Laser Kits from the 1/29 meeting

EuroChris · 01-30-2012, 07:48 PM

Has anyone from the penturners meeting at Woodcraft turned their Laser kit yet? How did it turn out?

My boys are doing a baseball and bat one and a dice one. After the meeting we stuck around and got some help from Dave with the assembling of the kits. Afterwards we went to our workshop and trimmed the blanks even with the tubes and glued everything up. By then it was later in the evening and we didn't have time to do any turning so the rest will have to wait until this weekend. But I'd guess at least a few people went straight home and completd their kits.

alphageek · 01-30-2012, 08:17 PM

I didn't hit the shop last night, but I do plan on gluing mine up one night after work this week... Then I'm planning on throwing something on the lathe that I have 2 blanks of so I can do a direct comparison between CA and the new finish to see how it turns out.

Davej_07 · 01-30-2012, 09:42 PM

I had grabbed the same Celtic knot kit that Dave made for th demo. I had a bad failure while turning it, a chunk of the green broke out and flew off. I found it and glued it back in and surprisingly the break isn't visible after the finish was applied. All in all it was a good experience.

Dave

ssajn · 01-30-2012, 10:08 PM

I still haven't been in the shop and I was home most of the day.

Dave, I'm glad you found the piece and everything turned out.

I hope to get some shop time tomorrow.

EuroChris · 02-05-2012, 08:57 PM

Well, my sons turned their lazerlines kits today and they turned out really well. They used the woodturners finish that was demo'ed at the meeting and that seemed to do a very nice job. One kit was given five coats and one was given eight. I think we might have been a little conservative with the finish so it might be more like three and five coats. The baseball kit pieces had a very good fit and you couldn't see any tube. The dice kit wasn't quite as nice a fit plus all the dots needed to be filled. We followed some advice and used charcoal powder and the Starbond CA to fill it in(thanks, Dave) and that turned out great. We're going to work on taking some decent pictures and uploading them to the site in the next few days. But all in all it was not as daunting a project as we thought it might be. Defintely plan to do some more of the laser kits.

ssajn · 02-05-2012, 10:53 PM

Glad to hear they turned (no pun intended) out.

A lot of folks are intimidated by laser kits because of the cost and because they look complicated. Once they play with them they realize that most of them are not as difficult as they thought.

I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. Make sure they bring their pens to the next meeting.

EuroChris · 02-08-2012, 05:37 PM

Ok here is a picture of the Lazerlines wall street 2 pens my boys turned on Sunday. It's the best picture out of a dozen. I'm looking forward to the photo demo at the next meeting.

ssajn · 02-09-2012, 12:51 AM

The boys do good work.

alphageek · 02-09-2012, 07:25 AM

Looks like they did a great job with them! I still havn't turned mine cause I've had a cold for the last week :(

Anyone else get theirs done??

ssajn · 02-09-2012, 10:16 AM

I still haven't finished the one I did the demo with yet. Heck, I'm retired and there's not enough hours in the day.

01-30-2012, 07:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
EuroChris Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 10 Photos: 0	Laser Kits from the 1/29 meeting Has anyone from the penturners meeting at Woodcraft turned their Laser kit yet? How did it turn out? My boys are doing a baseball and bat one and a dice one. After the meeting we stuck around and got some help from Dave with the assembling of the kits. Afterwards we went to our workshop and trimmed the blanks even with the tubes and glued everything up. By then it was later in the evening and we didn't have time to do any turning so the rest will have to wait until this weekend. But I'd guess at least a few people went straight home and completd their kits.

01-30-2012, 10:08 PM	#4 (permalink)
ssajn Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Milwaukee, Wi, USA. Posts: 703 Photos: 0	I still haven't been in the shop and I was home most of the day. Dave, I'm glad you found the piece and everything turned out. I hope to get some shop time tomorrow. __________________ Dave http://woodjunky.weebly.com/ My money talks to me, it says good bye. A penny saved is a government oversight.

02-05-2012, 10:53 PM	#6 (permalink)
ssajn Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Milwaukee, Wi, USA. Posts: 703 Photos: 0	Glad to hear they turned (no pun intended) out. A lot of folks are intimidated by laser kits because of the cost and because they look complicated. Once they play with them they realize that most of them are not as difficult as they thought. I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. Make sure they bring their pens to the next meeting. __________________ Dave http://woodjunky.weebly.com/ My money talks to me, it says good bye. A penny saved is a government oversight.

02-08-2012, 05:37 PM	#7 (permalink)
EuroChris Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 10 Photos: 0	Ok here is a picture of the Lazerlines wall street 2 pens my boys turned on Sunday. It's the best picture out of a dozen. I'm looking forward to the photo demo at the next meeting. Attached Thumbnails

02-09-2012, 12:51 AM	#8 (permalink)
ssajn Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Milwaukee, Wi, USA. Posts: 703 Photos: 0	The boys do good work. __________________ Dave http://woodjunky.weebly.com/ My money talks to me, it says good bye. A penny saved is a government oversight.

01-30-2012, 08:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
alphageek Assistant Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Green Bay, WI, USA. Posts: 3,937 Photos: 7	I didn't hit the shop last night, but I do plan on gluing mine up one night after work this week... Then I'm planning on throwing something on the lathe that I have 2 blanks of so I can do a direct comparison between CA and the new finish to see how it turns out.

01-30-2012, 09:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
Davej_07 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Oak Creek, wi Posts: 28 Photos: 0	I had grabbed the same Celtic knot kit that Dave made for th demo. I had a bad failure while turning it, a chunk of the green broke out and flew off. I found it and glued it back in and surprisingly the break isn't visible after the finish was applied. All in all it was a good experience. Dave

02-05-2012, 08:57 PM	#5 (permalink)
EuroChris Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 10 Photos: 0	Well, my sons turned their lazerlines kits today and they turned out really well. They used the woodturners finish that was demo'ed at the meeting and that seemed to do a very nice job. One kit was given five coats and one was given eight. I think we might have been a little conservative with the finish so it might be more like three and five coats. The baseball kit pieces had a very good fit and you couldn't see any tube. The dice kit wasn't quite as nice a fit plus all the dots needed to be filled. We followed some advice and used charcoal powder and the Starbond CA to fill it in(thanks, Dave) and that turned out great. We're going to work on taking some decent pictures and uploading them to the site in the next few days. But all in all it was not as daunting a project as we thought it might be. Defintely plan to do some more of the laser kits.

02-09-2012, 07:25 AM	#9 (permalink)
alphageek Assistant Moderator Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Green Bay, WI, USA. Posts: 3,937 Photos: 7	Looks like they did a great job with them! I still havn't turned mine cause I've had a cold for the last week :( Anyone else get theirs done??

02-09-2012, 10:16 AM	#10 (permalink)
ssajn Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Milwaukee, Wi, USA. Posts: 703 Photos: 0	I still haven't finished the one I did the demo with yet. Heck, I'm retired and there's not enough hours in the day. __________________ Dave http://woodjunky.weebly.com/ My money talks to me, it says good bye. A penny saved is a government oversight.

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