This will change the way you turn wood boxes and save you time
Ever want to turn boxes bigger then what you have in dry wood? Every time I get logs I make a bunch of these so I always have some dry when I want to turn a box. In this video I show how I make a roughed out box from green wood to twice turn. These easy steps will allow you to drastically speed up the drying time and not spend a fortune on already dried large turning blanks.
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As a beginner, I appreciated this video.
Just ignore the comments from the armchair experts, it's a useful beginners video and we all knew nothing before someone showed us how. Good video informative, clear, concise and no irritating music.
Thank you for the kind words
I quite agree, I'm a 76 year old beginner and learn a lot from videos like these. It might be obvious to experienced turners but not to me! Thank you 👍
Why so many trolls here. Rather than rip the guy up from the shadows, do a video yourself and show us how awesome you are!
Thank you
Richard Raffin has been doing this for decades. Great idea.
Great video, very instructive; with an instructor who doesn't chew one's ear off with irrelevant chit-chat👍👍👍👍.
Glad it was helpful!
I found the video informative. I’m a beginner so when it popped up I was interested. Not sure of all the snarky comments. 😮 I appreciate you making the video and narrating your steps. 🎉
Glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful.
I never cease to be amazed that demonstrators/video makers show so much time turning the initial block to round. Why not use your bandsaw to take the 4corners off ? I do & sometimes can make use of the off-cuts too! Your video would be shorter too!
Hey Dagwood, how do you use the off-cuts? On exotic woods I'll save the cutoffs and make plugs for filling screw holes.
If the original piece was big enough, the cutoffs could be pen blanks.
You can use those corner cut-offs to make exotic-wood fridge magnets. You can make a nice fridge magnet out of a wood cube that is just 1 x 1 x 1 inch.
@@jeffjames1567 My experience/point exactly! Why make shavings to clean up when the off cuts are useable. There are lots of videos of bits of wood with resin made into interesting objects too- not my thing - each to their own- but another possibility.
You are turning much too low on the blank. Try raising your toolrest so your tool meets the wood at around 10 o'clock and you will get more of a peeling cut rather than a scraping action, especially when roughing down. Look at the wood coming off the tool. You should be getting shavings not dust.
Ditto for putting in a grocery (kraft paper) bag. For a 3" box, I leave walls about .5 inch. I use sealer only on apple (sometimes) , which moves a lot when drying. Cherry and maple seldom crack
Been doing this for years. For 2 turn end grain you left about 2x the material thickness required for that size. End grain doesn't move as much as face grain. An alternative to sealing, and the mess that comes with it, is to put the piece in a kraft/grocery paper bag which serves as the vapor barrier.
A very interesting concept of Turing green timber.
Thank you
Good idea. I’ll use this to speed up drying my salt cellar blanks. Thanks. Subscribed.
It works out great for those. That's what this one will probably become.
1. From what I could see, most if not all of the wood removal was by scrapping. A cutting action by rubbing the bevel would give cleaner surfaces and the cutting edge of the tool would last longer. 2. When drying, I seldom use sealer, just put it in a paper bag or cardboard box with shavings and seal it up. This allows the moisture to slowly escape and minimizes cracking. Also your climate and altitude makes a big difference in the drying time.
You make a beautiful pieces Thanks for sharing 🙏
My pleasure 😊
Great video with information that will definitely help me with my next box!
Glad it was helpful!
great video, straight forward and appreciated
thanks for watching.
Nice video, I am hoping you will do the follow up on this after it drys. Do you have a moisture meter? if so maybe you could read the levels now and then again right before the final turning for reference. Either that or weigh it now and then again before the final. I would love to see the results with this technique applied. Definitely a great idea, I twice turn bowls quite often but never a box. I don't know why it never dawned on me to do so. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it. I already made a note attached this one while it dries to remind me to do a video when i finish it. I prefer a scale over a moisture meter. In a couple months i will weigh it a couple times a week until it does not lose any weight.
nice job
Thank you! Cheers!
Good demo but you broke rule #1. Never leave your chuck key in the chuck.
So aaaa
I left my chuck key in the chuck one time, and, like a fool, turned the lathe on. The chuck key dropped into the shavings at my feet. Never did that again!
Much better than having it launch vertically. 50 years ago my shop teacher would have cracked you in the back of head if you left the key or spanner on the chuck
Thank you for your time and effort. I like using Pentacryl for green wood then into a paper bag. Have you got around to finishing it?
I never used Pentacryl but not a fan of using chemicals that just displace the water. You can use denatured alcohol to do the same thing. The box was finish turned you can see the video here kzhead.info/sun/f9Sncs2AoJlti5E/bejne.html Thanks for watching.
What about us couch potatoes?
Where do I get the "Artisan Wood Sealer"?
craft supplies sells it. woodturnerscatalog.com/p/45/4032/artisan-Woodsealer
quicker and easier, but I'd rather put in the time and skill to make a box with the wood grain matched up from the bottom to the lid. Have you tried microwave drying - hours rather than days weeks and months.
With all due respect, rough turning is something most turners learn about very early.
You need a bigger 4-jaw chuck and thus a bigger tenon! Signed, Armchair Expert
I have plenty of larger jaws this box was only 4 to 5 inches in diameter. 50 mm jaws are plenty large enough for that size turning. Thanks for watching and for the feedback.
I never do. That must have been a fluke because I was distracted doing the video.
How else would you do it?
i hope you measure twise and cut once ,because that looks more like 1" then 1"1/4, "theres no need to apply it on the inside " but yet you sealed the inside of the lid
The lid was sealed on both end grain sides because its a 1 1/4 inch thick disc. The inside of the hole does not need to be because just the fact of it being a deep hole slows down the moisture loss. I will eventually take the lid off once the box dries some. I do the same for rough turned hollow forms with small openings and have a good success rate drying them. I see I missed around an inch with the scraper but that should not be an issue.
Always like to watch turning videos but you need to learn to fast forward. This is a 15 minute video that could have been done in 5
You can do that in your settings
Nothing new in this video. 😮💨😮💨
I didn't hear a single word you said.......
a microwave is far faster
I wish we could see the number of thumbs down.
Why?
So he can see how many downs he received for his little nasty comment 👎👎👎👎
Would it make you feel better