Recent content by Gary Beasley

My experience is spending time ripping sticks then cutting segments then going back and ripping more sticks as needed. The wedgie sled makes it easy to go from one function to the other. I have a decent combination blade I keep on the saw, I’m not sure the ripping would go as well with a crosscut.

Wait until you have a few more rows then when you turn the inside leave the top row untouched. Some people say they get better results with a scraper, this will depend on your skill level.

15” tall segmented vase 5” across at the widest point. 400 segments in 25 rings of pecan and black walnut. Shellac finish

Since the actual circumference of the vessel ring is going to be below the edge lengths surface such precision is moot. If you are worried about having a precise finished dimension you can make the sel a bit longer and the segment width correspondingly wider so you will have more room in the...

I dont mind sharing images of my work and do that on other woodturning sites but this site will not handle the same files saying they are too big. Does this site not have automatic resizing? Seems nowadays this problem is a relic of the past.

Have you tried a noose type band? You may need to assemble on a platform that will allow for the thicker handle of the noose clamp, with the disk on top sized to allow correcting any distortion that crops up.

That and a centering cone or longworth chuck mounted on the tailstock should get easy repeatable results.

Thanks! I’ll need to look at that.

Does the software have the capability to calculate the volume of a vessel created in it? That would be quite helpful in creating properly sized urns for cremations.

Simple to subtract the thickness of the spacers from the length of the segment to get a closer approximation of the ring size. If you really want to get close measure the divider across at the same angle as the segment cut. You’ll be treating the two as a single segment from that point.

I finally found what was going on with my Ipad. Seems Safari had inadvertently been opened in a “private” window and went unnoticed. Took me a bit to figure out how to get out of that but now all is well.

I’ve been having that problem too on my Ipad with all my forums. I shut it down and restarted it yesterday and and now so far it seems to be holding its cookies.

If the tape is easy to remove it should be put in a dish of soapy water to unload the glue from it.

Nice thing about Earls jig is its easy to build. The cord needs replacing every so often as they get glue on them. He just came out with a quick resize jig for the cord the looks pretty solid and simple.

Sounds like you are a distant cousin. Have you done any research on Ancestry.com? Theres a member there has a tree she calls Ancestors of David that could possibly link the lines.