Turning a Tool Handle
By Curtis Turner
Round Rock, TX
There is a great sense of satisfaction that comes from making your own tools. I take pride in the sense of self-sufficiency when I have created something useful. This month we will turn a handle for a turning tool that can be used and admired for decades.
An Afternoon with My Chainsaw
By Leslie Struthers
Carnegie, PA
My name is Leslie Struthers, I'm a turner in Southwestern Pennsylvania. I turn in my basement shop and I keep track of my turning successes and failures in a collection of Shop Notes. I recently added a lovely Oneway 24/36 to the shop and have been trying to live up to it ever since.
The Nova G3 4-jaw scroll chuck incorporates the latest in chucking
technology, and is one of our most popular lathe chucks. We have a
very limited supply of these Nova G3 chucks that were packaged for
Delta and come direct-threaded to fit Delta lathes and others with a
1-inch by 8 tpi spindle (including Rikon, Jet and other mini-lathes.)
$139.99 while supply lasts.
Here's an exceptional deal on a nicely-built #2 Morse Taper ball
bearing live center set that comes complete with 7 changeable tips
which stay snugly in place by way of a small rare earth magnet. Comes
packed in a plastic storage case.
Blair Swing started woodturning in a high school class in 1975, and then took an almost 30 year hiatus. He is back at it, and here are some of the beautiful pieces he produced then and now.
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