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Because I'm sad and having to set up later this morning at a fair in Huntingdon, I have the plasterers in this morning and I need to remove some wallpaper. So its 4.30 am and I'm removing wallpaper!! Have a cup of coffee and a break and watch the video on the tri axis cup. Back to the wallpaper removal, its six o'clock and there was something really bugging me about the video, something was really dangerous in it but what was it?
Got it, look eight minutes into it. He recommends using a steb centre in the headstock, correct, but then a ring centre in the tailstock????
He has been to great pains using a bradawl to put an indentation in the tailstock end of the balnk and then tells everyone to use a ring centre. Using a ring centre in that situation is one sure way to get a face full of blank! Because the blank is not square between centres only a section of the ring, essentially a crescent, will be in contact with the wood. Not clever and very dangerous.
Mad, mad, mad! Stripping wallpaper at 4.30am? I can think of much better activities at that time of the morning!!
There were a few things that bugged me about the video, but I love the final design. I don't have a steb centre for my chuck yet, it's on the Christmas list so fingers crossed.
I had to look again at what the ring centre was and, yeah, I had the same thought when I first saw it. Would much prefer a standard live centre that's actually gonna push into the wood.
There's another video on "th tube" featuring a lady called Barbara Dill. I can't link it as I can't get to it at the moment. She seems to be the "expert" in this style of turning, it's what she does most of the time.
I agree about using scrap wood to learn the method and once I get a steb centre I will give it a go. I will probably have used this bit of walnut by the time I get round to that though. Thinking I rather liked the bud vase idea, inserting the glass vial into the stem. Just need a 19mm forstner bit now. Will this "need to buy" ever end???
Thanks for taking the time to comment everyone, it's much appreciated!