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Martin Eastburn writes:
Wow - a DVD ? - I have his book and VCR. But that is telling.

Well, I chuckle inside everytime he refers to the presentation as
a "tape," so I assume it is the same. I have two (Turning Wood and
Turning Projects, I think), I forget which one enlightened me.

He is something else.

Makes it all look easy.

Martin

On 3/30/2011 6:51 PM, Drew Lawson wrote:
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Steve writes:
On 3/30/2011 1:13 PM, Limp Arbor wrote:
On Mar 29, 2:30 pm, Gary wrote:
What is the safest method to trim the excess from red oak 2 X 2 spindle
blanks before turning?

Handplane

Bingo. I've done this many times. Hell of a lot faster than roughing it in on
the lathe.

Since some time last summer, when I settled down for some unproductive
yet inspiring time with a Raffan DVD, and had the "You can do that
and not die?" moment, I'd say a skew chisel.

Once you get the angle against the shadow working, it is just swoop,
swoop, swoop, and you have, um, well, a stack of ex-firewood round
spindles in the garage waiting for your to do *something* with them.



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In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the
last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened
but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce