Woodturning: Turning a KrumE endgrain box

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here we are again. Time for me to write another silly description for one of my videos.
First things first... Once the resources are available, I'll have links to them down at the bottom of this description. I'll be linking them from my woodturning club's web site, the First State Woodturners. So I'll get the links available as soon as our president/webmaster gets them posted. Yeah, Yeah, I know I said they'd be posted in the description, but You're just gonna have to wait a day or two. Or, Maybe not. If you don't want to read through all this nonsense, just scroll to the bottom. If the links are there, great. If not you're SOL and you're gonna have to come back in a few days and check again.
In this video I take a ride down to Elkton Maryland to visit my friend and fellow club member Eric Krum. Eric graciously volunteered to do an end grain box demo for the club for our August 2023 monthly meeting. I volunteered to shoot the video. Eric has a great workspace for working. Unfortunately for me its not a great space for shooting video. I mean really...what's the deal with the lathe being right up against the wall? I know its probably the best use of the space and more efficient, but I'm thinking that everyone with a lathe should leave a bit of room on the other side of the lathe just in case I come visit, don't you? I don't think I'm asking for much. I know the chances are slim to none that I'll visit your shop in the future but still... leave me some room back there just in case. Of course I'm joking....or am I?
At about five and a half minutes into the video Eric gets a pretty spectacular catch. The wood comes flying off the lathe at high speed and rips eric's arm clean off! ok, that really doesn't happen, but he does get a catch and a small cut on his hand. It is pretty dramatic however, so during editing I did a rewind and replay in slow motion. My guess is when the scraper hit the rough area it broke out part of the wood because of the short grain which caused the catch. Eric, who's been turning for about 40 years, insisted that I leave the catch in the video as a reminder that no matter how much experience you have, things can always go to crap in an instant. So always be as careful as possible and always wear your face shield while turning.
Some other unusual highlights you may not want to skip through is using an xacto saw to create decorative lines and using a hacksaw on the lathe. Both are things I've never seen before. Eric also talks about his KrumE finish. I mean putting a coat of wax in between coats of poly? Who would have ever thought of that? Seems to work great for Eric however so it's hard to argue with good results. And there are some other interesting tidbits too so dont skip through the video. As a matter of fact, I think skipping through the video may be against the law in some areas so you should check your local laws before doing anything drastic like skipping through. Ok, its really not illegal to skip past things in the video but if you watch the whole video I'll earn a few pennies more from KZbin.
Ok, I'm done rambling I have things to do an places to go. Check below for the links to the video resources and I'll see you next time in Scott's Mini Woodshop
Links to Resources:
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