Thread: VL175 - first impressions and changes over time

Originally Posted by rsser

* not in the sense of manners or social position, just in the sense that I'm free to choose to turn or not

Always found you to be gentle in manner, too...

Agreed about the cost/benefit of bowl savers. They take a while to pay for themselves.

Unless you are using rare or expensive woods it takes a long time to get your return.
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I should say that GJ brought around his virgin WoodCut a while ago, and it was impressive how clean it cut dry/brittle Blackwood, and how easy it was.

But apart from that, I have a surfeit of bowl blanks and of roughed turned ones and actually enjoy hollowing.

Including: hmm, which bowl gouge? the U flute or the V? the swept back wings or the ladyfinger? Which curved rest? What about doing a at the transition and laying the gouge over with the handle over the offside? Or maybe a scraper? Now, there's about 4 so which might be best?

All good fun.

It just seems ....... prodigal to throw 2 or 3kg of good wood on the lathe and finish

up with a 400gm bowl and a barrow full of mulch

Indeed it is prodigal.

But wasn't the 'prodigal son' the one more loved, or at least, at the end, most welcomed?

Originally Posted by pommyphil

... a 400gm bowl and a barrow full of mulch

A barrow full of mulch is OK, a dozen has you offering it around your family and friends, and a hundred has everyone avoiding you....
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Yeah, it doesn't rain but it pours, or else there's a drought.

FWIW, with most woods I spread a layer of maybe 50mm on the lawn and it soon breaks down.

Sometimes I put a bag or two on the nature strip with a label saying free mulch but return the bag. Soon goes.

Coming back to the matter of using a VL300 banjo on a VL175:

Tim did the measurements and the clamp side of it will work. The top will need to be shortened and a new post clamp bolt hole will need to be drilled and tapped.

What this will provide is another 75mm or so of 'reach'.

My interest in this is simply to be able to knock off the corners of an octagonal bowl blank without wrestling with the outrigger.

I put this proposition to Vicmarc and they say it will work.

So Jeff, your eyeball assessment of the heft of the 175 ways appears to be spot-on.

Jees Ern.

Keep it quiet

Don't tell Robo what your going to do.

He told you you shouldn't do it.

He'll be upset.

Now you've done it.

You'll be right in the poo now.

Originally Posted by Tim the Timber Turner

Jees Ern.

Keep it quiet

Don't tell Robo what your going to do.Too late.

He told you you shouldn't do it. Yes I did but I was uncertain about the hole length in the 300 banjo. I was going to look at Jeffs over Christmas and see if it could be shortened. Angle grinder and me are on good terms.

He'll be upset. Nah, takes more than that.

Now you've done it.

You'll be right in the poo now.

Deep!!

There'll be a chorus of "I told you so!" if damage is done.

I'll have to print out Vicmarc's affirmative email and have a lawyer file it safely.

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My interest in this is simply to be able to knock off the corners of an octagonal bowl blank without wrestling with the outrigger.

.... and that in it self would be sufficent to do it. A simple mod that increases capability of the lathe.

Don't worry about the hole depth.

Still have about 3" after you have hacked it around with an Angle Grinder.

3" is probably enough for a couple of old blokes like us eh?

Cheers

Tim

Heheh.

Means the 'droop' will foul the bed.

So what's new?

I'm not sayin' nothin'