Next phase

Welcome to part two of the Playstation evolution. 

So Robbie,The Wood Turning Guru, invited us up to HIS shop and gave us a 101 on turning.

Wow what a shop he has......

He's got a full woodworking shop the size of my house!!!!

One thing Robbie kept instilling upon us all day was the importance of sharpening......
Sharpening
Sharpening
Sharpening
Sharpening
That's the key. You want the steel to be cutting the wood not chipping away at it.

So in order to get another step closer to successfully turning a piece of wood , 

we know that we need to get a grinding wheel......

So we discussed it among us

That's Robbie holding Billy's nose to the grindstone.....!!!!
Hey I'm just watching at this point.....

So we need a grinder......aarrryyyeee.....more tools!!!!!!

whoa..... Tommy Boy.  They make grinders you can buy.....

Billy took over the helm of the sinking money vessel and invested in one of the best grinders on the market..

a Baldor............mmmmm

 He also bought a carborundum wheel and a cotton rouge buffer.

Nice..we've got our grinder ...now what?
how do you use it properly?
It's one thing to have a grinder but what about getting the angle of the steel to the wheel?
It's got those little, floppy, flat supports but they're useless for this precision stuff.

no way to set it and produce a perfect angle

there must be another tool we can buy !!!!

an attachment!!!...that's it!!! 

a jig attachment to maintain the angle of the gouge !!!!

Get out the Rockler catalog!!

The great one looks at us and says 'grashopper when you can snatch the pepple from my hand, then you too shall be a tool whore'...or something like that.....

So what do we do...O' wise one?

Robbie whips out some scraps and a 2" forstner bit and a couple of nuts and remounts the grinder with this homemade guide/jig that you set the handle of the tool in and slide the holder in or out until you get the perfect angle of the tool coming to rest on the stone.

I'm in awe....this is soooooo simple!!!!!!

The gouge never touches that little angle rest.

simple ...scraps....and another tool making tools.......

a quick little plan if you want to build one
note: use a clamp or a thumb screw to lock it in place.

the round handle of the gouge can turn inside the round pocket as you twist the cutting edge onto the stone.

So we are stylin'!!!!

Remember we haven't even put a piece of wood on the lathe yet......

I'll be back later as we start to gather some chunks of wood and figure out how to mount them 

onto a high speed spinning machine that can hurl chunks right past your ear.......

Next purchase at Homeboy Depot