Richard Raffan turns two square plates
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2022
- Here you see two square plates made in real time, the second blank presenting a few problems. You see two approaches to sanding.
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I am working my way through all of your videos as I love learning from such an experienced turner who just gets on with it and doesn't exaggerate the difficulties while still explaining key steps and techniques. Thanks so much to you and your camera man for taking the time to capture this old art for us wannabe turners.
Sorry, don't waste your time replying to my earlier comment.just found your detailed reply to a comment about types of wood you use on a daily basis. Fantastic. Cheers 6
That was one of the best calls I have heard, but no one would really accept it. If it's sharp, if the tool angle is correct, then the problem is at the other end of the tool ... perfectly logical and understandable.
Masterful demo of how to work with the wood and fix issues to get a good final piece. Thank you for sharing your knowledge Richard.
So glad to see you taking the time sharing your years of knowledge Richard. You got me hooked on wood turning back in the late 80’s. I watched and rewatched all your videos
and read your books over and over. Your the best at explaining procedures!! Thanks and hope you keep the videos coming,
Thanks for the great tips , Richard .
My pleasure.
Thank you most sincerely for demonstrating your technique. These plates are deceptively interesting, and it makes me want to hold one and appreciate it more fully. The subtle angles and curves are beautiful.
Such aggressive yet precise cuts, so much fun watching a master at work.
Great demonstration and commentary. Your presentations are greatly appreciated. Thank you Richard.
Thank you Richard for passing on your knowledge and experience ,also for taking the time to make these videos for us all , very much appreciated...cheers
You’re such a good teacher. I appreciate your starting this channel. It will be a valuable resource.
Beautiful little plates Richard.
I really like how you explain things Richard, very clear, I also appreciate that you show how to solve issues that many would simply think are too hard and challenging. I believe the problem solving makes us better makers. Off to make some toast now, thanks, lol.
Always useful information
great solutions as usually, thanks Richard and Dave!
I'm really enjoying you turning series. Thanks you.
Always a pleasure to watch a master. You make it even more interesting as you work and solve problems in real time. Thanks for sharing
I love your videos, thank you for your detailed explanation. Subscribed!
'Look at my end of the handle'? First video of yours I've watched, that made me want to see the remaining 22 videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!
Thank you, Richard. :-)
thanks you for the vidoes and how you explane how and why to use tools great!!!!!!! job look forward to what next stay safe
Hey Richard. I got forwarded to you from Rex Kruger channel. He recommended you. He was right. Really interesting content. Thank you!!! Cheers from Canada!!
Thank-you for doing these videos; I have really learned a lot from them.
Thank you for the great video Richard! It’s been many decades since I have done lathe work. It’s wonderful to watch someone who knows what they’re doing. As opposed to me. ;-) Pete in Montana, US.
Just wanted to say that I am thrilled to have found you starting on RUclips! My grandpa was a big fan of your books and work, which means he passed that on to me while I worked with him in his shop.
I'm excited to see your future content!
Love these plates Richard. Thanks for sharing the techniques and processes
Take care
Cheers
Harold
Thanks so much for these wonderful videos. It’s great to have access to such good techniques and great explanation of the process. I’ve got all your books and videos but honestly feel that this is the next great way of sharing your knowledge with many more. I’m already sharing your videos with my class and looking forward to many more. Ken Cooper Sydney Northern Beaches Woodturners
So I have been sent over by Rex Krueger and I can see why he recommended your channel. The skill you have shown and the explanations are second to none. I am so impressed that I have subscribed straight away and am now going to binge watch your other videos. Thank you very much for posting
Great informative video, way nicer that the ones I tried. Next time I’m going to try your way
To very nice platters. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.
I came from Rex Krueger channel and I really liked the way you tell every step while doing something. I hope I will learn a lot from your channel too. I am just a hobbyist. I don't have a leathe but I find these videos of wood working and wood turning very satisfying. Maybe I buy a leathe someday or get access to one in the future to try everything that I have learned and yet to learn.
I'm really looking forward to learning as much as I can from your years of experience. Thank you!!!
And you'd learn a heap more fomm my books - it's difficult to discuss the finer points at length in a RUclips video.
Here from Rex Krueger's channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Richard, my thanks for the videos. As a newbie I appreciate that you describe things so well; your references to the noises the timber/tool is making is both educative and reassuring.
Sounds tell a turner so much: sound indicates when there's a knot or split, or a tool's encountered a nail or stone, or when the wood is dangerously thin and you're about to go through the base of a bowl.
Nice! And I found you through Rex Kruger praising your work.
I have watched a good number of your recent posts and feel I have attended a woodturning university!
I don´t fix guitars and for sure im not a woodturner but wow, listening and whatching your work is awe-inspiring.
thank you.
Turning wood can provide near-instant gratification and a lot of people find it addictive. You should find a lathe and give it a go. There might be a woodturning group near you to get you going.
Thanks again Richard, great demo!
AmosP
Took classes with you at Black Forest wood products in Calgary Canada. Watching your videos is like taking another of your classes minus your humour of course!!
Thanks
You are a treasure
It would seem that with the minor shoulder to grab onto, that a face shield would have been appropriate protection. Those spinning corners look ominous!
Even better is to stand clear of the line-of-fire should be piece fly off, which is what I do.
Richard, do your blanks start off square, and then you bias them slightly when sanding the edges, or are the angled during rough cutting? From your commentary, I assume you're only slightly off 90 degrees, but it's a bit difficult to tell just from the video. Thank you for these short videos, I'm learning new things to try! And I promise to not smother my bowls in beads... 🙂
Great plates, I will make some today. I have a pallet full of Portuguese pine from our wood yard which is now dry. Do you think it's worth using pine? Or should I stick with my of cuts of cherry and walnut? What wood did you use? Cheers Dave
Enjoyed the video, I have always liked the look of these square plates. I have about 50 bd. ft. of 4/4 rough sawn ash left over from a kitchen remodel several years ago. Just wondering how deep you drill the hole for the screw chuck to give a solid hold. Main use of a screw chuck to date has been for bowls where the whole length of the screw was used, don't have a clue how shallow I can go for something like this and still be safe. Thanks for the teaching videos you are making. Living in a small town and as far as I know I am the only hobby woodworker or turner in town. The nearest turning club is a little over an hour 1 way and they don't meet in the summer when the drive would be good and I don't like winter driving any more so the main learning method is from videos from people like you.
The screw chuck in the screw chuck video with the wider faceplate will grip on as little as 5-6mm. On this video the Vicmarc 3-in-1 screw chuck I use mostly is using about 9mm - ⅜". I rarely use the whole of the screw for blanks less than 250mm dia. (9"). My books and videos discuss technique and design in much greater depth. @t
Terrific as always. Thank you. I think I have seen you use scrapers sometimes pointing slightly down and other times pointing slightly up. Am I mis -remembering or are there different circumstances requiring different angles. TIA
The key to using scrapers is to keep the angle between the top of the scraper and the surface you're cutting less than 90°. (This is the purpose of the top bevel on a negative rake scraper. I have no idea why negative rake scrapers are so popular and have yet to encounter any situation where they do a better job than a standard scraper with a single bevel.)
Looks like you have had those tool a long time
Thank you so much for your channel, I picked up a few tips from the first video I watched which was this one :)
I thought you mentioned the drill you use but I did not catch the name, what type and brand is the drill?
Also the square scraper you are using, wondered about the angle of the grind? Is it just a square scraper, there is an angle across the wide part of the tool and then a notch? And wondered what angle you use on the face or cutting part of the tool?
Thanks again, I'm anxious to watch the rest of your videos!
It's a Makita Angle Drill. The shear scraper is 1-in x ¼-in, the end skewed 15-20°. The notch is to create a really sharp corner on the rounded side. The bevel angle is around 45°. You'll find a lot more detail on all this sort of thing in my books - there's not sapce here. www.richardraffan.com.au/books-and-dvds/
Fantastic
Thanks for sharing.
Richard, thank you for the excellent videos! Just a question on what speed do you use for sanding? Thanks.
I rarely drop the speed for sanding, which varies across the diameter anyway. I never got the habit as that was too time consuming until variable speedlathes became common in the 1990s. I want to feel the wood dragging at the abrasive, not skating over it.
Richard, thank you for your reply I appreciate the information.
Hi Richard, Thank You for these outstanding videos, could I ask is there a reason you don't use sanding sealer?
Dave from UK
I've never liked hard finishes and really don't like high gloss out of a bottle. I tried several commercial finishes in Britain in the early 1970s and found them fine until water got through the surface after which the wood looked terrible. Junk shops always seem to have a pile of tatty bowls, Tatty because of the deteriorated finish rather than the wood beneath. I've turned mostly utilitarian bowls, boxes, and scoops that look better for ongoing attention and use. A sealing finish slows the development of a decent patina, so I prefer oil and beeswax finishes. I have recently tried Osmo on bowls which seems to do a particularly good job, but it's expensive and I'm no longer in production and do so little turning I can't justify the outlay.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you Richard, I'm with you re High Gloss finishes one of my pet hates! half way through the video of Lancashire wood tuners where you talk about how you got started, So interesting.
Many Thanks and best wishes.
Great video, I watch every one of them and learn something new each time. One question about the bowl blank: how thick is it? I heard that it is about 6" square but not the thickness.
The first plate is16mm high, so the blank would have been 18- 20mm thick. The second plate is 14mm high and the blank was of uneven thickness, varying from about 16 to 25mm on one corner. I find 20mm thick is thick enough for a small plate.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you, Richard.
Mr. RAFFAN, you’re using the electric sander, but how do you rate the ole traditional bowl sander? Any advantages?
I assume you're referring to a rotary sander which was invented about 35 years ago by Kevin Davidson. I"m not sure if that makes it traditional. The main advantage of a rotary sander is that it doesn't leave scratch marks, whereas power or hand sanding always does. Consequently I tend to use a rotary sander after hand or power sanding. Lacking power, a rotary sander becomes ever less effect the nearer centre you're sanding. I see rotary sanders as finishing tools.
How do you adjust the rest base to have it move so effortlessly? All three of my lathes grab when trying to adjust in and out .
The ease with which Vicmarc rest-banjos can be adjusted using one hand is one of several features that makes them such appealing lathes. Very very occasionally I use silicon spray on the camlock shaft, banjo base, and lathe bed to help them slide even more easily. I can't offer advice on your lathes without knowing how your banjos are set up.
Curious as to why you didn’t use the screw chuck to shape the bottom. The hole for the screw chuck was already there..
Hi. I think it was because the blank was much thicker 1 side than the other. If mounted using the screw chuck there wasn't enough thickness and he would of run out of wood on one side!!. Cheers
Richard, which woods do you recommend using for everyday plates and which are best avoided?
Part of the answer depends on where you are and what you can get. I have plates and bowls in daily use turned from English sycamore, maple, rose mahogany, walnut, claret ash, kotibe, yew, koa, Tasmanian blackwood, celery top pine, cocobolo, Cuban mahogany, Tasmanian myrtle, mulga, gidgee, horozontal scrub, and Huon pine and Australian red cedar, both of which are pretty soft. I think the answer is just about any wood that isn't too soft and known for its stability. Ideally plate blanks are from quarter-sawn boards for stability.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning I am in Southwest Missouri, US. We have maple and sycamore and tons of walnut. Will start with these and try your finishing technique. Thank you.
@@joehimes9898 I'd go for the maple of the two.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Maple it is.
What is the purpose of the indentation in the left corner of your shear scraper?
The shear scraper has a rounded side. Putting a small bevel on the end of the side creates a sharper corner that enables me to shear scrape right into a corner, for instance at the base of a bead or rim.
Please a video explaining your shear scrapers how to use them and how to grind them would be a huge help. I read about shear scraping many years ago in your book Turned bowl design but as someone who is a visual learner taking something from a 1 dimensional surface such as a book I have found very difficult to put into practise.
You see shear scraping at 33:41. The bevel is about 45° and the edge skewed about 15° off square. To shear scraper, tilt the scraper on it's side so the edge is presented at an angle to the wood. Be sure to keep the cut in the lower half of the edge and gently stroke the surface. In the DVD Turning Bowls with Richard Raffan you see shear scraping many times from different angles on different forms.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning thank you will get the DVD cheers
Hi Richard
Could you tell me which woods make the best Plates and bowls , mainly for use that hold up well for actual everyday use . I live in NE Iowa and have access to Walnut, white and red oak, red elm , a little Maple and cherry, I have been turning for almost one year , I have one cherry bowl that I just started using as a cereal bowl for myself, and would like to make dishes and plates to use daily. Thank you if you can find the time to answer . Dave
Any of those woods should be fine for what you have in mind. Ideally plates should be quarter-sawn so on the end of a sawn board the annular growth rings are vertical rather than parallel to the top and bottom. Then if the plate changes shape it'll stay flat and go oval rather than cup.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning thank you very much .
Why no sacrificial pieces to protect the corners? Quickly glued on, and makes it easy to make the square piece round, When finished turning just cut off the sacrificial pieces and sand the sides. Easy piecy ;-) Presentation as always is great, but the sacrificial pieces can make a great difference.
Rex Krüger send me to say hi to the master... so..
Hi
If you do not mind, I am going to binchwatch your channel now... 😏
Go for it!
twoodford sent me
I would be more impressed if you turn two round bowls in to two square plates.
I used to make round bowls square as a production item in the early 1980s. It's very easy and less dangerous, but wasteful. The rims were cut away on a 36 grit belt sander.
Nice video but why measure the diameter you want, then adjust, why dont you use the radius from the centre point
Much faster and less margin for error. If you get the radius wrong you have double the error. Whe not showing what to do I usually lay out a diameter in about 2 seconds and don't have a mark at center.