Richard Raffan lathe & dust extraction

[@pidgeonpost]

How very refreshing to watch such skilled work with no background music and all done in a workshop that's not the size of Wales, squeaky clean and rammed full of expensive machinery. I'm just returning to returning after a long absence and I'm inspired by your videos, thankyou! 😀

[@unclemonty9506]

absolutely great 👍 very inspiring to see someone as legendary as Richard with such a humble set up instead of the usual KZbinr's in their mostly lavish workshops.

[@ShevillMathers]

In many instances they have wall to wall gouge’s of every type, which I have never seen used-incredible the gear some KZbin presenters have on display. Refreshing to see what a professional uses and their beautiful end products.

[@twoblacklabs]

@RichardRaffanwoodturning I love the simplicity approach you’ve taken in your shed/shop. There are a lot of elaborate ways to do the things you’ve shown but you clearly know what you need to get your work done and not waste your time or money. Thank you for continuing to share your work with us.

[@drewk3402]

Your videos are incredibly informative and inspirational, Richard. This video gave me lots of ideas, particularly on organization and storage around the lathe to make work flow easier and faster. Thank you for all of the effort you put into these incredible videos!

[@powellmrp6335]

It's rather fun to see that you are an EXTREMELY accomplished woodturner, but not all that much a woodworker -- kinda sloppy fit on the drawers and such. But so interesting to see how you've organized your tools and accessories. Thank you, Sir, for showing us your setup!

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I've never laid claim to being a even a second-rate carpenter, let alone cabinetmaker. Most of the 'drawers' are just boxes built before the benches and made to be moved around and hold tools taken to workshops. They are excellent for the jobs for which they're built and that's the main thing - and they develop character and will be around for decades.

[@dylanneely91]

​@@RichardRaffanwoodturningI think it's a good reminder for people that one can be spectacular in their specialty without needing to utterly master every aspect of woodworking

[@armus550b]

Such a simple shop for one of the best turner's in the world

[@PhilStevensphilongold]

What a lovely setup Richard. Everthing has a place and everything in its place. I my own setup with my jewellerey making - I use a similar mine set - again everything has a place and that is where it lives until needed. Keep up your fantasticly interesting and informative videos. Phil

[@jonhallthatsall]

thank you Richard for the fantastic video, there are a lot of useful ideas like the removable drawers and the lazy susan bucket for tools. 👍👍

[@tricolorturners]

Fantastic tour. Great to see how the professional is organized.

[@joshuadinerstein7533]

I love the dust collection and the way that it works. The simplicity of the approach that belies the flexibility and utility is amazing. I have used one of these big gulp things for years and while it generally works it isn't very flexible or usable... The big heavy stand it came on keeps it from falling over but it is nearly impossible to make small adjustments quickly or easily. I am going to figure out how to do something like this for freestanding lathe. It is not up near a wall for me nor is that particularly possible. But there has to be a way to copy this eminently practical design! Thank you so much for Sharing in such detail Richard!

[@alun7006]

Thanks for showing us around, Richard. A nice little setup you have - everything you need and nothing you don't! I really like your dust extraction setup - I am in a very small self-built workshop and I think I will try something similar!

[@jimgeelan5949]

Hi Richard, came to you via Tomislav & this is the first video I’ve watched and wow so many simple ideas in one video 😊 thank you

[@TheRealCAPerry]

Now there are a whole bunch of ideas I can make use of. Like you, I have a relatively small space for my workshop and always find myself moving things. I’d never considered the space under my lathe as storage space (mine is on legs) - that lack of insight can get rectified in the very near future.

[@brianhawes3115]

I loved this video, I’m liking the basicness of your set up, I set my shop up like that as well, some of which I got from your books, I enjoy your thinking that if it’s not necessary why include it, the old less is more thing is great

[@bricofleur1768]

Thank you for sharing all those useful and clever ideas of everything, very appreciated. You're my man!

[@paulinmt2185]

Elegance is simplicity, or is it simplicity is elegance. Either way, wonderful tips from a master. Cheers!

[@WhoGnu08]

Thanks for the tour, it's interesting to see how you have everything set up. I noted how you have your dust extractor installed in an exterior shed. Nice!

[@nigelharvey210]

you are obviously a very organised man, nice to see

[@josephpotterf9459]

Wow my dust collector will be getting moved just outside to a small plastic shed for garden tools. Great idea there Thanks for sharing

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Don't forget that having the collector outside means it sucks out all your cooled or heated air along with the dust. My workshop is cold in winter, hot in high summer.

[@amospeterson3251]

Thanks again for sharing your shop setup Richard, especially the dust extraction system. Very innovative! I will try to imitate it in my shop. Amos Peterson

[@glencrandall7051]

Lots of good ideas for my new shop. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

[@prsearls]

Practical, well thought-out solutions to many turning shop problems. I see a few I can use. Thanks!

[@RonMc-k2k]

Thanks for the review of your shop & vacum system, I forgot I had seen it. I do like your clean vacum system though.

[@andyp9290]

Thank you! "A place for everything, and everything in its place!"

[@CJPhillips6648]

I’m glad I watched this video, it has given me an idea for lighting at my lathe, thankyou Richard!😊

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

A bright and highly adjustable lamp is a near essential when turning.

[@CJPhillips6648]

I am thinking about using a LED light! So it will be bright.

[@edwilliams1914]

Thanks so much for showing us your shop!

[@yvesmazny8493]

Many thanks for for this sharing. It is always useful to see the workshop organization of a woodturner. I catch the tip about your adjustable hood. Regards from France.

[@DiemenDesign]

Thanks for sharing Richard, always enjoy watching how others set things up for their working techniques and procedures, and there are always ideas to use, even if they are unconventional.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I'm not sure there's too much unconventional here...

[@jackthompson5092]

Lots of innovation in your shop Richard.

[@geraldguyette470]

Thanks for the tour , have a great day !

[@stevenhansen8641]

Thanks for sharing Richard. I really appreciate your videos

[@workmcb3838]

I love your shop Richard. Super practical nothing fancy.

[@LewisKauffman]

Thanks! Like your use of old computer hard drive magnets!

[@ianbedwell4871]

Great to see all your ideas. Lighting is my pet issue and this was very helpful 😊

[@kb19dad]

Ohne, dass wir uns kennen sind unsere Werkstätten sehr sehr ähnlich. 👍☺️ Danke für das Zeigen. Viele Grüße from Northern Germany.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Very good!!

[@neabud]

Excellent tour. Thank you

[@alainnoel2198]

It takes years to optimize an installation: lot's to learn from your experience. Thanks

[@wimdejong5399]

Interesting.....Thanks Richard.

[@BobBlarneystone]

When undercutting a rim and hollowing out, I run the lathe in reverse and hollow out the far side. It's much easier for me than twisting over the lathe. Of course, a chuck with a setscrew is mandatory equipment.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

If you can lock the chuck to the drive spindle that's a viable option. I rarely turn dramatically undercuct rims so never got set up for turning in reverse. There are hollowing tools in trapped sustems that enable you to turn with the lathe running anti-clockwise as usual.

[@zanell]

Thank you for the excellent videos.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

And thank you.

[@boblevey]

Great ideas. Thank you!!!

[@zenletter]

Richard: thank you for all your videos. I always see your dust collector (and your hood) working well in your videos. I went to search what you used and found this video. When you get a minute may I persuade you to have a look at what model number your jet collector is? There is more than one model made by them that look like yours. It should be DCnnnn-VX or similar.

[@tomislavtomasicwoodturning]

Great tour sir🤗

[@lankisherjohn8262]

Many thanks Richard, This, like your other videos, and books, is very clear & informative. Having a v. small space in which I installed a lathe last year, I’m now looking to upgrade dust extraction to a similar (LPHV 100mm pipe)-based unit. Mine will have to be mobile rather than fixed, inside an unheated garage. Could you suggest a minimum flow rate to achieve similar results to your clearly dust-free environment please?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I think my Jet is rated about 1200cfm. Your unit should do the job for fine dust if you can connect it to a good hood at the source of the dust.

[@lankisherjohn8262]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Excellent. Thanks again. 👍

[@neabud]

Richard, watching this episode again and @ 7:51, I paused to look at what you've kept for chuck & jaw combinations. The shark jaws intrigue me. Could you talk about the combinations you've kept since you 'downsized', what and why. Are they're some you wish you still had? I truly enjoy your work, thank you.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

When I downsized I sold all but one of my VM120 chucks. I miss the VM120 68mm Shark jaws most and the 200mm dovetail jaws. I don't have any standard jaws, having replaced them with Shark jaws that provide a much better grip for long endgrain blanks and allow me to clamp around beads at the top of a foot which you might have seen in the chucks-not-marking-wood video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoeVhWmlf8x2n5Y

[@nigelwest3430]

Simple but effective.

[@timothychk]

thanks for sharing .. cheers Tim

[@antonio.zanella]

I have same lathe. Please I would like to know if your 4 inch Robust toolrest is Comfort or Low Profile type. I also want to know stem length. Many thanks.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I mostly use the Low Profile rests because I can't get my hand round the larger. The tool post is 70mm which is 2 ¾-in. If you have a VL150, Vicmarc have started making hardened rests.

[@timofeyzhukov-khovanskiy9173]

How big is the dust collector that you're using? 2hp?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

It's 1200 cfm and probably 1hp. I don't know for sure without going the workshop and checking....

[@steveblight2120]

Hi Richard -- thanks for the tour. I have a question -- when you show your box of toolrests at about the 3-minute mark, there is a steel ring at the top right corner in the box. What is the ring used for? My pal bought a second-hand robust tool rest, and it came with that kind of ring that is fastened on with a little set screw. After much discussion and some google work, we came up empty handed. Thanks!

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

The ring can be locked on the T-rest post so the rest cannot drop below a given height. It's something I used only very occasionally on a production run.

[@ashleyhoward8926]

That's the best long bendy light i have seen ! l also Love the loose box dust hood, clearly borne out of experience. Wannabe you tube turners take note.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

The lamp was originally a 1930s dentist's lamp somewhere in the South West of England.

[@victoryak86]

Just wondering, is that a 14” bandsaw or something similar? Thanks so much for showing us around the shop of a master turner.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

It's a Laguna with a 350mm throat and 330mm depth of cut.

[@victoryak86]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning thanks!

[@justinfletcher7630]

What kind of lathe is it you use

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

This is a Vicmarc VL150. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqjYd3hnYpukeJI

[@justinfletcher7630]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning my first lathe just came in not special few hundred bucks craftsman mini just to turn small bowls and boxes and I understand it's a long acquired skill but man you make it look far easier than it is. It took me half a hour just to get a cherry logs kinda debarked and into a kinda even circle

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

@@justinfletcher7630 When I started turning I concentrated on specific skill-building projects. After making my own tool handles I had to make stuff that would sell. I spent a solid week wasting wood 2" squares with a skew chisel, then turned hundreds of light-pulls using a ½" spindle gouge and skew chisel. Then it was scoops for endgrain hollowing practice and sugar bowls. You get faster with practice, as with most things.

[@giovannizunino6046]

Molto interessante io ho preferito un tornio copiatore però lo uso manualmente mi da più soddisfazione d'altronde noi pensionati dobbiamo fare passare il tempo 😅

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Per 45 anni mi sono guadagnato da vivere girando manualmente le ciotole.

[@giovannizunino6046]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning tanto di rispetto altri tempi ormai la situazione economica non ti permetterebbe di vivere così in ogni modo io x vivere ho sempre dovuto dipendere da qualcuno contrariamente a te che ti sei fatto x conto tuo rispetto x artigianato

[@davidshaper5146]

No, that's not about it. Where's the grotty sock slathered with beeswax?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

It's lurking in the bottom of the hanging bowl, underneath the lumps of wax. Future waxy socks are in the box under the chucks, second shelf down on the left.

[@claudeelliott3993]

Would have been much more interesting and informative if I could have heard and understood what you were saying. Sorry.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Presumably you could hear what I said, otherwise how could you not understand.

[@bushratbeachbum]

Loud and clear through my busted up phone. I can't understand the request from some for 4k video and audiophile sound. Turn your volume up or adjust your hearing aids.

[@claudeelliott3993]

@@bushratbeachbum My volume was up and I don't need hearing aids! I'm only 89!!

[@bushratbeachbum]

@@claudeelliott3993 maybe you do?

[@duster8100]

Using 100mm pipe is useless, why do people who have no idea even bother doing stuff like this. Use 150mm and you will see why 100mm simply does not do the job.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

What a fatuous, ignorant, comment. In many of the videos on this channel you will see how effective this dust extractor is at collecting dust. There's virtually no lathe-generated dust in my workshop.

[@johnmitchell1614]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Come on Duster, put your money where your mouth is and back up that statement. Keep in mind, were're not talking industrial production extraction. Best regards. 😷

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

Duster - that must be why most extractors are sold with 100mm pipe! DUH 🤦‍♂️

[@ashleyhoward8926]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning One concurs wholeheartedly, Richard.