While rubbing the emerging bruise on my hand (not to mention on my ego), a classmate doing his best to suppress a laugh explained that Rude does it that way because he’s been doing it for 40 years. With a little finesse of tightening and loosening the stock as it spun, he ended up with the blank humming nicely.įeeling confident with what I’d observed, I went back to my station, attempted the same technique on the Powermatic #90 assigned to me and promptly launched my blank, leaving a divot in the ceiling. As Rude was prepping for a demo on spindle turning, he pushed the blank into the tail stock and with the lathe running, he slowly engaged the drive center. It was my first turning class and I had never chucked anything on a lathe prior to it. At that time, Rude was teaching at Berea College and was a master at his craft. His Instagram is 30 years ago, I took a turning class from the late Rude Osolnik in Akron, Ohio. He’s a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking magazine, and is working on a project for Lost Art Press. Steve makes contemporary and traditional furniture, and teaches woodworking at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology and Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pa. The spinning carbide took a chunk out of the metal jointer guard when it fell on the blades – now imagine the mess those blades can make of flesh.
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