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I picked up a Jet 1220 and some basic turning tools after reading about lathes and turning for months. If you can believe it my wife has been telling me to just buy the dern thing for weeks. (She’s a keeper!)
This is my first project. I picked up a bunch of generic 2.5×2.5×12” blocks from a local turning shop to practice on. I’m not even sure what wood they are.
I spent the first evening getting used to the feel of holding the turning tools and working on getting the block rounded. Oh yeah spent a lot of time catching. So I reviewed my Ernie Conover books and things were starting to make sense. On the second night I paid a lot more attention to the angles and edges and produced this with only 1 catch.
After sanding I finished with a light coat of satin finish polyurethane and polished with a paper towel and some shavings.
Still todo: I need to open up the hole to hold the candle on a drill press. I don’t have a fancy chuck (or enough material to make a jam chuck) or I would have done this on the lathe already.
Future plans: Create 2 mates for this item, one shorter and one taller.
-- David / Durham, NC
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GaryK
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posted 324 days ago
Ver nice!
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
clieb91
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posted 324 days ago
As someone who just finished my first turning. Looks good, sure you will be doing more, trying to figure out now how to purchase and where to put a lathe.
Look forward to seeing the future projects.
CtL
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Chris
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posted 324 days ago
Looking good. I think you will have lot’s of fun turning. I know I have…
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relic
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posted 324 days ago
Ya know turning is an addiction dmann.
-- Andy Stark
Karson
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posted 324 days ago
Great job on the first one. Or is this the first keeper?
Nice looking Ambrosia Maple wood
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com
Marge
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posted 324 days ago
wow – looks good – nice proportions on the curves.
-- Marge, Colorado
dmann
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Thanks for the kind comments. And yes I can see how addicting this can become. I already have a long list of things I’de like to try (boxes, pepper mills, pens) but I will be starting slow and working on technique with simple spindles and bowls—don’t want to get ahead of myself.
Karson: This is literally the first piece of wood in my lathe. Luckily most of the catches I experienced were during the initial cylinder shaping or this would have been scrapped.
-- David / Durham, NC
TreeBones
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posted 324 days ago
Nice. Scored, on the wife and the tool!
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DAN
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posted 323 days ago
fun stuff !!!
welcome to lj’s !!
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Nils
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posted 323 days ago
Well done. Beautiful grain in that wood.
-- Nils Davis, Menlo Park, CA
rikkor
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Boy, for “generic turning wood” that has very nice figure. Nice first turning.
-- Maplewood, MN
MsDebbieP
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posted 323 days ago
awesome :)
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