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Three in a row is ok. Slow down. Double check everything, including yourself before drilling.

And it came to pass that he used his 18v driver and there was sheetrock...

That is some angel hair grain. Geez.

Nice work George.

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I had no idea Bannard could play the drums too. Very cool.

I tend to cut my rings on the deeper side, pretty close to what Jesse is describing and for the same reasons. One catch is that if you get your rings close together the chance to break something goes up.

Finishing is a finicky thing. It is difficult to explain and your products/climate/shop conditions/skill level can make a finish great for one carver and useless for another. That's why we don't typically go beyond the basics in an open forum. Not generally out of secrecy. There are just so many var...

You should be able to get tower jaws, or you can have them made.

They are chuck specific, not machine specific. That thing on the front gripping your wood comes off the lathe.

If possible, you should get different jaws for your chuck. The jaws you have are great for turning round stock, briar not so much.
Logans are good lathes.
You have a six jaw scroll chuck. The pointy jaws will make gripping a block harder.

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The needle on my subtext detector just jumped into the red.

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Smooth gloves... leather.

I would be happy to find this"turd" on my front yard lawn. Great looking and thanks for letting us see it. Sent from my HTC0P3P7 using Tapatalk Somebody just might find it, cause while cutting a new stem I decided to straight up the shank and really made a turd out of it. So it's now rele...

Very small cuts. Like fractions of a millimeter until you get the feel of things. Even if you whack it that hard your tooling should not come loose. Also, a six jaw Chuck (sounds like what you have) would be really difficult to use. Can you take 4 jaws off? I never use more than three jaws.

You can make yourself a nice vfd belt dander for that amount.

Do you have a metal lathe yet?

You could use a drill press if you have one.

I was talking about the tenon in the stem, not the shank. We are saying the same thing.

Obviously the gaps here are shown for exaggeration. Either that or my tolerances have seriously gone downhill.