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    Default Replication turning is damned hard

    Anyone can make a bowl. If you get a catch you can just work around it.

    Making a few dozen of something the same, like banisters, or in my case coat racks, is damned hard. Using every trick and technique tests your skill severely.

    Mastering the skew is absolutely required. Shame I don't have a giant one like .

    Back on the tools finally and I'm a bit rusty. God I'm sick of catches.

    Fragging pine is so terrible to turn.

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    I think it is pretty easy, I'll bet chucky does too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evanism View Post
    ....Mastering the skew is absolutely required. Shame I don't have a giant one like ......

    Exactly how big is 's?

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    Default You don't always need to be an expert with a skew.

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    I think it is pretty easy, I'll bet chucky does too.
    No problems,.

    Here's one way to do it.

    Turn to a cylinder, all the bits that need to be round.

    Most people use a spindle roughing gouge to do this.

    Mark out all the quirks, and with a parting tool, cut them to the correct diameter.

    Then just join up the bits in between the quirks, following the design of course.

    I mostly use a spindle gouge to do this.

    A skew can be used for some of the shapes if you prefer but is not essential.

    Mastering a skew is defiantly not a pre prerequisite for turning spindles.

    However a skew can be helpful in getting some of the larger shapes correct.

    Also the long point of a skew is the best tool for small detail and cleaning the fingernails.

    A 10mm beading/parting tool is handy for cutting spigots.

    Of course 30 years of experience makes the above easy. Just ask .

    Having said all that, I don't claim to be a spindle turner as I'm not quick enough to make good money doing it.

    That's my 2 bobs worth for today.

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    Yes. Tim is right and this is pretty much how I hacked through it.

    I was terribly inspired by a visit I had with . His skew looks like an old sword or sheer plow and he absolutely attacked a 90x90 pine. Zero effort, perfect results. Obviously, as you say, 30 years.

    Times methods were the ones I employed. It's terribly good fun, but I do feel so timid. Little cut here, stab there, gentle curve attempted.

    There was a catch and it wrecked a piece, so I thought Bugger It and attacked it for practice. Being vigorous and unhesitating certainly works, but that's just playing.

    Suppose the confidence and vigour comes at some stage!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim the Timber Turner View Post
    A skew can be used for some of the shapes if you prefer but is not essential.

    Mastering a skew is defiantly not a pre prerequisite for turning spindles.
    And to think those damned tool makers have been lying to us all those years, when, what we really should be using is lots of sand paper. I will really have to re-learn how to turn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by powderpost View Post
    And to think those damned tool makers have been lying to us all those years, when, what we really should be using is lots of sand paper. I will really have to re-learn how to turn.
    Jim
    Jim they haven't been lying just convincing us that a new tool will do it better than the ones we already own.

    I use a skew more than any other woodturning tool. I would be lost without one.

    Sandpaper I've heard of that stuff
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    Dont worry, even gets a catch now and then and not just for demonstration purposes ... I got a leg to prove it

    Mind you we had him under the pump on a strange lathe infont of a crowd pressure on to turn a duplicate coffee table leg in under 4 minutes from square


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    when you get up to the 100,000th bead with the skew they roll them selves! it's like dory in nemo just keep swimming! but turning! I still get a bit nervous when a customer supplies special timber no spares! but it's doable just be one with skew!

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    Dont see what the problem is.

    Break the job down to smaller parts and do each part as a small job.

    Means taking each part in and out of the lathe a couple of times but it makes getting all parts the same.

    Once you master this then just make each section longer, after a while you will find that you can do the job as a whole and get quicker and better at your turning.

    I dont miss doing staircase work anymore, 1 offs are much easier
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