One more video

I have added another video to our YouTube channel.  This one is Jim Rutledge doing his phantom baskets.
https://youtu.be/HuscqTMBcVY

New Video is up

I have just uploaded another demonstration video to youtube.  This is one from when Gary Weiermiller did his finial demonstration.
Please subscribe to the Hiawatha Woodturners youtube channel once you are there.

Click here to go to the video

Carving a Pleasing Form Part II

I have just uploaded part II of Gary W's  demo on How To Carve A Pleasing Form.

I think it turned out ok, hopefully youtube's compression won't degrade it.

Comments welcome either here on the blog or email tom cadwalader

https://youtu.be/hazRSGYsO3I

Carving a Pleasing Form

The above link is to the Hiawatha Woodturning Club's youtube channel. Our first video of a demonstration has been added to the channel this morning. It's the first of a two part demo that was presented by Gary Weiermiller at the November meeting. The title is
"Carving a Pleasing Form".
Please take a look at the video, the first using our new video system, and let me know what you think.
Please subscribe to the channel. That way you will get notices when new content goes up.
I hope to add some of our past videos to the channel. But that might not happen until spring. I don't think I have those files with me.
Merry Christmas everyone. Tom

Platter

Just finished this platter.  It's about 11 inches in diameter from box elder.  It is for the Straits Area Audubon for their raffle.  I burned an abstract wolfs head in the center and a little gold run n buff detail on the rim.

DIY Visualizer

I have my DIY Visualizer up and going.  I have turned 4 or 5 pieces with it and I really like it.  For me this works much better than the laser.

My system is a Logitech 270 web camera attached to a small windows notebook computer.

I have a couple of pictures below.  The camera is mounted to the area of the boring bar where my laser was before.  The camera plugs into the USB2 port of the laptop.  This laptop is running on windows xp.  So I just start up the computer then select "my computer" then find the usb camera in the file tree and select it.  The image comes up on the screen and I then move the camera  into position the image of the toll bar cutter is near centered in the image.

Next I taped a piece of page protector plastic over the computer screen.  Once that's set in place I can trace the outline of the bar and cutting tip.  Then its a matter of drawing in a wall thickness and its off tot he races.

It works for me, your mileage may vary.  Some are accustomed to the laser and may like that better.
The camera was around $25.00 on amazon.  I grabbed the page protect form my wife's desk, the laptop I got it off a friend and it cost me a bar tab at the brewery.  So maybe $50 total.

Oh I should point out that I didn't need to build a shelf for the computer.  You know the guard that most lathes come with.  The one we all remove, well mine is swung open and the laptop sites neatly on it.  I am a happy camper.

Vase

In the pictures below is a vase I turned recently.  It's from a piece of maple, stands about 8 inches tall and is about 5 inches wade at the widest point.  The finish is several coats of satin lacquer.
Hopefully the pictures capture the unique character of the wood.  The wall thickness is just a little thicker than I would normally do.  I didn't want to have voids showing all the way through, about 5/16" was about the limit before holes started to show up.