[crw-talk] WWD

[Robert Patros]

Very nicely done!!

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> On Mar 22, 2025, at 1:50 PM, raaschb at charter.net wrote:
> 
> 
> Follow up .  The lathe was on a roll....and to help out the shareholders of Excel Energy, ah continued using energy from the grid!
> Beginins of a WS, got too late to complete for wwd.
> 
> Repurposed a spindle, was going to be an hatchet handle found hidden in the shop.  Hence the parallel offset handle, needed more length- therefore mortice & tenon join for added maple timber. 
> Then some design changes, strange as they may be. Not too late to change the "fat bead" toward the top.
> Thick piece of butternut to give bottom weight, bout 6" dia x 21/2"+ thick, I harvested 10yr+ ago from a large downed butternut tree. 
> Donated plank of maple from John Clough for top.
> To this point friction fit only- easily deconstructed. 
> 
> Though incomplete, don't recommend butternut; too light & soft for long term durability. Helmsman interior/exterior spar polyurethane, then buffing to hardened surface once cured may help.
> 
> TBC for next club meeting  & donation to Cancer Center. 
> 
> -raasch
> 
> 
> Bob R at charter
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