[crw-talk] How NOT to turn wood

[Robert Patros]

I’m glad you’re alright. Scary!! 
Thanks for sharing. It certainly makes me think twice when working with power equipment. 

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> On Sep 30, 2020, at 7:24 PM, Lavonne Swiggum <llswigg at mwt.net> wrote:
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> And how NOT to run a table saw:
> 
> We had some left over deck floor boards we were going to cut down for another project.  We checked carefully for screws and seeing none I went to saw the boards.  Apparently there was a screw broken off top and bottom which we could not see.  Anyway I hit that screw, it hit my safety glasses and put a dent in the lens!  Also trashed my carbide blade.  
> 
> Moral of this story is:  ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS WEAR SAFETY GLASSES!
> 
> Lavonne
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>> On Sep 30, 2020, at 1:12 PM, John & Donna Griffiths <griff at mwt.net> wrote:
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>> Well, I finished watching that video after lunch and no disasters, he ended up with a masterful  piece.  He made a finial and a base for it.  He is a master with the old "can opener" tool, the skew with an amazing outcome on the finial.  His finish was one coat of BLO allowed to dry overnight and wax.  John
>> 
>>> On 9/30/2020 11:00 AM, John & Donna Griffiths wrote:
>>> Hello, y'all know I am kind of a nag about safety.  Well, after watching the news this morning I began watching a You Tube video in which some  guy turned a beautiful lidded box.  It began with him sharpening his gouge WITHOUT A GUARD ON HIS VITREOUS BLUE GRINDING WHEEL.  I darn near had a stroke.  Those things blow up sometimes.  Now I don't have a guard on my CBN wheel but they are solid metal milled from a billet.  But all of us know the vitreous wheels do on occasion come apart and Oneway jigs like the one he was using provide golden opportunities to jam the tool into the wheel.  I too use a Oneway jig, but carefully.
>>> 
>>> I watched a bit more, good technique with a bowl gouge and parting tool. Then he got out the SPINDLE ROUGHING GOUGE and took that to the piece.  And I could not tell for certain the wood orientation but it looked like bowl or cross grain, absolutely a no-no.  He was smart enough to wear a face shield.
>>> 
>>> On of my pet peeves about some woodturning videos is the dangerous methods taught to upcoming woodturners who don't know better. This turkey did come up with a beautiful piece at the end but risked his neck and taught poor technique in the process.
>>> 
>>> That's my rant for today, John
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