Eggs are a classic turned item that offer the best opportunity to improve your skills on the lathe as a woodturner. Learn to make one with only a skew.
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You are such an egg-cellent teacher. I can imagine that you are foregoing money by not chasing the almighty algorithm. But you videos have so much learning value. That is what I appreciate so much about Patreon, to pay back for the value I get out of your videos. Keep it up. You have been my best resource for learning to turn in these last 4 years and your videos are always my recommendation to people wanting to learn.
I would pay so much for this man to come to my shop and show me everything. So hard to get lessons near me!
With Easter on it's way and with the weather a bit warmer, spent a nice day yesterday working on my 'homework'. I remembered this video from last year and gave figured I would do some egg turning. Frustratingly the wood just kept shrinking, started with something about the size of a hens egg, but what I wound up with were more like quail eggs. But great fun at it. Just reviewed the video, so will try again and work on my technique. But thanks for all your Eggcellent videos!
Yes, I made two..today my 3rd..feeling better. I need to learn the how to get rid of cut off dimple better.
i mentor a kids turning club in Montana. This year eggs have been our first project.
I made my first egg yesterday, just before watching your video. Since then, I did two today. The card next to the eggs was done by me from my Wife's Mother's Day gift. I wasn't able to post the pic...
Thanks . I’ve just got a lathe and your vids are where I’m learning .
Your hand is so still and your tool control amazing. Watching you make us feel it’s easy
The best teacher on KZhead.
Thanks Shawn! This will be my new project, turning eggs! It will give me a chance to try the new Lacer radius I put on my large skew. As always, you have given excellent instruction. And the chicken named Karen was hilarious!!! 😂 Thanks for sharing 👍🏾
Great video, excellent balance of teaching and doing. I especially appreciate you showing how to fix minor imperfections. Thank you.
Thanks matey, Great demonstration, 🍻🍻🏴🏴🏴
I’ve been watching you for years. Your the best.
Excellent video, Shawn! Great audio and camera angles. The Karen-shaped egg crack made me laugh. I have never turned an egg. Once I got my ten beginner ornaments and keychains out of my system I moved on from them. The practice and skill refinement points you made were just driven home for me. It still needs assembly, but a base, a trunk and eight branches with identical cuts (different lengths) make up an advent tree to hang my wife's needle felted ornaments this Christmas season. I've always loved my skew and forced myself to make more challenging cuts for 24 features on the eight branches. After this repeated process I feel leveled up with that tool. Your cuts on this video reinforced what I thought about the planing into slicing cut and reassured my mind about the location of the tool support on the rest. It was another of your videos that caused the click in my head to occur and demystified gouges for me. After that, catches were a thing of the past.
Ain't stored by your shop in a good while but I accredit you for all I know on the lathe, you n Cap'n Eddie. Just got back to my shop after getting me a powermatic! Man that things beautiful compared to my Harbor freight lathe, so quiet lol.
Perfect timing! I've just gotten brave enough to learn the skew. Making teardrop-shaped window blind pulls and having trouble making the very cuts you use turning eggs, mostly kickbacks turning the big end. I'm going to watch your 4 cuts video now. Thank you.
Eggs-alent turning. HW coming. Will be good to get back in shop. Weather has turned cooler (no humidity). Thanks for sharing
It’ll have to wait until my hand heals but I’m looking forward to trying this.
I'm just picking up a new hobby, and bought me a new lathe some weeks ago. Your videos helped me a lot to get started, so now I'm standing knee-deep in wood chips. At first I wasn't really comfortable with the skew, but with this video I tried it again. And now I have several weird-shaped things, some having a distant relation to eggs... but the last few came out fine. So thanks for this challenge, it definitely was great fun.
That is a great video. Very informative. I saved the video so I can re watch over the weekend and give those eggs a try. As a very new wood turner that is a difficult shape to make. And I am not very good with a skew. It would be great to pull off an egg shape with a skew. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, much appreciated.
Excellent video. Very good explanations. Thank you!
Cracking video ,practice is your friend.
Perfect egg @ 23:12, in my mind. I am doing the same exercise, but I end up making ballons instead.
Great video. I owe you one!
That drawing looks suspiciously phallic
Get your mind out of the gutter. There's only room for one of us here.
I need practice on the skew I will be making an egg next time for sure
great video once again! thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just found you tonight! you're lovely! You remind me a bit of Rob Cosman
The Karen chicken egg… you are a brave man.
I'll send you an egg.......unfortunately....I'm still building my lathe so expect it sometime in the mid 2030s? 🤣🤣 Great video as always.
Just post link.
Excellent video Shawn. Do you have similar skill development in the form of a small object exercises for non turners?
See my intro to woodworking course or original series ( kzhead.info/sun/eNyNnrGIqoiLbKs/bejne.html )
@@wortheffort thanks Shawn. Much appreciated
I dont actually have a lathe yet, but am in the process of saving for one; so I know little about the actual use of it and the tools, only the theory I've learned from you. Would an oval or round section skew be better for rolling cuts? It would probably give more consistent support as theres no square edge to work around on the rest, I'd imagine the square edge could slightly dent the rest too (I think that's why you like those aftermarket rests) It would be a little harder to sharpen an oval or round section too...... but it seems to me it would have proper support for all ranges of motion. It could be that its maybe a personal preference type thing, or a case that I will probably just get used to the first skew I buy and learn its quirks.
I don’t like oval and round skews. I think they’re marketing scam.
I made an egg, and it's not good 😂 I'm going to try again. I also made a micro top like the one you did in your Short, it might be a little smaller. thanks for the fun 😁
Your videos continue to inspire and teach…thank you! I have been mostly turning bowls and boxes for the past year and never really mastered the skew, i just went through 8” of cherry and still no egg… I can’t seem to get the hang of it as it wants to run, what am I doing wrong?
Stopping or not gliding. Is your tool rest smooth?
@@wortheffort Yes, my tool rest is smooth. I can easy glide in one direction, but seem to get a catch in the wood when going in the opposite direction.
@@JimmyAsher it’s kinda like asking a mechanic to fix car over phone. My guess is you are angling your tool differently left to right.
@@wortheffort Appreciate the advice sight unseen… will have to practice some more next weekend
that was hard. made 4 ugly eggs. i'm still pretty new to turning, and my skew and i have had a number of disagreements about how to use it. doing this helped a lot!
Keep making messes.
In terms of practice, would turning this in completely green wood make sense? I have access to a lot of trees/branches. Suggestions for practices in very green wood?
Sure, and if it cracks call it a cracked egg.
@@wortheffort If it doesn't crack, hollow it out. Keep the shavings and call them scrambled egg.
Is there anything you would do differently if you were making a pure resin egg?
I don't have any real experience with resin. Can't justify cost/time vs profit margin at market.
@@wortheffort Agree! The cost of resin is outrageous. Most ppl using gallons of the stuff are sponsored by Total Boat or some other manufacturer.
Made 3rd egg today in class.rainbow poplar..almost black.
Its wood turning season. I'm pretty awful at sharpening tools and pretty new to turning. You had a video for tool sharpening that i found. it may benefit you to link that video with this video, for noobs like me, to be able to make the egg owed. I can't believe that you hogged the wood like that with your skew. if i tried that with mine, It would make a mess. Thanks for the knowledge. just offering my two cents.
Damn that became awfully complicated. I’m going to make an egg and see if it’s all that difficult. Also, you owe us a video of you turning an egg with just six passes. I doubt you or anyone could guarantee that. Make us a video so we can believe.
I put an inset in the video. On small eggs it's achievable.
@@wortheffort …..they’ll certainly have to be six perfect passes that’s for sure. I’m sure you’ve done it or you wouldn’t have added that to the video but it’s sure gonna make the rest of us appear to have 10 thumbs and turn into a blubbering pile. 😊
I see egg and I klick 🤷♀️
Question: My wife gets together with her friends to play Bunco. They sound like a bunch of hens. Will the eggs from them suffice for the egg you want?😅 Good exercise to refine turning skills!!! Thanks for the video!
Probably not....
Ion have a laithe bruh
Как американцы любят по пол часа говорить " ни о, чем.."..Причем, все..даже президент..😁