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Thread: Much needed advice, HELP!!!!!
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21st August 2010, 12:12 AM #31Senior Member
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HAHAHAHAHAHA, good one
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21st August 2010, 12:16 AM #32Senior Member
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Hope your purchase is as good as mine
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21st August 2010, 02:54 PM #33Hewer of wood
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Congrats Fozz; that's a nifty lathe.
Cheers, Ern
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23rd August 2010, 12:42 AM #34Senior Member
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Thanks Ern, much appreciated.
Got into the garage this morning and made my first pile of shavings from a few pieces of prunis I'd cut down a couple of months ago.
Its funny, cutting a piece of wood on the saw or running it through the thicknesser is all good and well but using the lathe..........................., the smile never left my face.
Cleaning off the bark with the roughing chisel then using the skew to make the timber nice and straight was a real hoot. I made a few beads then stuck the roughing chisel into the timber and began the process again.
Then I got adventurous and tried to see just how much I could take from the middle to end up with a small spindle between each end, got it to about a quarter inch then bang, the timber collapsed, came away from the tail stock and flopped like a dead fish onto the bench. I worked out two things from this, one, probably to much force trying to take too much timber off in one go and two, it had a gum vein a third the diameter that had little if no strength and it appeared to give way along the vein.
One of the things I got a real buzz from was getting the skew to cut just right and seeing a continuous fine shaving coming from the timber.
To say I'm hooked so far is an understatement, thanks again folks for all your help and advice.
Ross.
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23rd August 2010, 08:42 AM #35Retired
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One of the things I got a real buzz from was getting the skew to cut just right and seeing a continuous fine shaving coming from the timber.
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23rd August 2010, 08:02 PM #36Senior Member
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Certainly did , no more gardening tools for me
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