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  1. 16th August 2013, 08:06 PM #1
    artful bodger
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    Can't honestly say that turning balusters is the most enjoyable job. The previous lot of 50 I'd done a while ago went particularly sour as the joinery I did them for went bust before they paid me, then they miraculously started up business shortly afterwards under a different name with the same people working there! Gotta hate that!
    Anyway this lot of 30 is for someone else. A builder who had a brochure of turnings available from a renovation shop here in Hobart. He had the design picked out from the brochure. I told him I could not match that price per unit (see pic) so why don't you buy them from the shop? Because I want them in baltic pine was the answer and they don't supply them in that timber.
    I guess the best part of turning these is doing the last one...end of job, although I guess there is a bit of a challenge along the way trying to keep them all as uniform as possible.
    Sometimes its a battle to get the balusters to fit between centers on my trusty old woodfast lathe so I have to use a dead centre on the tailstock to steal a few more cms. Note the burning on the end of the knotty bits, its amazing these ones dont catch on fire!
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  3. 16th August 2013, 09:13 PM #2
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    The usual thing when you get a job they just don't fit in the lathe so we do whats necessary to get the job done. Well done I am sure you got them as good as a copy lathe it is surprising how much variation you get from multiples done on a professional copy turned job.
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  4. 16th August 2013, 09:23 PM #3
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    You missed a bit on the 17th one!

    Dontcha hate people like that?

    Good effort... places like that joinery joint, who do things like close and not pay their bills, then re open...seem to have a habit of also catching fire occasionally. Funny coincidence that!
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  5. 16th August 2013, 10:19 PM #4
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    Thanks for sharing, you've done a great job. As a matter of interest, do you use a copying attachment or turn them freehand with a template?
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  6. 16th August 2013, 10:24 PM #5
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    well done! makes me laugh that mass produced auto Lathe won't use different Timber! keeps us at the Lathe which is a great thing! people that don't pay need a attitude adjustment
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  7. 16th August 2013, 10:43 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott View Post
    Thanks for sharing, you've done a great job. As a matter of interest, do you use a copying attachment or turn them freehand with a template?
    Freehand.but with a pencil gauge(the template in one of pics).as per photo.
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  8. 16th August 2013, 10:48 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by artful bodger View Post
    Freehand.but with a pencil gauge(the template in one of pics).as per photo.
    Oooh, well done. Lots of respect from me doing it that way.
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  9. 17th August 2013, 07:06 AM #8
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    Nice spindle work. We know that feeling 36" lathe 40" job???
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