RE: A roped Wooden handle.

2015-04-18 Thread Bill Bulkeley
Very interesting curt with a ½ inch cutter and 2 start I would normally do a 1 inch pitch so using ¼ of the pitch normally used It made a interesting spiral i have never seen that before looks good Bill From: legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegr

Re: A roped Wooden handle.

2015-04-18 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
I think the name of the rig should be Shop Smith Ornamental Jig or "SS OJ" kind of like a boat in Florida. LOL Nice looking keep up the good work. I noticed that cut would look nice on a pen as well. Mike OK On 4/18/2015 7:20 PM, CURTIS GEORGE wrote: Hello Everyone. With all this pen turnin

Re: Waste

2015-04-18 Thread Cole Andrews
Thanks all of these answers are what I needed. With practice my parts should more easily replicated also On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Okla Mike (Liltwisted) wrote: > I give myself > 1/16" for chair spindles > 1/8" for chair to table legs > 1/4" for stock over 60" > 1/4" for stair balusters that

Re: Waste

2015-04-18 Thread Okla Mike (Liltwisted)
I give myself 1/16" for chair spindles 1/8" for chair to table legs 1/4" for stock over 60" 1/4" for stair balusters that are going to finish at 1-1/4" because of the warp factor 3/8" on columns Mike On 4/18/2015 11:01 AM, Jeff Becker wrote: If you have a block of wood that is straight, and

RE: Waste

2015-04-18 Thread Jeff Becker
If you have a block of wood that is straight, and you can find the exact center ( or end up less than ¼ inch off) you can turn the 3 inch post out of the 3 ½ block, you will also need to adjust for any saging if it is a long post. If you have any warpage that will also need to be figured in to

Re: Waste

2015-04-18 Thread CURTIS GEORGE
Good morning Cole. I dont know if there is one right answer, depending on the quality of wood, (open grain vs closed, knots,and how it was cut, And Dont forget, if the wood is green or dried) could make a difference. But having said that I normally leave 1/4" -1/2" for waist . (but that is