Richard Raffan turns a cross-grain box in Manchurian pear

[@jamescarter8813]

Thanks for letting us hear the cuts. Understanding the sound wood makes as you cut it, too thin, and pushing too hard are sounds that EVERY woodturner needs to understand.

[@ned711]

One of your best videos. We felt like we were standing over your shoulder watching you work, as oposed to watching a scripted demonstration. We saw your decision making process. Reminds me of the last page in your book on making boxes - a picture of several broken boxes, and you write something like if you're not making mistakes then you're not pushing yourself hard enough. Ned

[@burnleyize]

Couldn’t agree more.

[@ned711]

@@burnleyize Thanks. He’s certainly the most inspiring woodturner in the world.

[@DiemenDesign]

Thank you Richard and Dave for taking the time to record this project. As always, great tips along the way, shame the rim didn't work out, but hey that's part of the learning process. I was rather fond of the lid with the removed knob, reminiscent of a soldier's hat, or a shield.

[@nickjan67]

“Sanding and be grateful,” wisdom all of us should take to heart. Thank you much for this lovely journey in design.

[@stevenhansen8641]

Thanks for sharing Richard. It didn’t take long to reach one million views. Good for you. Thanks for the time and effort.

[@DS12-42]

How many turners have the courage to show their mistakes to the world? Your honesty is inspiring.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I'm hoping to teach, not show how brilliant I am.

[@tallerpinocho]

thanks Richard, and Dave, great video. A lot of goods shots to review with calm.

[@jakegevorgian]

Thanks for the masterclass, dear Richard.

[@woodbutcherjc]

As always, it is a pleasure to watch. Inspiring. Thanks for allowing us to watch and learn. May God bless you.

[@SilverBack.]

Very Nice Richard and Great information, Thank you for sharing, Happy New Year

[@ultraric]

Richard, thank you for leaving that last part in. Makes us newbies feel a bit better. I turned an urn into a pretty funnel over the weekend. :-)

[@tomislavtomasicwoodturning]

Great tips and design opportunity, too bad it didn't work out but like you said.... Lesson learned..... Thank you for sharing the good and the bad stuff.... 😀

[@greyjustice]

Great video Richard. I’ve only been turning a year and this will inspire me to re-used some of my earlier bowls that were learning pieces and see how I can combine into boxes instead. Thanks for sharing

[@eltay3]

Like you, I rarely do cross grain boxes. However, you have gotten me addicted to suction fit end grain. So, I’m off on a small run. First one is a mushroom box. Thanks again for the continued inspiration.

[@beardedwoodpecker]

Great video Richard full view and like lots of info and most important you show us what happens at the end that is honesty and will teach me not to get all hot and bothered when something goes wrong during my turning. Accidentally I have an asymmetrical grind in one of my gouges works great Thank you happy turnings and a happy new year All the best Yiannis (Athens Greece)

[@jackthompson5092]

Great teaching video Richard.

[@kevinburrows735]

You are a turning god. Thank you

[@burnleyize]

Masterful. Simply masterful.

[@glencrandall7051]

Nicely done Richard. Thank you for sharing. Have a great New Year. Stay safe.🙂🙂

[@victorprimack2070]

Great video. Always learning from you!

[@MikePeaceWoodturning]

Nice little box. Too bad about the lid. I have a number roughed out bowls I have not been motivated to finish. I will try this out. Thanks for an informative and entertaining video, Richard.

[@tricolorturners]

Turned into a great look. Time to knock out another.

[@harveypflugerh5901]

Another great video, lots of good information. I now have some ideas on what to do with the small center cores I have laying around. Brilliant idea to have a decorative grove on the inside to rechuck the lid. I agree the handle was a bit heavy, too bad it didn’t work out as the lid was looking nice.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Therre will be another attempt to get it right!

[@randycosgrove3608]

Thanks yet again for the lesson in design evolution. For most of us it's hard to learn how to move on from what we have to something better. I was quite liking the final design until ... Since I'm a charter member of the oops club I can relate.

[@WooDGooD-308]

Good job 💯👍👏

[@davidsharpe3540]

I do like the use of the scraper, I use one a lot, though not as well as you. They seem to give a really good finish every time.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Much maligned tools these days. I often think they should be called strokers.

[@jorisdemoel3821]

Many thanks for the video, very instructive to see the decision making process in all phases. Maybe the former lid might even be formed into a very shallow bowl itself? Will the green ash remain a chuck aid, or be worked into something? Hope that we'll see you turn a new lid from that piece of wood you mentioned. And glad to see the sock is still doing sterling work.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I intend to do a video on the broken lid and making another.

[@josephpotterf9459]

Thanks

[@elgardog]

Thanks again Richard for the video, could ask shouldn't the scraper handle be up to create a negative rake? when i see you using it it looks like the scraper handle is level or slightly down. Many thanks, and a Happy New Year.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Few of my scrapers are set straight in their handles so when the handle is horizontal the blade will be pitched down a few degrees. This is the nearest I get to negative rake scrapers. It's keeping the angle between the top of the blade and the surface being cut that's important. It's that that needs to be less than 90 degrees. Scraping some internal curves on endgrain boxes or scoops I'll have the blade tilted up as much as 15-degrees, but not on crossgrain and neve on a flat surface.

[@elgardog]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you Richard. best Wishes.

[@buckdunn9980]

Great video, but why don't you use a cole chuck

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I didn't use Cole or bowl jaws because most turners, including myself, don't have any. When I had sets of bowl jaws I rarely used them because jam chucks and mounting between centres is generally faster and superior when accuracy is required (usually on endgrain projects like boxes). Before the modern woodturning chucks appeared in the late 1980s, most rechucking was into or over jam chucks, and turners used cup chucks for endgrain projects. kzbin.info/www/bejne/emTdn3ptYtCmf9k

[@mbahsir]

Very good

[@edwardchapman1914]

Thank you for your wisdom download. Was the asymmetrical bowl gouge something passed down in knowledge to you or something from an experiment? It is a brilliant profile once one understands how to use it.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

When I began turning in 1970, bowl gouges were ground straight across. I kept catching the left wing so I rounded it hoping that would reduce the catches, which it did. I soon discovered the rounded left wing was excellent for roughing cuts on bowl profiles so I lengthened it slightly but keeping the left wing a full convex curve to cut a thick shaving rather than a thinner, wider, one.

[@malbun3275]

Hi Richard Thanks for a very enjoyable video,interesting how you change the lid design on the fly. One question what do you do with all your shavings? Mine go into the chicken house,on on the edge of of the neighbors drive to help keep the weeds down. Regards

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

On the garden to keep weeds down and save mowing.

[@DiemenDesign]

Another idea that I do, considering I also do Regenerative Agriculture farming, is to use the overburden shavings that is too much for the garden and chicken bedding, is to spread them on low areas of my paddocks, then when I harrow the paddocks it gets spread and breaks down helping to build the soil profile and build nutrients into the soil which helps pasture growth and retention of water, reducing water costs and having to irrigate. Some people also compress them into fire bricks, something I'm looking at doing as well, 40 tonnes of pressure is enough to make the shavings bind together, I'm looking at building an attachment for my 40-tonne wood splitter.

[@thefaulenzer677]

I loved the video! I wanted to ask why you are using exclusively Vicmarc Chucks? Is it Worth spending over 300€ for one of them or is it “just” the brand name that makes that price jump from Oneway or Teknatool Nova for example?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I've lost count of the number of chucks I've used over 53 years but for me Vicmarc chucks emerged as simply superior to all others. This partly for their greater range of movement, but mostly the Vicmarc jaw rims, and they seem to be better made. They don't become sloppy after a couple of years use like some popular brands. I often had to use Oneway and Nova chucks in demos, the former always adding an extra step when turning a bowl and both limiting what I could demonstrate becuse of the jaw rims. I recall issues with broken keys and general frustration at their inconvenience after the Vicmarcs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoeVhWmlf8x2n5Y,

[@thefaulenzer677]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Very interesting. I had a look at the long nose Jaws and the one from Record power are not worth buying. However Teknatool makes some that have a crisp but ever so slightly tapered edge. Should be gripping pretty well. Im looking forward to testing them out! But ill try a few chucks, just like i love to try different tool companies. For the Vicmarc franchise - can you tell if the build quality is any different and has an effect in the long term?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

@@thefaulenzer677 I believe Teknatool used to make the Record chucks. Vicmarc isn't a franchise, they're manufacturers in Queensland who sell to distributors worldwide. I've encountered a lot of Nova chucks loose with use, whereas my Vicmarcs have been used heavily for 20 years and more and work as good as new although they might look a bit battered. It's the lack of chamfered rims that give Vicmarc the major edge over most other chucks.

[@thefaulenzer677]

Probably I misused the word “franchise” here. Vicmarc is a company, thats what I meant. Thanks for your response, I greatly appreciate your channel! Very happy you decided to make your own videos. I wish you a great day and happy turning!

[@anaphylaxis2548]

Oh, that's too bad about the pretty lid. The bowl looks good as a stand alone bowl though. I did a similar thing on a small hollow form recently, so disappointing.

[@boazjoe1]

I'll be darned. Squozen is past participle of Squeeze.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Could be a useful alternative. A squozen lemon for instance. When editing Turning Wood in 1983 my use of 'microwaved' was challenged, microwave then being defined as a noun. This is how a language changes.

[@StrideAheadinc]

48:50. :-D