Recent content by jurriaan

I think BIll Luce made the most beautiful turnings - simple but exquisite. www.billluce.com/ Sadly, he had an accident on a motorcycle and it's questionable if he will ever turn again. www.aawforum.org/community/index.php?threads/bill-luce.12339/

To turn 'perfect' cylinders, use a copy lathe. Search on Ebay.co.uk for 'copy lathe' and you'll see several for sale - from cheap to Hapfo. Even CNC is a possibility. These lathes are optimized to create a form from a template in a piece of wood - balusters, table legs, parts like that. Because...

You can also try running it with the belt not around the motor pulley. If it still vibrates, there's something in the motor causing your vibrations.

The one French woodturning forum I know is called AFTAB.

The McNaughton one is great if you want to save different forms, but has a much longer learning period. If you want to core 'standard' bowls, I would get another one. Information on the Oneway system is on youtube - lots of videos...

Oh, before anybody asks: the hollowing tools used were: - 10mm RCGT insert in 16 mm steel rod (quite common, I buy mine from http://jmader.de/entwicklungen/ausdrehwerkzeuge/ - Jockel from Germany speaks English as well) - a Swiss development called the Pitbull, a bit like the Woodcut ProForme...

Let me add to that that somewhere in the process the cursor position is reset as well. If the cursor is at the end of a post, and you add and then inline a picture, it ends up at the start of the post.

Now for the final pictures: Normally, I finish all my turnings with walnut oil, but I have had some bad experiences with that on yew (and other resin-containing woods). It suddenly became sticky again after a few months. So I used a commercial product, called Drechsleröl...

Hollowing this largest vase yet for me made me rethink if I wanted to make vases this big. Not only do you need gigantic pieces of wood and spend even more time hollowing it, but the tools get progressively longer as well (70" in the picture), and I needed to remove both the tailstock and my...

So far, so good. Making a lot of chips, the top outer side is where I want it to be. The foot is provisional, might need to be a little smaller, but I don't want that crack spoiling things before I've hollowed it out. The crack at the top filled with 2K Epoxy and black pigment. It's a bit...

So i noticed someone asked for pictures.... I hadn't tried the picture upload functionality here. It's a bit difficult - having to select, upload, place inline. No automatically reducing image size means you have to do that beforehand as well, and not being able to select multiple files in one...

Now I live too far away to make shipping practical in any case, but you might want to consider how your message is read If you had written something like Burl offcuts wanted or Want to buy some small burl offcuts or Want to trade some small burl offcuts or Does anyone have any small burl...

Certain chucks for metalworking can be bought with woodturning-compatible jaws. https://drechslershop.de/drechselfutter-mitnehmer-planscheiben/zentra/zentra-drechselfutter-axminsterbacken.html for example, is a 100 mm metalworking chuck with Axminster compatible jaws. The same supplier...

Do you own or plan to own any 3/4" (big) or even 1" fingernail bowl gouges? If not, buy the smaller one. 3/4" fingernail grind bowl gouges really require a big lathe with plenty of power. 1" fingernail grind bowl gouges are rare, because there's not many people who need one, let alone can hold...

That would be the Conover lathe? http://www.lathes.co.uk/conover/