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02-17-2024, 08:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-17-2024, 08:11 PM by Stwood_.)
8th grade, 1965.....got the basics down, then we were free to decide on a project.
Most of us made shift knobs for our standard shift cars and pickups.
Steve
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I miss the days of using my dinghy with a girlfriend too. Zack Butler-4/18/24
The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints
WaterlooMark 02/9/2020
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In 2015, my new wife brought a catalog with a page turned down to me and showed me the segmented maple vase she wanted. I thought the $1,800 price was unreasonable so she went away. A month later, she brought me a different catalog and the segmented maple vase that time was $2,500. Not only was the price unreasonable, the trend was in the wrong direction!
In defense of my credit card balance, I dusted off my 1953 Shopsmith and learned how to do it myself and have been making segmented chips ever since.
Now that I'm more experienced at this, I know why the artist's price was very reasonable indeed. I wouldn't sell my work to strangers for less that he was.
We do segmented turning, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
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November 2022. Thanks to @arthropod98!
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On and off since the early seventies!
Frank
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Not sure, but joined Woodturners of North Texas on my 43rd wedding anniversary 7/27/2013; probably haven't missed more than 5 meetings in 10 plus yrs. They are an amazing group of talented turners. If you are ever in the area on the last Thursday of the month, come see for yourself.
"I tried being reasonable..........I didn't like it." Clint Eastwood
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Location: Pacific ocean now much further away!