Honestly turning has been pretty huge for me because I can actually accomplish something in an hour or whatever rather than having projects take months or years. I had to chuckle while reading your comment yesterday about building those food storage shelves so you could point to something else you've done other than just working on your buggy. Its kind of like that for me, but I get something finished a lot more frequent.
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I've never heard of Ian, didn't see mention of woodturning on his website either but I'll keep an eye out.
Ryan motivated me on the buggy build by telling me I just had to try and accomplish something each time I work on it. It really is a good strategy. I find it's seriously good for my mental health to accomplish a task (outside of my normal daily tasks) each day. It doesn't really matter what it is.
Little wins add up to big wins!
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- Bountiful, land of rocks
As I mentioned, he's an exceptional dude. I don't see a LOT of wood turning videos but he has a few
- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
Finished building out a closet for my 2 year old's room. (And no you're not seeing it wrong -the hanger rod is level. The 114 year old house isn't quite straight. It's almost 1/4" out on the roof line one side to the other LOL 😂😂😂) maybe I'll split the difference on the hanger rod?
Coping baseboards is tricky with old construction.
@nnnnnate will you show us some of your finished wood turning work? I'm really interested to see it! It seems like a great way for you to mentally hit the reset button.
Coping baseboards is tricky with old construction.
@nnnnnate will you show us some of your finished wood turning work? I'm really interested to see it! It seems like a great way for you to mentally hit the reset button.
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So I guess I'll share some of the bowls that I've made. To be fair though I've only finished a few of them, most are either drying or they are/were firewood.
The first two were finished turned green and as they dried they warped into ovals which is normal. They are made from box elder, sycamore, maple, then ash maybe for the small one, I'm not sure. The last two were roughed out green then allowed to dry and then finish turned down to what you see. When you make them like this you leave them extra thick on the first turning so you can get back to round after they are dry. In this pic I hadn't done the final sanding on the biggest one or put finish on it so its pretty pale. It turned more yellow-y after the finish and you could see more of the grain but it was pretty light still.
These are all the bowls I rough turned last week. They are either sycamore (the more red hues (3)) and box elder. The biggest is about 12" and then they go down in size from there. Typically you try and get as wide of a bowl as possible based on the chunk of wood you've got but I'm not very good so I end up cutting a bunch of the width out while rough turning. Generally I will rough turn a bowl or two a night and then just stick them in a plastic bag until I've got enough ready to seal.
Here they are all sealed up. I use anchor seal. Its a "wax emulsion" that you paint on with a brush. The wood dries at different speeds so we seal it to try and get the drying to be uniform. Un-equal drying in bowl blanks (and I guess wood in general) creates cracks. With wood turning we don't like cracks because you don't know how bad the crack is and they have potential to let go while spinning which could be no bueno.
These are whats not cracked from @Pile of parts moms house. Its plum. After I picked it up and spent time processing and rough turning it I found out that all fruit trees warp a lot. That was accurate and 3/4's of the bowls I roughed cracked and got tossed into the burn bin.
These are the other pieces that I've given up on for whatever reason. Some of them are probably salvageable but we'll see if I get back to any of them. They were all mostly finished turned green so they are warped. A few of them have cracks, I blew through the bottom on a few of them, and some of them just fought me the whole way so I set them aside for the time being.
And finally these are most of the rough turned bowls that I've sealed and are currently drying. I've kind of got them shoved anywhere with room. Most of these were started in December or later so they have a long time to go before they are dry enough for finish turning. They range in size from around 15" wide down to four or five inches. I've got some hobby turner friends with a couple hundred dry or drying bowls on a shelf. Life goals I guess? I don't have the space to store that many blanks without a usable basement.
These are the big boys. They are about 17" wide.
The first two were finished turned green and as they dried they warped into ovals which is normal. They are made from box elder, sycamore, maple, then ash maybe for the small one, I'm not sure. The last two were roughed out green then allowed to dry and then finish turned down to what you see. When you make them like this you leave them extra thick on the first turning so you can get back to round after they are dry. In this pic I hadn't done the final sanding on the biggest one or put finish on it so its pretty pale. It turned more yellow-y after the finish and you could see more of the grain but it was pretty light still.
These are all the bowls I rough turned last week. They are either sycamore (the more red hues (3)) and box elder. The biggest is about 12" and then they go down in size from there. Typically you try and get as wide of a bowl as possible based on the chunk of wood you've got but I'm not very good so I end up cutting a bunch of the width out while rough turning. Generally I will rough turn a bowl or two a night and then just stick them in a plastic bag until I've got enough ready to seal.
Here they are all sealed up. I use anchor seal. Its a "wax emulsion" that you paint on with a brush. The wood dries at different speeds so we seal it to try and get the drying to be uniform. Un-equal drying in bowl blanks (and I guess wood in general) creates cracks. With wood turning we don't like cracks because you don't know how bad the crack is and they have potential to let go while spinning which could be no bueno.
These are whats not cracked from @Pile of parts moms house. Its plum. After I picked it up and spent time processing and rough turning it I found out that all fruit trees warp a lot. That was accurate and 3/4's of the bowls I roughed cracked and got tossed into the burn bin.
These are the other pieces that I've given up on for whatever reason. Some of them are probably salvageable but we'll see if I get back to any of them. They were all mostly finished turned green so they are warped. A few of them have cracks, I blew through the bottom on a few of them, and some of them just fought me the whole way so I set them aside for the time being.
And finally these are most of the rough turned bowls that I've sealed and are currently drying. I've kind of got them shoved anywhere with room. Most of these were started in December or later so they have a long time to go before they are dry enough for finish turning. They range in size from around 15" wide down to four or five inches. I've got some hobby turner friends with a couple hundred dry or drying bowls on a shelf. Life goals I guess? I don't have the space to store that many blanks without a usable basement.
These are the big boys. They are about 17" wide.
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Bummer! I'm glad some of them worked out.
glockman
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- Pleasant Grove
You just leave your guns out in the open like this? Totally not safe!
Those bowls are awesome!
Today I fixed an issue that has frustrated me for a year since we moved in. No freaking outlet on the back wall in the third car. The rest of the wiring comes from above in the attic and I didn’t want to climb my big ol’ self up there so I ran one from the basement, similar to how I did my welder. I need to grab some sheet rock to finish it but for now, it’s operational and awesome!
Yeah it’s actually one of the things that made me want to not buy this house. I asked if I could add outlets in the garage while it was being framed and they gave me a hard no. The other walls are okay and my sweet cord reel helps but this wall has always been the one that made me mad. Now I can build a shelf to charge my tool batteries on and get a surge protector for the side of my tool box etc.
I was planning on using a power strip for that since I want it a little father out from the wall but that’s not a bad idea. I’ll think about it…
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
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- Pleasant Grove
My 25x40 has two welder outlets, one compressor 220 and 35 duplex outlets. I may have overdone it but I've never needed to plug something in and not had an outlet nearby.
35? Haha wow! My attached 3 car has 4 outlets.
@glockman i like your style! My shop plans are only about 50% solid on the interior. The auto side will be roughly 34x34 interior and I plan a double gang outlet every 8 feet along the walls and one between the two roll up doors. For 220 welder/plasma cutter outlets I planning 1 between the doors, 3-4 along the back wall and at least one on the south wall.
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
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- Pleasant Grove
I put a 110v on the stem wall on either side of the garage door. Those two are the only 2 on a 20 amp circuit. The thought was being able to run a long extension cord out into the driveway which is 75ft long and run whatever I wanted, ie block heater. I should have added a 220 there as well. Each outlet is on a different circuit than the one on either side of it too so you can plug things into a given area and be on two different breakers.
I also ran the garage door outlet on it's own circuit so I could add a cord real there in the future (now installed) and have the full 20 amp capacity.
My thought was, you have to run the wire through the entire wall, an outlet box was $2 at the time and an outlet was about the same. So cost to have 40 outlets vs 4 was about $100 difference. My main issue now is there are cabinets and crap blocking 50% of the outlets, which makes me really happy there are twice as many as I need
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