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I have used mm thick cork sheets to make washers, but recently have stopped using them with no subsequent ‘sticking’ problems. D

Nice work, Adam. I envy your access to all that ‘firewood’!

Great piece, Adam. The olive wood is gorgeous.

Hi Adam, Compared, for example, to the £15.99 for an EasyWood square cutter, I think £7.99 is not outrageous. There are, it is true , carbide cutters listed on Amazon for as little as £5.99 for a set of 5. These will be, as you suspect, Chinese in origin. They may also not fit your tools. If...

Hi Adam, The discussions about brazing/welding has lost me, but Turners Retreat sells carbide tips that will fit most brands (including Easy Wood) ,at prices about half of the cost of the branded varieties. They are made by AZ Carbide. I bought a couple recently, but, as I haven’t used them yet...

Thanks, Yorkie I like the idea of sharing with another club . I agree with you that resurrecting clubs is going to be difficult. Most of our members are what you might call ‘mature’ (including me) ,and there is a good deal of apprehension about social gatherings. Hopefully the liberation will...

Thanks, Yorkie. Do you know if she travels for demos ? My own club has been in hibernation during the pandemic, but is beginning to think about new meetings. We usually have 3 or 4 pro demos a year. Joey might be a great draw.

I can understand what you mean, Phil. At first glance Joey’s piece could be made of anything. It’s not obviously wood. I suppose the same ambivalent feelings can apply to heavily coloured bowls, boxes etc that are made to resemble marble or metal etc. Like you, I prefer to see the wood itself...

For those who haven’t seen the ‘Woodturner’ article, I attach a photo ofJoey’s piece. Hope it’s clear enough. D

Thanks for the site info, Adam. It’s amazing turning of an end grain bowl blank. Walls so thin she can pierce them with a scalpel.... D.

The phenomenal work in this thread is most definitely not mine. It is work done by Joey Richardson featured in an article in this month’s ‘Woodturning’ about women turners. The piece illustrated is fantastic. How she made it is a complete mystery to me. I can understand ‘piercing’, and...

Cheers, guys. If I understand correctly, the skews I have are 30 degrees, I.e. 15 degrees each side? So to get a 40 degree skew, I would have to regrind to 20 degrees each side? Not sure it would be worth the trouble! Thanks again for your help. D

I have three skew chisel, an Axminster, and two Sorby. Both have grind angles of about 15 degrees. I recently got a copy of the late Allan Batty’s ‘Woodturning Notes’, and he recommended grind angles of 55, 40, and 25 degrees, depending on the wood being turned. 55 and 40 suggested for...

Cheers, guys. I’ll go down the seal, sand, paint and lacquer route. D.

Hi all Can someone point me in the right direction in the use of acrylic paints on turnings. I’ve turned a sycamore bowl, and want to put a coloured stripe round the outside inside a very shallow ‘trench’. Should I sand and seal it in the normal way and then apply the paint, or sand and then...

It’s not beyond you. Take care, and (as my mother used to say about clothes) you’ll grow into it. D

Great work, Adam. How did you cut the pattern out? Scroll saw? D

Nic, I think you should go for a much HP as you can afford. Better to have too much than not enough. I would think that 1 - 1.5 HP would be the bare minimum. D

Just for clarity, my suggestion of hand sanding with the bowl stationary relates to sanding just the tear out along the grain, not the entire bowl interior. There’s a good video by Mike Peace on YouTube dealing with tear out; what causes it, how to avoid it, how to deal with it.etc He also...

I have found that dealing with troublesome end grain is best achieved by hand sanding with the lathe stopped. Then the usual sealer, Yorkshire grit, standard and micro, and wax finish.