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StoneRoad
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Posted -  08/01/2010  :  20:31
It is funny how things affect you, when I was at secondary school (and I am over 50) the boys did metal/wood work and tech drawing and the girls got to do cookery and needlework. This has meant that I have had to learn some things that others take for granted at the sort of age when old dogs and new tricks springs to mind. It is a good job I am an adaptable sort of person.  Luckily, my parents did not agree with the above convention, so I did get some of the basics sorted!

What I now want to do is get into something like woodturning at a more serious level.
 


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Stanley
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Posted - 09/01/2010 : 07:30
Wood turning is lovely stuff. Two things to watch, make sure that work pieces are very securely held, particularly bowls. Always work on the assumption it is going to break loose and head for your face. The other problem which is only just beginning to be fully understood is the fine dust from certain hardwoods. It can be almost as dangerous as asbestos. Wear a good mask and avoid breathing the dust.

My mother taught me to knit and darn socks...


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marilyn
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Posted - 09/01/2010 : 08:32
I'm probably the same age as you stoneroad, (and female) but we did metalwork and woodwork in secondary school....big important stuff like a pencil tin and a breadboard. Had dreadful trouble with the breadboard because I kept planing it too much and it never seemed straight. It got smaller and smaller and looked like a door wedge in the finish. The pencil tin worked out much better, but the lid fitted so snuggly I cut myself to ribbons trying to get into it. I seem to recall making a nut bowl that looked like a fish (another big important project) and that involved the use of chisels....and I recall much blood on the woodwork bench. Perhaps that is when they gave me a new block of wood and suggested I make a breadboard...,


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Tizer
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Posted - 09/01/2010 : 12:24
Buy good quality tools and look after them well. Keep them sharp. Modern materials allow even better sharp edges than our ancestors had.

If you don't already have the secrets, find someone who can show you how to do your work with minimum effiort. For example, even sawing a piece of timber can be hard work or easy with the same tool depending how you do it. Pace yourself, don't rush.

And remember the old adage - measure twice and cut once!

Metalwork never appealed to me and perhaps that's why I was bad at it - or perhaps vice versa. But wood is a wonderful material and there are so many different types, with different textures and smells.

I presume you've looked at Doc's page on wood turning here.?

Edited by - Tizer on 09/01/2010 12:31:41


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belle
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Posted - 09/01/2010 : 13:23
Funny i was just thinking about getting some chisels, but I don't know the first thing about carving wood. I did a short course in joinery, and hated it, made a corner cupboard with a two doors that don't quite shut..the trouble was I  am ambidexterous and all the new skills I was learning had to be mastered by one hand or another, it used to take me ages to work out which hand was better, my left hand like sawing best, but it's the one I use to cut bread with so that figures. I was a natural at plaining for some reason, but we never got on to doing any carving so all the bit I was looking forward to never happened.


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Stanley
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Posted - 10/01/2010 : 07:50
Only one comment Peter, there seems to be a fashion for high speed steel woodturning tools but good quality high carbon steel, the older material, takes a better edge. They need touching up more often on the stone but that's no bad thing.


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