
by WayneC |
16 comments »
In this part I’m intending to finish the cigar pen I started last time. I’m going to add a bloodwood accent to the writing end of the pen.
To do this I took a bloodwood scrap and drilled the center. I then took a spare brass tube put it on the pen mill and squared one end to the hole. This allows the part to mate seamlessly to the piece on the tube.
Next is cut off a short piece to glue onto the tube. I am using a clamp to keep my fingers away. I probably could hav...
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165 days ago
by Brad |
14 comments »
So I’ve been debating with my father in law about weather or not he should sell his Shopsmith setup invest in building a new shop using standard stand alone tools and machines. He’s about to retire and is kicking the idea around of either selling it or dropping another $1K into upgrading to all new Shopsmith stuff.
Personally I’ve never used the SS but I sincerely doubt I’d be a fan. Not being able to move from machine to machine would bug the hell outta me and bein...
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117 days ago
by Sir_Robert |
6 comments »
Jocks,
Check out this demo on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWWw5HHzvFw&feature=related
The fellow has an old treddle lathe that spins about 200 rpm. He creates these spectacular wooden flowers out of 1/2-inch diameter hazelnut sun shoots. Unfortunately in my neck of the woods (southeastern Michigan) hazelnuts are not common, so I’m in the process of drying out some lilac shoots instead. I’ll report on success or lack thereof in a few months. If you are in a...
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26 days ago
by Chris |
22 comments »
So, I have been out of town on a business trip and my wife picks me up at the airport with this in the back of the truck. It was an early Christmas gift…..
As I first saw it… Can you guess what it is?
Thank god for this orange lift cart I was able to borrow!!! The assembled Powermatic 3520b is nearly 650lb’s!!
A thing of beauty… My wife that is, not this silly lathe! I’m not the stupid…. :)
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767 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
5 comments »
I still haven’t completed the workshop reorganization project. There seems to be so many distractions that sidetrack me.
I recently made a combination shield, & dust hood for my lathe. I looked at a lot of them that you can purchase, but I opted to design my own to fit my own lathe better. It slides under my lathe bed.
I guess you can put this into “Getting workshop organized”, category.
I also shopped around the INTERNET for a lathe chuck for my ancient...
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