Woodturning - You Can Never Go Wrong with Cookies
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Welcome to this week's woodturning video. In this week's video, I turn a trio of bud vases from green locust wood cookies cut from a branch found in a local park. These are a fun project for turning green wood as they will warp as they dry. The thinner the walls and taller the vase the more they will move as they dry.
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Those turned out great, but those were turned in a cross grain orientation and you used a spindle roughing gouge to make it round. That is extremely dangerous as it presents end grain directly into a tool that is made for peeling cuts on spindle work only! You had some catches that you got away with because the piece spun but if it would have been secured in a chuck say, it likely flies off the chuck or worse the spindle roughing gouge breaks where the tang enters the handle. A roughing gouge is not made strong enough for that type of catch which can grab the gouge on the end grain and flip it down and make the handle raise violently and if you have a death grip on it, it can break at the tang going into the handle and depending on how it rattles around, it can come flying back at you and take out say your jugular. Not kidding. People have actually died in that exact manner. The roughing gouge looks stout and it is outside the handle but look at how narrow it gets entering the handle, it is quite narrow and high speed steel can be brittle. I’m nearly certain that you have it in a death grip turning that cross grain (because I did it unknowingly myself) and truly it can snap off on a bad catch! Also the roughing gouge presents a lot of edge into the wood and if you aren’t doing a peeling cut or if you cut uphill into the grain much at all you will catch. The SRG is made for only spindle turning with the grain parallel to the axis of the lathe. Even a spindle with gnarly knots are a no no. I’m telling you this not to be a know it all, but to save you, or someone who watches you use it in this manner and copies you, from a severe injury. There should be a warning on the roughing gouge to never use it on cross grain or knotty spindles. Please if you can add a warning to others in a revised video including this warning. I was guilty of doing this same thing when I was first learning and it could have been bad. Also using it on non-round cross grain will beat you up severely and impart some major repetitive impacts on your joints which will age you big time. Take it from an old man that you want to protect your joints! I did love the vases. The wood was spectacular. Try microwaving one to accentuate the warping if it is greenish wood. Richard Raffan does this regularly and it’s a cool effect. They will curve sideways! Please be careful and reconsider how you turn these type projects. There’s many alternatives that are much easier and safer. I’m a lifelong woodworker and quite experienced turner and I know you will enjoy the alternatives more and you will be safer. Take care, Scott
Great advise Scott. I've got a friend that lost his left eye when his SRG tang broke & took his eye out. Lucky for him that he only lived 3 blocks from a hospital. He gave up turning, and took up playing chess.
@@ValioMadre7 thanks my friend. I am distressed to hear about your friend, that is heartbreaking! Take care and safe turning!
A black locust mail box post can last a lifetime. Locust is florescent under black light. My 2 cents.
Cool! I had never worked with it before.
Nice. But what do these vases have to do with cookies?
A cross-cut section of a log is known as a cookie. That was my starting stock for the project.
They look great. Do you finish the inside at all? can you make them hold water?
Thanks! I did finish the inside. I suppose you could make them water tight but these are not.