Newbie with plenty of curiousity!

[busby42]

Hi all,

I am new here and new to woodturning generally but got hooked by my eldest wanting to take this up as a hobby so something to for me to do with both my boys.

Seems like a lot of great advice and camaraderie here which persuaded me to sign up and not just try and google/youtube my way to experience! Hopefully I won't bore anyone with too many silly questions!

So far, I've started on a budget with an old Record Power DML24 lathe a friend was getting rid of and with my son have turned a pen and letter opener and loved it, already experienced my first blank failure and am slowly winning the war with my skew (it comprehensively won the first few battles though).

I hope to pick brains here and maybe become good enough to show off some work! There are some awesome craftspeople and artist here though!

All the best
Sam

 

[Vic Perrin]

Ay up Sam and welcome to the forum. Plenty of sound advice to be found on here and some real good banter.

 

[woodhacker]

Welcome to the forum Sam you'll enjoy yourself on here. Plenty of old giving good advice and cheek.

 

[Phil Dart]

Hi Sam - welcome to the fold. Ask as many questions as you like, no matter how silly you think they are. Everybody here had to start somewhere.

 

[Terry Q]

Hi Sam. Welcome from the U.S. The dreaded skew. I feel I am fairly competent using one but it still bites me sometimes. It works great for scraping CA off the ways.

 

[wm460]

G'Day Sam welcome to the forum, from the freezing cold Nairne.
You probably wont believe it, but it is only 11°C here.

 

[bluntchisel]

Vic, A big welcome aboard for you and your two boys.

I guarantee, unless you are real jackasses, that within six months you will all be posting pens on this forum which will be as good as those you have seen so far. All it will take is experience and the ability to learn from your mistakes. You have an advantage - a quorum of three to exchange views and tactics! Good luck, guys!

Bob.

 

[Buckeye]

Welcome to the forum, show us what you have made so far and keep up with the skew, the best tool there is.

Peter

 

[Dalboy]

Welcome aboard. What part of the UK are you from

 

[busby42]

Wow, so many messages already!

Thank you all for the very warm welcome. Dalboy, I am in Rugby. wm460...it feels like that here too sometimes! The best benefit to the coming early winter nights is...more time in the garage with the lathe:friendly_wink:

Sam

 

[Woody]

Welcome Sam you poor ol bugger smitten by the turning bug and now you're mixing with this mad lot all hope is lost book an appointment with your doctor because you will need some medication soon :pint::pint::pint::pint: they drove me to this

 

[bassethound]

Hello Sam and welcome to the Asylum mate, as far as picking brains, if you can find mine you can pick all you want .., you will get on fine here mate, have fun!

 

[Pierre]

Welcome, all you have to remember is 'rub the Bevel' the tool will do the rest.

PG :yourwelcome:

 

[fortress]

Hello and welcome Sam, silly questions are allowed, some members here have a very wide range of knowledge that we tap, ask and you shall be given, seek and you shall find. Have you got many chisels, and what method of sharpening do you have?

 

[yorkshireman]

Nice to have you aboard Sam mate

 

[Penpal]

Sam the concept and approach sound great with your family participation, hope you have room for more than one lathe. Welcome from over here.

Peter.

 

[Sgreen]

Hi Sam. I am also new to turning and would love to give advice on the few topics I do know about. Mainly fixing broken and blown out jobs. :wink:

 

[edlea]

Hi Sam welcome to the forums.... you will pick up some great tips here plus some bloody fanciful ideas that probably wont work:wink: ...enjoy your new hobby but keep the spending down as it can become very expensive.

 

[busby42]

Hi John,

Thank you, will need to be asking very shortly methinks. I have a set of beginners HSS tools (by Nielson) that I picked up for a good price. I have small bench grinder and recently purchased a sharpening jig although not used it yet. For my first turns I hand sharpened on the grinder and a honing stone but not too aggressively...sounds a bit maverick now saying this out loud...

Regards
Sam

 

[busby42]

Hi Sam welcome to the forums.... you will pick up some great tips here plus some bloody fanciful ideas that probably wont work:wink: ...enjoy your new hobby but keep the spending down as it can become very expensive.

Hi Ed,

Yes...very expensive and still finding things that I didn't know I just had to have! I've told the eldest he'll have to put towards the material now I've bought the kit! He can start by washing the car while I turn.

Thank you for the welcome
Sam