Richard Raffan turns a baronial eggcup
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The blank for this over-the-top eggcup had a few splits that needed to go, but fortunately didn’t dictate or compromise the design. As a novice turner in 1970 I sold sevral dozen of these eggcups.
I love the stories of the olden days you mention here and there. It's part of the masterclasses you give here. Many thanks Richard!
Fascinating how the experienced eye knows exactly where the complements should be and the amount to be applied. Beautiful balance and proportion in everything you turn. Thank you Richard for sharing.......these many years. 👍
Saw you once in Provo Utah many years ago. Dale Nish introduced you to me. I am now 74 and still learn the small details every time I watch you work. Thanks again.
I was showing my 5 year old granddaughter this video. She was amazed. Then I said watch how he is holding his hands. How he moves the chisel. She was just engrossed with you and your turning. Maybe a turner some day.
Awesome detail gouge control, what inspiration one again! Thank you and cheers from MT USA.
Richard you are amazing to watch. I learn so much every time you post a video. I learn about wood turning, history, and just a little bit of everything. Thank you so very much.
Excellent videos, thank you!
I always learn something new on every video. Thankyou for sharing.
The timing of these two projects is perfect. Tee way laid her egg cup this morning, problem solved. Entertaining, instructional, and useful for me, delightful for her, thanks from us both.
Surely you're not looking for anothere production Item, Rusty...
Absolutely, loads of blanks sitting in boxes that will do perfectly. They will also be a welcome addition to the spurtles, porridge bowls, and spoons in the “breakfast” section. Might even tune me up for egg cup races, or at least end up with one that resembles an egg cup. Ahhh fun days….
I love your videos, Richard. Thank you for the instruction and the inspiration you give us!
It's much too nice to mess up with egg yolk lol. What a spectacular piece of work
So there's an incentive to eat tidily.
Really enjoyed watching this one Richard! It reminds me of one I had which was gifted to me when I was christened as a baby, only that one was made from EPNS! I will have to try this one next!!! Brilliantly done!!!
Hi Richard, another great video, I need to make some more eggcups for St. Andrews men's shed, so I will use your great design. Thank you again for passing on your turning knowledge in such a relaxed and informative way. Cheers Gazza
Your workmanship is amazing , I only wish I had 1/2 that talent!
All you need is a bit of practice and repetition.
Great looking egg cup Richard.
Thank you Richard. I have just discovered your videos and I like how individualistic you are with your designs, And the way you let us see any slip-ups (a nice change). Thank you for an excellent learning tool!
I enjoyed that, Richard. Thank you for sharing 🌞
Love the design. Thanks for sharing
Take care
Cheers
Harold
I watched your other eggcup video earlier today and thought, it's a shame that the other one isn't up yet - lo and behold this popped up on my feed! Thanks Richard for all of your incredible advice to generations of woodturners
Richard you continue to deliver world class content. thank you so much, something to glean from every video. Cheers!
I always learn a lot watching your videos. This is another very interesting project; I always enjoy seeing how you arrive at the various shapes. Thanks for these videos.
And genuinely fabulous.
Absolutely bloody beautiful
Great project sir, as always
Excellent piece of work Richard. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.😀😀
Wow that was so incredible welldone Richard 🤗
great set of projects Richard. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Dear Mr. Richard, I am new to your channel but let me tell you, you have the most wonderful touch on the lathe that I have ever seen throughout my whole RUclips woodturning career... Don't have a lathe, never even been in the proximity of one, but let me tell you, you are a great teacher! Absolutely love your videos and will have to catch up on them. Great baronial egg cup, too. Not an egg eater either, but would definitely buy this one just for the fun of it! I always suspected there must be advantages to being a baron in a castle, and now I am certain of it. Love your approach on sanding and making things shine... There is such a thing as overdoing things, and this is definitely one of them. My father used to say to me when we would play cards and it would be my turn to shuffle, and not being very good at shuffling either, it would take me ages, so Dad would say "You know, there have been reports of cases when someone died of over-shuffling"... Same with sanding, I think... My guess is it has to do with today's craze of everything being flawless and perfect, see Botox and the like... Well, I love my darning egg that is all scarred and not so shiny, it has had a life. Long story cut short: Great work, Mr. Richard, looking forward to your next video! By the way, is it cold now in Australia? I can see you in long sleeves... Thought it must be crazy hot now... It is bloody freezing cold now here in Switzerland!
It was 25°c. - cool for the time of year, but this jacket has a hole for the mic. Sounds like you need to invest in a lathe and a few tools.....
Thank you once again. I was curious of what you might have sold an egg cup like this for way back when.
Baronial describes it perfectly.
In 1970 I probably sold these for about 7/6 as in seven shillings and six pence. I was living in Devonshire, UK
Very good again Richard. I've had Miss 13 put in an order with one difference, to make the egg cup removable. I'm thinking I can either make the plate part similar to a tea cup-style saucer with a recess to accept the foot of the egg cup or have a tenon in the middle of the saucer and a recess like a dowel hole to accept the tenon in the foot of the egg cup. Well, I guess at least she's given me a challenge on your design. Also picked up on the cutting direction on smaller to larger to stop the grain kicking out, I've gotten caught on that one occasionally but just sanded it out, at least now I know why it occurs, and now it's obvious. Thanks Richard, always something to learn.
You run the risk of ending up wth up with two objects that on their own don't look very good or function and possibly not fit together properly, or indeed at all after a bit of use and the wood moving.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Good points. Perhaps I'll do it just for her and see how it turns out. Don't know if we don't try, lol. Thanks Richard, some good thoughts to consider.
No wood spoon to go with that superb eggcup? 😄
Thanks so much for these videos!
Very baronial. I love the practical impracticality of it. It also reminds me of a candleholder (with a metal inset, not a fan of wooden candleholders.) I've seen in a German museum. Would a lower one with the cup inset in the base be doable in wood? Thanks for sharing your wit and wisdom in these videos. And the way to deal with the minor happenings that happen during wood-turning. Oh, and the sock!
Very nice!
Thanks Richard really enjoy the alternative designs. At the end it looked like the egg wobbled and perhaps it was not sitting on the rim?
Thanks richard
Thank you for another great teaching session. They are always such a pleasure. When do you us the shavings to burnish the work piece.
Thanks Richard. Always hear something that's new or just needs to be heard again until it sinks in. I'm guessing that you were turning this in the 1600 range. How good a guesser am I?
When you describe the size of your gouge such as a 3/8” bowl gouge is that the flute width or the outer diameter of the tool? Classic confusion of the two systems of describing sizes of gouges.
Richard if I may ask, how do you prevent your beeswax finish from being too sticky? I apply very little, yet it’s still almost unbearably tacky, so I reverted to oils…awesome videos every single one is priceless to a total novice woodturner like myself 😀👍
The friction that melts the lump of wax leaves wax on, rather than in, the wood. To melt the wax into the wood using the waxy sock I build up quite a bit of heat that melts the wax into both the wood and the sock. When the sock is almost more wax than sock, the surface remains a bit tacky so I use a cleaner sock to create the shine. The cleaner sock eventually replaces the old.
Richard, great videos - Question - What type of Bees Wax do you recommend for turning? I see there are many types from a paste to a hard block.
Pure beeswax is good if you can get it and it smells good, but you can also use paraffin wax which is far less expensive and what I used for many years. I used plain white candles. Then about 30 years ago I was given a very large lump of pure beeswax that had lain in a barn for at least 40 years and I've used that ever since. It's unlikely you'll chance on beeswax similar to mine.
👍
Love the egg cups, just one question, you eat the soft boiled egg in it?
It's to support the egg whilst you eat it. The dish is for the shell you've peeled off and for the spoon with which you eat the egg. You've clearly missed out on the joys of soldiers which are fingers of toast you dip into the soft yolk.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning that’s sounds tasty, it’s got a lot of similar features of the scoop and I plan on making some soon. I am planning on selling some turning items at a farmers market and these little treasures seem fun any more? Steve jones did a magic wand, you’ve got scoops and egg cups, little bowls just great stuff
Could you describe how long handles you usually use on spindle gouge, bowl gouge, scrapers and chisels? Thank you very much.
The rule-of-thumb is having a handle three to five times the length of tool blade over the rest. Turning 150mm-deep bowls or cylinders, life is easier with a handle 600 to 750mm long. Traditional Sheffield skew chisels and spindle-turning tool handles were 6-in / 150mm long. I have handles ranging from 300mm to 700mm.
What grind do you use on your spindle gouges, and do you sharpen them all the same way?
The bevel angle on the nose is generally about 45° but nearer a 30° included angle on detail gouges and the 9mm gouges I use for detailing. Spindle gouges used for facework have a bevel nearer 40° and most are asymmetric. Those used on obwl profiles have a short steep right wing. ruclips.net/video/7nHgJ5aFOrc/видео.html
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thanks - I saw the video on the asymmetric (although I thought that was in reference to bowl gouges only). I’ll rewatch. Spindle gouges in a variety of different geometries seem to be quite versatile. I’ve started using spindle gouges for roughing work on the outside of bowls and have found them easy to use and had no issues with them.
@@MD-en3zm The bevel angle really depends on how you intend to use the gouge. For bowl profiles a steep right wing makes finishing sheas cuts easier, whereas for cutting coves on spindles you need a fingernail grind with a longer bevel.
'Suitably ostentatious!' You picked up some good habits at least living in UK!!
What do you use to hone your chisels
I have several diamond hones. ruclips.net/video/98gCdVQ5F9I/видео.html Mostly I use tools straight off the 80 grit wheel on the grinder.