Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Turning School
Doug Reynolds
Just returned from two weeks of turning school at Marc Adams School of Woodworking. Five days of skew chisel boot camp with Alan Lacer. Reminded me of jump school. He is sure right about the best work is right on the edge of disaster. Had me a few. Also, five days of decorative boxes with Matthew Hill. Great times. Great guys. Now, I just need to turn an egg a day with only the skew to hone my skills.
Wow
Dick Coers
That's a lot of learning and inspiration! Congrats.
Re: Turning School
Barry Irby
Wow! what an experience....Stick with the practice, I know I woudl revert to my old bad habits. Hard to unlearn and relearn.
Your comment about turning an egg reminded me of one of the funniest things I have ever seen associated with a Demo. Our local club had a guy com in a do a egg turning demo. He spent forever discussing his little templates and how one end was a section of an ellipsoid and the other was a hemisphere. Near the end and after a looong time someone asked him how long he took to turn an egg. After much hemming and hawing.....45 minutes if all went well.....and it was over. Everyone started milling around and the demonstrator was cleaning up. A club member who is a master of the skew walked up and asked is he could show how HE did it? Sure. Could I use your little piece of wood? Sure. Your skew? Sure. He chuck the stick, fired off the lathe, turned it to a cylinder in a flash, rolled the hemisphere on the end in about ten seconds, cut the ellipsoid in about 15 seconds, nipped it off and touched the end to sand paper and handed it to the guy. He said, "When all goes well, I can turn and egg a minute." I am not sure anyone else was paying enough attention to have seen any of it. Every time I think of it, I smile.
Re: Turning School
john lucas
Barry We have a club member who grew up turning fruit for tourists in Gatlinburg. He turns an egg in 1 minute.
Re: Turning School *LINK*
john lucas
I did a skew practice video showing a simple project that I often do when I haven't been turning for a while to get my skew skills back up. Now I know this isn't anywhere near what Alan can do but it's a good skill building practice piece. You just toss it when your done because it's turned from a 2x2 pine scrap. It's also excellent for those learning the spindle gouge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA91yJ9KhKU
Thanks, John
David Walser
I enjoyed the video.
