Thread: Long skinny stick practice!

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

If I can do it without putting my fingers where they shouldn't be, yes.

Otherwise, I will have to use more sophisticated tools...

The fingers just aren't supposed to be in front of the sharp bit. And not in between the tool rest and the work cos then they get squished.


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Originally Posted by tea lady

The fingers just aren't supposed to be in front of the sharp bit.


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Exactly.

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Exactly.

Fingers are three dimensional. And that one was actually a long way below the pointy bit!

Finding 1: I will never be a bodger, it took 65 minutes.
Finding 2: reasonable time for restauring old furniture.
Finding 3; Yes, I smoothed slight bumps with 60 grit, so sue me.
Finding 4: no rest for the wicked.

A fair effort indeed. What is the wood?

Thanks WW. Messmate, AFAIK. This piece had deep resinous veins. That's why a walking stick became a chopstick.

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Finding 3; Yes, I smoothed slight bumps with 60 grit, so sue me.

I'd only do that if you were using 40 grit, which I've been using to polish gal water pipe..

Peter.

Originally Posted by Frank&Earnest

Finding 1: I will never be a bodger, it took 65 minutes.
Finding 2: reasonable time for restauring old furniture.
Finding 3; Yes, I smoothed slight bumps with 60 grit, so sue me.
Finding 4: no rest for the wicked.

Yep! Long and thin. Well done. So is that with a skew? Speed comes with doing more of them/
60# paper? Didn't you have any 120# on hand?

Sorry TL, I am still experimenting, I have no time to waste on old technology.

Seriously though, I found that because I enjoy always trying something new, I never invest the amount of time needed to fully master a tool or a technique. Every time I pick up a tool I have to rediscover how to use it and I need the time to think about what I am doing. On this thin conical shape shear scraping worked well, for example.

Familiarity breeds contempt and by trying to speed up my use of the insert tool I managed to get a few catches (not on this simple stick, on the more difficult things I am turning for the challenge). Not as bad as those of some expert turner for whom the contempt for an insert tool can be expected, of course, but still...

Yes, I finished with 120 and 180 grit.