I am a amture woodturner from Texas. I have been turning about a year, mostly lidded boxes, spatulas and small bowls. I recently had a request from a guy at...
Could you please tell what part of Texas you are from. There are a large number of wood turners that could be of a great assistance. Howard Evans Central...
hi everyone, i have a new project planned i do need some major advise. i want to make a ball of logs ???? first i will stack some logs or skinned tree logs...
Where in Texas are you? You just might be near a local chapter of AAW. Most will have great demo's and lessons and tape resources to add to you learning...
Enviro Tex is one product that might do what you wish. To form the ball you need to look into making a jam chuck. At our last SWAT symposium we had someone...
would it work better if i made some kind of box first put everything in there and cast it in there, remove all the extra after casting? haroun from finland Jim...
Contact Jim King at jameskingpe@... . He does something similar but I don't remember just what he uses. I think it is fiberglass resin with sawdust. Jim...
Hey! Cathy Parsons here, from Henderson, Texas.....hello, neighbor! We have the East Texas carvers group, who meet at the Depot Museum, here in Henderson, on...
There is an E.TX woodturners group that meets every 2nd sat. of the month. I'm from E. TX also. Rusk, TX. hi neighbors..:-)) Nancy D. "You are not what you...
You did not say where in Texas you were located--If you are in the Victoria area we would like to welcome you to our club meetings South Texas Woodturners,2nd...
I'm trying to create a mandrel for a turning project. Ideally the shaft needs to be about 1/2 to 3/4 inch steel attached to a #2 Morse taper. The rod needs to...
A 3 jaw chuck with 1/2 threaded rod? Or a Jacobs chuck. I believe it would still need some type of depression at the end to be supported by a live center. The...
... to a ... longer. ... If I were you, I would mount my four jaw chuck in the headstock to drive the mandrel. For the mandrel body I would buy a machine bolt...
The problem is that the rod is only really going to be supported on the headstock end. The other end will be supporting a turning which will have the...
You could hold the drive end in a jacobs chuck in the headstock morse taper and idealy had a center hole drilled in the other end of the shaft to take the...
Hi all, I am another fairly new turner from Texas. I have yet to turn anything segmented. I mostly have done pens & bottlestoppers and I have also done a few...
I'm trying to fabricate a jig for my lathe. After several attempts myself trying to rig something that might work I've decided I need part of it made by...
If you have a Vocational tech school that teach machining, they will do it if you provide the materials and instructions. I use a Vo-Tech school exclusively to...
One can buy an arbor for the lathe from Sears - MT2 fitted with a relatively short 1/4-20 male section. One can drill and tap long sections of all-thread to...
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A friend of mine just turned some purple heart and is wondering how to get the color back. He told me the color is reddish brown not purple. I've turned purple...
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Unfortunately I can only find the work arbor shown with a Jacobs chuck in the current catalog - P/N 0929849 - it has a 1/2-20 thread on a MT2 taper. Might have...
