Spinzwood
Member
I'm both new here on IAP as well as pretty new to turning. I'm an old retired f@rt and I live in N.California (Santa Rosa). To start, I joined AAW and a local turning club (Wine Country Wood Turners).
I started to "want" to turn many years ago (1999) while working at Woodcraft here in Santa Rosa (went belly up). I was in sales and taught woodcarving classes. I got a bug to purchase a lathe and got a Jet Mini 1014 back when they were bluish green, no indexing or spindle stop. I made a few pens with it and put it away for all these years.
I then took a "class" at a woodcarving rendezvous and played with a similar Jet for 5 days and had a ball. Learned a few things, but it was not a formal class and not much instruction. There were other more experienced turners that helped me along the way.
When I got home, I pulled out my old 1014, and a couple of weeks ago, set it up and made a single bottle stopper out of some quite old oak (don't know what species). It was harder than flint, but I was successful. Since then, I sold the Jet and bought a Nova Comet II for some extra capacity and power, some tools, slow grinder and a Wolverine fixture set. Yesterday, I cleaned the rust preventive off the Nova and ran the DC motor in for an hour. I think I'm ready to turn some more of my firewood.
My plan is to turn pens, stoppers and other smaller items until I get the feel of the lathe and tools. My desire is to work with simple bowls, lidded boxes, and "graduate" into segmented items. I bought a sled to help make the segments correctly.
So there I am at the moment. My other interests are ukulele, woodcarving, growing fig trees, vegetable gardening and a myriad of other things.
It'll be nice to meet and chat with some of you.. and, at sometime, I hope to gain enough proficiency to be of help to others.
Bill, Santa Rosa, CA
I started to "want" to turn many years ago (1999) while working at Woodcraft here in Santa Rosa (went belly up). I was in sales and taught woodcarving classes. I got a bug to purchase a lathe and got a Jet Mini 1014 back when they were bluish green, no indexing or spindle stop. I made a few pens with it and put it away for all these years.
I then took a "class" at a woodcarving rendezvous and played with a similar Jet for 5 days and had a ball. Learned a few things, but it was not a formal class and not much instruction. There were other more experienced turners that helped me along the way.
When I got home, I pulled out my old 1014, and a couple of weeks ago, set it up and made a single bottle stopper out of some quite old oak (don't know what species). It was harder than flint, but I was successful. Since then, I sold the Jet and bought a Nova Comet II for some extra capacity and power, some tools, slow grinder and a Wolverine fixture set. Yesterday, I cleaned the rust preventive off the Nova and ran the DC motor in for an hour. I think I'm ready to turn some more of my firewood.
My plan is to turn pens, stoppers and other smaller items until I get the feel of the lathe and tools. My desire is to work with simple bowls, lidded boxes, and "graduate" into segmented items. I bought a sled to help make the segments correctly.
So there I am at the moment. My other interests are ukulele, woodcarving, growing fig trees, vegetable gardening and a myriad of other things.
It'll be nice to meet and chat with some of you.. and, at sometime, I hope to gain enough proficiency to be of help to others.
Bill, Santa Rosa, CA
