Richard Raffan: An Unhappy Re-turn — a wooodturning disaster movie. @RichardRaffanwoodturning

Richard Raffan | Richard Raffan: An Unhappy Re-turn — a wooodturning disaster movie. @RichardRaffanwoodturning | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Re-shaping a 50 year-old box produces several archetypal chucking and design situations that need solving. It all goes well until I decide to turn the lid flange rather than sand it. That leads to more re-chucking issues and finally a woody explosion. You see all the turning in real time, whilst the sanding is mostly at X4 or X8 speed. You can see the lid become a useful little bowl in youtu.be/1P1qqZi4Kwg

Richard Raffan tests how wood reacts when drying.

Richard Raffan creates a cross-grain box for the first 4—WAYS project.

Richard Raffan turns a juniper spatular with skew chisel.

Richard Raffan turns a xanthorrhoea root into an endgrain bowl and two blanks.

Richard Raffan turning a set of spillikins

Richard Raffan turns a scrap of pistachio into two tiny bowls

Richard Raffan completes a roughed-out wide-rim box-elder bowl

Richard Raffan mounting distorted part-turned bowls on a lathe for completion

Richard Raffan gets four bowls from a short box elder log.

Richard Raffan turns a tiny bark rim bowl from what should have been firewood

Richard Raffan shows how to find centre on woodturning blanks