This would not be very easy to change if you see the picture at
http://www.oneway.on.ca/coring/ because the knife support toolrest has to be
able to be moved in and out independently of the knife's rotational center
(to accomodate different knifes). So they would have to have the mount come
over and then down to a lower level to hold the knife support toolrest.

"robo hippy" wrote in message
ups.com...
I have wondered if the One Way system would be more versatile if it
could be mounted on the banjo instead of a metal plate that you have to
bolt to the ways. Is this even possible?
robo hippy


















william kossack wrote:
I have both the mini and the large McNaughton blades. I tend to use
the
minis more often but that is because finding chunks large enough for
the
large blades is difficult. Wood sellers don't keep stuff large
enough
for the large McNaughton blades. Shoot in Denver they don't even
have
pieces large enough to bother coring.

I got my center savers last year during the summer after I had
collected
most of my wood. This spring I'm going to make sure to cut bigger
pieces at the tree dump so I can make better use of them.

Lyn J. Mangiameli wrote:
Leo,
the problem is that though Oneway offers systems for lathes of
various
swings, they aren't making smaller knives. Only the Mini system of
knives for the Kelton are going to perform the tasks that Andrew is
most
concerned about: maximum yeild from purchased woods; and smaller
blanks
(he mentions 9 inch and only 4 inches deep). The Oneway will at
best
only have one knive that will allow for a normal bowl shaped core
in the
sizes he discusses, and it will require a larger kerf. The Kelton
will
offer him more cores and smaller kerfs (with the mini set). I've
encouraged Oneway to offer a smaller knive (about two years ago),
but
they haven't seen fit to go in that direction. BTW, the two smaller

Oneway systems only offer one knife, which is pretty limiting.

I do like the Oneway for large corings and find it to be the safest
and
easist for that purpose. I tend to go with the Woodcut for coring
medium
sized blanks because I can very quickly set it up, reliably get two

cores, and take it down with little fuss and muss. The Kelton
excels at
the smaller stuff and the unconventional, though I know a lot of
folks
are quite content using it for big stuff as well (Bill Grumbine and
Mike
Mahoney both stand out as examples). Obviously very few turners are

going to get all of them, but I do think one's individual needs can
go a
long way towards pointing in the direction of one or another as
being
most suitable. For Andrew, particulary since he already has many of
the
Kelton components, getting a set of mini blades and the Mahoney
video is
likely a good path for him.

Lyn

Leo Van Der Loo wrote:

Hi Andy

Andy I do not have a coring system yet, but I have seen the use of
the
3 systems that are most used and heard the comments of the turners

that owned more than one system, and one of the comments that was
uniform in the use of the Oneway system was, it's so easy to use
there
is no comparison.

The way our turners club president put it, (he has the McNaughton
and
the Oneway systems) "using the McNaughton is an adventure" and the

Oneway was all production, effortless.

Also the view of a local member that makes his living, turning
thousands of bowls, mostly Big leaf Maple, Australian and tropical

burl wood, "I could not do it if I still had to use the
McNaughton".

Oneway now has the large coring systems, a 16" and 20" and 24".
New now, they have also mini systems, a 10" and 12".

I have an E-mail address here of a review of the Oneway system so
you
can have the opinion of some one else as well.

http://www.lehighvalleywoodturners.com/page26.html

By the way I have no monetary or other connections or interests
with
Oneway.
I am just a very satisfied customer.

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

Andrew Barss wrote:

I briefly owned the McNasughton coring system, and found it hard
to
use -- it stalled my 1.5HP Nova often, and I couldn't control it
easily.
But I've now realized that -- given the sort of wood I like to
turn
(burls and exotics) -- the amount I'm losing by not using a corer

quickly adds up. So I'm reconsidering getting such a system.

Most of what I turn is pretty small -- bowls in the 9" x 9 x 4
down to e.g., small boxes from blackwood clarinet-bell rejects.

So... does anyone have experience with a corer system that will
fairly easily let me save cores from pretty small pieces of wood?


Thanks,

Andy Barss