Thread: yikes where does one start.

My dust extractor isn’t expected to get the chips - if it’s strong enough to suck the chips back when they’re flying all over, you’d need to anchor small children to the lathe bed to prevent them from vanishing, and that’s not even to think of tools, sandpaper and my masterpieces. I do run it whenever I’m turning out of habit, although if I’m rough turning wet blanks, I may occasionally leave it off. I live on a farm and don’t pay for my electricity so there’s no reason not to run it - the noise doesn’t bother anyone out here.

I usually clean up at the end of a session - I always clean the chips off the lathe, just in case they’re damp enough to encourage rust - but the floor is often left until the project is finished or until a bag of chips and shavings is needed in the garden. We have high humidity here and I cover all my machinery with cotton sheets to keep condensation off them. So before I turn the lights off I dust off the lathe and throw the sheet over it.

For my psychological well being it’s important that I can walk into the workshop and start turning almost immediately, if it gets too messy it becomes too much of a mission to go and turn stuff.

Originally Posted by colin62

my dust extractor isn’t expected to get the chips - if it’s strong enough to suck the chips back when they’re flying all over, you’d need to anchor small children to the lathe bed to prevent them from vanishing...

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Just to let you know that Richard Raffan has just launched his own YouTube channel this week.

We are expecting another 2 dozen + videos to be recorded and uploaded within the coming weeks.

Jane

Originally Posted by lovetoride

Just to let you know that Richard Raffan has just launched his own YouTube channel this week.

We are expecting another 2 dozen + videos to be recorded and uploaded within the coming weeks.

Jane

Jane

Tell him we love them!!!

In Japan where the traditional handcrafts are valued Richard would be known as a 'National Living Treasure'. We are very fortunate to have him here in Australia and to do these videos for us...

• If you are completely new to woodturning... feast your eyes on every minute and soak it all up.

• If you are a competent turner... it's always good to go back and watch a master at work. You will pick up things that escape the attention of the novice.

• If you are a highly experienced and skilled turner... it's just enjoyable to watch another at work.

Whenever the best turners in the world get together (Richard is right up there with the best of them) they all watch each when they get that chance. Here's your chance to be part of such a master class.

Because these are real time 'go-to-whoa' demos you get more of a feeling for the overall process and with that comes the little things that happen with an unedited video; like things falling off shelves, right being referred to as left and a spindle gouge being called a bowl gouge. That is not a criticism as none of those matter... that's what you get with live demos.

Originally Posted by NeilS

Jane

Tell him we love them!!!

In Japan where the traditional handcrafts are valued Richard would be known as a 'National Living Treasure'. We are very fortunate to have him here in Australia and to do these videos for us...

We are VERY fortunate to have him at the ACT Woodcraft Guild!!

I have to agree with Neil, they just don't make them like they used too.

A tip if you're like most turners and don't sweep up till the shavings are 6" deep. Put a bunch of rare earth magnets on the shovel you use to scoop up the shavings... Will grab any ferrous metals, the small tools that get lost in the shavings, instead of them ending up in the burn pile or garbage.

Another tip if you are luck to live in an area where regular burning is ok. I used pile up the shavings till they were about 8 feet high. Then make a small fire, and when I had good hot embers I'd tunnel into the pile and drop them... Didn't matter if it was snowing or raining buckets. Would come back to the shop and the pile would be gone in the morning.

snowing on the sunshine coast, this post is worthless without pictures.

Originally Posted by Tonyz

snowing on the sunshine coast, this post is worthless without pictures.

I've lived in a few countries, started out in Canada. Dragged my oneway down here. I think I have the distinction of being the only one in Australia to have one.

Snow on the sunny coast probably would probably get the coppers interested.

Also... I can only image the rage I would endure if I started anything more than a BBQ here LOL