Hi all, glad to be here.
I joined to become part of the turning community here – I'm a complete novice turner and looking to get involved! My partner bought me a Clarke CWL1000B for Christmas and I am gathering supplies to build myself a bench in the garage to bolt it to. I've seen there are two AWGB nearish me, Cheam and Croydon, I suspect I will head for one of their meets soon.
I have a decent stable of powertools and have been making cabinets for guitar amplifiers as my most recent projects, which I will start a thread for if that interests anyone!
I have numerous questions as you can imagine, perhaps I will start a thread for the workbench too. My main questions are on bench grinders, tools, chucks and stock...
1) Are those generic bench grinders that retailers re-badge any good? (such as this - https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb521grb-200mm-brushless-electric-bench-grinder-240v/85634 )
I would imagine the tool rests are poor from the look of them, but is there anything workable from such an item? Is it best to start grinding with a jig to get things repeatable before going freehand with just the tool rest? 36grit and 60grit wheels, too coarse?
2) The Clarke lathe comes with what looks like a roughing gouge, a skew chisel and a parting tool. From what Richard Raffan has said on his Youtube videos, a 1/2" or 3/8" spindle gouge is a good place to go next... Good plan or would something else be of more use? I guess I don't know what I will be turning apart from pine cylinders about centres for a while...
3) Any recommendations on cost effective chucks with versatility? Eventually I would love to do some dish/bowl work.
4) Finding wood stock... There's a cherry tree that needs cutting back soon, I will probably try to get some stock from that but I'm a little in the dark about what you can do with green wood and what you have to dry to use...
Sorry for the bombardment of questions! Thanks in advance,
Felix
I joined to become part of the turning community here – I'm a complete novice turner and looking to get involved! My partner bought me a Clarke CWL1000B for Christmas and I am gathering supplies to build myself a bench in the garage to bolt it to. I've seen there are two AWGB nearish me, Cheam and Croydon, I suspect I will head for one of their meets soon.
I have a decent stable of powertools and have been making cabinets for guitar amplifiers as my most recent projects, which I will start a thread for if that interests anyone!
I have numerous questions as you can imagine, perhaps I will start a thread for the workbench too. My main questions are on bench grinders, tools, chucks and stock...
1) Are those generic bench grinders that retailers re-badge any good? (such as this - https://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb521grb-200mm-brushless-electric-bench-grinder-240v/85634 )
I would imagine the tool rests are poor from the look of them, but is there anything workable from such an item? Is it best to start grinding with a jig to get things repeatable before going freehand with just the tool rest? 36grit and 60grit wheels, too coarse?
2) The Clarke lathe comes with what looks like a roughing gouge, a skew chisel and a parting tool. From what Richard Raffan has said on his Youtube videos, a 1/2" or 3/8" spindle gouge is a good place to go next... Good plan or would something else be of more use? I guess I don't know what I will be turning apart from pine cylinders about centres for a while...
3) Any recommendations on cost effective chucks with versatility? Eventually I would love to do some dish/bowl work.
4) Finding wood stock... There's a cherry tree that needs cutting back soon, I will probably try to get some stock from that but I'm a little in the dark about what you can do with green wood and what you have to dry to use...
Sorry for the bombardment of questions! Thanks in advance,
Felix
