mac davis wrote:
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:25:39 -0500, WillR
wrote:


Check out Ken Vaughn's site..

He shows a lot of his tool handles, jigs, etc...
http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65j


Ken does indeed make some nice stuff.

But now I am tempted to copy it and the turning gods will probably have
me imprisoned for plagiarism... sigh. Hope they serve good food in the
cells...


yep.. I've copied so many of Ken's ideas that the print outs must be an inch
thick... sanding box, ring clamp, biscuit jointer jig, etc., etc., etc...

Perhaps we can share a cell????

ROTFLMAO.

Ken has encouraged me to go through the entire shop looking for ways to
make things easier.

Now I have bench dogs -- turned on the lathe of course... :-)

I have fixed the fence up properly on the table saw.

I got myself a Jacobs chuck last night a Lee Valley so I can finish the
tool handles that I need so desperately for everything from files to new
turning tools. (Drilling them on a drill press did NOT work...)

I got a small compression/screw chuck for a few dollars so I can make
small fixtures (and a maybe some small bowls...)

Today I finished the bench dogs and the bench re-configuration...

Now I will start on the bench vise... So it can work with the dogs (and
maybe the cats too :-)) ) So I have to change the wooden faces I put in
the vise and allow room for the bench dogs... and drill the holes.

Then I can start of the real stuff.

And of course there are the tips on Darrell Feltmates sites and the
Three Point tool I got the tool steel for... And I have to make a skewed
scraper -- but this time it will point "the other way"...

Guys like Ken and Darrell otta be banned I tell yah! LOL

They set an extremely unfortunate good example. :-)


Ken and Darrell have been a HUGE to my re-learning wood & turning... both have
been very helpful and responsive to questions, etc..
I'm almost ready to graduate to Bill Grumbine's site... the more I learn, the
more I sort of understand on Bill's site.. *g*



mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Feel free to provide a link to that site as well. :-)

Helped my wife with her intarsia piece this morning. She was grumbling
Thursday about buying a Jacobs chuck, we put her inflatable sander in
the lathe using the Jacobs chuck, supported the wood pieces on the tool
rest and had the fit of the pieces fixed up in a few minutes. Most of
the fixes could be done by hand rotation of the sander to minimize wood
removal. Worked like a charm! No more grumbling now -- I hope...

Today I will spend more time on those sites planning the next set of
jigs and fixtures. They have a truly amazing set of fixtures -- all at
relatively low cost... Good thing too or I would be adding nothing....

We also got the 1 3/8 inch expanding chuck at Lee Valley -- we can use
that for small pieces now as well... So now I can do the clock pieces I
have put off forever... And it can be used as a screw chuck for small
bowls -- funny thing that. :-)

I think I have he base pieces now so I can actually use the info on
their sites.


--
Will
Occasional Techno-geek