Thread: Melbourne Turn-on 31 January 2010

Originally Posted by David Mitchell

this is taken care for on days like Brendan Stemp is running at Horsham ,You
Turn ,first weekend in May.
Take your lathe and work on project,ask and see what other people are making.
Regards
David

But I've got a Tough lathe. And no forklift.

Anyway, I think its OK that there is a variety of types of turnfest. At some you just watch and heckle. Some you bring your own lathe and can get some help with projects as you go. (There is less heckling when most people are busy. ) What they all have in common is meeting people, and the conversations over tea or the BBQ. ......... Oh! And the choccy ripple cake.

My take away tip from this turnfest is to not use the scraper as the last tool when turning a bowl, thinking that you are smoothing out the form. It creates the most tear out of any tool which takes a long time to sand out. If you can do the "finishing cut" using the bowl gouge (Using it in the sheer scraping mode if possible, ) although it seems to leave a slightly ridged surface, there is minimal tear out and the ridges sand out very easily. (With one or two passes of 120# rather than ages with the "60# gouge". )

Hello Greg and Karen

Many thanks for a most enjoyable day. Through your generous hospitallity it was possible to meet all the real faces of the many vaious characters on the woodworkforum. Furthermore, the demonstrations of the various types were very informative.

Many thanks,
Joevan

One of my take-outs was to see how laid the bowl gouge off-side to do the 'corner' and bottom. He'd posted on this b4 and I'd had a play but it was good to see clearly how it was done.

By way of another take on reducing tear-out in a bowl, have a browse thru here on Michael Mouse who uses a continental or possibly forged spindle gouge, presented cutting edge near vertical: click

Just experimenting

First i thank greg and karen for hosting this turn-on . And so close to home......these are a few photos of the days activities..i had good day watching the show put on by the demonstrators..........robert.

Some more photos

A couple more