Make a small shelf:

Straight: Flat: Square workshop
This project uses tapered dovetails to make a small wall shelf.
No hardware and no nails or screws or glue

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Keenan, J Hiltz, J Maclean, Rick, John, Shawn, Arno, Paul, Miles

Leo started by demonstrating how a plane blade cuts wood, emphasizing the angle of attack of the blade. In turning the inside of bowls, raising the tool rest can alter this angle so as to make it easier to remove material.

When one sands off the bowl, more wood comes off the end grain than from the side grain as the bowl turns. Hence the wood turns oval as sanding progresses. Using "stones" to grind down the wood ( inside and out) works well to minimize this problem. A broken piece from an angle grinding wheel works well. The cutter can be scored on a grinding wheel and broken into pieces.

Using various grit  and shaped sharpening stones works well.

Leo demonstrated how to apply gold leaf on Paul's vase. Size is applied, let dry until just a little sticky to touch and then apply the leaf. Use wax paper to pick up the leaf..makes handling it easier.  Squish it into the grooves  with a dry brush.. 2500 sand paper wet with paint solvent is used to sand off the leaf from the overlap and edges.

Photos Below: specialized toolset to get inside the bowl: various stone cutters for truing the bowl  A Piece of a grinder disk



an assortment of stonesHome made holders for the grinder wheel pieces
Trueing with stone

Trueing with finer stone

A box of small stones, various grits

Supplies needed:

 Gesso, made from the following ingredients:

 Yellow ochre pigment: Whiting (sifted limestone)

(Not much yellow is needed)

 Fish glue

 Good brushes

 Gold leaf

 Transfer paper for real gold leaf

 Eraser (rubber)

 Paper towel

Paint the vase: brush it on well: spend a long time at this and do several coats

Sand between coats using paint thinner on the sand paper: start at 320

Spray on lacquer

Cut out the grooves again to expose the wood

Brush on concrete bond: let dry

Brush on the yellow pigment:whiting , mixing it with bond: this gives a very hard surface

Sand out the groove and recoat

Then brush on fish glue (or sizing)

Let it dry

The gold leaf is brushed lightly with water and laid in the groove.

The water melts the fish glue!

Apply the goldleaf gingerly and press it down using a rubber

Let it dry

Can do a second layer

Then burnish with agate

Rick MacDonald, Jim Hiltz, Paul Murphy, Miles MacDonald, Keenan Whalen, John O'Brien, Arno Raymakers, Shawn Raymakers

Shawn Raymakers was welcomed as a new member. Shawn is a carpenter who has done work in old home restorations.

Work continued on the cherry bowls.
Leo says that random orbit sanders are no good to power sand on the lathe. Start with #36 and progress up to 60, 80 etc. Cherry is especially hard to sand on the lathe.
Try to use a non-oscillating sander. The inside of the bowl has to be sanded with sanding jigs to be able to get under the lip of the bowl. Leo has special ones made of foam rubber, placing the sand paper on the opposite side from usual to accomplish the job.

Rick spend the night trying to core out a large bowl using the Oneway coring jig.

Leo spent some time on grinding and sharpening with the new members.

Paul suggested that a workshop on making sanding jigs and implements might be useful