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Practicing a Skill; One Bead after Another

Practicing a Skill; One Bead after Another

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been driving out to the country side to learn a new skill its something I should have learnt back in High School when all that free knowledge was being provided but as a young man I did what some of us tend to do and just followed my heart which always lead me into the fine arts department were I never left. Fast forward twenty-something years later and here I…

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Lesson #1; An Introduction to Operating a Lathe

Lesson #1; An Introduction to Operating a Lathe

Prior to setting up the cylinder onto the lathe he wandered across the wood shop in search of yet another tool that was required in the preparation of the lathe. Inside my mind I kept thinking respect the tools, followed by respect the process to understand the proper lathe methodologies. In this hand was a drafting compass we used to determine where centre was at each end of the cylinder. He…

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