Recent content by malc75

I am a newbie wood turner and want to turn a circular ring about 6 inches diameter completely rounded like a dogs quoit. I have no idea how to achieve this and could use some help. Malc

It lives!! a short video of the grasshopper escapement working. Lots of work to do yet but this gives me the heart I need to go on! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxOZOHxzYk

No reason they shouldn't last for decades, there are still working examples that were built in the eighteen hundreds.

It's coming along lots of work yet but it does tick!

Frame mounted to tempoary working post and first two wheels installed

I've tried FD blades, they were ok, but I get on fine with my 5r blades from Hobbies UK, cheap as chips and no problems at all. Malc

Very nice job, it's on my to do list scheduled for about 2020!!!

Things will slow down, 'er indoors is making noises about things in the garden!!!!

First wheel cut, this is the great wheel, wind pulley and click gear, more sanding tomorrow when I get some more pads for my detail sander, the teeth were all cut using a No.5R blade

We are coming along! Both frames and spacer now cut and made up, lots more sanding to do before the real work starts, i.e. cutting ti wheels! Managed to get the two frames to line up within ten thou, very pleased with that.

Front frame cut, now needs a lot of sanding to get the profile correct, then on to the back frame, the biggest problem is going to be to get the two to line up perfectly. I am aiming at using a jig to get them to within 10 thou. of each other.

Going to make a start on the BoP today, first job is to make hardboard templates of the frame then start to cut out the 12mm ply frames. If all goes well I may change the ply for a solid wood frame at a later date.

Heres the utube link to my first build Claytons Number six clock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGs-un2kMA

Time to blow the dust off my scroll saw and produce another wooden clock. I have already made the 'Number six' by Clayton Boyer and it is ticking away in my dining room. Now to produce another of his wonderful designs, his 'Bird of Paradise'. This is a particularly interesting clock as it uses...

I have been given an eight inch Bubinga bowl blank and am having difficulty turning it. It seems so hard, could this be the angle of my gouges, I only have a Clarke's cheap set which I have ground to 40 degrees, is it my lack of experience, or is Bubinga a puppy to turn? This is only my third...