Before I could turn a yarn bowl, I had to learn what a yarn bowl is. I looked at various styles and came up with one of my own. I'd never turned anything with a lid, so that's another first.
This project took a week or more, partly because I was dealing with water in the basement shop, and editing the hours of video down to a length you might care to watch took even longer. I included the solution to the mystery of why the left side of my lathe would not turn true.
This was the last of the Christmas gifts I didn't get done before the holiday. I think I'll start on next year's gifts now.
If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer
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you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until July last year. I'd watched a few woodturning videos and got the bug. The prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high at a sale and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started.
After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with the bed extension that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expect this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life.
Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner.
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18 сен 2024
