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Lance discussed the variety of tools utilized in turning. |
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Shavings fly as Lance finishes with the rough shaping and begins
hollowing out the end of the goblet.
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A good example of the tear out that may occur while turning.
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Shaping the stem of the goblet.
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Cutting the goblet free.
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The final product.
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Gary talked to us about the importance of light with figured
woods using his dovetail box.
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Sonny talked about a few wooden models that he built. Here
he talks about the wooden car and how to create treads on the tires.
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Ken shared with us a workstation that he built for his garage.
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Hank Norwell shared with us the secret of turning pens with a celtic knot in them.
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Detail of the 45 degree cuts with different wood species glued
into the cuts.
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An example of the final product.
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Way discusses the new wood floor that was installed.
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Don shares with us how he has been utilizing bookmatching in his latest boxes.
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Jim Arnold shows us the newly added finish to the cabinet door that he showed us in a previous meeting
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Richard spoke about the importance of having a dead-flat
sole on your plane. He laps his on a granite plate that is flat to within 0.0001 inches.
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Here Richard was demonstrating how he uses a thin
piece of stock to determine that the plane blade is square to the sole.
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Richard showed us how to flatten our water stones
and then showed us his technique for flattening the back of a chisel or plane blade.
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Grinding the bevel on a chisel.
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We were taught how to select the proper drill size
for taping a hole in metal.
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Richard demonstrated this jig which fit in the drill press and held
a tap perpendicular to the metal for tapping a hole.
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One of our hands-on projects was building a small,
wooden bodied plane. Here we are gluing pieces together.
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Our plane blade is a piece of tool steel. Here one is being rounded
to the plane can be a fluting plane.
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Here is the plane being used to cut a flute.
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A torch with propane or map gas was used to heat
metal. Three fire bricks were used to contain the heat. Here a metal rod is being heated to demonstrate heat-treating to increase
it's hardness.
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Here Richard was demonstrating silver soldering to make a butt joint
between 2 pieces of brass.
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Here a piece of high speed steel is being silver
soldered to a softer steel rod to make a turning scraper.
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Here a piece of steel was heated to a high enough temperature so that
it could be forged on a metal vise.
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