Make a fun to use nut cracker from walnut and crack some walnuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjpX4fOwXU

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:43:53 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

Make a fun to use nut cracker from walnut and crack some walnuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjpX4fOwXU

Pretty cool. But walnuts make my throat itch.

Can you make a 'nudder video for a pecan cracker?

On 11/23/2012 11:43 PM, wrote:
Make a fun to use nut cracker from walnut and crack some walnuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjpX4fOwXU



Very cool Brian!

Questions and thoughts.

Did you turn your walnut dowel or purchase it ready made?

Have you used it much yet? I wonder how the walnut threads will hold
up? Most of the walnut I have worked with tends to be relatively soft.
Yeah I realize walnut to crack walnuts. Cherry is relatively soft too
but cherries are pretty soft. LOL

Did you apply any lubricant like wax to the threads?

Is it easy enough to turn the dowel to crack the nut and or would a "t"
give you more leverage?

wrote:
Make a fun to use nut cracker from walnut and crack some walnuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjpX4fOwXU

Swell! I think I would have preferred a "T" shaped handle for more torque.

Very cool Brian!

Thank you.


Questions and thoughts.



Did you turn your walnut dowel or purchase it ready made?

Purchased from Woodcraft when I got the tap and die kit. When I saw that they sold walnut dowels it was then that I decided to make it from walnut. Was going to be cherry.

I don't own a lathe or I would have made my own. It's own my wife-nag list for things I want.




Have you used it much yet? I wonder how the walnut threads will hold

up?

So far it seems to be ok.

Most of the walnut I have worked with tends to be relatively soft.

This stuff is on the hard to brittle side of the spectrum.


Yeah I realize walnut to crack walnuts. Cherry is relatively soft too

but cherries are pretty soft. LOL



Did you apply any lubricant like wax to the threads?

Not yet, but as soon as I'm done typing I'm going to apply paste wax.




Is it easy enough to turn the dowel to crack the nut and or would a "t"

give you more leverage?

My six and ten year old boys have no problems cracking walnuts with it and think it's fun.

They cracked a bunch of walnuts and don't like to eat them.

wrote:
Make a fun to use nut cracker from walnut and crack some walnuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjpX4fOwXU

I don't think it would crack the walnuts that grow in south Georgia.

--
G.W. Ross

With an expense account, anything is
possible.

On Saturday, November 24, 2012 5:10:16 PM UTC-5, G. Ross wrote:
wrote:

Make a fun to use nut cracker from walnut and crack some walnuts.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpjpX4fOwXU



I don't think it would crack the walnuts that grow in south Georgia.

Send me one and I film it.




--

G.W. Ross



With an expense account, anything is

possible.

On 11/24/2012 4:08 PM, wrote:
Very cool Brian!

Thank you.


Questions and thoughts.



Did you turn your walnut dowel or purchase it ready made?

Purchased from Woodcraft when I got the tap and die kit. When I saw that they sold walnut dowels it was then that I decided to make it from walnut. Was going to be cherry.

I don't own a lathe or I would have made my own. It's own my wife-nag list for things I want.

Ohhhh. I have had a lather for the pas 30 years and and am almost
ashamed to say that I have hardly ever used it other than to make pens.
I probably have 15 turning tools. Recently I got a set of 3 Easy Wood
Tools which pretty much take care of every thing. I highly recomend
them as there is a "zero" learning curve and no sharpening.





Have you used it much yet? I wonder how the walnut threads will hold

up?

So far it seems to be ok.

Most of the walnut I have worked with tends to be relatively soft.

This stuff is on the hard to brittle side of the spectrum.


Yeah I realize walnut to crack walnuts. Cherry is relatively soft too

but cherries are pretty soft. LOL



Did you apply any lubricant like wax to the threads?

Not yet, but as soon as I'm done typing I'm going to apply paste wax.




Is it easy enough to turn the dowel to crack the nut and or would a "t"

give you more leverage?

My six and ten year old boys have no problems cracking walnuts with it and think it's fun.

Sounds good enough!




They cracked a bunch of walnuts and don't like to eat them.

Bonus! Win Win