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The second meeting of the year and not only did the new
members from the first meeting return but we were joined by another two
potential new members. Just like the first meeting tonight was again a
hands on evening with two lathes running.
David was initially on the
CL4 doing a bowl turning demo, after the tea break Roger took over the
lathe and did a demo of texturing using his Proxxon
angle
grinder. After a brief demo on using the grinder various other
members also tried their hands at grinding
in public!
The second lathe (i.e. the CL3) was set up for spindle
work and
initially Mike continued with showing the new members (and new turners)
how to
safely use the skew, after the tea break Arthur took over
on this lathe for some more spindle work.
El laddo John the cap
Navin brought in several of his grinders and for most the the evening
entertained (not sure if that is the correct word ☺) many
of the
assembled members with various techniques to grind turning gouges. He
used several commercial grinding jigs but also demonstrated using some
he'd made himself.
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David shaping the
outside of his bowl.
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Final cuts with the
gouge before David used various types of shear scrapers to complete the
bottom of the bowl.
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With the bowl
remounted in the
recess David works on hollowing the inside.
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Final cuts to finish
the inside before scraping & sanding to obtain the final finish.
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The John cap man
doing a public grinding session!!!
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Here John shows how
to grind a skew with a commercial jig running with an Axminister slow
running grinder. |
Using the same jig
to grind a roughing gouge. Click this link
for more details on some of the grinding jigs John was using.
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Here John is shown
using his Sorby ProEdge grinder.
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Roger starting to
texture the outside of a bowl. The lines seen here are just guides to
help visually place the texture pattern radially from the centre of the
bowl.
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The pattern
progresses towards the rim.
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Roger textured two
panels then used a sanding wheel to remove the rough surface left by
the grinder to leave a nice smooth finish.
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Close-up of Roger's
Proxxon grinder.
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These are Roger's
foam turning pads which he uses to reverse turn the bottoms of bowls.
Each pad consists of some hard foam fixed to some block board.
Each is fixed on a screw chuck and mounted in the lathe and the inside
of the bowl is then held firmly against the foam with the tailstock.
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Mike doing a teach
in on how he makes his very fine finial pots.
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Close up of a couple
of Mike's pots.
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