Good to see you back, Kim! Remember to be as patient with yourself as you are with others. I hope everyone had a great Christmas 🎄 and a happy new year.
It's very nice to see you back Kim. That steam trick does work better on your open grain woods like oak and most of your soft woods. It does raise the grain so you do need to sand afterwards. It's a trick that I learned almost 60 years ago. God bless 🙌 and keep turning and learning. 😊
Very nice! Gorgeous wood! Made one myself out of spalted holly several years ago, with a palm grip. It's starting to show cracks, now, so I'll likely make a new one, similar to yours. Very nice!
Love the turning, love my espresso machine too, I like the stainless tampers, and there is kits that has the tamper part in stainless, you turn the handle, like bottle stoppers, but its a tamper, glad your back at the lathe Kim
I like those kits. A little expensive ( I am a cheap O' ) lol figure the wood tamper is a great alternative to purchasing a kit and still make useful tamper. :) i will one day come off the cash to buy a kit. I would like to turn one. Thank you so much for watching 🤗 🩷
Beautiful! I’ve seen a couple of people who have cut a strip of PVC pipe to fit inside the jaws. The strip acts as a collet chuck so that the work piece doesn’t get marks. It should work well with this project. Great work!
I use a pencil type soldering iron with a chisel tip and have decent luck with hard woods. Also i use steel banding material to span the jaws so it spreads the jaw tension on the tips
I have also ironed dents out of wood, it does work but sometimes requires really soaking the cloth so it goes into the wood grain and the heat does its thing, sometimes it does take awhile, I’ve never tried it with a finish already on though, Nice job they both look Awesome!👍
if you use Q tips and put the tip in water and then using a dry iron, the steam only goes where the tip is and not over a larger area. I have used this in my cabinet shop for about 40 years and it works great. I have steamed out some pretty deep dents in all kinds of wood and I think this would be perfect for this. It won't affect the surrounding woods, raising them at the same time but only where the tip is. In certain woods, this will actually raise the dent taller and makes it easy to sand flush.
Nice tampers, Kim. I've found that a few layers of cotton t-shirt material works better for steaming out dents. That said, I have not had to try it on cocobolo.
Hi nice tamper~ Whenever I put na piece like this in the jaws I use a piece of round downcomer about 1/2" deep and cut just short of the diameter and it protects the piece from jaw marks.👌👌
Really like the look of the wood but I’m a bit slow on what or why you need a tamper for an espresso is for. I’ve never even had a espresso before. That wood looks like it turns really smooth.
Kim, I would show you what to do but cannot attach a picture with my comment. Take a block of woood a little bigger than your press. Trun it round and make a tenon on one end to fit your jaws. It works best is your jaws are larger then object it will hold. now turn the piece around and put the tenon in the jaws. Make a hole in the wood that is the same diamerter as your press. ( not all the way thru) make sure that fits and the side are parallel. now drill a hole thru the wood mounded in the jaws about half the diameter of the Cocobolo press. take the wood out of the lathe and cut on the band saw thru from the outside to the inside hole. it wil now have the appearance of a "C". Now you haved a compressive chuck to hold your press without crushing the woood. Center the handle end with the tailstock and your ready to go. Love your projects and skill.
Iron as hot as it will go (linen) lots of water and longer time heating it the steam generated needs to penetrate well to work and cocobolo is super hard
The wax and polishing has sealed the grain. Pretty sure the steam has to get in there to swell the grain back out. I could be catastrophically wrong, though...
Some people have an allergic reaction to cocobolo. I am one of those people. I will never turn cocobolo again. Are you sure that's a safe choice to make a tamper.
hmmm. Well , considering that many different types of wood that anyone could be allergic to, I guess any wood tamper could be a problem. I am not allergic to cobobolo, so for my use I am good.
Good to see you back, Kim! Remember to be as patient with yourself as you are with others. I hope everyone had a great Christmas 🎄 and a happy new year.
I'm so glad you're back here with your turning videos. Your projects are inspiring.
❤❤❤ beautiful piece, Kim. Keep the masterpieces coming.
It's very nice to see you back Kim. That steam trick does work better on your open grain woods like oak and most of your soft woods. It does raise the grain so you do need to sand afterwards. It's a trick that I learned almost 60 years ago. God bless 🙌 and keep turning and learning. 😊
so glad you are back to turning ...we missed you
I have missed you turning videos. I did keep up with the building process of the house. Nice job on the tamper.
Beautiful piece great design. Good to have you back
😊Beautiful work as always, Kim!
I really like the grain and color variation. Great job.
Great job, love seeing your work. They are beautiful tampers!
Very nice job Kim.
Very nice! Gorgeous wood! Made one myself out of spalted holly several years ago, with a palm grip. It's starting to show cracks, now, so I'll likely make a new one, similar to yours. Very nice!
Good evening, Kim.
Beautiful wood, nice project.
Beautiful piece of wood. God bless
Cute tamper, Kim! Dont beat yourself up about the dents, its a lesson learned!❤
Those look nice, Kim. I have no use for one but it was fun watching you turn them.
Bill
Beautiful wood!
Love the wood! Very pretty grain! I hope you are all well after the hurricane!
Love the turning, love my espresso machine too, I like the stainless tampers, and there is kits that has the tamper part in stainless, you turn the handle, like bottle stoppers, but its a tamper, glad your back at the lathe Kim
I like those kits. A little expensive ( I am a cheap O' ) lol figure the wood tamper is a great alternative to purchasing a kit and still make useful tamper. :) i will one day come off the cash to buy a kit. I would like to turn one.
Thank you so much for watching 🤗 🩷
Kim, turn a groove or bead around it to cover the marks from the chuck. Use a jam chuck or hot glue tenon.
Your tooling sure has improved.
Beautiful! I’ve seen a couple of people who have cut a strip of PVC pipe to fit inside the jaws. The strip acts as a collet chuck so that the work piece doesn’t get marks. It should work well with this project. Great work!
Thank you for the suggestion! I am going to try that next time! Thanks, Doug!
Good Day 🌅, Kim, It has Bean 🫘 awhile 😂 , since you have done any tuning, so now back to the grind, 😂, enjoy your coffee al dente, 😂,
❤ from France,
nice work Kim! that's a great project. glad to see you back in the saddle. now get back in your shop. there is more sawdust to be made! ;-)
I use a pencil type soldering iron with a chisel tip and have decent luck with hard woods. Also i use steel banding material to span the jaws so it spreads the jaw tension on the tips
I have also ironed dents out of wood, it does work but sometimes requires really soaking the cloth so it goes into the wood grain and the heat does its thing, sometimes it does take awhile, I’ve never tried it with a finish already on though, Nice job they both look Awesome!👍
if you use Q tips and put the tip in water and then using a dry iron, the steam only goes where the tip is and not over a larger area. I have used this in my cabinet shop for about 40 years and it works great. I have steamed out some pretty deep dents in all kinds of wood and I think this would be perfect for this. It won't affect the surrounding woods, raising them at the same time but only where the tip is. In certain woods, this will actually raise the dent taller and makes it easy to sand flush.
I am going to try that! Thank you so much 💓
Nice tampers, Kim. I've found that a few layers of cotton t-shirt material works better for steaming out dents. That said, I have not had to try it on cocobolo.
Nice looking tampers, great job
Wrap the end in a cut bicycle tire innertube before you put it back in the chuck. No marks! Glad to see you back
Great idea!!
Thank you!!
Hi nice tamper~ Whenever I put na piece like this in the jaws I use a piece of round downcomer about 1/2" deep and cut just short of the diameter and it protects the piece from jaw marks.👌👌
downcomer? sounds interesting 🤔 would like to know what that is, please.
Thank you for your suggestion!
Fantástico kim, bello proyecto, un saludo afectuoso desde Valdivia Chile.
Looks OK to me!😁
Sand the finish off so the water can get into the wood and when you put the heat of the iron on it make that wood swell up
Kim a bit off topic but I’m praying for you guys through this hurricane
Thank you! We are good! Just got generator going. Praise Jesus we have a house still!
Really like the look of the wood but I’m a bit slow on what or why you need a tamper for an espresso is for. I’ve never even had a espresso before. That wood looks like it turns really smooth.
...maybe if you cut back on the espresso, you wouldn't be so impatient...😉
JUST KIDDING!...great gift idea, and I love cocobolo...👍
Matt
lol. yeah, that would help! 😉😁😂
Kim, I would show you what to do but cannot attach a picture with my comment. Take a block of woood a little bigger than your press. Trun it round and make a tenon on one end to fit your jaws. It works best is your jaws are larger then object it will hold.
now turn the piece around and put the tenon in the jaws. Make a hole in the wood that is the same diamerter as your press. ( not all the way thru) make sure that fits and the side are parallel. now drill a hole thru the wood mounded in the jaws about half the diameter of the Cocobolo press. take the wood out of the lathe and cut on the band saw thru from the outside to the inside hole. it wil now have the appearance of a "C". Now you haved a compressive chuck to hold your press without crushing the woood. Center the handle end with the tailstock and your ready to go.
Love your projects and skill.
This sounds awesome! I am not understanding the complete process. Could you email me a photo? 2cor517kt@gmail.com
Thank you so much 💓
Iron as hot as it will go (linen) lots of water and longer time heating it the steam generated needs to penetrate well to work and cocobolo is super hard
how do you get those super long swept back tails on those Irish grinds?
Consejos, a mi me da resultado para evitar las marcas de las garras del chuch, un trozo de cuero de vaca, rodeando la pieza de madera!
The wax and polishing has sealed the grain.
Pretty sure the steam has to get in there to swell the grain back out.
I could be catastrophically wrong, though...
Hi Kim. What say you roll some intentional rings in around that end. Not like your user or customer is comparing it to an engineered blueprint.
hope all is well, i miss you
Some people have an allergic reaction to cocobolo. I am one of those people. I will never turn cocobolo again. Are you sure that's a safe choice to make a tamper.
hmmm. Well , considering that many different types of wood that anyone could be allergic to, I guess any wood tamper could be a problem.
I am not allergic to cobobolo, so for my use I am good.