Thread: Damn nail!

Originally Posted by Christos

Note to myself. "Keep mouth closed when turning"

Or wear a face shield. Still hard to clean off though.

Originally Posted by powderpost

Bore some holes around the nail and see if you can dig it out before you do some real harm. As an aside, I was turning a piece and was getting a small "flick" of something moist on my cheek. I stopped the lathe and discovered a live grub steadily being cut into thin slices from the back end.
Jim

One of those big buggars in burdekin plum??? Enjoy the snack but spitting out the saw dust is a buggar.

hi bruce,
i have turned quite a lot of jacaranda and have found it hardly needs any drying
at all.i turned a tall vase a while ago and made as thin as i could go wanting it to warp and crack
twist and split and to date still nothing
this piece was cut down and turned within 2 weeks.
cheers smiife

Thanks Smiife, I will turn some to finished and see how I go. Tomorrow - my darling Wife said that I have hermitted in the shed enough the last week and that we are having some quality time together today!

Has anyone tried the alcohol soaking method? Just curious.

I find if i'm soaked in alcohol my bowls turn out funny ?

Originally Posted by Heilander

I find if i'm soaked in alcohol my bowls turn out funny ?

I sometimes find that happens if I am NOT. If you are, you don't care!

Seriously? No one's tried out soaking in denatured alcohol?

Originally Posted by Trent The Thief

Seriously? No one's tried out soaking in denatured alcohol?

Apparently not. I have done everything but that and PEG. Have a look here:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp...&bpcl=40096503

Originally Posted by Trent The Thief

Seriously? No one's tried out soaking in denatured alcohol?

us Ozzies call it metho (needs orange juice)
avagoodone

Backtracking a bit: I dragged home a nature strip find of some pale timber. Blocked it down and then went to round a lump on the bandsaw.

Got in aways; push a bit, no progress, push a bit more, still nothing. Decide the blade needs replacing. Orig. blade it was which you can expect to be rubbish (but expectations can be your undoing).

New blade: same deal. Shouldn't be.

With further dissection the prob. turned out to be nail punch driven into the log and well grown over.

Other lumps were great, turned green. Down to thin the stuff was almost plastic in shaping and deforming.

Originally Posted by Heilander

us Ozzies call it metho (needs orange juice)
avagoodone

Methanol is wood alcohol. Ethanol is grain alcohol. De-natured ethanol alcohol has been made poisonous and unfit for consumption.

The alcohol works like a brine but replaces the water content in the wood. YOu can have a bowl ready to finish turn in less than a week.

I was curious if turner in .AU are using it, too.

Originally Posted by Trent The Thief

Methanol is wood alcohol. Ethanol is grain alcohol. De-natured ethanol alcohol has been made poisonous and unfit for consumption.

The alcohol works like a brine but replaces the water content in the wood. YOu can have a bowl ready to finish turn in less than a week.

I was curious if turner in .AU are using it, too.

I think it is highly dependent upon the cell structure in the wood & our Aussie hardwoods may not give as consistent results as softwoods.

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

I think it is highly dependent upon the cell structure in the wood & our Aussie hardwoods may not give as consistent results as softwoods.

Who said anything about softwood ;-)

Turners in the US turn prize wood for the same qualities as you and turn tropical hardwoods just like you. Wood is wood. As long as it's made of cellulose, it'll react the same way.

The types of minerals that a particular species might take up differs by region, but doesn't affect the bio/chemical process, that only changes rapidity with which a tool is dulled.