I often find myself explaining the following to people when they ask about turning tools in the woodturning world.
Category Archives: Misc
Quick Tip: Nuts & Bolts Boxes
I like to purchase boxes of nuts and bolts, rather than one at a time. This saves me money and
time when I don't have to run down to the hardware store.
The recent trend of selling nuts and bolts in plastic bags rather than boxes really
frustrates me. It screws up my organization. I can't find things when they are in plastic bags. Bags
of things are hard to store and organize.
Don't they known that plastic
is killing the world's oceans ?
I solved this problem by purchasing some little boxes on Amazon. Yea, having to purchase boxes
SUCKS!
64ths of an Inch Ruler / Table
Quick, off the top of your head. You need a drill bit that is a little bigger than 3/4″. What size do you need? 49/64″ Right?
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Maple Log Delivery 12/2022
Now this is the way you should have your logs delivered! I just had 2 big White Pine trees removed in my back side yard by Osorio Tree Service. The owner is interested in Woodturning. He took away the crappy pine logs and gave me a couple of nice maple logs. Continue reading Maple Log Delivery 12/2022
Woodturning Mugs
It is getting cold. Time to think about a new Woodturning Mug for Christmas.
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Carl’s “MM to Inches” for Woodturners
Updated: 9/8/2022.
I recently discovered “ezunitconverter.com” mm to inch converter. I like it because it shows you a table with all the surrounding mm conversions and how close they are to your input mm value. See photo above on right and details at the bottom of this blog entry.
Woodturners in the US often have to deal with Millimetres. Bowl gouges made in Europe are often 12mm
rather than 1/2″. Etc.
I often see Woodturners get all twisted up by 1″ = 25.4mm. My advice is to forget about the 0.4mm!
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