oval turning

[hughie]

Run into this on my wanderings. I saw one at the Sydney wood show but did not stay long enough to get a good look at it. Richard Raffan was gving a demo at the same time....shoulda paid more attention.


This one is a bit of a how to build, Hey Skew another project....

http://www.oldschwambmill.org/theframes/theframes.html

http://www.claycritters.com/lathe/moreinfo.htm

http://www.claycritters.com/lathe/

I wonder how difficult it would be to turn a semi closed vessel

[Terry B]

Just turn them nice and green and let them warp.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

This one is a bit of a how to build, Hey Skew another project....
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I wonder how difficult it would be to turn a semi closed vessel

I saw a fantastic closed form a few years ago at either the Vic Woodturning comp (Nunawading)... or maybe 'twas at the Peninsular WT Club show? I forget, exactly. Anywho, 'twas similar to Gil's closed forms with an ebonised rim, except 'twas waaaay ovalled.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I'd have sworn 'twas photoshop'd.

Don't laugh, but... yeah... that's been on my project list ever since then.

[Cliff Rogers]

hughie there was a bloke in Charters Towers that used to go to the Townsville Turners meetings about 10 years ago who had an oval turning chuck.
He used to spend more time making metal jigs for woodturning than he ever did wood turning but geeze some of them were interesting.

[TTIT]

Cut it out Hughie! If I put anything more on my todo list I'll go into shock, depression, nervous breakdown, burnout etc etc.....:eek::confused::mad:

[hughie]

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Cut it out Hughie! If I put anything more on my todo list I'll go into shock, depression, nervous breakdown, burnout etc etc.....:eek::confused::mad:
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Vern, Ya gotta have a challenge.

hughie there was a bloke in Charters Towers that used to go to the Townsville Turners meetings about 10 years ago who had an oval turning chuck.
He used to spend more time making metal jigs for woodturning than he ever did wood turning but geeze some of them were interesting.

Cliff, yeah that can be a problem with us tinkerers. Chartes Towers...now that brings back memories....from the early 70"s

Don't laugh, but... yeah... that's been on my project list ever since then.

Skew, well its on mine as well so dont feel too bad. I have no idea when
I'll get started either........:confused:

Just turn them nice and green and let them warp.

Terry, Been doing that....... thawt it might be nice to have sorta control over the warping......

[RETIRED]

Terry, Been doing that....... thawt it might be nice to have sorta control over the warping......

Bloody optimist.

[OGYT]

Interesting post, Hughie. Don't have the brains for that, tho'. I do same as Terry. But .... after checking out the "more info.html" site... it's worth a try!! Can't stop turning for that long a time, though. It'd take me forever, and I don't have that much time left.

[tashammer]

How about oval woodturning from 1919?

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15460/15460-8.txt

http://www.lathes.co.uk/guillietfils/page3.html (historic pics)

http://www.turners.org/Articles/chucks.html

http://www.lathes.co.uk/index.html (this site has 11ty million lathes)


Not that i am laying cheese in front of the mouse mind you.

[hughie]

How about oval woodturning from 1919?

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15460/15460-8.txt

http://www.lathes.co.uk/guillietfils/page3.html (historic pics)

http://www.turners.org/Articles/chucks.html

http://www.lathes.co.uk/index.html (this site has 11ty million lathes)

Not that i am laying cheese in front of the mouse mind you

Hmmm, darn it! the mouse has taking the bait............