Thread: What are you working on?

Not exactly a project, but certainly feels like a "project" lol
All the great things being shared here keep inspiring me to want to do more...but being in an apartment with my "shop" being my porch, I'm limited on hours I can do any real work...and the job is keeping me busy about 10 hours a day lately

But, in the mean time, i can always prep for future projects indoors at night, right?


The only turning tools that don't need sharpening are my bowl gouges, because I still have yet to attempt a bowl lol

Thanks.
Well, I start out with a screw chuck. Work the sides and bottom leaving a tenon (sp). Then I turned it around and used a 4 jawed chuck without the screw on the tenon to hollow it out and fine-tune the shape and sand as much as possible. Then I used this...
A 4 jawed chuck with large plates with adjustable pins. to turn the bowl back around and remove the tenon and clean up the last of the bottom and finish sanding.

I watched a lot of vids on doing bowls and some were simple enough and others way too much. I don't have a lot of glue blocks and bowl-shaped large blocks and such so I went with what I had on hand. Hope this makes sense.

Nice turnings.
Being organized and tools at the ready is always good shop time.

Jerry you are becoming very proficient and talented turning wood! I guess it's something that you have to love doing! Keep at it!

I finished hiding the hone wear and reshaped the heel of my Fredrick with 220 grit. I got most of the grinder marks out as well. Some of the deeper marks near the edge I'm going to leave. The grind is fairly thick (maybe 1/2 hollow) but I don't want to thin the steel out too much at the edge. It's not going to affect the performance, so I'm erring on the side of caution.







Time to start running up the grits...

Jelly, you may want to set a bevel before you go up. If the sanding or previous grinding is uneven, it will show at the bevel set and now is the time to correct it.
:-)
It’s looking good.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Jelly, you may want to set a bevel before you go up.

I got a bevel set before I took it apart. Are you recommending to re-set it again? It certainly won't hurt, and I could always use the extra practice.

If I have done heavy sanding on a razor, I try to remember to reset the bevel to make sure the grind is flat against the bevel. Nothing is quite as disappointing as putting a bunch of effort restoring the finish on a razor, only to set the bevel and have it wavy.

Wavy is not good. Ok, sure it will shave but after all the work why not be zure its straight before you start thru the fines.

Originally Posted by RezDog

If I have done heavy sanding on a razor, I try to remember to reset the bevel to make sure the grind is flat against the bevel. Nothing is quite as disappointing as putting a bunch of effort restoring the finish on a razor, only to set the bevel and have it wavy.

Yep. Been down that bumpy road.