Could someone tell me if you need to purchase anything other than the new
mini blades to use on the regular McNaughton system?
Thanks
Phil
"william kossack" wrote in message
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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