Comments on: Home Made Lathe Index Plate http://www.maryostler.com/2009/11/home-made-lathe-index-plate/ Elizabethan Wood Butcher & Builder of Things Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: DirtyMary http://www.maryostler.com/2009/11/home-made-lathe-index-plate/comment-page-1/#comment-1117 DirtyMary Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:19:00 +0000 http://www.maryostler.com/?p=1454#comment-1117 Hey there Lord Kaspar. Not over your way that much, but I'll keep it in mind next time Im east bound. I am not an authority on lathes by any means, but I'd give it a go. I am on my second electric lathe (countless pole lathes). Are you having a problem with it stalling out? My first lathe was a mini pen lathe. I am pretty sure they never made it for turning 8"dia 12" deep bowls. Stalled out constantly. Just getting use to using the tools is the hard skill to learn on a lathe. If the centers are even, and the wood is turning....its mostly tool usage after that. I only gave the Norse patterns a slight scan. I don't do anything Norse at this time, so I was only kinda curious. I did check out your carving pictures and was impressed. As for my carving tools, I cant help you out much. My set is an eclectic mishmash of tools, bought, inherited, found, recycled, or home made. I have a couple of Henry Taylors, Swiss, mastercraft, forseter chisels (mostly smaller slight curved and a few V chisels). I make due with what I have, or make up something. I use standard mortice chisels alot when I cavre to. I know how to sharpen them really well. I have no idea about the flexcut tools. Are they the powered chisels? Looked at something like that at lee valley, but I am a cheap bastard. I would never call myself a carver... I feel I am barely competant Turner. I prefer Wood Butcher. Gawd this is a long comment Hey there Lord Kaspar.

Not over your way that much, but I’ll keep it in mind next time Im east bound.
I am not an authority on lathes by any means, but I’d give it a go. I am on my second electric lathe (countless pole lathes). Are you having a problem with it stalling out? My first lathe was a mini pen lathe. I am pretty sure they never made it for turning 8″dia 12″ deep bowls. Stalled out constantly. Just getting use to using the tools is the hard skill to learn on a lathe. If the centers are even, and the wood is turning….its mostly tool usage after that.

I only gave the Norse patterns a slight scan. I don’t do anything Norse at this time, so I was only kinda curious. I did check out your carving pictures and was impressed.

As for my carving tools, I cant help you out much. My set is an eclectic mishmash of tools, bought, inherited, found, recycled, or home made. I have a couple of Henry Taylors, Swiss, mastercraft, forseter chisels (mostly smaller slight curved and a few V chisels). I make due with what I have, or make up something. I use standard mortice chisels alot when I cavre to. I know how to sharpen them really well.

I have no idea about the flexcut tools. Are they the powered chisels? Looked at something like that at lee valley, but I am a cheap bastard.

I would never call myself a carver… I feel I am barely competant Turner.

I prefer Wood Butcher.

Gawd this is a long comment

]]> By: Lord Kasper http://www.maryostler.com/2009/11/home-made-lathe-index-plate/comment-page-1/#comment-1116 Lord Kasper Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:56:00 +0000 http://www.maryostler.com/?p=1454#comment-1116 my good Lady Mary; just a small note to say hello. love what you do with a lathe, at such time as you are ever up this way i just must have you drop into my studio and tell what i have done wrong with mine. about all i use it for at this time is making carving mallets and it just works for that. i think that i may have the wrong moter for it. i must say that i admire your projects et all. so i am intrested in what you thought of my photographs and all those viking patterns. are many of them applicable whith what you do? and being aware that you already do a certain amount of carving, would it be out of line to ask just what sort of selection of carving tools you have at hand? i am looking at the possibility/cost of putting together another complete set of chisels and the best price that i have come across at this time is from flexcut tools. about ten buck less expensive a tool than lee valley. and they do work well, i already have a number of them. looking forward to hearing from you. ever your servent; Lord Kasper. my good Lady Mary;
just a small note to say hello. love what you do with a lathe, at such time as you are ever up this way i just must have you drop into my studio and tell what i have done wrong with mine. about all i use it for at this time is making carving mallets and it just works for that. i think that i may have the wrong moter for it.
i must say that i admire your projects et all. so i am intrested in what you thought of my photographs and all those viking patterns. are many of them applicable whith what you do? and being aware that you already do a certain amount of carving, would it be out of line to ask just what sort of selection of carving tools you have at hand? i am looking at the possibility/cost of putting together another complete set of chisels and the best price that i have come across at this time is from flexcut tools. about ten buck less expensive a tool than lee valley. and they do work well, i already have a number of them.
looking forward to hearing from you.
ever your servent;

Lord Kasper.

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