<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">That is a fine wigstand Bob.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: raaschb@charter.net </div><div>Date: 3/22/25 1:50 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: CRW talk <crw-talk@crwoodturner.com> </div><div>Subject: [crw-talk] WWD </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto"><div>Follow up . The lathe was on a roll....and to help out the shareholders of Excel Energy, ah continued using energy from the grid!</div><div dir="auto">Beginins of a WS, got too late to complete for wwd.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto">Then some design changes, strange as they may be. Not too late to change the "fat bead" toward the top.</div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto">Donated plank of maple from John Clough for top.</div><div dir="auto">To this point friction fit only- easily deconstructed. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>TBC for next club meeting & donation to Cancer Center. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-raasch</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Bob R@charter</div></div></body></html>