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Mobility Wheels Continued from Page 9handles so you pick up without flexing your biceps.Look at the placement on the sides of the lathe (figure4) to determine the spacing for two 13/32” holes for themounting bolts. I drilled oversize to allow for slight misalignment.Drill the appropriate holes in each handlethen use this to mark the hole locations on the legs. Inmy case the section of the leg had enough “meat” toallow for tapped holes. Drill and tap (if appropriate)the holes in the legs and mount the handles. I left theplastic end caps and price tags on the iron pipe. Thismakes the ends more visible to minimize the chance ofwacking your legs on the handles as you mover aroundthe shop.rest support and the use of a dust hood such as Rocklerpart 26412 and a Rockler dust port bracket part number31767 would make for a cleaner installation.Figure 4 Handle MountingShelvingAgain due to a small shop I need storage spacewherever I can get it. The cast iron leg set have twoflanges that allowed me to place two box type shelvesacross from one leg to the other. I use the upper, smallershelf to hold some of the lathe tools such as the knockout bar, a chuck, faceplate, etc. The lower shelf is deepenough to hold peppermill blanks cross-wise and otherwood blanks as well. If the need arises I can removethese wood blanks and place bags of sand on this lowershelf for more stability. The shelves are covered in Figure1 with a drape of heavy cloth. This keeps shavingfrom falling in the shelves, making clean up easier.Dust collectionThe key to the dust collection is that I have installedthe outrigger tool rest. The tool rest has a 1 inchdiameter hole to accommodate the standard Nova toolrests. The outrigger can be oriented such that the toolrest mount is to the rear of the headstock as shown inFigure 5.I made the dust collector hood supports from bitsand pieces of various stands that were no longer useful.If one were starting from scratch a selection of appropriatesized pipe to fit the inside diameter of the toolPage 10 More Woodturning June 2010Figure 5.Just a bit of personal info: I have been turningfor only a few years, and am a member of AAW andCarolina Mountain Woodturners. I have done a fewbowls, some pens, some bottle stoppers etc. I wouldconsider myself a beginner. RussLetter to the EditorHi Fred:I was astonished to read the negative commentabout Lyle Jamieson in the newest More Woodturning.Yes, Lyle can be aggravating, self-serving, and evenoccasionally wrong (in my opinion) - but he’s mainlyeducational and certainly never boring! I think thecombination of your comments and his is one of thestrongest aspects of M. W. Keep him going!—Don LindsleyHello Don,I try to publish letters, even if they criticize me.There maybe a number of people who disagree withLyle and his comments, but like you I feel he addsconsiderable to the Q&A section of this magazine.—Fred Holder
The Penturner’s Cornerby Don WardAs I write this article the Utah WoodturningSymposium is just a little over two weeks away. I amfrantically getting things ready for my demos. Therewill be 10 pen turning rotations. We will be in Area 3.Demonstrations will be presented by Fairfield, KurtHertzog, and myself.Russ Fairfield’s demos are entitled (1) Hidden orRecessed Pen Clips, (2) Finishing Secrets for Pens,and (3) Making a One Piece Point Pen. I would highlysuggest checking out Russ Fairfield’s website and especiallyspend some time on his finishing and pen pages.Russ also has some excellent DVD’s for sale and I canhighly recommend all of them. His pen finishing DVDis a great resource. Russ is a member of the Pen MakersGuild and his website can be found at http://www.woodturnerruss.comKurt Hertzog is one of the AAW directors, anexcellent turner and teacher, as well as a proficient andinnovative pen maker. Kurt is also one of the councilmembers of the pen makers guild. Kurt’s demo is entitledExtreme Pens and will be presented twice. KurtHertzog’s work can be seen on his website at http://www.kerthertzog.comI will be doing four demonstrations and presentingtwo titles twice each. The titles are Modified Slimlinesand Casting Acrylic Pen Blanks. The modified slimlinedemo will include most of the modified slimlines I’vewritten about in More Woodturning. The casting penblanks demonstration will include basic casting of penblanks using polyester resin. Both colored blanks andclear casting using materials such as snake skins andcomputer printed labels will be presented. I am alsoa member of the Pen Makers Guild and my websiteis http://www.RedRiverPens.com Readers of ThePenturners Corner will already have seem most of theslimline modification demo since previous articles includewhat I will present at the demo. The casting demoinformation may be good information for a future articleor two. I just don’t know how many readers would wantto learn how to start casting their own pen blanks. Iwould welcome any emails with suggestions on futurearticles covering acrylic blank casting.A full report on the symposium’s penturningactivities will be included in the next article. We willbe doing demonstrations at the Craft Supplies Openhouse on Wednesday prior to the start of the symposium.Wednesday night we will have the 8th annualPenturners Rendezvous. Look for reports on these twomeetings also.Relatively New KitsCircuit Board Pen Kits: The sierra circuit boardpen kit has been available for about a year now. It is areal circuit board embedded in clear acrylic. The kitsmake eye catching pens that are unique as well as quitehandsome. The circuit board kits are available for theSierra Vista, which is a bit larger diameter version ofthe sierra. A different set of bushings are required ifyou rely on bushings for sizing. I actually turn the SierraVista using sierra bushings and a set of calipers totake measurements. I actually use calipers to measurethe blank diameters for each pen I make. Bushingsare used to just get me close. These circuit board kitscome complete with the Sierra Vista kit parts alongwith the circuit board blanks. Blanks are not availableas a separate item.Two new colors of circuit boards have recentlybecome available. The new colors are blue and orange.The kits are Berea Hardwoods kits and can be found onthe Berea website at http//www.bereahardwoods.comor any of the Berea resellers: Woodcraft (http://www.woodcraft.com), Rockler (http://www.Rockler.com),Arizona Silhouette (http://www.arizonasilhouette.com),and Bear Tooth Woods (http://www.bearttoothwoods.com). Other outlets may be available but I’m not awareof them. Take a look at these relatively new offerings.You may just like them.Another new circuit board kit is available for thecigar pen. Both barrels of this pen are embedded circuitboards. The circuit board cigar comes only in green andis also a Berea kit and can be found at the Berea websiteor Bear Tooth Woods. I looked for it at other places buthad no luck. See Figure 1 which shows both the cigarand sierra circuit board pens.[Continued on Next Page]More Woodturning June 2010 Page 11
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