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    Favourite turners?

    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/
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    Wood turning lathe power feed or manual if that's a thing

    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...
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    VB36 Vibrations

    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.
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    The usual - which lathe?

    The one French woodturning forum I know is called AFTAB.
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    Bowl Savers

    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...
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    used my lathe (yew vase)

    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...
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    split from Using a Lathe (off topic)

    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.
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    used my lathe (yew vase)

    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...
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    used my lathe (yew vase)

    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...
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    used my lathe (yew vase)

    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...
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    used my lathe (yew vase)

    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...
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    Burr off cuts required

    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...
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    Best chuck system for threat M52

    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...
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    Wolverine sharpening system

    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...
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    19th Century Welsh Lathe

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

    You can orient your wood any way you like, if you're prepared for what happens when the wood dries and shrinks. Bowls turned with grain parallel to the bed can work, if: - the wood doesn't shrink much (yew comes to mind here) - the wood is tough enough to build up tension without splitting...
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    profiled scrapers

    There's lots of videos on YouTube about Indian turners doing just that, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8dsMdrjKk
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    Bent or just not straight

    If you turn some wood on a lathe with a bent spindle, it will still end up round. Only if you take it off and then re-attach it to the spindle in some way, will you notice the bent spindle. What sides are you talking about? I can hardly imagine you have a bowl with the good side in front of...
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    Would like a bigger chuck!

    I can see (search for B10 drill chuck) some that go to 8 mm, but I think drill chucks with a small B10 adapter are assumed to be used for drilling metal, and larger metal drills won't work with the small adapter without slipping, so no bigger ones are made.
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    Bowl gouge. Deep flute

    I wouldn't call that a deep flute nor a bowl gouge (!), but the profile strongly reminds me of Doug Thompson's U profiled bowl gouges, available from http://thompsonlathetools.com/ in the USA. They come in sizes up to 3/4" (exterior diameter), are made of some of the best steel known to man and...
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