WOODWORKING QUIZ for 26 Nov 04

[Ralph Jones]

Good Morning Friends,
Before turning narrow pieces, such as chess pieces or dowels, between centers, it's easier on the workpiece (and the woodworker) to knock off the four corners, making them into an octagon.

How would you go about this chore?

Respectfully,

[Wood Borer]

I am not a turner so my solution may not be an elegant lathe type solution.

I would put it in the lathe and plane the corners off with a spokeshave or make a Vee shaped jig and take the corners off with a bandsaw, the jig to hold the square piece and to act as a fence.

Happy Thanksgiving day too Ralph, we don't celebrate it here but I understand it's a big day over there.

[silentC]

In 'The Craftsman Woodturner' by Peter Childs, he asks why so many woodturners go to extravagent lengths to get their blocks of wood closer to round before putting them on the lathe, when they have the perfect tool for making square timber round - a lathe.

[RETIRED]

In 'The Craftsman Woodturner' by Peter Childs, he asks why so many woodturners go to extravagent lengths to get their blocks of wood closer to round before putting them on the lathe, when they have the perfect tool for making square timber round - a lathe.
Dead right.

[Ralph Jones]

In 'The Craftsman Woodturner' by Peter Childs, he asks why so many woodturners go to extravagent lengths to get their blocks of wood closer to round before putting them on the lathe, when they have the perfect tool for making square timber round - a lathe.

Because by using the technique in the quiz there would be less wood to remove while the timber is in the lathe.

Respectfully,

[ribot]

Don't mean to be rude but in the time you get your piece octagonally shaped most turners will have rounded many dowels. No?

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Friends,
Since I am not a turner I do not take offense from probably an old pro at turning and only post this particular quiz because it was in a shop tips section of a woodworking magazine.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I am attaching the tip from that magazine.

Thank you for your support.

Respectfully,

[ptc]

Nice.
how do you make the jig.?
ptc

[Optimark]

Two 45º saw cuts, would be pretty much how I would do it.

Mick.