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[Dave]

I saw on the DIY TV program today a demonstration of how to turn a metal
bowl out of aluminum. The program was "Woodturning Techniques".
I try to watch it every week. The guy is a real pro. Do any of you out there
know where I can purchase metal blanks for making these bowls? I believe
the blanks come in aluminum, pewter, and copper. Thanks for your help.

[l.vanderloo@rogers.com]

Hi Dave here's one link for you

http://www.cuttingedgetools.com/Onlinecat.htm/WebCatalog/MetSpin.html


http://homepage.mac.com/l.vanderloo/PhotoAlbum28.html

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

[Alan]

Do you mean the shaped former that you press the metal around? If you
do mean the actual metal, wouldn't you simply start with a piece of
sheet metal of a suitable thickness and cut it to size. trim it up to
round when on teh lathe. You need to anneal the metal to soften it,
though I expect he covered this. If not, I'm sure you can turn up a
great number of sites on the web.
I remember making a bowl back in high school.
Safe turning,
Alan

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:45:33 GMT, "Dave" <dave@telnet.com> wrote:

[Greg G]

Dave said:

[Arch]

I'm sure it was covered in the DIY piece, but it may be well to remind
anyone making shop made blanks that Al, Cu, pewter, brass, etc. flow,
anneal, work harden and even lube differently. Particularly from steel
sheet metal.

Leo or Alan or someone else can better explain.


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter



http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings

[Ralph E Lindberg]

In article <s0kl02die6p18h7na8djbl3rv70tr7ekjn@4ax.com>,
Greg G.<GregG@electron.com> wrote:

[l.vanderloo@rogers.com]

Hi Arch

I already get sore fingers thinking of typing out all thats needed to
know, so as to be able to turn/spin metal.
There is more to it than just sticking a disk between centers, but one
can experiment, read up on it, and even take lessons.
Ernie Conover in his book Turning a bowl has a chapter on pewter
spinning.
Paul Wiley gives one to one tutoring or did, I have a link for those
interested.

http://www.paulwileyspinning.com/

http://homepage.mac.com/l.vanderloo/PhotoAlbum28.html

Have fun and take care
Leo Van Der Loo

[Greg G]

Ralph E Lindberg said:

[Moshe Eshel]

Actually you can turn metal, especialy bronze and softer metals but
even steel, even on my Mini jet. Obviously you can't turn the sizes of
wood that can be turned on the same lathe, but small sized pieces can
be.

Believe me, your HSS tools can cut steel (they are much stronger than
it - I found out by accidentally cutting my Talon chuck ), and your
lathe is strong enough to turn it. Obviously there are more security
hazards, and doing metal free-form (as most wood lathes don't have a
slide rest) can be very hard - but doable. Also recomended is cutting
fluid (to cool the metal down). But I'm far from an expert on this
subject, so I won't recommend anything to you.

BTW metal spining does sound cool - I ordered Paul Wiley's book, and
will attempt it one day. From what I understand, it is also possible on
wood lathes, but again I'm no expert or even beginer on this one.

[JimC]

Dear Dave,

Highland Hardware, www.tools-for-woodworking.com has the metal spinning
tools, and offers three pages of msetal spinning supplies starting at
http://www.tools-for-woodworking.com/index.asp?PageAction=PRODSEARCH&txtSearch=metal+spinning&btnSearch=GO&Page=1,
they offer copper, brass, and pewter disks in 3", 5", the burnishers in
sets, with videos and separately, the medtasl spinning tool rests with
indexing pins and the specialty wax. JimC

[Brian In Hampton]

I cant find any info on how thick they are....I could cut them out on our
laser at work but wood like to know the thickness.........Brian
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[Prometheus]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:07:08 -0500, "Brian In Hampton"
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