My name is Darryl and I am just a guy working with wood and other materials in my garage workshop. I have been woodworking for about 20 years or so, picking up knowledge, tools, and experience along the way. I believe that anyone can create beautiful items with wood, it just takes time and patience. I hear people saying that they can't work wood, but I believe they just don't know how yet so.....
Dread Knot and let's build something together! emetrictech@gmail.com
Hello thanks.but is it safe? I was shown a easy and safe way to do this reduction of dowel with a sand paper 80 . It takes time but the fingers are safe.
Dude, I just got my unit and there's no way I can lift that head unit up that high on my own, lol I was able to carry it at waist level, but that's my limit.
Thank you for doing this video. The last urn I made was a friction fit and with the brass fitting being hard to find or expensive when you can find them I have been debating on doing this for a while. Your video makes it easier now that I've seen it done. I'm going to have to check out more of your channel now.
Darryl, the first 30 minutes of your video had me wondering if you were abused by a TailStock in your youth! It's absence was driving me crazy. If you had brought up the TailStock to form the basic cone it would have been done in three minutes! That said, you have an artist's eye for curves and proportions. Beautiful Finial!!! When it was finished I exclaimed "Oh yeh"! Wakodahatchee Chris
This tip comes from machine shop practices and should improve concentricity when turning those jaws. The goal here is to load the chuck jaws before taking a gouge to it. Use a large pipe clamp that will fit the diameter of the Nova jaws. The idea is to use the chuck key to open the chuck until it encounters back pressure from the pipe clamp. Then turn the step to size. This way the chuck's mechanism is under load when turning that step.. In lieu of a pipe clamp the turner can use a face plate to turn a plywood ring. Wakodahatchee Chris
