Re-Post For ghostsniper
Besides, I like this photo.
My wife pretends she likes woodworking – and she’s not bad at it when she does it. We have an RV garage that now does service as a shop … full of tools; no lathe though. Trouble is, she doesn’t do much with it so its purpose has become more tool storage than tool use. She’s going to retire come summer; maybe she’ll get back into it when the boredom of retirement sets in …
Myself? I enjoy the idea of woodworking – took woodworking in shop class in high school … but I can’t pound a nail straight even with an airgun. My little kid brother now … he does high-end finish carpentry – high-end as in huge size and dollar mansions – and I’m amazed the quality work he turns out.
Anyway, there was a period when I was working in Virginia and she came out to visit. There was a wood-working show going on in Richmond. Being as Richmond wasn’t far, we went. I had a chance to get up close to this guy giving a demo on either the tools or the lathe – I don’t recall which – and took the opportunity to get this photo. Sometimes I make a mistake and get a good image.
When I posted the photo earlier as one of my “experiments” while setting up this site, ghostsniper posted a comment on his work. I took those posts down for various reasons but here’s this photo again – just for you ghost.
Now, no good comment goes unpunished – send me an article on your thoughts of woodworking via email for posting … 🙂
My house is 25 years old and at this point some things need remodeled or simply need repaired. Pulled up all the carpet and padding upstairs and put in 3/4″ hardwood flooring. As windows need replaced they get trimmed out in new oak. My past summer casement window replacement project required cutting out wet framing and rotted plywood, doing a full replacement, included cutting out quite a bit of the interior drywall. After making a drawing, all the interior dry wall are was replaced with oak. No new drywall. Ghost hates Satan’s drywall dust, as do I.
With every project I learn a little more.
In the top picture the turner is doing what’s called “end grain” turning. Notice the small dust particles. He’s most likely using a razor sharp bowl gouge. If he was turning the side of the piece the “dust” would be long tendrils. I can’t think of what it is that he is turning. A small diameter bowl shape with a lot of “extension” wood that is most likely held in place by a 4 jaw chuck. Large diameter candle holder???